How Do You Think the 2014 Finals Series Will Play Out?

[sappa]

Paying $3 .... Here's your chance to make a mint!

Have been the past month, with bookies always placing us as underdogs. Guess i'll cash in again.

 

[vide0n]

Week 1
Sydney def Fremantle
Hawthorn def Geelong
Essendon def North Melbourne
Richmond def Port Adelaide

Week 2
Fremantle def Richmond
Geelong def Essendon

Week 3
Sydney def Geelong
Hawthorn def Fremantle

Grand Final
Hawthorn def Sydney

Hawks take it all away

 

[NatTheKnifeFyfe]

Week 1
Sydney def. by Fremantle
Hawthorn def. Geelong
North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Port Adelaide def. Richmond

Week 2
Sydney def. Port Adelaide
Geelong def. Essendon

Week 3
Fremantle def. by Geelong
Hawthorn def. Sydney

Grand Final
Geelong def. Hawthorn

Geelong making the prelim LOL?

 

[SterlingArcher]

Geelong making the prelim LOL?

You ever posting something worthy of reading LOL?

 

[SterlingArcher]

QF: Sydney > Freo
QF: Hawthorn > Geelong
EF: Port > Richmond
EF: North > Essendon
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SF: Geelong > North
SF: Freo > Port
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PF: Sydney > Geelong
PF: Hawthorn > Freo
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GF: Sydney > Hawthorn

This is the way I have it panning out.

Hope it does because I want to see these games: Hawthorn/Geelong (obviously will), Freo/Port, Hawthorn/Fremantle, Sydney/Hawthorn.

 

[The_Big_Ship]

WEEK 1
QF: Geelong d Hawthorn
QF: Sydney Swans d Fremantle
EF: Nth Melbourne d Essendon
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide

WEEK 2
SF: Hawthorn d Nth Melbourne
SF: Fremantle d Richmond

WEEK 3
PF: Sydney Swans d Hawthorn
PF: Fremantle d Geelong

WEEK 4
GF: Fremantle d Sydney Swans

 

[Ari]

WEEK 1
QF: Geelong d Hawthorn
QF: Sydney Swans d Fremantle
EF: Essendon d Nth Melbourne
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide

WEEK 2
SF: Hawthorn Essendon
SF: Fremantle d Richmond

WEEK 3
PF: Sydney Swans d Hawthorn
PF: Geelong d Fremantle

WEEK 4
GF: Geelong d Sydney Swans

 

[Lithium]

WEEK 1
QF: Hawthorn d Geelong
QF: Sydney Swans d Fremantle
EF: North Melbourne d Essendon
EF: Port Adelaide d Richmond

WEEK 2
SF: Geelong d North Melbourne
SF: Fremantle d Port Adelaide

WEEK 3
PF: Sydney Swans d Geelong
PF: Hawthorn d Fremantle

WEEK 4
GF: Sydney Swans d Hawthorn

If the QF results are reversed though (Fremantle & Geelong win), its Fremantle's premiership.

 

[Schulzenfest]

No One giving Richmond a chance, considering Port haven't beaten Richmond since 2011.

We hadn't beaten Geelong since 2007.
We hadn't beaten Hawthorn since 2010.
We hadn't beaten Freo since 2009.
We hadn't beaten the Western Bulldogs (of all teams) since 2006.

What's your point?

 

[FootyJunkie]

North v rich gf, come at me

 

[vonn]

Doesn't really matter. End result is still Hawthorn winning.

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

2 teams from 1-4 will lose, and 2 team 5-8 will win. The media will get all hyped about the chances of the winning teams from 5-8 beating the losing teams from 1-4, most even tipping them. They won't win of course, and the PFs will be played between the top 4 teams after the minor round. How do I know? It happens nearly every year.

This was pretty much what I was going to post. Prelims will be played out by the top 4.

 

[FootyJunkie]

If the Prelims are all Top 4 again, that would mean 28 out of 30 Semis going the same way (with those 2 times barley happening), clearly showing that 5th-8th being there is just a waste of time under the current finals system.

