The Run Home 2025 - Project Your Optimism or Pessimism Here

[The Golden Glenferrie]

When we overcome this interstate thing, we'll just keep chalking up the Ws.

Just get over that hump

 

[TylerDurden]

Pies will get smoked on Thurs.

 

[I got the outside word]

Pies will get smoked on Thurs.

They seem to play Adelaide oval pretty well but I am also expecting them to lose, even with Rankine out.

 

[cryptor]

For all the Pies talk of "changing things up" and "resetting" they were ordinary against the Dees up til the last 10 mins and snatched it. Not sure they're in superb form either?

I agree, but they could’ve won against the Crows a couple weeks ago in Adelaide. Both those teams have had really strong form this year but may have run out of petrol at the wrong time.

Geelong it’s hard to say where they’re at given they haven’t played a top side in months, but I’m sure they’ll be up for finals.

Brisbane and Hawthorn both have hit their best form late in the season. Unfortunately for us losing Day again and then missing top 4 could prove costly. Lions flag favourites if they win their QF.

GWS and Freo are dark horses for me. Both have elite potential and if they win their EFs can probably cause some havoc. But just seems like they’re not consistent enough to be genuine flag threats.

 

[burger09]

The Premiership race is on!
Cats look primed
Can the Lions win with Sam Day

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Sam Day

Age

33

Ht

196cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

4.6

3star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.7

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

3.6

1star

HB

4.4

3star

M

1.9

2star

T

1.5

2star

G

0.9

4star

D

8.6

3star

K

3.2

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.8

3star

G

0.2

3star

at Full forward?
Giants would be spewing Hogan is injured, it was there for the taking this year.
Adelaide still have a bit to prove and now no Rankin.

The rest are making up the numbers.

Unless the Lions or Giants can overcome injury issues it looks like another Geelong (AFL assisted fixture) Bradbury. Doh!

Go Lions!

Oh and Hawks of course

 

[StackedHunch]

The Premiership race is on!
Cats look primed
Can the Lions win with Sam Day at Full forward?
Giants would be spewing Hogan is injured, it was there for the taking this year.
Adelaide still have a bit to prove and now no Rankin.

The rest are making up the numbers.

Unless the Lions or Giants can overcome injury issues it looks like another Geelong (AFL assisted fixture) Bradbury. Doh!

Go Lions!

Oh and Hawks of course

Geelong haven't even been tested. They've been gifted top two, but yet to show they're up to it.

 

[DearJai]

Geelong haven't even been tested. They've been gifted top two, but yet to show they're up to it.

It's been an absurdly easy draw for Geelong. The fact they still only wound up just ahead of the pack by a small margin is telling imo.

Anything can happen in finals.

It's game on from week one, and you throw the entire season out the window.

Every team is a possibility this year. Nobody is out of it. Especially Hawthorn if we find out way back to the MCG.

We're just a different animal on our home deck.

 

[Hawkk]

It's been an absurdly easy draw for Geelong. The fact they still only wound up just ahead of the pack by a small margin is telling imo.

To be fair, their draw was stacked earlier in the year. Like us they played a SA club in Gather Round but unlike us they got the result. That game plus the Easter Monday debacle (the next week) is why they are 2nd and we are 8th.

Anything can happen in finals.

It's game on from week one, and you throw the entire season out the window.

Every team is a possibility this year. Nobody is out of it. Especially Hawthorn if we find out way back to the MCG.

We're just a different animal on our home deck.

100 per cent. Which is why the two QF results will do so much for define our path ahead of the EF.

 

[DearJai]

To be fair, their draw was stacked earlier in the year. Like us they played a SA club in Gather Round but unlike us they got the result. That game plus the Easter Monday debacle (the next week) is why they are 2nd and we are 8th.

I keep coming back to them being 0-2 against top 8 sides since rd. 12.

It might mean a little, but it might mean a lot.

You'd think they'd have won one of those.

 

[play2win]

To be fair, their draw was stacked earlier in the year. Like us they played a SA club in Gather Round but unlike us they got the result. That game plus the Easter Monday debacle (the next week) is why they are 2nd and we are 8th.

100 per cent. Which is why the two QF results will do so much for define our path ahead of the EF.

Unlike us their opposition only had a 5 day break, where the cats over ran them in the second half.

 

[Agent Smith]

So... Ludge Hodge presents the Norm Smith medal to Blake Hardwick

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Blake Hardwick

Age

28

Ht

183cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.8

4star

K

9.7

4star

HB

6.1

4star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

264.7

4star

D

13.8

3star

K

9.8

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

3.2

3star

T

1.7

3star

MG

264.7

4star

D

15.0

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

6.2

4star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.4

4star

?

 

[Hawkk]

This is an interesting take. It’s our squiggle position in 2025 v 2024.




Last year was much more enjoyable (to the eye) but we are definitely playing a much more consistent brand this year.



A bad omen for Friday is that Adelaide is now in an almost identical slide to Port Adelaide last year leading into this game (having slide from a higher base six weeks ago). Will lightening strike twice?

 

[Randy Campbell]

2 to go.

 

[DearJai]

2 to go.

If we have a full team of fit players on the park in the Prelim, the roll is already moving downhill.

It's not one person standing up, it's the whole team standing up at different times this finals series.

Our midfield absolutely smashed it in Adelaide.

Ward, Worpel and Nash were both significantly better than last week.

Jai is leading, and the whole team is piling on behind him.

Then there's Weddle. Holy hell, if he puts together a full game and kicks straight then our opponent is in trouble.