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Interesting post i just found on foxsports website. Summary of a list of questions asked to 17 captains, go through it it is good reading. However, the thing that was bought to my attention was the fact not one club voted Melbourne to make the finals this year.

Essendon have 5, Gold Coast have 1 and so do West Coast.

This really shocked me...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/a-poll-of-the-afls-17-club-captains-suggests-that-luke-hodge-and-the-hawks-are-set-to-soar-in-2011/story-e6frf3e3-1226023274218

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    Interesting post i just found on foxsports website. Summary of a list of questions asked to 17 captains, go through it it is good reading. However, the thing that was bought to my attention was the fact not one club voted Melbourne to make the finals this year.

    Essendon have 5, Gold Coast have 1 and so do West Coast.

    This really shocked me...

    http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/a-poll-of-the-afls-17-club-captains-suggests-that-luke-hodge-and-the-hawks-are-set-to-soar-in-2011/story-e6frf3e3-1226023274218

    Unfortunately they may be right.

    I hope we make the eight But I am far from confident we have a lot of players with low game counts and little experience.

    The captains would be a better judge than me.

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    That's fine by me...."Swim under the surface" out of sight, and suprise everybody when it counts.

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    Why is it a shock?

    Expect to miss.

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    Brad Green didn't vote? No Melbourne player listed as a Brownlow winner and no votes for making the eight.

    Interesting that Brown doesn't think that Brisbane can make the finals this year.

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    You couldn't vote for your own team.

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    On a positive note LJ is up there for Mark & Goal of the year. Nice to know I'm not the only guy out there with a slight man crush on the Jurrahcane!

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    Brad Green didn't vote? No Melbourne player listed as a Brownlow winner and no votes for making the eight.

    Interesting that Brown doesn't think that Brisbane can make the finals this year.

    The questions was "Which seven other clubs do you think can make this year's top eight?". It assumes they would vote for themselves

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    1 x Jack Riewoldt for the Brownlow and 1 x Drew Petrie for the Coleman says to me they're taking the [censored].

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    Surely our TRUE form is neither our scrappy pre-season efforts nor our stellar efforts against the Pies and Swans. With natural improvement from our young list we should realistically expect to make the 8 ........ just !!

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    Less than 18 months ago we won our second wooden spoon in a row.

    We are just impatient sh!ts.

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    We've had a pretty poor pre-season and missed out on finals last year. Bruce and McDonald, our former captain, have departed.

    Even if you think we will play finals, I think it's pretty easy to see why the captains may have chosen other sides.

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    Apart from Brad Green...AFL captains are dumb sh!ts. So you can't really take what they say to serious! ha

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    Less than 18 months ago we won our second wooden spoon in a row.

    We are just impatient sh!ts.

    We've had a pretty poor pre-season and missed out on finals last year. Bruce and McDonald, our former captain, have departed.

    Even if you think we will play finals, I think it's pretty easy to see why the captains may have chosen other sides.

    Little need to post when you guys are in form.

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    I was thinking about this today...

    I think you have to consider how the question was posed. They didn't ask "will Melbourne make the finals..." If they did, you'd have found a few people would have said maybe and many would have said yes.

    But they asked to provide your top 8. When you do that Melbourne are never considered. We're just another club on the list. With the others, their media presence, their identity is so much more meaty. It SAYS something if you pick Essendon to make finals, and it says something if you pick them to miss. With us... if we made the top 4 one year, I reckon most captains, at the start of the next season, would knock us out of that top 4, or even the 8... Just because we're a quiet club.

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    Less than 18 months ago we won our second wooden spoon in a row.

    We are just impatient sh!ts.

    Spot on.

    And we have gone through the list with an axe and lost our skipper and VC.

    I'll be pretty happy with a just missed and some of the kids starting to be able to mix it with the men more often. Everything else is a bonus.

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