2023 Ladder Crystal Balling.

[KillerMagpies]

An excellent year of footy has just wrapped up.
Will 2023 also deliver?
Hopes are high amongst many supporters.
It’s never too early to dream.
Ladder predictions are often way out, but it doesn’t make it any less fun.

1. RICHMOND
2. GEELONG
3. MELBOURNE
4. COLLINGWOOD
5. PORT ADELAIDE
6. FREMANTLE
7. GWS
8. CARLTON

9. Western Bulldogs
10. Sydney
11. Gold Coast
12. Brisbane
13. West Coast
14. Adelaide
15. Hawthorn
16. Essendon
17. St Kilda
18. North Melbourne

 

[Jen2310]

GWS will struggle without Taranto and Hopper IMO, can't see them making the 8.

I think suns will though.

 

[Matt_352]

1. COLLINGWOOD
2. RICHMOND
3. BRISBANE
4. MELBOURNE
5. GEELONG
6. SYDNEY
7. FREMANTLE
8. GOLD COAST
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9. CARLTON
10. WESTERN BULLDOGS
11. ST KILDA
12. PORT ADELAIDE
13. WEST COAST
14. GWS
15. HAWTHORN
16. ADELAIDE
17. ESSENDON
18. NORTH MELBOURNE

 

[ZEV]

1. Carlton
2. Melbourne
3. Geelong
4. Collingwood
5. Brisbane
6. GCS
7. St Kilda
8. Sydney
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9. Richmond
10. Essendon
11. Freo
12. Essendon
13. North
14. Port
15. Adelaide
16. GWS
17. Hawthorn
18. West Coast

 

[magpies42]

1. Carlton
2. Melbourne
3. Geelong
4. Collingwood
5. Brisbane
6. GCS
7. St Kilda
8. Sydney
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9. Richmond
10. Essendon
11. Freo
12. Essendon
13. North
14. Port
15. Adelaide
16. GWS
17. Hawthorn
18. West Coast

* you should be banned…I was disappointed with the OP having them in 8th. I reckon they’ll do a Carlton thing and implode. Melbourne and Sydney top for me.

 

[The Phantom]

That GF loss is the kind of performance that teams don’t recover from easily. Scarring.
Sydney to slide.

 

[Horaceg]

1. Carlton
2. Melbourne
3. Geelong
4. Collingwood
5. Brisbane
6. GCS
7. St Kilda
8. Sydney
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9. Richmond
10. Essendon
11. Freo
12. Essendon
13. North
14. Port
15. Adelaide
16. GWS
17. Hawthorn
18. West Coast

The only thing that makes this OK if the minor premiers go out in straight sets and we beat them both at home and away and then by a record in the finals and go on to win the whole thing.

 

[gouki88]

I'm having to change my pre-GF prediction, given teams that get crushed in them tend to struggle.

1. Brisbane
2. Geelong
3. Collingwood
4. Richmond
5. Sydney
6. Carlton
7. Melbourne
8. Gold Coast
9. Fremantle
10. Western Bulldogs
11. Adelaide
12. Port Adelaide
13. St Kilda
14. Hawthorn
15. Essendon
16. North Melbourne
17. GWS
18. West Coast

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

1. Geelong
2. Richmond
3. Carlton
4. Collingwood
5. Melbourne
6. Brisbane
7. Sydney
8. Port Adelaide
9. Gold Coast
10. Fremantle
11. Hawthorn
12. Western Bulldogs
13. Adelaide
14. GWS
15. St Kilda
16. West Coast
17. North Melbourne
18. Essendon

 

[stormskye]

1. Carlton
2. Melbourne
3. Geelong
4. Collingwood
5. Brisbane
6. GCS
7. St Kilda
8. Sydney
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9. Richmond
10. Essendon
11. Freo
12. Essendon
13. North
14. Port
15. Adelaide
16. GWS
17. Hawthorn
18. West Coast

Mods?

 

[gouki88]

Mods?

I assume he's just doing that so that we can aid Carlton in a straight sets bounce

 

[Go Woods]

1. Carlton
2. Melbourne
3. Geelong
4. Collingwood
5. Brisbane
6. GCS
7. St Kilda
8. Sydney
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9. Richmond
10. Essendon
11. Freo
12. Essendon
13. North
14. Port
15. Adelaide
16. GWS
17. Hawthorn
18. West Coast

FM, wash your mouth out..

 

[nahnah]

1. Geelong
2. Collingwood

The rest is irrelevant

 

[legendstatus]

Crap Cats on top in most predictions- only means one thing.

Another soft draw from the AFL


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[gouki88]

Crap Cats on top in most predictions- only means one thing.

Another soft draw from the AFL


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Yeah, because the premier usually gets a soft draw...

 

[CasuallyDressed]

I'm not gonna do a ladder, but I'm gonna make one prediction...

Carlton finish top 4, go out in straight sets,

 

[KillerMagpies]

That GF loss is the kind of performance that teams don’t recover from easily. Scarring.
Sydney to slide.

100%
Add to that, a selfish Buddy that will have gone for a year too long, gouging 600k.

 

[Matt_352]

I'm not gonna do a ladder, but I'm gonna make one prediction...

Carlton finish top 4, go out in straight sets,

I prefer mine Carlton 9th again

 

[KillerMagpies]

I'm having to change my pre-GF prediction, given teams that get crushed in them tend to struggle.

1. Brisbane
2. Geelong
3. Collingwood
4. Richmond
5. Sydney
6. Carlton
7. Melbourne
8. Gold Coast
9. Fremantle
10. Western Bulldogs
11. Adelaide
12. Port Adelaide
13. St Kilda
14. Hawthorn
15. Essendon
16. North Melbourne
17. GWS
18. West Coast

The heat that Fagan will be under (with the Hawks review) will be damaging…

 

[gouki88]

The heat that Fagan will be under (with the Hawks review) will be damaging…

I'm assuming they get a new (better) coach

 

[live fast pieyoung]

If dogs get a new defensive line coach they should be very very good. They are like a Ferrari with a hole in the petrol tank this year.

 

[LuckyLee]

I think we’ll slide a bit but not too far - most likely bottom half of the eight.

We had a statistically improbable win rate in close games this year and in a statistically normal season would have lost several more of them. The stats will probably square up a bit next season.

Also, by finishing 3rd, we’ll have a much harder draw next season than we had this season, thanks to finishing 17th in 2021.


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[domus]

Terrified of the idea that Carlton could pinch one in the next three years after being non-competitive for two decades, while we have been contending for most of those two decades with one flag our end result.

 

[jathanas]

I think we’ll slide a bit but not too far - most likely bottom half of the eight.

We had a statistically improbable win rate in close games this year and in a statistically normal season would have lost several more of them. The stats will probably square up a bit next season.

Also, by finishing 3rd, we’ll have a much harder draw next season than we had this season, thanks to finishing 17th in 2021.


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It's possible that we'll slide if the group doesn't improve on their 2022 output but I believe this is unlikely.

The young players will get better with another preseason and they will enter 2023 with belief that may not have existed at the start of '22.

To the poster who had crazy Vossie's team finishing 1st, please apologise for upsetting everyone.

 

[TradeDraft]

Way to Early to do