Thanks Jets - we can only live in hope! Hope is all you need sometimes.
Oldmac Oval isn't the happiest of hunting grounds for the Tigers but I think they will have a good crack tomorrow in what I hope is a try scoring feast and a win by a decent margin to give us hope provided the Filth do the same to GPS at Crosby.
But it is going to take an amazing turn of events if Easts can get the 4th spot from where they stand at present. They have probably done well to get this close given where they stood after the round 8 loss to Sunnybank at Bottomley.
Even if Easts get the two bonus point wins v Snbk & Bond; and GPS don't get another point in their last two games v Bros & Snbk, then the Tigers still have to reel in a 70 point difference in their respective F&A tallies.
Regardless if we can just secure a few outside backs (O'Connor & Hunt) in the off season things don't look too bad for 2015 with this pack:
1. Paraka;
2. Ready;
3. Sanday;
4. Enever;
5. Fattal;
6. Moore;
7. Gunn;
8. Wilkin.
And this 9-13:
9. Deck/Mullins;
10. Brandon;
11. Wilder;
12. Mullins/Sean Cox;
13. White;
14. ???Mansell/Faulkner;
15. ??? Sam Cox => Turner for the finals
(Pity Aidan is going because he might have been able to entice Hunt to become a Tiger!!)
Maybe a Peter Lee or a Mitch Felsman wouldn't look bad on the end of a Tigers backline.
But maybe the 2014 planets can still align - we live in hope!!!