As WP said finals this year would be a bonus. As long as we keep improving finals appearance shouldn't be to long away.
Fingers crossed we get a armchair ride into the 8 next year with an easy fixture like some teams have this year.
We will never get concessions like some other clubs, especially considering the supporter base of that said club are as rare as the bunyip or yeti.
I still cant understand how that happens, but thats the AFL. Even if we played Gold Coast twice?? it would still be in Cairns and Metricon QLD
Some will disagree but if we had won the gold coast, port and last nth game we could of played finals last year. We were 3 games away.
But I suppose the problem is close enough is good enough has been accepted for too long, im sure the kids busting their behind every week like Rance, Cotch, Lids, Batch etc wont put up with free riders for much longer..
This year I get the feeling we will be in the mix and without making excuses about the draw being tough etc, I think the fact we have blown 2-3 games we could have won we will just miss out by 2-3 ladder places. This year (without putting a moz on us) I think the bigger difference will be that we dont get blown away by the bigger clubs. So with a better percentage we will be high up the ladder.
fwiw at this stage I thought we could be 2-3 by the end of this round. But most likely 1-4
What you would want to see USAFF is this imo:
12 wins minimum (very possible)
good percentage around the 100.00% mark or more due to the below:
Smashing the teams below us
And when we lose to other teams not to be blown away
Also and very important: the emergence of the little depth that we do have creeping their way into the side throughout the year. This would be because they've worked hard to get a crack in the seniors and thats what we want- Winners!!
