Yes but it helps you get to September.
The model for a WA team is to win all home games, snag as many away games as you can, secure a home final and sail into the rest of the finals with a wet sail and full of confidence. Anything else and you're done for. Too hard.
We've got the away games part, more or less. We just need to make Burswood an impenetrable fortress.
Weirdly while we have quite a few parts of the puzzle, they're not the parts you would expect to have first. We were doing the tricky sky bits in the middle when we should have started on the edge.
Spot on.
If we win 11 or 12 out of 13 games at Optus next year we're set for a big year. Then we just need to beat Richmond in the Barossa who should be terrible and 4 of our other 9 interstate games to finish top 4.