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Coming into this season I looked at the first half of the season draw and saw two wins (Brisbane and Richmond) from teams we easily beat last year a couple of maybes (Doggies, Swans, Saints and Dons) where they may slide we may rise and at least half a dozen spankings (last years top 5). Lets take the two games I expected to win: Round 1 - Brisbane - A week before the season Jimmy dies, the week of the opening match his funeral. We lose. Upsetting, but given the circumstances not unexpected. Round 3 - Richmond - We all expected to beat them, but we lost. THIS is the only game based on last years ladder and results we should have won. The rest of the games based on the last season and/or recent results I expected to lose. Yet we are so surprised, appalled and upset every week, when logic and form from recent years suggests we actually should have been ready aware and honest about where Melbourne actually sits in this competition. Not saying I like it, or accept it, or are not [censored] off by it every week. I just don't think any of us are really surprised. And if losing the one game we had a reasonable expectation to win (Richmond) has sent us in to this frenzy of self analysis and despair imagine if we can't win some of the 6 winnable games in rounds 13 - 23. We are the Melbourne footy club and we have a lot of work to do before we warrant the expectations we all take into every season and game. That's where we are at. The coach knows it, the players know it and now we know it. Carn the Dees