Pass mark for 2026?

[Tiger Khosh]

Not even gunna mention wins it has nothing to do with improvement next year. We could actually play better footy show a real system and kids will develop nicely and only win a game or two.

If you want to attract mature talent it is very important.
Saints picked up 4 and should have 5 on the back of 9 wins with 4 very narrow and unconvincing wins over bottom 4 teams.
I agree the game plan should be key but why couldn’t we do both 

Think it was less so about the number of games they won and moreso about the ludicrous contracts they were handing out. Other than avoiding the spoon, I’m not fussed on the amount of games we win. Next year is the last draft before Tassie come in, so a handy draft hand certainly wont hurt in what will be the third draft in our rebuild.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Time and again, the Roos failed to attract talent with ludicrous contracts because noone wants to play for a bunch of losers. The same would have happened to the Saints had they lost all 4 of those close games.

[Tiger Khosh]

Time and again, the Roos failed to attract talent with ludicrous contracts because noone wants to play for a bunch of losers. The same would have happened to the Saints had they lost all 4 of those close games.

Disagree. There are ludicrous contracts north were offering around the late 2010’s and then there’s the next level ludicrous contracts that the saints handed out this off-season the likes of which the game has never seen. Think you should go back and check norths number of wins around that time too, had seasons around the same or better than what the saints did this year.

Let’s not pretend like the saints picked up elite level talent either. TDK is prob the highest profile and they had to give him 1.7mil over 7 years to land him.

[one-eyed]

Your AFL club's worst nightmare ahead of 2026

Andrew Slevison
SEN
31 Oct 2025



None of the kids come on

The Tigers are in a good position from a rebuild standpoint with plenty of emerging youngsters.

But if the likes of Sam Lalor, Luke Trainor, Harry Armstrong, Taj Hotton and Jonty Faull don’t come on, and the yet-to-debut Josh Smillie battles with injury again, it won’t end up being a fruitful 2026.

When wins are not as important as the development of the future, Adem Yze is going to need all his inexperienced jets to keep taking significant leaps.

A stagnant 2026 would be ghoulish for the Tigs who seem to be heading in the right direction but must get at least the same level of improvement as this year to keep the rebuild on track.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/10/30/afl-every-clubs-worst-nightmare-for-next-season

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Time and again, the Roos failed to attract talent with ludicrous contracts because noone wants to play for a bunch of losers. The same would have happened to the Saints had they lost all 4 of those close games.

Disagree. There are ludicrous contracts north were offering around the late 2010’s and then there’s the next level ludicrous contracts that the saints handed out this off-season the likes of which the game has never seen. Think you should go back and check norths number of wins around that time too, had seasons around the same or better than what the saints did this year.

Let’s not pretend like the saints picked up elite level talent either. TDK is prob the highest profile and they had to give him 1.7mil over 7 years to land him.

Maybe but whichever way you look at it, there’s no reason for us to go backwards in wins from this year to next. The concept of it defies logic

[the claw]

Who are we going to finish above based on last year ?

North Melbourne well they made us look silly second time around  and actually have done a lot of hard yards that we haven't. Not sure where they will finish but i expect them to finish above us.

We beat the Bombers once but they were injury ravaged think most would concede that.

We beat wce twice they are in a similar situation to us won't be pencilling in  certain wins against them.

Carlton round 1 was a good win they finished 11th. Who knows

The other win and only win against a top 8 team was against GCS a game they kicked away.

Lets just say we lost the wce  game that we won by 2 points and the essendon game we won by 9 points i bet the attitude of most would be less about wins and more about actual improvement thru kids development.

PA 72, StK 82, NM 48, Syd 44, WB 79 these were some of the beltings we copped from teams that failed to make the 8.

People are being blinkered if they think improvement only means more wins. We can and likely will have good improvement across the board and win less games. We are nowhere near using games won as a measuring stick for improvement.
Like this year it will be nice to win a few but it definately is not the main metric for measuring improvement.

[Damo]

North Melbourne well they made us look silly second time around  and actually have done a lot of hard yards that we haven't. Not sure where they will finish but i expect them to finish above us.

Done the hard yards that we haven’t?
Been stuck in a rebuild for an eternity, while we have been at that for 3 mins

While we were winning flags, they were winning spoons

And their grand plan was the gift us an early draft pick while they brought in fossils like Darling and Parker because they thought they were close to push for finals.

Give me a spell.

It’s an absolute disgrace they have been at it as long as they have.

There is zero excuse for them not to rise the ladder for goodness sakes.

[camboon]

I like your point , that bringing in experienced players at the end of their careers to a struggling club doesn’t work.
From my observation , It only seems to work if you bring in good players who are experienced leaders when your club has a good foundation of youth and are ready to take the next step.
We are probably a couple of years away from that level inho.

[Andyy]

We'll get wins against WCE and Dons for sure. We'll play at least one of them twice IMO so there's 3.

Couple of upsets here and there, I can see us easily getting 4-6 wins.