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Melbourne are adamant their AFL demons are being exorcised, regardless of some ongoing horrors.Coach Paul Roos says his team is growing in stature, but are not quite good enough to match it with the best.Melbourne will take a five-game losing streak at TIO Stadium and a seven-game losing streak against Fremantle into Saturday nights Top End match.It is typical of the Demons lot - they have lost their last 13 matches against Hawthorn and St Kilda, while North Melbourne have a 15-game winning run against them.Last years win over GWS was Melbournes first at Etihad Stadium since 2007.But Roos said the numbers do not tell the full story.Weve broken them in the sense that the players seem more confident when were playing now, Roos said.We dont really reflect on it, but part of your evolution as a young footy team is to win in different venues, to win against teams on different rungs on the ladder.Weve made some really significant (advances) this year, but what weve seen is that top level is still a little bit away.Roos added that the trick for Melbourne is playing better for longer.Thats going to be the focus for us going into the game, he said of Saturdays clash.(Against) Adelaide, we felt we did really well in patches, but their ability to do it for longer was the four-goal difference in the end.Fremantle had a bad streak of their own, starting a season of great expectations with 10 consecutive losses.But Roos said they were mindful that the Dockers had come into this year as premiership fancies.Well treat Freo as the team theyve been in the last four years - so we know we need to play extremely well to beat them, he said.Roos is also unfazed about Melbournes poor record in Darwin, saying the time away was a valuable chance to further develop the young team.We havent had a great record at Etihad, which is about 15 minutes away from here, Roos noted ruefully.Having coached an interstate team, there were a lot of benefits about going away every second week.We know, even in the last two-and-a-half, three years, were still being a developing team.Playing anywhere is hard. 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When James Tedesco broke the news to Canberra CEO Don Furner that he was back-flipping on his big-money three-year deal, little did the club know it would ultimately be the making of them.With a rag-tag legion of discards, journeymen and no-frills imports, Ricky Stuart and his coaching staff have ushered in the second coming of the green machine.Just one game away from the clubs first NRL grand final berth since 1994, the question is being asked, how did they get here?Especially given just a few years ago the club was on the canvas after a devastating series of knockbacks from some of the games biggest stars.Tedesco famously backed out of his move to the nations capital after being seemingly signed, sealed and delivered. Penrith Josh Mansour spurned a lucrative offer, as did Melbourne forward Kevin Proctor.The club also lost a tug-of-war with Brisbane and Anthony Milford departed which, combined with missing out on Tedesco, opened up salary cap space to secure a number of unheralded players starting with Blake Austin.It hurts, particularly the ones that say yes and then change their mind, Furner told AAP.Its a real kick in the teeth but you pick yourself up and keep on going.We then started looking at Austo (Blake Austin) because Wests Tigers kept Tedesco and they had (Luke) Brooks and (Mitchell) Moses so Austo didnt have a set position there.Out of something bad came something good.Having played a majority of his career off the bench and covered just about every position, Austin wasted no time in establishing himself as one of the games premier five-eighths upon his arrival in 2015.Its the sort of Moneyball recruiting which caused the Raiders stocks to skyrocket.Joey Leilua quit Newcastle after a spat with then coach Rick Stone.His partner on the Raiders lethal right edge, Jordan Rapana. was pulling beers in a pub and playing park footy after a Mormon mission and failed attempts to make it in rugby union.Hooker Josh Hodgson was considered Englands fourth-best hooker before coming to Australia and is arguably now only behind Cameronn Smith as the games best rake.ddddddddddddnd the Raiders wouldnt have jagged Aidan Sezer from Gold Coast had it not been for Daly Cherry-Evans signing with the Titans - only to later backflip.While Furner would like to say its all down to smart planning from Stuart, assistants Dean Pay and Mick Crawley and recruitment manager Peter Mulholland, he admits good fortune has also played its part.Theyre all different, they all have different stories about how they got here, Furner said.Some of its by planning and some of its by luck. Its a bit of both.We didnt know we were going to get Joe Tapine at the start of the year, we didnt know the whole Parramatta thing was going to blow up and Junior Paulo got squeezed out.That wasnt planning - we were just in a position to take advantage of that.So not only is the future looking bright for Canberra, it appears that way for a long time.Of the clubs top 17, all of them, save for Rapana, Edrick Lee and Paul Vaughan are contracted until the end of 2018, granting the Raiders great stability and propping their premiership window open for several years.The important flow-on is that Canberra is now an attractive destination for off-contract players, an idea that seemed highly unlikely a few short years ago.The people that bag Canberra came here on a school excursion when they were 14 and they got off the bus and it was cold, Furner says.But the bloke