Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley says his AFL club isn't in. Brisbane coach Michael says his side isn't out.
Both coaches trod diplomatic lines about their AFL finals hopes after Port's gritty nine-point win against the Lions on Sunday.
Port regained eighth spot on the ladder with an ugly, yet precious, 9.17 (71) to 9.8 (62) triumph at AAMI Stadium.
The Power are a win ahead of ninth place and on the verge of their first finals campaign since 2007.
But Hinkley, asked if it's fair to say Port will make the play-offs, is emphatic: "Nup."
"It's fair to say we will get what we deserve," Hinkley said.
"I'm big on the season: you play 22 games and at the end of the season you will mark it.
"I will bore you: we will end up where we deserve to end up."
Brisbane's finals chances appear shot - they're three wins behind Port with five games to play - but coach Voss remains upbeat.
"This side doesn't give up, so neither will I," he said.
Voss described Sunday's fixture as untidy, with both sides making skill blunders in tricky, swirling winds.
The Lions trailed by four points at three quarter-time and kicked with the stiff breeze in the last term.
But after a tense stalemate when neither side could score for almost 16 minutes, Port's Chad Wingard sealed the result with the only goal of the quarter.
Wingard's decisive blow was mired in controversy: Lion Daniel 'Roger' Merrett marked 10 metres out from Port's goal, took a step to his right, and was ruled to have played on.
Port's Angus Monfries was metres from Merrett and caused a spill which ultimately fell to Wingard, who scored from the goal-line.
The play on ruling confused Voss, but he didn't blame it for his side's loss.
"I'm just hoping that Monfries was somehow in the vicinity of one of Roger's teammates because otherwise he's within the (protected) five metre area," Voss said.
"So that will be an interesting one. I haven't seen the vision yet but certainly my first instinct was 'what was Monfries doing standing there'."
But his counterpart Hinkley differed.
"I think he (Merrett) took off," the Port mentor said.
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