The pointy end of the season is coming up. The last few weeks of the regular season where every team is giving it their all, week in week out. Every side is trying to finish as high in the standings as possible, attempting to make finals and gain a home ground advantage.
However, that's not all. The coach doesn't walk in and simply tell the players "we want to make finals", each team has specific goals tailored to the way they play game in order to make it as far as possible in the competition. We're going to look at every team's situation and dissect what they want to do and what they need to do in order to hoist that cup at the end of the season.
Melbourne Demons
Will the Dees finally play finals? The goal for Simon Goodwin's team is to make finals for the first time since 2006. With key defender Jake Lever going down for the rest of the year, questions will be asked about their depth. Currently sitting eighth, the Demons need to make a late run to keep their spot.
From a side that won 16 quarters of football in a row to now having not won a game since Lever's injury, the Demons will rely on arguably a top five key forward in the competition at the moment, Tom McDonald, to lead the way as well as the defenders to share the work load.
