Can we make the 8

[Red Bull 0]

I believe we can make the 8.

If and i meen if we had of beaten coll and bull we would be 5/3 what is your thought's .

No neg posters please.

[armstrong35 262]

i dont think we can i think we will be hanging around the 9-12th spot but i think thats good

i wouldnt like to see us make finals then lose in the ifirst week.

i think we get as much game time into the young fellas then really go at it from next year, year after and so on

[45HG 1,539]

I believe we can make the 8.

If and i meen if we had of beaten coll and bull we would be 5/3 what is your thought's .

No neg posters please.

I was always taught not to ask questions if I didn't want to hear the answer.

Unfortunately this seems like one of those times.

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

I tipped the MFC to finish 8th before the season began, but after losing to Wet Coke i now have my doubts, the forward line is just not ready.

Losing Ricky Petterd will hurt us-That said there are 14 rounds to go & who knows what expectations the Players & Footy Dept. have.

We could make the 8 yes, but remember so far out of 8 games, 7 were at the MCG. It gets harder from now.

[Adzman 2,154]

Statistically - Yes

Reality- No

Likely Finish- 12th

[Red Bull 0]

I was always taught not to ask questions if I didn't want to hear the answer.

Unfortunately this seems like one of those times.

What question did you not want to hear answered.

[Eth 4]

What question did you not want to hear answered.

Your question.

I highly doubt we'll make the 8, and that's the same opinion of most people on the site. In fact there are very few people who reckon we can. This year we're starting to move up the ladder - we're getting games into Trengove, Scully, Watts, McKenzie etc., and next year I reckon we're a good chance for the 8. You have to remember the last two ears we've 'won' the wooden spoon. You can't exactly tell our players 'okay, we're done tanking, let's make finals.' Our young guys need more experience for that.

[Red Bull 0]

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[Swampfox 190]

There far more important things for this team to achieve than simply making the 8

[Spaghetti 264]

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Get over yourself. You can't start a thread like this and then essentially say 'Don't post if you disagree'.

Melbourne will not make the 8 if they play like they have been lately, end of story.

[dee-luded 2,959]

I believe we can make the 8.

If and i meen if we had of beaten coll and bull we would be 5/3 what is your thought's .

No neg posters please.

I think we could go close, by playing all our mature players. But at what cost to our future?

So, I don't think we will.

Play the kids.

[Guest Rojik of the Arctic]

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So unless we put on the rose glasses and say yes you don't want to hear it?

No we won't make the finals. I thought at the start of the year that if we won 7-10 games this season then we could count it as a giant step forward, and I reckon that is where we will finish even though we have come along better than I expected.

Negative - nup.

Realistic - yep.

[Bobby McKenzie 2,385]

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So, if we DON'T think we will make the eight we are not allowed to answer!!!! You drive a hard bargain.

[Chook 15,013]

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I would argue that you are being a negative poster.

[Dee*ceiving 1,674]

Must win this week to be any chance but reality tells me we'll win 5 - 7 more games. Which obviously won't be good enough.

[hardtack 10,548]

I would argue that you are being a negative poster.

Hey, that's a double negative! - red card!

[Dreamin' Demon 10]

A majority of posters have estimated that up to 8 wins is a good result this year - I was one of them. I must admit that the way we played in April & the wins we achieved I was prepared to up my estimate from 8 wins to 10.

However, I forgot we were a young side & that we would have the odd schocker i.e West Coast. Therefore I'll return to my original goal & push for 8 wins this year & unfortunately miss the top 8.

But next year ......

[hardtack 10,548]

Must win this week to be any chance but reality tells me we'll win 5 - 7 more games. Which obviously won't be good enough.

Actually, the way the results are going with no one team bolting away at the top and a lot of "favourites" faltering at the moment, 7 more wins would give us a total of 10 which would quite possibly be enough to secure 8th position. After that, if it happens, who knows?

[Dinosaur Rover 197]

There far more important things for this team to achieve than simply making the 8

Agreed the important thing is that we get a cadre of the younger players who are well progressed in game time, Watts, McKenzie, Skully, Trengove, Bennell, Grimes, Wona, Spencer etc. hopefully Gysberts, Tapscott all get maximum game time - so far things have gone very well. I dont mind if we finish top 8 but a sustainable development is what we want.

[Dee Fan 3,247]

We could make the 8 yes, but remember so far out of 8 games, 7 were at the MCG. It gets harder from now.

That's the problem, if we were going to win enough games, we had to win those where we played at the G in front of our home crowd and we didn't.

Now we have to travel and our record on the road is probably one of the worst in the competition, not sure why we've certainly had plenty of practice. We lost games we didn't expect to win but should have and now we have to win on the road and we have a pretty tough draw, Port, Cats, Carlton, Collingwood, Crows(over there), Saints(Etihad), can't see too many wins there.

My expectations have been lowered and I would have to say, no.

[Red Sox 2]

We wont make the 8 pure and simple......that's not negative, it's reality. That's not all together a bad thing.....anywhere from 12th above would leave me satisfied and the players left with the hunger to improve further but knowing that improvements have been made.

Had we got over the line against the Dogs and Pies and not played as poorly against Nth and Wet Toast then we would be a very good chance of making it....the fact we didn't should make it fairly obvious we wont get there.

Happy to be proven wrong but out of 13 games remaining we need to win at least 8, most likely 9 to get to 12 wins. 9 wins out of 13 games for us would be.....I'll stop there...it wont happen, but what a ride if it did!!

[mordja 187]

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why didnt you just call the thread "come polish my ego by agreeing with my unrealistic opinion" ?

No chance now. Different results to WB and Collingwood and I would have agreed.

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

To make the 8, we will need to win another nine games out of the next 14. Its a tall order from here.

Its one thing to think we can make the 8 and feel all warm and fuzzy. Its another thing to reflect no idea how it will be done.

Anyone got nine more wins marked down this year?

[Tricky 341]

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I think it's possible to start a poll with only 1 choice - try that next time

I agree with those who think making the 8 isn't the main objective this year. I got really sick of watching the Dees make the 8 whilst still not being true premiership contenders...

[titan_uranus 25,020]

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So effectively you're asking this:

Can we make the 8? Only post if you think yes, otherwise I don't want to hear your opinions.

FWIW we won't make the finals. We will struggle to win more than 1 game over the next 5 weeks.