The general mood around here is that we have blown it and wont make the finals. The interesting thing is though that one half of a season doesn't necessarily tell you much about the other half. Form is a big factor of course so you sort of have to look at whether a teams form is representative of the teams ability from the available list. In our case i think we can all agree that we have under performed, particularly given that injury wise we are not too badly off. People also tend to think that we should win the easy games and lose the harder ones, but i don't think that rule applies very well to a good side. A good side can beat anyone on their day and yet the competition is even enough for a poor team to beat a good one if they don't turn up.
If you look at the season as starting again this week with those points in mind, i personally would expect us to do better than in the first half. That would get us at the very least, really close to playing finals. A win this week would be massive in that context.
Finals shouldn’t really be the target anymore, it’s mathematically possible, but it’s statistically close to impossible.
Our fixture is tougher second half too.
Just settling on a strong best 22 and playing the best footy we can should be the goal.