Josh Jenkins

All right, I'm putting the dogs on the clock.

Yes, you've got injuries, but everyone gets injuries.

If you truly are improved and you truly are a team who can make a run at this thing, it's going to be without Sam Darcy.

That's fine.

Get past it, get over it, find a way around it.

You've still got an elite key forward.

So most teams, if they lost their number one key forward, would not have much to fall back on.

They've got Aaron Norton, a proven goal scorer, a proven contested marking beast inside 50 to rely on.

They've got Riley West, who they need to find a way to get back into his very, very best form.

Hopefully, Waitman can get back there.

They've got young Croft, who's got the size to potentially float in and out of games and have an impact.

So...

For me, and I'll keep it short, no one will give them a chance against Sydney, but the reality is they play Marvel Stadium unbelievably well.

I've got them on the clock.

I don't think they can win it, but if they truly are a team who are as talented and as deep and as elite as some people think, they're on the clock to keep winning despite losing arguably their most important player.

Yeah, I think it'll be... It's the game I'm probably most looking forward to because I do think Melbourne can challenge and make it interesting and maybe they can do what they did to Gold Coast and that's upend them and get the momentum.

You know, the crowd's not going to be enormous.

It might be 30,000, 35,000.

But what it will be is a bunch of Melbourne's most enthusiastic fans.

So if you can get them behind you, you can certainly be a threat.