Mike

It looks like Hunt has played more of a lockdown role lately, so maybe he's had a little less freedom to burst off halfback? I remember a great tackle in the 3rd qtr, possibly on Cameron. Was right on his tail.

It's a real worry. He's looking like a senior citizen at the moment. Keeps giving away frees and always seems to fall over at the contest and ends up scrabbling around on the ground for the ball. Needs to justify his spot pretty quickly.

Anyone else find it comforting when Robbo writes us off?

This from the AFL website: 'How can the team that goes on the road and flogs Adelaide and beat West Coast turn up its toes twice against North Melbourne and then barely lay a tackle in the opening quarter against Collingwood on Saturday with it all to play for? That's the first question Simon Goodwin will address this off-season and there would seem to be no obvious answer.' Exactly my thoughts.

As soon as I got the club email about finals, I got a knot in my stomach. And of course it came back to bite us...

IF (emphasis on 'if') we get there and happen to come up against Sydney, it'll be nice to just get a final under the belt. I feel like the experience of going into a finals game and the pressure that goes with that will be huge for the players. Even if it's just a taste for next season. Having said that, there's no reason we can't do what the Bulldogs did. They got beaten badly over in Perth and suddenly found form. A big win over the Pies would certainly generate some excitement in the playing group.

Hard to fathom that Corey Maynard hadn't played a game of footy in ten years prior to this season. And now he's playing an AFL game.

It's hard not to feel giddy with excitement about all this. Especially after recent years of not being a 'destination club' and seeing players go elsewhere. All the hype around Lever seems warranted.