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A poster recently pointed out how awful we are because both Geelong and Freo (who belted us in the past 2 weeks) got smashed by the Saints and GWS ran Geelong close. That was his evidence to show how inept and far off we are compared to every other team. Mind-blowing logic but let's have a look at our season rather then team X beat team Y so Team X is way better then MFC. We have 4 wins to date. R4 Carlton, R7 Adelaide, R9 Richmond, R13 Essendon. 4 games we really should've won. Rd 1 v Saints, Rd 8 Bulldogs, R15 Bulldogs, Rd 18 PA. Winning positions late in those games but couldn't get it done. Plenty of skill errors/decision making but some shoddy umpiring decisions compounded the problem. 5 games we got close (pushed) but never looked like winning it. R5 GC -8, R11 Power -20, R6 Sydney -31, R12 Pies -33, R3 GWS -32 4 games we were beaten all over the park and scoreboard R2 WCE, R16 Freo, R17 Geelong, R14 North So 4 games out of 17, we were not up to scratch. Hardly "so far off the competition, it's not funny" We are doing this with only Jones, Tyson, Cross and Vince as our "trusted" mids. We need to build on that list (Viney, Riley, Toumpas, Trengove, Salem, Kent, Michie need to step up). But clearly this season is a pass and something we can build on.