No reason they won't. They have some very good players back this year, and while they've been out for a year they will get an easy draw and could pinch 8th
I think this is one reason Purple doesn't like Melbourne. We very rarely put out updates, and Mahoney is only on Trade radio once or twice for the period.
Plus, he seems to have no sources inside melbourne
And they still won't get anything. Before everything went down last week, Barrett was criticising melbourne for not getting the Hibberd trade done, claiming that we try to do a thousand different things instead of what was right in front of us
While it's certainly flattering that Lewis would pick us, I'm glad this isn't going ahead. We have an abundance of slow, inside players, and while his experience and leadership would be valuable, it is not worth it IMO