Our starts to the year....

For us its all about pre-season momentum The teams that have had poor years cannot afford to limp to the start of the year. Think Port last year, Ess in 2011. It didn't help Bris last year winning the pre-season comp but we have not had any momentum pre-season for years. Our record early on shows how that has affected us. This year needs to change

With you there.

I can't understand the argument against performing well in pre-season games. If there are people out there who believe that us getting flogged during these three pre-season games won't have any effect on the teams' psyche going into round, then y'all are delusional.

We're still an extremely fragile club who don't know how to win. If we were to win the all three games of the pre-season, we'd be walking 50% taller going into round 1.

Pre-season form does matter to us. I'm sure Roos will play it down to the media because he won't want to add pressure.

Even the triple header game last year against North and Richmond, you could see such a contrast between how fluently they moved the ball in comparison to us.

It's all about building our confidence for the season opener, and from there, anything could happen.