2019 predictions

[Blues90]

Premier: Melbourne
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Melbourne
Wooden spoon: gcs
Team/s to rise: brisbane
Team/s to fall: Sydney gws
Brownlow Medal: cripps fyfe tie
Coleman Medal: Jumping jack
Rising Star: Collier-Dawkins
AA smoky: Charlie Curnow
Best recruit: Ryan Burton
Worst recruit: Horlin-Smith
Biggest shock: Brisbane undefeated at round 5
Biggest controversy: more Mumford mess
Certainty: Tom scully doesn't get his ankle the same barely a role player
Impossibility: Melbourne missing finals
Other: Adelaide finish 10th or lower


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[HTT]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: Collingwood
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Brisbane, Adelaide
Team/s to fall: Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Dunno
Coleman Medal: Ben Brown
Rising Star: Dunno
AA smoky: J Higgins (dunno)
Best recruit: Dunno
Worst recruit: Dunno
Biggest shock: New rules don't actually make the game 'better' - whatever 'better' means
Biggest controversy: Ablett is rumoured to be causing division at Geelong, which is actually just a BS story and Ablett takes the media to court for defamation. The fallout leads to long overdue change in the way football media works.
Certainty: Scoring will be high in the first few rounds, making it look like the rule changes were a 'success', then it will drop off like it usually does through the middle of the year and the cycle will continue.
Impossibility: Robert Walls tips West Coast to win the spoon

 

[Shaz2012]

Premier: Crows
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Carlton on %
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, Essendon
Team/s to fall: Saints, Port
Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Buddy Franklin
Rising Star: Darcy Fogarty
AA smoky: Wayne Milera
Best recruit: Shiel
Worst recruit: Polec
Biggest shock: Franklin’s Coleman
Biggest controversy: Serious injury during AFLX
Certainty: Richmond play finals
Impossibility: Gold Coast play finals
Other: AFL increase contract length for first rounders

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Premier: North Melbourne

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.

Should be a cracking game I'm liking the Essendon v North rivalry

 

[The Warlord]

Should be a cracking game I'm liking the Essendon v North rivalry

Yeah me too. Game should be a sellout and I reckon both teams will play fast high scoring footy next season.

If Daniher comes back right it could be an old school shoot out with both teams having big key forwards kicking a bag.

 

[Deliverance]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: GWS
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Brisbane, Carlton, Essendon
Team/s to fall: Collingwood, West Coast,
Brownlow Medal: Angus Brayshaw
Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch
Rising Star: James Worpel
AA smoky: Majak Daw
Best recruit: Chad Wingard
Worst recruit: ?
Biggest shock: Gay Player outed
Biggest controversy: Bonuses given to GCS
Certainty: Hamish McLoughlin is the worst commentator.
Impossibility: Collingwood premiership
Other: Another finals ticketing SNAFU

 

[DontArgue4]

Did you just claim the team who had the worst free kick differential by a LONG way gets kissed on the dick by umps??

Hahaha we arent the eagles champ

 

[Bardo State]

Premier: Adelaide
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, St Kilda
Team/s to fall: Melbourne, GWS, Western Bulldogs
Brownlow Medal: Dustin Martin
Coleman Medal: Josh J Kennedy
Rising Star: Luke Valente
AA smoky: Luke Dahlhaus
Best recruit: Tom Lynch (performance), Luke Dahlhaus (expectation, top 3 Geelong B&F)
Worst recruit: Gary Rohan (performance), Mitch McGovern (expectation, will play 2s)
Biggest shock: Collingwood out in the prelim after finishing comfortably first
Biggest controversy: Is it possible to fix the Suns? Miller and Martin request trades after a 2 win season. At least one 2019 top 10 pick already widely confirmed to want to leave in 2020.
Certainty: 80%+ of posters on Bigfooty thinks a small/medium lockdown defender from their team should be in 'AA considerations'
Impossibility: Rule changes receive positive or neutral coverage despite being benign or somewhat positive for the game
Other: The football media and thus the general public make incremental advancements in their understanding of modern football (do we like football being a game of 'systems' rather than individual players?)

 

[Aussie_boy]

Premier: Collingwood
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Fremantle, Adelaide, Carlton (not much)
Team/s to fall: Hawthorn, Sydney, GWS
Brownlow Medal: Josh Kelly
Coleman Medal: Jack Riewoldt
Rising Star: Sam Walsh
AA smoky: Josh Dunkley
Best recruit: Jesse Hogan
Worst recruit: Jared Polec
Biggest shock: Adam Simpson recieves offer too good refuse back in Victoria
Biggest controversy: Star player does season ending injury during AFLX
Certainty: A West Coast 2006 drug article to appear come finals time
Impossibility: Getting a re-sold grand final ticket for under 5k

 

[snozulu]

