The Toughest Run Home

[derkd]

^ i would add to your post, this isnt simply reflective of just Collingwood, look at the ladder! thediffrence between being top four and 13th or 14th is really only a game and bit. Many good sides will miss the eight this year.

Anyway, our destiny is our own. how much does the team want it, throw in the element of luck.

[eddiesmith]

Hawthorn, meh, in form? Have you seen who they've beaten in that run? Not a single finals team amongst them.

Have you seen who we've beaten over the same period

WCE
Adelaide
Melbourne
North

We’re also the reigning premiers and they’re a bottom 4 side…

[What'sinaname]

But they aren’t right?

They’re a one win outside of being in the Top 8 and are being coached by, who now looks like one of the better coaches in the business.

[stui magpie]

It's pretty simple, if we can't win enough of those games to make finals then we don't deserve to be there.

To be the best, you have to beat the best.

I reckon we can do it. As more magnets come back on the board and the weather starts to improve, we should be peaking through August and September.

[swooper]

Honestly I am not looking past Fri night
In such a topsy turvy season, seems like almost anyone can win on the day
There will be upsets across the board - so its just way too hard to predict anything at this stage
Just remember - we lost those three games in a row towards the end of last season....and we won the flag
Even if we lose of Fri night, I am not 100% giving up ..not yet
Go Pies

[Johnno75]

We were in a much better position last year that we could have afforded to drop those games late. A poor start has us playing catch up in 2024. If we lose Friday we are out of the 8 and an uphill battle awaits us.

I am not as confident given so many players have regressed from their 2023 form and as the weeks roll on the consistency is just not there. Our injury profile is only adding to the problem.

[slangman]

It doesn’t help when a fellow top 4 team from 2023 gets to play north Melbourne and Richmond twice this season. Both teams finished in the bottom 6 in 2023 so it’s staggering that a top 6 was fixtured to double up against the bottom 6.

We have been punished for winning the premiership last year (and rightly so) but you’d have thought that Carlton’s fixture would have been quite a lot more difficult than it is.

[Big T]

Think we will sneak in. The way this season is going we will lose to Richmond and beat the Swans

[Piesnchess]

Our fixture was from hell, and why oh why, have the Bluescum played the hapless easybeat Tigers twice, and WE have not played em once, yet ????????

[Big T]

^
That’s yearly. They also would have played them twice in their premiership years I assume, same as us with the blues and bombers?

[warburton lad]

There are no 'easy' games against Final Eight aspirants at this time of year.

Tonight is a perfect example of the above.

One could make a strong case for either Essendon or Collingwood this evening.

Floreat Pica

[shawthing]

You lost me at - Essendon, even money game.
We are (rightfully) $1.48 favourites on Friday.

That's looking good right now isn't it! We look totally disinterested since quarter time.

[piedys]

Perhaps we need to change header to: The Toughest Limp Home

[shawthing]

Perhaps we need to change header to: The Toughest Limp Home

Since we need to win 5 of the last 7 now just to sneak into the eight you'd have to think we are gone for all money. Get on the Swanettes or even the Brions, because it will get ugly on GF day otherwise.

What would be worse a Carlton or Essendon premiership? Either way they will go past us again.

[BazBoy]

Our base (position 9) is a tenuous place to launch a revival