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- Apr 18, 2011
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Could, but most likely won't. If you believe Hawthorn are a bottom 4 team, as I do, then their schedule for 2024 is actually really nasty. Not a lot of likely wins on the fixture in my humble opinion. In fact, I'll demonstrate...
Below is how I project the season for both teams. I assume you'll disagree and that's fine. Regardless, a few notes for my projections;
- Even though I have NMFC as better than Hawthorn, I have us splitting the games. But obviously if North sweeps Hawthorn, or vice versa, that's a big swing in W/L totals for both teams.
- This only projects what I personally consider to be likely wins, and doesn't account for upsets (such as NMFC or Hawthorn beating teams when they play them in Tassie, etc)
- I'm not claiming this as a scientific process that will eventuate. Just explaining my subjective opinion of where both teams are at in the course of their rebuilds etc.
WIN/LOSS projections - projected wins in bold
NMFC:
at GWS
vs FRE
vs CAR
vs BRIS (SA)
at GEE
vs HAW
vs ADL (TAS)
at STK
at GCS (NT)
at ESS
vs PA (TAS)
at WCE
vs COLL
at MEL
vs WBD
vs GCS
at SYD
at CAR
vs GEE (TAS)
vs RICH
vs WCE
at WBD
at HAW (TAS)
HAWTHORN:
at ESS
vs MEL
vs GEE
at COLL (SA)
at GCS
at NMFC
vs SYD
at WBD
vs STK (TAS)
at PA
vs BRIS
vs ADL
vs GWS (TAS)
at RICH
at WCE
at GEE
vs FRE (TAS)
vs COLL
at ADL
at GWS
at CAR
vs RICH
vs NMFC (TAS)
Didn't they run an analysis on fixture difficulty and for some reason as a bottom 4 team we received the 5th or 6th (thought it was 3rd) hardest fixture in the comp (GC with the easiest and North 2nd easiest). Go figure.
I really can't see North winning anywhere close to 8 games. 2 would be a disaster. I think 4 would be par. 6 would be a good result.
8 would have Clarko up there as coach of the season.