new coach and a lot of list cleaning has been done and that has brought expectation and rightly so. With this expectation has come some dissapointment but this is to be expected with a young team. look mat the blues over the last couple of years and where they are now.... prob top four this year. I think we will be a better side than them by a fair way. Please keep the fdaith demons we are o0n the right track.

new coach and a lot of list cleaning has been done and that has brought expectation and rightly so. With this expectation has come some dissapointment but this is to be expected with a young team. look mat the blues over the last couple of years and where they are now.... prob top four this year. I think we will be a better side than them by a fair way. Please keep the fdaith demons we are o0n the right track.

sorry lost half this thread some how and cant be bothered writing it again... go dees

Here here!

Thankyou for this rational and level headed post.

Everything the team's going through now is worth years of experience, and im glad theyre experiencing outside criticism and speculation in a year when it doesnt matter THAT much (looking at St. Kilda).

What surprises me about this year as opposed to last year is the amount of hatred aimed towards us. We were the fresh faced young go-getters in 10', this year we're the ugly teenagers in heavy black make-up

We were the fresh faced young go-getters in 10', this year we're the ugly teenagers in heavy black make-up

Nice analogy.

If you're talking about media, they're always looking for a narrative and last year it was a young team on the rise. With some bad losses to top teams this year the narrative for the media has changed - that it's to be expected is a boring sell.