Complex sentence: The club went into the 2006 Division 1 season with high hopes, undefeated in their first 7 games, but slowly they fell away, eventually finishing a respectable 4th and missing out on promotion to the Victorian Premier League.
Split into simpler sentences: The club went into the 2006 Division 1 season with high hopes, undefeated in their first 7 games. But slowly they fell away, eventually finishing a respectable 4th and missing out on promotion to the Victorian Premier League.