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Yep - both things can be true.

On balance, we shouldn't have made it as far as we did with the list we have, even with the new "discoveries" like Mannagh and Humphries. But you REALLY want to take advantage when you're 4 goals up in the third quarter of a prelim...and we didn't. And it's easy to say the future's bright (and it could be) but there are plenty of teams who made a prelim or two before dropping away (hi Bulldogs 08-10). We have defied the equalisation period waaaaaay longer than anyone else, but we won't forever, so losing opportunities like these is beyond frustrating.