Premier:Collingwood
Runner-up:Essendon
Minor premier:Hawthorn
Wooden spoon:Gold Coast
Team/s to rise:Brisbane/Essendon
Team/s to fall:GWS/Sydney/Melbourne
Brownlow Medal:Josh Kelly
Coleman Medal:Tom Lynch
Rising Star:Connor Rozee
AA smoky:Brodie Smith
Best recruit:Ryan Burton
Worst recruit:Tom Scully
Biggest shock:Gill still in charge.
Biggest controversy:Clarko spills hot coffee on Gill ending friendship.
Certainty:25 new rules to be made up and added during the season
Impossibility:AFLX will become more popular than sunday knitting classes at the local retirement village.
Other: Jack Watts is one classy mofo.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Fremantle (Finals)
Team/s to fall: Geelong (Miss the 8)
Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch
Rising Star: Not sure - Luke Valente? Someone ‘ready made’ that peaks early ala Rhys Palmer/Daniel Rich/SPP
AA smoky: Luke Shuey
Best recruit: Lachie Neale
Worst recruit: Tom Hickey
Biggest shock: Buddy ‘Retires’
Biggest controversy: Buddy somehow manages to weasel his way back to Hawthorn to finish his career after AFL makes up new rule with 1 weeks notice.
Certainty: Ross Lyon jags another 2 year extension towards the end of 2019.
Impossibility: Nic Nat returns before round 17.
Other: Mitchell-Clarkson succession plan announced.

 

[Farang83150]

Biggest shock: Adam Simpson recieves offer too good refuse back in Victoria

He's contracted until 2022!!

 

[Brutalitops]

Premier: Melbourne
Runner-up: Collingwood
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: St Kilda
Team/s to rise: Brisbane, Carlton
Team/s to fall: Adelaide, Hawthorn, Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Cripps
Coleman Medal: Brown
Rising Star: Rankine
AA smoky: Charlie Curnow
Best recruit: Hogan
Worst recruit: Hanneberry
Biggest shock: Carlton finish 10th
Biggest controversy: Rankine falls in with party crowd at Gold Coast
Certainty: Melbourne top 2
Impossibility: Carlton top 2

 

[pulpdriver]

These things are basically impossible but will come beck and check in 11 months to see how wrong I was.

Premier: Adelaide
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, North Melbourne, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Sydney, Geelong, Port Adelaide
Brownlow Medal: Clayton Oliver
Coleman Medal: Ben Brown
Rising Star: Jordan Clark
AA smoky: Tom McDonald
Best recruit: Neale
Worst recruit: Mitch McGovern
Biggest shock: Josh Kelly re-signs before June
Biggest controversy: With only seconds to go in a final with one point the difference, the trailing scores a goal from a free kick after the bounce when the leading team forgets to have the required six players in their forward 50
Certainty: Adelaide top 4
Impossibility: Gold Coast to make finals

 

[telsor]

Biggest controversy: Gil decides on a best of 3 GF Series

and they're all at the MCG until 2099.

 

[Tiger71]

Premiership: Collingwood
Brownlow: Adam Treloar
Norm Smith: Dayne Beams
9th: Richmond
Biggest recruiting blunder: Tom Lynch

*chortle*

 

[Forward Press]

Certainty: West Coast fans whinge about Vic bias while their team gets rim job after rim job from the umps at home

Did you just claim the team who had the worst free kick differential by a LONG way gets kissed on the dick by umps??

Hahaha we arent the eagles champ

But it's West Coast supporters that whinge about umpires apparently.

 

[telsor]

But it's West Coast supporters that whinge about umpires apparently.

I think it's more a matter of how much they whinge when balanced against how little reason they have to whinge that annoys people.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

*chortle*

*EADle*

 

[Frank Gallagher]

I think it's more a matter of how much they whinge when balanced against how little reason they have to whinge that annoys people.

WC fans were spoilt children growing up, i witnessed the WC home games in the early to mid 90s and couldn't believe the ride they got off the umps, everything went their way, i know they copped a sweet deal in later years but those years were something else, those years are what spawned the current day 'Boo' IMO.

 

[Carson Dial]

Agree except for the assumption that these people ever grew up. How many sane adults Boo ffs?

 

[telsor]

Agree except for the assumption that these people ever grew up. How many sane adults Boo ffs?

Around 60,000?

To be fair, many people boo sometimes...that number are just those who will boo for 2 hours straight...even when they're winning.

 

[Trouto]

Wooden spoon: West Coast

...worked for us in 2018

 

[Distinctive_]

Premier: Swans (who knows)
Runner-up: West Coast
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Swans, Essendon, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Hawks, Geelong, North
Brownlow Medal: Gawn (Overcompensate for this years ruckman polling low)
Coleman Medal: Hawkins
Norm Smith: Heeney
Rising Star: Rankine/B.Smith
AA smoky: Papley, Dunkley, Jonas
Best recruit: Shiel
Worst recruit: Wingard
Biggest shock: Team caught hiring hookers
Biggest controversy: AFL in-house corruption scandal (yet again)
Certainty: AFL pushes twilight Grand Final
Impossibility: Fans to be happy about umpiring
Other: I am never wrong

 

[JimmyMann]

Premier: Collingwood
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast (duh)
Team/s to rise: St Kilda, Adelaide
Team/s to fall: Sydney, Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Rory Sloane
Coleman Medal: JJ Kennedy
Norm Smith: Dayne Beams
Rising Star: Izak Rankine
AA smoky: Jade Gresham
Best recruit: Dayne Beams
Worst recruit: Luke Dahlhaus
Biggest shock: Geelong, Sydney and Hawthorn all miss top 4 for the first time in almost 20 years
Biggest controversy: Umpire's inability to pay dropping the ball during final stages of finals thriller calls adjudication into question
Certainty: Richmond make top 4
Impossibility: Gold Coast misses bottom 4
Other: Brisbane doesn't produce on the hype of bigfooty and plateaus for a season