Max Gawn leads the Demons off the field after being thrashed by Fremantle.Credit:AFL Photos
A premiership favourite just a month ago after edging Geelong,the Demons have dropped three of their past four games,and have slipped to the point Gawn cannot guarantee his team will shed its disturbing inconsistency.
Key defensive pillar Jake Lever remains sidelined after knee surgery,but the Demons have a relatively healthy injury list,with their midfield stars all available.
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The Demons are 10th,although they are only outside the top eight on percentage. Gawn said the season was not lost,pointing to the surge Carlton and Greater Western Sydney enjoyed in the run home to the finals last season.
“There’s two ways to look at what’s happened. There’s glass half full,and that would be the Giants and Carlton made a prelim off the back of being worse than us on the ladder at this time last year,” Gawn,who was worked over by the Dockers’ ruckmen Sean Darcy and Luke Jackson,told Triple M.
“We have had some pretty impressive wins,when you’re beating sides that are in the top four,like Geelong and Port. If we get some stuff right,and nail these inconsistencies,then we should be OK for the back half of the year.
“Or there’s the other glass that a side even with us on the ladder,we’ve just lost by 92 points at our home ground in Alice Springs,off the back of losing to West Coast by 60 points two weeks before. So,we’ve got to get out,get our stuff right. We’ve got to go out there,and there will be a response this week.”