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Have thinking about making this for a while and since there is not a whole lot to talk about, thought it would be exciting to share my predictions and hear others going into next year.

1) Melksham to have a huge pre season and bulk up like crazy.
Which will assist him to his break out year, and remind us why he was taken at pick number 10,

2) Riemers to shut all the critics up, once and for all eliminating all his selfish habits and to finish top 5 on the goal kicking list.

3) Watson to play all games and finish top 5 in the Brownlow and get an AA jumper

4) Hurley to play his first full season in one position - the forward line. He'll send opposition defences into meltdown, finishing the year on top of our goal kicking list kicking 50+ goals.

5) Hooker and Pears to play most games next year and finally show us what they can do after a good pre-season and no injury worries.
Lead by the General of the backline, Fletcher.

6) Zaharakis will play the whole season in the midfield, now that he has built the tank for it, and will be even more renowned for his elite finishing on the run. Will need to start and put up with tagging.

7) Hibberd and Dempsey to fight it out for the most improved Bombers in '12

8) Winderlich to surprise many and have a great season coming off a knee reco in the same role he played this year.

9) Carlisle to have a great season and the comparisons with Sam Reid, Henderson etc will begin.

10) Heppell will defy the '2nd year blues theory' and start to play more often on the wing/mid, racking up his usual numbers of 20 odd quality touches.

11) The 2 best of friends Jetta and Ryder will lift each other to new heights.

12) Colyer will no longer be super sub, rather he'll cement a spot in the regular team.

And finally..

13) Essendon to finish 7th and win their first final since '04
 
I'm expecting Heppell to have a bit of the second year blues. The opposition will put a bit more time into him, that's for sure.

Melksham is set to explode.

A forwardline with Carlisle, Hurley, and Crameri shall produce massive excitement. I'm expecting Crameri, in particular, to come back with improved set-shot kicking.

The thing I really want to see, though, is a backline as tight as a nun's proverbial. Which involves fitness, keeping people on the park, et cetera. I think it can happen.

As long as there's palpable, measurable and objective improvement on 2011, I'll be... not pissed off. I won't say happy, because I don't think you can truly be happy as a football fan until you're premiers.
 
Lord Nicholson said:
I'm expecting Heppell to have a bit of the second year blues. The opposition will put a bit more time into him, that's for sure.

Melksham is set to explode.

A forwardline with Carlisle, Hurley, and Crameri shall produce massive excitement. I'm expecting Crameri, in particular, to come back with improved set-shot kicking.

The thing I really want to see, though, is a backline as tight as a nun's proverbial. Which involves fitness, keeping people on the park, et cetera. I think it can happen.

As long as there's palpable, measurable and objective improvement on 2011, I'll be... not pissed off. I won't say happy, because I don't think you can truly be happy as a football fan until you're premiers.
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Is it me or does he personality and the way he goes about his footy suggest that he wont suffer from the 2nd year blues.
 
Zaharakis to make the A.A squad, but not the team.

Hurley to become the best swingman in the comp and to make the A.A bench.

Melksham to go top 5 in the B&F with a breakout season.

Pears to have a big pre season and show that he is one of the premier full backs in the competition.

Edit: I agree with Lord, I can see Heppell plateauing this year.
 

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Anything less than finals is a failure.

Hurley to kick 50+ goals next season.
I can see Heppell falling back down a bit as clubs try and stop him through tagging or whatever.
I think it will definitely be Fletch's last season, there were stages this year where it looked like age was starting to catch up to him, but I do expect him to be his usual self for most of the year.
 
Yes a bottom 8 finish would be dissapointing, but you can't mark our 2012 just on where we finish at this stage of our development - it's not as if we're pushing for a premiership.

I'm more inclined to see how the 2nd/3rd/4th year players go. How we go against the bottom teams. How we respond to crunch situations, ect.

I expect us to finish 6, 7, 8, but there's no point finishing in these positions for 5 years and not continue to improve.
 
Heppell will be as good as this year, but having won the RS he'll cop criticism for not having set the comp on fire in his second season.

Tayte Pears to remind everyone why he was 3rd in the RS as a key back. He's starting to get quite forgotten about from particularly opposition teams after his tough run with injuries.
 
Guys I think will have a big say on where we finish on the ladder in 2012;-

Watson, Hurley, Zaka, Ryder, Hocking

Guys that I hope will improve;-

Carlisle, Reimers, Colyer, Pears, Melksham

On the comeback trail;-

Lonergan, Winders, Dempsey, Long, Prismall

Guys who may be on their last legs;-

McVeigh, Hille, Gumby, Davey, NLM
 
Just to have a stronger fitter team, it was obvious against geelong (even though we beat them) and Collingwood it was boys against men.
 
Even Pendlebury was saying that they weren't big enough to physically compete with Geelong. Even if that's codswallop, I feel pretty confident that we've got the right guy in Robinson.
 
Lord Nicholson said:
Even Pendlebury was saying that they weren't big enough to physically compete with Geelong. Even if that's codswallop, I feel pretty confident that we've got the right guy in Robinson.
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Pendlebury statement is codswallop.

How did Collingwood destroy Geelong in 2010 - Did their bodies suddenly become smaller.
 

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yaco55 said:
How did Collingwood destroy Geelong in 2010 - Did their bodies suddenly become smaller.
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Isn't that game and ultimately the Grand Final replay generally chalked up to game plan?

I agree that it's a cop-out coming from Pendlebury and Collingwood, but there's a modicum of truth to it in the broader context of the competition, I think.
 

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gO_bOmBeRz said:
Have thinking about making this for a while and since there is not a whole lot to talk about, thought it would be exciting to share my predictions and hear others going into next year.

1) Melksham to have a huge pre season and bulk up like crazy.
Which will assist him to his break out year, and remind us why he was taken at pick number 10,

2) Riemers to shut all the critics up, once and for all eliminating all his selfish habits and to finish top 5 on the goal kicking list.

3) Watson to play all games and finish top 5 in the Brownlow and get an AA jumper

4) Hurley to play his first full season in one position - the forward line. He'll send opposition defences into meltdown, finishing the year on top of our goal kicking list kicking 50+ goals.

5) Hooker and Pears to play most games next year and finally show us what they can do after a good pre-season and no injury worries.
Lead by the General of the backline, Fletcher.

6) Zaharakis will play the whole season in the midfield, now that he has built the tank for it, and will be even more renowned for his elite finishing on the run. Will need to start and put up with tagging.

7) Hibberd and Dempsey to fight it out for the most improved Bombers in '12

8) Winderlich to surprise many and have a great season coming off a knee reco in the same role he played this year.

9) Carlisle to have a great season and the comparisons with Sam Reid, Henderson etc will begin.

10) Heppell will defy the '2nd year blues theory' and start to play more often on the wing/mid, racking up his usual numbers of 20 odd quality touches.

11) The 2 best of friends Jetta and Ryder will lift each other to new heights.

12) Colyer will no longer be super sub, rather he'll cement a spot in the regular team.

And finally..

13) Essendon to finish 7th and win their first final since '04
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If the first 12 come to fruition, we could sneak into the 4. That's what usually happens when a club, any club, has a perfect injury run and all their main cogs have bumper seasons.
 
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If the first 12 come to fruition, we could sneak into the 4. That's what usually happens when a club, any club, has a perfect injury run and all their main cogs have bumper seasons.
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Yeah, but that list isn't predictions, it's a best case scenario.
 

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