What are our chances for 2024?

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

Look 2024 is too much of a struggle for us.
Not our year.
make it to week 2 of finals is a pass mark.
Re load and we go again in 2025.

[Take_a_Screamer]

^ I can't imagine Fly saying that to his troops

We need to get back to form including the incumbent injury players and start to gel.
If we win against Dons on our favourite MCG, we're back in the top four.

We have been given a chance to do well. This is our year!
Things will change for the better from now onwards...

[stui magpie]

Fly played in 3 premierships at Brisbane where they were never the best team in the H&A season, but the best team come September.

We make finals, preferably top 4 which is still realistic, then watch out, we're a real chance.

[RudeBoy]

Let's face it, we've had an injury prone season so far, but now we seem to be getting our players back. However, we still could see Elliott, Mitchell, Cox and McStay available well before the finals.

As long as we can stay in touch with the top 4, we should aim to have a close to best team available for the last 3 games or so before the finals. Do that, then we are still a big chance.

[shawthing]

All things considered. Injuries. Players losing form. Being partly worked out. Losing our aura (as Jonathan Brown puts it). The toughest run home of any team. We have two chances to go back to back: Buckley's and none.

[Take_a_Screamer]

Jonathan Brown goes public with eye-opening claim about Collingwood coach Craig McRae

Brown says the law of averages was always going to catch up with the Pies and that is what we are seeing now as teams begin to believe that they can weather the late flurry from the black and white. “They’re getting beaten around the contest, their forward connection has been pretty ordinary and their defenders are getting ambushed,” Brown said. “For me, it’s a really big concern, they lost on the weekend, you start losing these close games, you lose your aura, the teams that come up against you in those last quarters aren’t as worried, because you don’t feel like you’re paralysed as much."

The Pies face an extremely tough run home, facing seven finals contenders in their last eight games.

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/jonathan-brown-goes-public-with-eye-opening-claim-about-collingwood-coach-craig-mcrae-014018159.html

[derkd]

^ fairly correct summation, look to be frank winning back to back is a rare feat reserved for really great teams. I don't think we fit into that catogary this year.

not saying we can't make a dent in the finals should we make it, but our team profile isnt what it was, and not that of a flag side.

our reliance on coming from behind, or being up and giving up late scores to scrap a win simply isnt sustainable, it is a party trick that, the more you use it...the less effective it will becomes and the more energy you waste....you ave to have the games you win early to bank energy week on week. As Craig Mcrae is keenly aware.