We should beat Freo,Carlton,St.kilda and the Gold Coast. Adelaide at home a possibility. Collingwood a possibility,Hawthorn no way. Swans slight chance along with Cats.W'Coast no and Port slight chance. We could end up with a min of 10 wins,unless we can take out a top side Hawks,Swans then I would say we havn't improved a great deal. For a team to become a better team they should play the top sides more often than play weaker ones. 

Not exactly any revelations here. Is there a point to your OP?

I think we'll finish on 9 wins and finish around 11th-13th. We just blew too many easy games and now have a tougher run home. The young guys usually tire out too so with our very inexperienced side I expect them to fade as it goes on.

Anything under 12 wins is a fail in Roosy's 3rd year...

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Anything under 12 wins is a fail in Roosy's 3rd year...

Pfffttttt

Still standing by my round two Demonland prediction of 10 to 11. 10 is a pass and hopefully next year will be all about September

42 minutes ago, ENYAW said:

We should beat Freo,Carlton,St.kilda and the Gold Coast. Adelaide at home a possibility. Collingwood a possibility,Hawthorn no way. Swans slight chance along with Cats.W'Coast no and Port slight chance. We could end up with a min of 10 wins,unless we can take out a top side Hawks,Swans then I would say we havn't improved a great deal. For a team to become a better team they should play the top sides more often than play weaker ones. 

I wouldnt pen the saints in too early but im hoping freo, pies, Gc, carlton and a scalp somewhere

Out of those first 4 I'd only call Gold Coast the CERTAINTY. Since Round 5 we haven't strung two decent efforts together. I wouldn't rule out some upsets though. We've flirted with looking like a team near the top but we are still seen as easy beats in the mind of the opposition

5 minutes ago, deanox said:

Pfffttttt

Profound...

I wouldn't mark down Saints or Carlton as a win. We haven't beaten the Saints in 10 years! And already lost to them this year.

Carlton are playing better than us too and are higher on the ladder. They've knocked off Geelong and had a 4-5 win streak too.

We need to bring intensity and our a game or we won't beat anyone outside the bottom 4.

Freo also look like they are getting some form back.  8 wins looks the max to me unless I start seeing a taste for elan coming from our players.

Edited June 11, 20169 yr by america de cali

11 minutes ago, america de cali said:

Freo also look like they are getting some form back.  8 wins looks the max to me unless I start seeing a taste for elan coming from our players.

They're playing Brisbane...

2 minutes ago, AdamFarr said:

They're playing Brisbane...

At this stage they are working them over better than we did and at their dung hole too.

1 hour ago, MrReims said:

Not exactly any revelations here. Is there a point to your OP?

I'm ecstatic that we get the odd post these days from enyaw that don't sound like the contents of an LSD nightmare. Soon dee-luded will have the title of Demonland's most incoherent poster all to himself.

I think 10 at worst and 13 at absolute best. Another pre season and then finals in the next two years is non negotiable.

Enyaw may still take the prize -  deeluded has gone awol

Weather it's 10,11 etc its not the only kpi it's how the team plays & the brand of ooty they play along with improvements in our young players... The question is what shape the team , footy dept, development & culture will Roosy leave?? I think very positive & the foundations have been laid.. 

Edited June 11, 20169 yr by Hogan2014

Only the lazy wouldn't have bothered to search for the thread from early this season

Gold Coast only game with a strong hope. Carlton are a better team, and we have an inherent inability to beat St. Kilda, particularly at Docklands. Freo are finally finding some form. Possibly a win on Monday. Any of the other games would be wildly against the odds. Bizarre as it is, we will likely finish on the seven wins we snagged last year, or possibly one less on six. The worrying thing is not that we haven't improved, as we have, but that it won't be seen as such by the less aware observers, thus hurting our membership build. The other concern is that as consistently the youngest team in the AFL, we will drop off badly as we run out of puff. It's going to be a tough second half of the season. 

2 minutes ago, Webber said:

Gold Coast only game with a strong hope. Carlton are a better team, and we have an inherent inability to beat St. Kilda, particularly at Docklands. Freo are finally finding some form. Possibly a win on Monday. Any of the other games would be wildly against the odds. Bizarre as it is, we will likely finish on the seven wins we snagged last year, or possibly one less on six. The worrying thing is not that we haven't improved, as we have, but that it won't be seen as such by the less aware observers, thus hurting our membership build. The other concern is that as consistently the youngest team in the AFL, we will drop off badly as we run out of puff. It's going to be a tough second half of the season. 

6 wins can never be an improvement, however you package it up. 

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

6 wins can never be an improvement, however you package it up. 

Given that the fixture changes every year, one year hard, the next easier, and so on, that's simply not true. 

1 minute ago, Webber said:

Given that the fixture changes every year, one year hard, the next easier, and so on, that's simply not true. 

The usual MFC excuses

6 wins is also 16 losses

that is never acceptable 

6, 7 or 8 wins is no way an improvement. The last two seasons it was fair to say we were improving early on and then fell away badly.  

19 minutes ago, Webber said:

Gold Coast only game with a strong hope. Carlton are a better team, and we have an inherent inability to beat St. Kilda, particularly at Docklands. Freo are finally finding some form. Possibly a win on Monday. Any of the other games would be wildly against the odds. Bizarre as it is, we will likely finish on the seven wins we snagged last year, or possibly one less on six. The worrying thing is not that we haven't improved, as we have, but that it won't be seen as such by the less aware observers, thus hurting our membership build. The other concern is that as consistently the youngest team in the AFL, we will drop off badly as we run out of puff. It's going to be a tough second half of the season. 

I don't think anyone will be talk of any improvement if we win 6-7. Doesn't matter how young we are, losing that many isn't acceptable. Players should be dropped/rested accordingly if we are running out of puff, that's providing we remain(or perhaps become) healthy.

Winning at Docklands is worth 2 wins for me.

2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Anything under 12 wins is a fail in Roosy's 3rd year...

I dont think so. If we finish on 10/11 and then win 15 next year I think that would show great development across Roos' tenure especially with the amount of list turnover.

If we win 10 and then 10 again next year I would be disappointed. 

I think we'll finish up between 10-12 wins and just miss finals which was my prediction at the start of the year.