Maybe it's time for a new letter by Peter "the saint" Jackson. Surely after the past month those who haven't signed on would at least consider a lesser membership. We'd have over 41,000 members if unsigned members from just the last two years recommitted. It's exciting times. You'd never want to be considered a bandwagon member. Better to sign on now!

Imagine if we got our game against the saints again!!!

Maybe it's time for a new letter by Peter "the saint" Jackson. Surely after the past month those who haven't signed on would at least consider a lesser membership. We'd have over 41,000 members if unsigned members from just the last two years recommitted. It's exciting times. You'd never want to be considered a bandwagon member. Better to sign on now!

Imagine if we got our game against the saints again!!!

Peter "*The Demon" Jackson

Imagine if we got our game against the saints again!!!

Not hard to imagine us smashing them.

It is clear that it is not only important who you play but the time your play them. The Hawks were down 5-6 stars the other week and obviously that would be the best time to play them. Players unavailable for both teams have a major effect on the result. Our worst result for the year was against the Eagles who were at full strength while we were well down on personnel.

Not hard to imagine us smashing them.

It is clear that it is not only important who you play but the time your play them. The Hawks were down 5-6 stars the other week and obviously that would be the best time to play them. Players unavailable for both teams have a major effect on the result. Our worst result for the year was against the Eagles who were at full strength while we were well down on personnel.

Exactly right, our draw is much tougher in the second half of the year. We've only played 2 sides in the top 8 up till now (Sydney and Gold Coast). But we've improved so much, that we'd be 6-3 or 7-2 from those games if we played them in the 2nd half of the year.

We should win at least three games in the back half of the season, but it's hard to see us winning more than 6. Of our remaining games we teams outside the 8 in the Bulldogs, Essendon, Brisbane, GWS and West Coast away. The rest of the sides are in the 8, including Port twice and North twice,

Key games coming up against the Pies, and Bombers. If we can get a win in one or both of those, then who knows. But 6-8 wins is a realistic goal, what I was thinking at the start of the year, and could've been 10-12 if things went our way...

Exactly right, our draw is much tougher in the second half of the year. We've only played 2 sides in the top 8 up till now (Sydney and Gold Coast). But we've improved so much, that we'd be 6-3 or 7-2 from those games if we played them in the 2nd half of the year.

We should win at least three games in the back half of the season, but it's hard to see us winning more than 6. Of our remaining games we teams outside the 8 in the Bulldogs, Essendon, Brisbane, GWS and West Coast away. The rest of the sides are in the 8, including Port twice and North twice,

Key games coming up against the Pies, and Bombers. If we can get a win in one or both of those, then who knows. But 6-8 wins is a realistic goal, what I was thinking at the start of the year, and could've been 10-12 if things went our way...

Watch the replay against Richmond again. See how many simple shots on goal they missed. See how many goals we got from pretty fortunate bounces of the ball (Jones, Dawes, Tyson).

If luck was against us we could've lost that game. Also see us do so much right in terms of winning contested ball and controlling play and still losing to the dogs who are nothing more than an 8 win side.

We are definitely in that 6-8 range and part of that means losing games against other sides of the same level or worse, which means GWS and Saints so far. Just look at the dogs last year who finished well win 8 wins but loss to us at one stage.

Plenty of work to go but if you aren't signing up this year on what we've seen then you're either a bit of a lost cause, very stubborn or a band wagon type.

Watch the replay against Richmond again. See how many simple shots on goal they missed. See how many goals we got from pretty fortunate bounces of the ball (Jones, Dawes, Tyson).

If luck was against us we could've lost that game. Also see us do so much right in terms of winning contested ball and controlling play and still losing to the dogs who are nothing more than an 8 win side.

We are definitely in that 6-8 range and part of that means losing games against other sides of the same level or worse, which means GWS and Saints so far. Just look at the dogs last year who finished well win 8 wins but loss to us at one stage.

Plenty of work to go but if you aren't signing up this year on what we've seen then you're either a bit of a lost cause, very stubborn or a band wagon type.

I agree, we had a lot of luck, but I attribute a large part of richmonds poor goal kicking to the pressure we put on them when they took those shots. We were shutting down there forwards inside 50, our mid were chasing hard forcing them to rush shots from 50 out.

I still think we would be pressed for 6-8 wins. Id love it and its possible, but we will have to wait and see.

Let's see what the players think.

We may all be pleasantly suprised. Win 3-4 in a row and the ladder is wide open.

Attitude.

The players are still learning to win, a little bit of composure cost us against the saints, giants suns and dogs, we could have won all 4 as we were ahead in the last quarter of all of those games.

Watch the replay against Richmond again. See how many simple shots on goal they missed. See how many goals we got from pretty fortunate bounces of the ball (Jones, Dawes, Tyson).

If luck was against us we could've lost that game. Also see us do so much right in terms of winning contested ball and controlling play and still losing to the dogs who are nothing more than an 8 win side.

We are definitely in that 6-8 range and part of that means losing games against other sides of the same level or worse, which means GWS and Saints so far. Just look at the dogs last year who finished well win 8 wins but loss to us at one stage.

Plenty of work to go but if you aren't signing up this year on what we've seen then you're either a bit of a lost cause, very stubborn or a band wagon type.

The Tyson one I'll give you but the other 2 were hit into the centre of the square, nothing fortunate there.

The players are still learning to win, a little bit of composure cost us against the saints, giants suns and dogs, we could have won all 4 as we were ahead in the last quarter of all of those games.

I hate to nitpick, but the only game we were in front of in a last qtr was against the Bulldogs.

The Tyson one I'll give you but the other 2 were hit into the centre of the square, nothing fortunate there.

Agreed. The Dawes goal was a perfectly excecuted "no fluke involved" goal. Dawes saw an open goal square and just banged it long and it went through.