GAME analyst and education coordinator Craig Jennings says Melbourne remains fully focused on Saturday’s clash against Collingwood at the MCG and has not looked past this weekend.

Jennings said he understood why supporters were keeping an eye on the coming weeks, but added that the football department couldn’t look past the final home and away match of the season.

“As Goody (Simon Goodwin) has said from a long time out, we assess ourselves at the end of round 23 and there is still a lot of work to do and we’ve still got a job to do,” he told melbournefc.com.au.

“All our attention to detail comes to round 23 and Collingwood this week – that’s where all of our attention is.

“We certainly understand the supporters’ perspective, but as players and coaches, we just don’t have that luxury of looking ahead – we’ve just got to look at the game against Collingwood this week.

“We go into the game and acknowledge that it took the full 120 minutes to get the job done over Collingwood. We got across the line very late in the game last time.

“In the past month, Collingwood is the No.1 contested footy team in the competition and they’ve had the hardest draw for the past four weeks, so we’ve got a pretty strong opponent in round 23 and we need to have all of our energies and focuses into that.”

Jennings said he had seen the players evolve significantly during his second season at the club.  

“I’ve seen a real development and build in the group in the last couple of years and I see from the senior coach a real expectation to perform around the contest every single week and a real winning attitude,” he said.

“The 22 that go out there are our best 22, and there is an expectation that they play for each other and they get the job done and they find a way to win – no matter what the circumstances are in the game. That’ll be no different this week.

“There is a lot of belief in the game style and when you win games, there is proof in that and what wins us games and what doesn’t.

“Players get games on their behaviours, and those behaviours come out in games, and those behaviours win games, so that’s pretty much Simon's model. We’ll get good results, when we play the way he wants us to play. It’s standing up at the moment, but the job’s not done yet.”