I thought we could make the eight at the beginning of the season. Not because I thought we were so great, but based on where we finished the year before and the fact I didn't rate many other teams (still don't). We've been pretty competitive, except we haven't won.
So it's been a disappointing year, but hardly surprising when you're rebuilding a club from top to bottom, you're without your ruck division which hardly anyone seems to acknowledge, your seniors are useless or not available and you just have young exciting kids who seem to be carrying the side.
Unless we can do some miraculous recruiting at the end of the year, next year I expect much the same as we lose more seniors and get more kids.
After that I think we should start climbing the ladder again and see us winning again. Unless of course we get another coach who thinks topping up a list with past-their-used-by-date players is the way to go which a certain individual loves to do