2019 predictions

[smasha]

No big predictions.....maybe one. I think the tigers had their "aura" shattered prelim night. I don't think they will carry the same intimidation factor or sense of invincibility they had for a brief time.

Nah,we had gastro.

 

[Tom_Thumb]

Premier: Collingwood
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Carlton
Team/s to rise: Freo
Team/s to fall: West Coast
Brownlow Medal: Cotchin
Coleman Medal: Franklin
Rising Star: Sam Walsh
AA smoky: Yeo
Best recruit: Max King
Worst recruit: Someone we took
Biggest shock: Freo Making the 8
Biggest controversy: Gil decides on a best of 3 GF Series
Certainty: Teams will rise and fall
Impossibility: Geelong win the flag
Other:

 

[shintemaster]

You mean this one?


Oops, wrong one. Oh well.

LOL, this is not a discussion you guys can win, sorry. You're just giving me too much fun. Feel free to keep it up though. All good

Please go masturbate in another thread instead of clogging up this one.

 

[Fadge]

Impossibility: Some common sense prevails and the feminist agenda ignores the entire AFL season. See last years ridiculous burial of Scott Pendlebury for 'ignoring' the AFLW in a tweet despite him flying to Perth to support the girls in their season opener.

100 likes would not do justice to this statement.

 

[The Warlord]

Nah,we had gastro.

Well, you certainly did s**t your pants that night.

 

[the view]

im 100% certain collingwood will win the flag book mark it

 

[the view]

My absolute pleasure!

cocky CXXTS

 

[The Warlord]

Premier: North Melbourne

Runner-up: Richmond

Minor premier: Richmond

Wooden spoon: St Kilda

Team/s to rise: North, Bulldogs, Carlton

Team/s to fall: Geelong, Adelaide, GWS

Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli/Angus Brayshaw tie

Coleman Medal: Ben Brown

Rising Star: Sam Walsh (Tarryn Thomas smoky)

AA smoky: Jack Ziebell as a 50 goal forward

Best recruit: Aaron Hall

Worst recruit: Dan Hanneberry

Biggest shock: A player will come out as gay, the world will not end, in fact the public response will be genuine and heartwarming, he'll be applauded onto the field the next game after the news breaks.

Biggest controversy: Weather will close an airport for a few days, meaning an interstate team can't get to Melbourne for their game, AFL will stuff up the response in their own unqiue way.

Certainty: The Josh Kelly contract story will run all season with wild speculation based on sightings of him at cafes, traffic patterns between Melbourne teams' training grounds

Impossibility: Agreement that all rules are working well, and no further changes are needed.

Other: North and Essendon will playing a thrilling high scoring draw on Good Friday, the AFL will then mandate the two clubs as permanent fixtures.

 

[juss]

Surprising that some are saying WC to finish top of the ladder but not make the grand final. Who's going to beat them in an away final? WC have made the grand final every time they've finished top 2

Who knows how teams will match up in 2019? Just cause other years something hasn't happened doesnt mean it wont this year.

Way too early to rule it out in any case.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Who knows how teams will match up in 2019? Just cause other years something hasn't happened doesnt mean it wont this year.

Way too early to rule it out in any case.

Of course it could happen but odds are it wont as history as shown.

 

[Forward Press]

I always love these threads when the premiers, up and coming teams, rebuilding teams, and every team in between is written off and their respective supporters get offended.

Relax, Eagles fans - who gives a s**t what people on BigFooty think anyway? Anything can happen on the day (ask Richmond supporters), nothing is a certainty, and just because we are more likely to win a final at home compared to away doesn't mean we always will. We got thumped in a home final just two years ago. Learn some humility and modesty ffs.

 

[footyfan1978]

Premier: Giants
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: West Coast
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Giants, Bulldogs, Carlton
Team/s to fall: Richmond, Hawthorn, Crows
Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps
Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy
Rising Star: Sam Walsh
AA smoky: Charlie Curnow
Best recruit: Will Setterfield
Worst recruit: Chad Wingard
Biggest shock: Gil resigns
Biggest controversy: More evidence of dons supplements saga is found that a PR disaster for Dons
Certainty: Giants top four
Impossibility: Gil does anything genuinely good for Tasmanian football
Other: Crows bottom six

 

[Mitchell54]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: Hawthorn
Minor premier: West Coast
Wooden spoon: Gold coast
Team/s to rise: Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Port Adelaide & GWS
Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Lance Franklin
Rising Star: Izak Rankine
AA smokey: Ben Stratton
Best recruit: Dylan Shiel
Worst recruit: Brayden Pruess
Biggest shock: Hawthorn flip the tide and win 3 games in a row from outside the top 4 to make it to the GF
Biggest controversy: Mumford is sounded out for drugs again
Certainty: SA teams miss out on finals again.
Impossibility: AFLs new rules are actually great and make for great viewing.
Other: Another veteran Hawk is traded for chips

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Biggest controversy: Mumford is sounded out for drugs again

Not sure what this means. You gonna ask him if he can score?

