so youre pencilling in freo at Subi ?

pls dont get me wrong....it would be marvellous..., stupendous... to go the fairytail way..and stride into the finals !! who doesnt want to see Melbourne there, with purpose and potential !! Id love it.. and............. then there's reality

Its not going to be this year.

Like I said, doubful but possible. I don't see it happening, but they can get on a role and we know that. I seriously have no expectations.

Besides, I'd watched everygame this year, and been to every Melbourne game, up to last weekend. So that was 9 losses I'd witnessed. Worked on Saturday and they won. I'm going on Monday, but then I'm going to Europe until August 6th. So, you'd have to say that I'm somewhat of a bad luck.

"Good on him for thinking like that, there's nothing wrong with thinking like that. It just reflects that he's got a lot of confidence in his team so that's not such a bad thing"- Daniher.

Well said Neale.

Finals or not, I guess the underlying thing is - we want to climb the ladder. Good sign that no-one here is getting excited about number 2 and 18 draft picks. From here you'd have to say snarling and clawing our way out of the bottom four would be something to take a shred of pride from.

I want to see a series of wins that we can point to and say "We got got back up and produced good football, and gave our young players some development time". Even if all it means is we look back and say 'If we'd played like that all year, we really would've been top 4".

Though we seem to end up being able to say that every year.

At least my growing confidence in our defense gives me a glimmer of hope that we can shake these ^#%#%ing awful losing streaks soon, and for the long term.