I worry some people here have rose coloured glasses about some of the teams just above us, I would say only the top three teams have superior quality, the other four may have a few stars that can make a difference but on balance are not better squads than us, only difference is they are playing more coherently more often even their donkey players, and that probably has more to do with what their coaching staffs are achieving with them and the belief they have instilled in them, something that our coaches seem unable to fulfil.
My greatest fear is we still won't draw higher calibre uncontracted players in the vein of Castro until they can see we're a team worth joining, and that is influenced by how we play and what direction the coaches are leading us. The Petratos situation was a farce, we get stuck with the Brodie Mooy version instead of the Aaron one we wanted, we're going backwards instead of forwards again, I fear the offseason will be worse than the transfer window as far as the Adelaide juniors and all-age players we're gonna herald as our big signings, and I don't see it changing till we get a Gombau in charge who knows what they are doing...