What is your club’s pass mark for 2015? ................... (Herald-Sun)

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2015 AFL season: What is your club’s ‘pass mark’?

Ben Waterworth and Gilbert Gardiner
Herald-Sun
January 27, 2015

“PASS mark” — the phrase that sends shivers down the spines of AFL coaches yet whets the appetite of all footy fans and commentators.

While players and coaches at this time of the year deny they have a specific goal in mind for the season, fans are already conjuring up an acceptable finish by season’s end.

So what’s a pass mark for your club this season?

What must your club achieve to avoid a “fail” on their 2015 report card?

NOTE: Our ladder position indicates a team’s final spot on the ladder (for example, for a team that needs to finish fourth or higher, they must play in a preliminary final).

RICHMOND

Gilbert Gardiner’s analysis: NO sugar coating this ... Richmond MUST play in, and win, at least one final to break even in 2015. They whimped out last year, belted by Port Adelaide before junk-time goals avoided an embarrassing triple-figure loss. The Tigers, who averaged 85 points per game last year, need to find two to three more goals to stay above the likes of Adelaide, West Coast, Gold Coast and Collingwood. The draw makes it tough — ranked fifth hardest — but Richmond’s got enough talent on every line to be competitive. At the very least, time is on Richmond’s side, with the list’s average age at 24 and 70 games experience.

Pass Mark: 8th or higher

http://www.news.com.au/sport/breaking-news/afl-season-what-is-your-clubs-pass-mark/story-fnect155-1227197333734

[Phil Mrakov]

Nah, 8 or higher won't cut it if we still don't win a final

[yandb]

It shows how little research these reporters do. Peggy O'Neill said any thing less than a finals win in 2014 would be a considered a failure.

What this reporter is suggesting is we should go backwards.

[Phil Mrakov]

It shows how little research these reporters do. Peggy O'Neill said any thing less than a finals win in 2014 would be a considered a failure.
]Then why didn't they sack Dimma

[the claw]

It shows how little research these reporters do. Peggy O'Neill said any thing less than a finals win in 2014 would be a considered a failure.

What this reporter is suggesting is we should go backwards.

what he suggests is we finish no worse than last yr or better. to me 8th or 12th means your middling and is neither here nor there.
what is lazy is nearly  every lists average age would be around 24yrs give or take days.

[wayne]

Surprised they didn't go after a cheap laugh and say 9th