We havent won 3 in a row for a long time and four in a row for even longer - percentage above 100%? a few years as well....and thats with 6-8 key players out of the team basically all year.

Boys just need to keep working and pushing.

Its funny where yesterday was a game to celebrate and be happy with our depth - the comments are Collingwood are no good... just lol they convincingly beat Richmond last week and played great football for a half..... Grundy spearing 35 meter passes to the chest of leading forwards, Henry taking strong marks and kicking good goals. Boys just worn them down out of grit.

Won't happen, but the LOLs if we push out Richmond.

We can definitely make the 8 on 11 wins, but we'd still need other results to go our way. Conceding a loss to Port away, North, GC, St Kilda and GWS are all winnable. I'd expect to beat North and GC, while StK and GWS are 50/50 at best. Realistically I'd expect we'll win 2-3 more games, but if we play the way we did in the last quarter yesterday, winning 4 is not out of the question.

We'll need to be a game clear of Richmond and the scum as their percentage will almost definitely be higher, so we'd need them to only win 2 games each. We'd be relying on GWS to beat them both unless there is an upset ie. Richmond losing to North or Hawthorn, Scum losing to Gold Coast or Collingwood (which is possible). We'd be an outside chance of overtaking Richmond on percentage if they win 3 games, but they're about 100 points ahead of our differential so we'd need some big wins

The other possibility is West Coast going on a horror run and dropping out altogether. They're so unpredictable, they could well lose games against St Kilda, Freo, Collingwood (in melb), but could also beat Melbourne and Brisbane. If they only win 2 more we'll go close to overtaking them on percentage.

On squiggle, these results will get us home.

Carlton
W - North Cripps back
W - StK Murphy back as sub
W - GC Charlie, Pittonet, Levi back
L - Port McGovern, McDonald back
W - GWS Docherty back, Kemp debut Murphy 300th

West Coast
W - StK
W - Coll
L - Melb
W - Freo
L - Bris

Scum
L - GWS
L - Syd
L - WB
W - GC
W - Coll

Rich
L - Geel
L - Freo
W - North
L - GWS
W - Haw

Freo
L - Syd
W - Rich
L - Bris
L - WC
L - StK

StK
L - WC
L - Carl
L - Syd
L - Geel
W - Freo

LADDER
7. West Coast 12 10 0 98%
8. Carlton 11 11 0 97%
9. Essendon** 10 12 0 103%
10. Richmond 10 12 0 102%
11. GWS 9 12 1 92.1%
12. Fremantle 9 13 0 92%
13. St Kilda 9 13 0 88%

Fanciful but not impossible. At least it keeps things interesting with lots of teams in the mix playing each other in the final 5 rounds. Now as reward for posting that we'll go and get belted by North on Saturday

Not a snowflakes chance.
We are more likely to lose to GWS and St.K.

So this weekend we want
St Kilda to beat West Coast
Sydney to beat Freo
GWS to beat the scum
Geelong to beat Richmond

to win. Really doesn’t matter what the other teams do if we don’t get the job done. Control what we can control & the rest will take care of itself.

Won't happen, but the LOLs if we push out Richmond.

Totally agree Frank. Let's just see if they turn up this week where the expectation is on them to win. Will they be asleep at the wheel for a quarter or a half before something clicks? I'd just like to see a consistently good four quarters rather than having to rely on one fantastic quarter to get them off the hook.

Certainly will if we get 11 wins.

Important to follow up this week. Next 3 games are North, St.Kilda and Gold Coast here, 2 we should win and one 50/50. Dare say win them all and we are sitting in the 8. Can we maintain the motivation and rage though.

Also will be interesting to see whether they played their grand final in the 4th quarter with an emotional dump for Jack and Serge and then come out with zero energy or aggression this week coz they spent all their between the ears tickets rallying against the Filth. Do it for Serge for every single game remaining this season should be the mantra moving forward.