 

[Mofra]

Biggest controversy: Weather will close an airport for a few days, meaning an interstate team can't get to Melbourne for their game, AFL will stuff up the response in their own unqiue way.

This is almost a certainty to happen now.

 

[Farang83150]

WC in the top 3 but Essendon to win the flag unfortunately.

 

[juss]

Of course it could happen but odds are it wont as history as shown.

History wont mean much to a 2019 final there though, it has no relevance how the 05 or 06 Eagles or even the 18 Demons went, if they shoot up the ladder in 2019 or another team does.

Richmond looked safe as houses as winning at the MCG this year, until they didnt. With the competition so even at the moment I'd take nothing for granted in 2019.

 

[domus]

Nah,we had gastro.

 

[domus]

Yes I'm sure they'll focus on some obscure vision, rather than the hanger he took that led to the winning goal.

I've always rated courage above skill. One is a genetic gift, the other the power of the mind over the weak and fearful flesh.

 

[The Warlord]

This is almost a certainty to happen now.

Think about it. Dogs/North/Saints/Blues vs WCE/Freo in one of those 1.10PM Saturday games at Marvel.

Weather closes Perth Airport all Friday. WA team can't fly.

Are they meant to get a red eye with the time difference Sat morning, and then play three hours after getting off a four hour flight?

There's plenty of permutations.

I just hope when it does pan out, its like Essendon or Collingwood or Richmond who are meant to be flying to WA who get held up.

The AFL then goes into some panic mode and with Eddie/the Essendon Media Mafia/1,000,000 Richmond fans on social all going bananas, dream up some bullshit solution that means the WA team lose their home game.

Mostly to see how Kwality reacts.

 

[Baird]

Premier: coll
Runner-up: melb
Minor premier: coll
Wooden spoon: snus
Team/s to rise: coll
Team/s to fall: rich
Brownlow Medal: grundy
Coleman Medal: mcdonald
Rising Star: dunno
AA smoky: crisp
Best recruit: beams
Worst recruit: lynch
Biggest shock: dusty investigated by asada
Biggest controversy: josh caddy caught sleeping with brooke cotchin
Certainty: Brisbane bottom 4
Impossibility: Brisbane improves
Other: macrae requests trade to st kilda

 

[West Coasters]

Premier: Tigers
Runner-up: Collingwood
Minor premier: Tigers
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide to the bottom half of the top 8, Carlton
Team/s to fall: Hawthorn to just outside the 8
Brownlow Medal: Josh Kelly GWS
Coleman Medal: T Lynch
Rising Star: Oscar Allen
AA smoky: B Sheppard
Best recruit: T Lynch
Worst recruit: Hannerbery
Biggest shock: Amount of games Carlton wins in a positive way, won't make the 8 but will be closer than many think.
Biggest controversy: Games being decided by controversial rule changes, maybe even a final
Certainty: The greater AFL community complain about how boring etc AFLX is but someone from the AFL will still try to defend it.
Impossibility: Gold Coast to Make finals
Other: A smattering of talk that the Perth Stadium should be bigger after WCE sell out each and every home game.

 

[Fourthawn]

Premier: Dees
Runner-up: Tigers
Minor premier: Dees
Wooden spoon: Suns
Team/s to rise: Lions, Bombers, Crows
Team/s to fall: Cats, Swans, Giants
Brownlow Medal: Tom Mitchell
Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy
Rising Star: Lukosious
AA smoky: Jaegar O'Meara
Best recruit: Lachie Neale
Worst recruit: Gary Rohan or Luke Dahlhaus
Biggest shock: Gary Ablett retires mid-season when it becomes apparent Cats won't make finals
Biggest controversy: Max King gets reported for hitting his identical twin Ben when St Kilda loses in time-on to the Suns
Certainty: Carlton will win twice as many games as they did this year
Impossibility: Jarryd Roughead kicking more than 30 goals for the season
Other: Alan Richardson to be sacked mid-year and replaced by Robert Harvey

 

[shintemaster]

I always love these threads when the premiers, up and coming teams, rebuilding teams, and every team in between is written off and their respective supporters get offended.

Relax, Eagles fans - who gives a s**t what people on BigFooty think anyway? Anything can happen on the day (ask Richmond supporters), nothing is a certainty, and just because we are more likely to win a final at home compared to away doesn't mean we always will. We got thumped in a home final just two years ago. Learn some humility and modesty ffs.

Well, it was nice knowing you buddy...

I for one hope your team mandated death is both quick and painless.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Melbourne
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, Essendon
Team/s to fall: Hawthorn, Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Stephen Coniglio
Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch
Rising Star: Ely Smith
AA smoky: Daniel Rioli
Best recruit: Tom Lynch
Worst recruit: Lincoln McCarthy
Biggest shock: Gil resigns
Biggest controversy: We don't find out why Gil resigns, but we know it's dodgy
Certainty: West Coast fans whinge about Vic bias while their team gets rim job after rim job from the umps at home
Impossibility: Carlton or Gold Coast getting out of the bottom 4
Other: Alan Richardson gets the arse. So does The Footy Show.