Perhaps our potential this year is to mongrel our way through some wins. With the way we butcher the ball, champagne footy is a bit of a dream.
Disagree that mongrel footy will win the cup, our best form this year was manic pressure move the ball forward with clean hands in the phone box til we find the link up player outside the contest and then deliver cleanly I50. That's the way Nathan wants us to play, he's even said that in a couple of pressers. We aren't playing that way right now we are mongreling as you say and grinding out wins - that won't have us contending.
Agree the comp is even apart from the likes of rich & wc and maybe carl at the bottom end, but I'd bet my left one that no opposition would be thinking of us the same as they would wc on their home deck - even in such close competition.