A Rapid Rise Would Not Surprise.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Kids are a year older.
Our backline was decimated by injury last year...hopefully more settled next year.
Injury and a lack of a good pre-season affected some of our midfield as well.
Good luck to any defence lining up on McKay, Curnow and McGovern
A small goal kicking forward would top that off nicely and we have a few 'possibles" there.

The real issue will be the midfield applying enough pressure to aid the defence and at the same time providing enough forward entries and scoring opportunities for 'Charlie McHarry'

For me it also depends what the other clubs are doing, we might improve but we saw teams like Collingwood, North, Melbourne etc improved out of sight and the ones that were meant to drop off didnt.
I have no doubt we will improve but it has to be measured against the other teams... only Gold Coast and Stkilda are teams I would confidently say we are going to beat.....
There isnt a game plan yet and IMO our defense is dodgy in the key spots......dont see Jones and Weitering holding up vs the teams that have real deal KP forwards....
Mcgovern, Charlie and Harry will need to kick a lot of goals for us to win because down the other end its going to be carnage.....