After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

[Mantis]

Re: After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

Adelaide won't make top 4

West Coast home, Port, Freo away, Geelong away will all stretch them. If they don't win any of those they finish on 14 wins

Adel are a good side.. Can only see them struggling with Geel from that group of matches.

[Twodogs]

Re: After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

Adel are a good side.. Can only see them struggling with Geel from that group of matches.

Do Port lift for the showdowns? Might sneak one past them then.

[Ozza]

Re: After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

Agree that Adelaide are a good side. Saw them live on Thursday night - and they set the ground up really well. There's a lot of talk about their forward line, but I was really impressed with their backline - and how they were rarely out of position once North won back the ball.

I they stay healthy - they would certainly be a big chance of top 4. Tex is definitely carrying an injury - but they do have a number of options if he goes down for a few weeks at some point.

[comrade]

Re: After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

It's obvious that the healthiest teams in the top 8 will go the deepest. Adelaide, Geelong & GWS have had a dream run with barely a key player missing. No surprise all 3 clubs are flying.

Hawks have taken some hits but are hardened enough to cope, North are battling now they've lost some personnel and we've done well to hold the fort but have come up against good teams without some of our best players which has hurt us.

You can't go through the year without some sort of injury crisis. North were being lauded for their lack of injuries the week before they started dropping like flies. Interesting to see how the Cats, Crows and Plastics go when it's their turn. I reckon the Cats in particular will really struggle if they were to lose even 1 or 2 important players (Selwood, Taylor, Danger caliber).

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: After the Bye - Our run to the end of the home and away season

Hate to say it but I think 5 wins and 4 losses is closer to the mark

I tend to agree.
To win more than 5 will mean we not only win ALL the games we're expected to, but also will need to take a win against Swans, Cats, North and also Freo in Perth in the last round.
We would also want to be mindful of the Saints...if we're not on key they could easily cause an upset.
We are currently 0 and 3 against the top 4 sides this year...so we're going to have to somehow do more than what we've achieved to date and with some key guys either missing or coming back after significant time off.