Definitely a fail for me, although perhaps an understandable one. And given that we'll finish pretty much exactly where I thought we would, it's certainly not unexpected. We've shown glimpses of skill and talent throughout the season, with some excellent individual and (to a lesser extent) team performances, but we're just not a smart, consistently good footy team and still have a lot of catching up to do.
If we lose our last two games, the grade will go from a plain old fail to a miserable fail for me. And I suspect we might lose our last two games. Now that we're no hope of playing finals footy, we have nothing to play for except pride (and we all know how well that worked out last season). The stack of injuries we're dealing with doesn't help, but even at full strength (minus Tommy, which is pretty much a given anyway), I think both the Bulldogs and the Tigers - despite their lowly positions on the ladder - have better rosters than we do.
Seibold deserves another year before we burn him at the stake, but as far as management goes, I'm not yet sold on Mestrov. I really, really don't like that we let two of our most promising juniors go to the Tigers. And I think the way we've handled Schuster this year - everything from re-signing him, to standing him down for fitness issues, to Mestrov's latest comments to the media - has been both amateurish and harmful to the kid's future career.
Bring on 2024.