not much between a lot of sides.
in a lot of ways norths 2013 mirrored our 2012 where we had a good percentage and lost a lot of close games..and vice versa. atm we lack depth one bad injury run will probably see us miss finals.
the real key for us is again development. we desperately need a lot of players who have been around for 3 4 or 5 seasons to step up and become decent consistent players.
sometimes the win loss column is misleading.
are adelaide really as poor as they showed last yr with the injuries they had.wce went from the next big things when just about everything that could go wrong did. essendon actually won 14 games ?? with all the disruptions they had.carlton under malthouse in yr two will be better . you can see the talent in sides like gc wb even melbourne these sides will have real good draws.
if mids win premierships collingwood have more and more quality mids than anyone. mini rebuild and straight back into contention imo.
p/a couldnt do much more than they did. they have good structure lots of youth that will develop more will they slip how much better or worse are they than other teams in the hunt.
then theres nm they are not an old team. in fact overall one of the younger teams going around.
in rnd 1 against collingwood the ave age was 24y 165d and 77.0 games played.
in rnd 23 against collingwood the ave age was 24y 159d and 90.2 games played. the age games brackets this yr will be where it needs to be to be a real finals side.
so many sides in the hunt not even mentioned the top 4. who would really be surprised if any of carl,nm, ad, wce ,pa, gc, ri, ha, syd, co, ge, fr, and even wb made the 8.
theres lots of things other than the win loss column to look at that helps determine where a side is at.
its dog eat dog and to rise above the pack you have to be so much better than most in all areas.
