Opinion Jumper Number predictions

[coniglio_number1]

So who do you think will end up in what number? Who will take the number 2? Or the infamous 11?

My predictions

#2: Jacob Hopper
#11: Steve Johnson
#14: Matt Kennedy
#15: Harrison Himmelberg
#17: Jeremy Finlayson
#27: Matt Flynn
#28: Sam Reid
#30: Dawson Simpson
#31: Daniel Lloyd

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

So who do you think will end up in what number? Who will take the number 2? Or the infamous 11?

My predictions

#2: Jacob Hopper
#11: Steve Johnson
#14: Matt Kennedy
#15: Harrison Himmelberg
#17: Jeremy Finlayson
#27: Matt Flynn
#28: Sam Reid
#30: Dawson Simpson
#31: Daniel Lloyd

What number did Reid have the first time around, before picking up 50 for the NEAFL and des he stay with 50?

 

[coniglio_number1]

What number did Reid have the first time around, before picking up 50 for the NEAFL and des he stay with 50?

23. That is heaters number now

 

[Andre the Giant]

The club is notoriously slow in dealing out numbers. Wouldn't be surprised if it's not done until next year

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

The club is notoriously slow in dealing out numbers. Wouldn't be surprised if it's not done until next year

Well they've already moved into their lockers - so they all know what their numbers are. The club is just notoriously slow in telling the rest of us.

I remember last year, my little fella getting Jarrod Pickett's autograph on a hat and he signed it with 26 but it was still another fortnight before the numbers were officially announced.

 

[OrangeDuck]

If Himmelberg gets 27, Jarrod Pickett will have trouble with HH and Cam McCarthy next to him all year. Seeing double!

 

[Andre the Giant]

Would be great if Hopper gets 2.

I think the club lets the older players get first dibs on new numbers. Steele, Marchbank or Lobb might be looking for a lower number.

 

[CogsObsession]

Yeah, if I was an existing Giant player with a high number I'd be aiming to score a lower number.

 

[Ellie Aquitaine]

Remember cursed 11. Beware number 11.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

On the video of the presser with the new guys it looked like Kennedy was is 45 (it may have been 15, but it looked more like 45 to me)

 

[Scully2Folau]

All to be revealed tomorrow, one player per hour from 10am with 12 new numbers in total.

 

[OrangeDuck]

12 new numbers? That means that we will have 4 people changing number this season in addition to the 8 new arrivals?

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

All to be revealed tomorrow, one player per hour from 10am with 12 new numbers in total.

So 10am to 10pm - that's a bit tortuous.

 

[coniglio_number1]

I guarantee Finlayson is changing numbers. No way will he be stranded on 47 with 44 the closest inhabited number.

Unless of course he enjoys his space

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

One of them's been revealed already - Stevie J in #17: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...n/news-story/f8306abd756e50a8d300ad47efb6ddde

 

[OrangeDuck]

So are we all expecting Finlayson to jump down? I'd hazard a guess that Jack Steele might bump down from 38 as well.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

Nothing wrong with a high number. How many games did Shaun Rhen play in the 52 or Boris Enright in 44. Ling was a premiership captain in 45. Quite a few great players have carried big numbers throughout their career.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

 

[Scully2Folau]

I like Johnson in 17, rather than Hopper or Kennedy for example having to deal with more 'replacing Treloar' chatter.

I expect 15 will see a fair bit more seniors action than it did in the first 4 years.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

 

[Scully2Folau]

So Pickett gets a change with Dawson going into his #26.

 

[Scully2Folau]

Pickett and 3 others to get upgrades to 11, 14, 28 and 31, then Reid and Lloyd presumably get what's left?

 

[OrangeDuck]

If Himmelberg gets 27, Jarrod Pickett will have trouble with HH and Cam McCarthy next to him all year. Seeing double!

This must be why Pickett is giving his number up. What other reason could there be?

 

[coniglio_number1]

Hope Pickett doesn't move into the cursed 11. Otherwise we may as well expect a trade request

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

Odd change for Pickett to move. It's not like 26 is outlandishly high and Simpson wore 16 at Geelong so that's not it. What did he wear as a junior? Does he have a lucky number? He's from some pretty impressive footy bloodlines - what did they all wear? Has that now become available?

Be interesting to find out why.