There's a lot of debate between the glass half full and half empty brigade around here, especially in the draft and trade thread.
Some are saying our recent poor record, missing finals 4 out of 5 years is where we are at.
Some are saying that 2012 was good, this year was unlucky, we have a good young side and management and its going to result in improvement next year.
Then the parties just argue.
Put it on the line, say now where you think we'll finish and see who has the last laugh in a years time.
Here's my prediction.
I don't think I'm on record anywhere about 2014 as I was on a self imposed exile from bigfooty so, you'll just have to trust my honesty here, but I had us between 4th and 10th. I expected us to be 5th. So I was pretty dissapointed that we finished on the bottom end of my range and nowhere near 5th.
For the forthcoming season, I believe we could range anywhere from 3rd, with another spike and playing group engaged again, down to even lower than my range for this year perhaps 12th with all things being the same (ie walsh not being a magic cure, we were already getting as much out of the players as possible) and the loss of rutten, otten and a harder draw. My prediction will be for us to be 6th. I think we'll do better and I believe we have a talented group, I am cautious though as we are a young and inexperienced team and we'll have fades and lapses through the season because of it. Not much depth in key defense or ruck is also worrying.
Some are saying our recent poor record, missing finals 4 out of 5 years is where we are at.
Some are saying that 2012 was good, this year was unlucky, we have a good young side and management and its going to result in improvement next year.
Then the parties just argue.
Put it on the line, say now where you think we'll finish and see who has the last laugh in a years time.
Here's my prediction.
I don't think I'm on record anywhere about 2014 as I was on a self imposed exile from bigfooty so, you'll just have to trust my honesty here, but I had us between 4th and 10th. I expected us to be 5th. So I was pretty dissapointed that we finished on the bottom end of my range and nowhere near 5th.
For the forthcoming season, I believe we could range anywhere from 3rd, with another spike and playing group engaged again, down to even lower than my range for this year perhaps 12th with all things being the same (ie walsh not being a magic cure, we were already getting as much out of the players as possible) and the loss of rutten, otten and a harder draw. My prediction will be for us to be 6th. I think we'll do better and I believe we have a talented group, I am cautious though as we are a young and inexperienced team and we'll have fades and lapses through the season because of it. Not much depth in key defense or ruck is also worrying.
