Bored sifting through the numerous threads about why we are not playing well, who is playing badly or coaching badly, how much our injuries and inexperience have cost us and how spineless the red and blue world really is... yawn.

So figured I'd play the optimist and raise the prospect that things will get better after the next month from hell.

It's gonna suck if we lose to the Blues, Pies, Dons and Saints but the process of separating the wheat from the chaff at the MFC will occur during the next month with Round 13 offering a turning point...

In Round 13 we play Freo at the G with likely inclusion in the team by that match being: Trengove, Jamar, Scully, Mackenzie, Bail, Rivers. No small inclusions. Also, over the next month we shall see what a bunch of our untried players have to offer; Gawn, Blease, Cook, Evans, Howe, etc... and we may even find another Gem or two.

And if we can re-boot by Rd 13 there are 8 winnable games on the way home to enjoy...

Jolly good. We'll all just have to go to the snow a bit earlier this year & be back for Round 13.

Frack that.

The next month will be tough, and that is when we will see what this team is made of upstairs.

Personnel aside, we should be giving more than we are.

I'm tipping we'll smash the Saints this week.

I can see us beating the Saints. They can barely put together a decent score so as long as the Dee's attack well and score big, they will win.

i like the OP. I think these next four games are going to be tough, but we shouldnt just write them off.

Our ability to kick a winning score relys on guys like sylvia and davey kicking goals. Also bringing back bate and Dunn being suspended will give us a better forward line structure

Bored sifting through the numerous threads about why we are not playing well, who is playing badly or coaching badly, how much our injuries and inexperience have cost us and how spineless the red and blue world really is... yawn.

So figured I'd play the optimist and raise the prospect that things will get better after the next month from hell.

It's gonna suck if we lose to the Blues, Pies, Dons and Saints but the process of separating the wheat from the chaff at the MFC will occur during the next month with Round 13 offering a turning point...

In Round 13 we play Freo at the G with likely inclusion in the team by that match being: Trengove, Jamar, Scully, Mackenzie, Bail, Rivers. No small inclusions. Also, over the next month we shall see what a bunch of our untried players have to offer; Gawn, Blease, Cook, Evans, Howe, etc... and we may even find another Gem or two.

And if we can re-boot by Rd 13 there are 8 winnable games on the way home to enjoy...

PaulRB I have been doing exactly as you suggest for the majority of the last 45 years I am getting a little weary of the process.

I blame my father if only he had supported Hawthorn, Carlton or god forbid Collingwood!

I'm tipping we'll smash the Saints this week.

I'm tipping you should smash your rose glasses!

Just joking, but like your confidence.

Wish I could share it.

I'm tipping you should smash your rose glasses!

Just joking, but like your confidence.

Wish I could share it.

Likewise.

I will be happy with 4 Qtr's of effort given the circumstances.

I'm not proposing we raise the white flag and go skiing.

Simply noting that it is always darkest before the dawn, and the endless navel gazing angst and search for someone to blame on this site is tiresome.

The pain and humiliation of this year (and the past three) will reap rewards in years to come, as young players harden up fast, and players unable to move forward are ditched.

Hope we beat the Saints

Carn the Dees.

Edited May 17, 201114 yr by PaulRB

Likewise.

I will be happy with 4 Qtr's of effort given the circumstances.

I'll be happy if they bring in some of the new boys and we discover a new talent (Howe/Evans/Nicholson)

Juice to save the day this week with 10

I know the Saints are struggling, but we've got close to 1/2 our best 22 out.

I'm not proposing we raise the white flag and go skiing.

Simply noting that it is always darkest before the dawn, and the endless navel gazing angst and search for someone to blame on this site is tiresome.

The pain and humiliation of this year (and the past three) will reap rewards in years to come, as young players harden up fast, and players unable to move forward are ditched.

Hope we beat the Saints

Carn the Dees.

Neither am I , I cannot ski and I don't own a RR to get there.

Personally I don't think we're a snowflakes (no pun intended) bloody hope in hell of winning vs St Kilda this week.

We are just completely and utterly shizenhouzen at Docklands for whatever $%&%ing reason. We turn up time after time after time with absoutely ZERO intensity, ZERO hard running, ZERO guts, ZERO desire, ZERO heart etc.

This just has a classic 10 goal "not even in the game" type hammering feel to it imo. We will play the Saints into form and they will be off to the races, season on again for them.

I mark them $1.20 chances. We were so [censored] poor last week that I was reminded about it about two hours ago and now I'm in a VERY grumpy mood.

I expect us to find some consistency this week so it's the Saints by 62 points.

I really hope to be proven wrong but strongly doubt I will be.

Edited May 17, 201114 yr by Harcourt

Juice to save the day this week with 10

did you pinch ClarkWA's glasses?

would like to see young howe play. Sainters will be hard to beat this week at etihad remember. we will have to kick 15 goals plus to win. i can't see it happening.

Edited May 17, 201114 yr by Grimes to Watts

I'll be happy if they bring in some of the new boys and we discover a new talent (Howe/Evans/Nicholson)

Me too DC but does the FD have the balls to try?

Personally, I'd be happy with 3 good games (preferably in a row) against any good sides who put real pressure on us in the way that Hawks & West Coast & North did. I don't care what time of the year it is, it could be Rounds 22 to 24 for all I care. All I want is for us to work out how to not go under as soon as the other side puts real pressure on us.

did you pinch ClarkWA's glasses?

In my despair I tend to say some rash thangs

Personally, I'd be happy with 3 good games (preferably in a row) against any good sides who put real pressure on us in the way that Hawks & West Coast & North did. I don't care what time of the year it is, it could be Rounds 22 to 24 for all I care. All I want is for us to work out how to not go under as soon as the other side puts real pressure on us.

you and me and about 35 000 others Akum.

Frack that.

The next month will be tough, and that is when we will see what this team is made of upstairs.

Personnel aside, we should be giving more than we are.

I think the word you are struggling to find is "competitiveness"

I'll be happy if they bring in some of the new boys and we discover a new talent (Howe/Evans/Nicholson)

Yeah that too Daisy...

In my despair I tend to say some rash thangs

yes I know sometimes I think all there is left to do is "pray for a miracle"

It will probably work as well as anything else.

I know we're all doom-and-gloom right now, but christ the Aints are playing some poor footy too. If we're going to win a game of the next few, this one is it.