Josh Jenkins

But the fact is, if you finish sixth, that is such a huge, monstrous advantage over a team to finish the seventh.

We're talking more about finishing 10th compared to 11th.

But 6th v.

7th.

So the Gold Coast Suns are currently 6th.

Melbourne have a chance to go up and be on the same amount of wins today against West Coast.

But that's a big one as well.

It's an interesting structured ladder that I think will have greater importance in conversation in the back end of the year.

And it applies to how close some of these games are.

Well, you've touched on this, JJ, the early, you know, the early crow, which we all go at different times, the early predictions based on ladders, round three, round four, get through, gather round.

And while there's a good opportunity for teams to find form, Melbourne are in form.

They got, you know, West Coast today, they got a really big one and a really interesting game next week against Hawthorne.

That'll be, I'm assuming, at a minimum, fun to watch.

They get a little bit of a tougher run on the back end of it.

So they're a team that would have some confidence.

But you are right.

Like Sydney, Fremantle, Hawthorne and Brisbane feel like the top four teams from the early part.

Geelong is starting to find their groove.

And Gold Coast in the last two weeks have both had good wins, albeit without probably not playing the style of football that we might have thought they'd been playing.

But it's round nine.