You should be a motivational speaker.In my mind, we're definitely making finals.
We haven't been outplayed for several months now. Not once.
Our defence is getting tighter with Tarrant settling in beautifully now.
We have star players about to come back
And we have a handful of promising young players to play a role like the Townsend/Graham types did late in 2017.
Overall, we're one of the in-form teams of the AFL over the 2nd half of the season and nobody has found a way to dismantle our system.
The only question in recent pages of this thread comes from a couple of close games going the other way. But a coin toss going the other way doesn't affect the outcome of next week's game.
There's a 12.5% chance of flipping tails 3 times in a row, but if you read the newspapers, the AFL media will paint the story as if we're now a 12.5% of winning any close game. It's misleading, and it invites negative thinking. For example, on match day their pre-game showed footage of us vs Freo from 2005 or so. See how far back they reached to manufacture a story to set expectations for what's in our future?
The RFC writes this story. And the only thing this group hasn't done is win a premiership from outside the top 4 - to win a premiership the hard way.
Everything is lining up for us to tick that box.
I’ve gone from pondering cancelling my Kayo subscription to pulling out my premiership box set and firing up the DVD player.
I can’t see finals this year but I’m pumped none the less.