Have the QF losers play off and EF winners play off in Week 2, guaranteed roughie in the Prelims every year... finish 4th - double chance but face the prospect of no home final, or finish 5th - propsect of two home finals but cut throat all the way

Current system is good on paper, but in practice its becoming too stale and predictable.

 

[le dominateur]

WEEK 1
QF: Sydney d Fremantle
QF: Geelong d Hawthorn
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide
EF: Essendon d Nth Melbourne
WEEK 2
SF: Hawthorn d Essendon
SF: Richmond d Fremantle
WEEK 3
PF: Sydney d Hawthorn
PF: Geelong d Richmond
WEEK 4
GF: Sydney d Geelong

 

[Iron]

Every team that has won in a QF has gone on to make the GF since 2007. Geelong are no chance at beating the Hawks so that rules them out. Fremantle and Sydney play in the wet, so I'm tempted to say Fremantle but they won't win.

Hawks v Sydney. I really hate repeat grand finals. 2012 is still too fresh.

 

[SuperCats9]

Week 1.

Geelong d Hawthorn
Sydney d Fremantle
North Melbourne d Essendon
Port Adelaide d Richmond

Week 2.
Hawthorn d Port Adelaide
Fremantle d North Melbourne

Week 3.
Sydney d Hawthorn
Geelong d Fremantle

Week 4
Geelong d Sydney

 

[SuperCats9]

Every team that has won in a QF has gone on to make the GF since 2007. Geelong are no chance at beating the Hawks so that rules them out. Fremantle and Sydney play in the wet, so I'm tempted to say Fremantle but they won't win.

Hawks v Sydney. I really hate repeat grand finals. 2012 is still too fresh.

'No chance at all'? 0%? Zilch?

Ridiculous call

 

[Iron]

'No chance at all'? 0%? Zilch?

Ridiculous call

That's what I said, isn't it? Were you watching when the Hawks decided to play in your last encounter? It's the same thing Freo did to Port. They knew when and how to turn it on because they're a class above. The class below come out with the giddiness of a labrador thinking 'how good is this we can compete'.

 

[PCORF]

WEEK 1
QF: Fremantle d Sydney
QF: Hawthorn d Geelong
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide
EF: Essendon d Nth Melbourne

WEEK 2
SF: Geelong d Essendon
SF: Sydney d Richmond

WEEK 3
PF: Hawthorn def Sydney
PF: Fremantle def Geelong

WEEK 4
GF: Hawthorn d Fremantle (by 16 points)

 

[PAFC_1870]

Top 4 to play prelims, barring something unusual with injuries.

Hawks v Swans on GF.

 

[Bazzar]

WEEK 1
QF: Hawthorn d Geelong
QF: Sydney Swans d Fremantle
EF: Essendon d North Melbourne
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide

WEEK 2
SF: Geelong d Essendon
SF: Richmond d Fremantle

WEEK 3
PF: Sydney Swans d Geelong
PF: Hawthorn d Richmond

WEEK 4
GF: Sydney Swans d Hawthorn

 

[footycats007]

WEEK 1
QF: Geelong d Hawthorn
QF: Sydney Swans d Fremantle
EF: Essendon d Nth Melbourne
EF: Richmond d Port Adelaide

WEEK 2
SF: Hawthorn d Essendon
SF: Fremantle d Richmond

WEEK 3
PF: Hawthorn d Swans
PF: Geelong d Fremantle

WEEK 4
GF: Geelong d Hawthorn

 

[Citizen Erazed]

Week 1:
Drinking

Week 2:
Slightly less drinking

Week 3:
See week 2

Week 4:
1 massive day of drinking.

Oh and the Swans will win the flag.

 

[Tbonefreo]

Not much love for freo. We can do the job on the swans. Not easy but it can be done

 

[Tas]

Not much love for freo. We can do the job on the swans. Not easy but it can be done

The forecast is rain and the Swans supporters haven't been too fond of playing in the rain this season, I think it will also mitigate the advantage they have with their tall forward acquisitions, as long as Freo's pressure is manic I think they are a very good chance of winning.