Ken Hinkley

We did Horny last night on radio and he talked about the Fab Five games when the top five teams play each other, how great a games they've been.

And the defining thing about the top five games was I think seven out of the eight games that he talked about had been won by the home side, Gerard.

So you get to the finals and you have the Fab Five games.

That's why it's so, so difficult to win for an interstate side when they have to come to Melbourne.

That's why you admire Brisbane of what they've done.

They've been in three grand finals from an interstate club, which is an amazing effort.

So the Fab Five game says Hawthorne, if you want to be a part of the Fab Five, you get to play the last game of the year, if you're good enough, on your home deck.

Yes.

And it's stacked in your favour if you can do that.

If they lose to Port this week, they can surrender this year, can't they?

I think they can almost wipe their hand for this year because their draw after that, Richmond, Suns away, North Melbourne, Carlton, Crows away, you know, Geelong.

West Coast away, Hawthorne and Brisbane Lions.

So they've got four or five of the top five on the ladder that they're going to have to play in the last 10 rounds.

And they need to be better than 50-50 to get there.

You know, they have to be better than 50-50.

So it's a big journey.

But, you know, the stuff that you talked about, managing exiting players, retiring players, champion players, not just players, champion players.

having a look in the

you know, into the future and seeing what some of the younger players are.

I'm not sure that they've got many other younger players that they're willing to look at that they haven't already probably seen.