Prediction 2016 Season Predictions

[Mismatched]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Josh Kennedy
Brownlow Medalist: Gary Ablett
Team to slide: Sydney
Team to rise: GWS
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Walker
Most improved: Lever
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane

Top 8:
1/ West Coast
2/ Hawthorn
3/ GWS
4/ Fremantle
5/ Port Adelaide
6/ Kangaroos
7/ Adelaide
8/ Bulldogs

 

[Firewalker]

Hoping my notoriously pessimistic & inaccurate predictions don't come true yet again this year...

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: West Coast
Coleman Medalist: J.Kennedy (West Coast)
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: North, Sydney & Us
Team to rise: Collingwood, GWS
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex
Most improved: Matt Crouch
Position on the ladder: 8-11
Will Milera debut? No
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Matt Crouch

Top 6

1: West Coast
2: Hawthorn
3: Richmond
4: Fremantle
5: Collingwood
6: Port

Around Spots 7-12

GWS, Adelaide, Sydney, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, North Melbourne


Bottom 6

13: Gold Coast
14: St Kilda
15: Brisbane
16: Melbourne
17: Essendon
18: Carlton

Since the final siren of the semi-final have always thought next year will be very tough on us, everything that's happened with the playing group side of things coupled with a new coach and difficult draw it all seems to have set a perfect storm scenario for the football club to have a tough year on-field. Believe the class we do possess on-field though could keep us in the shuffle for one of the final two spots in the 8, believe it will be a real battle between the Bulldogs, an ever improving GWS & usual perennial finalists Sydney, Geelong and a aging North Melbourne. One things for certain we can't do what Port did this year focus so much on the tough start that you end up dropping winnable games, also historically every successful interstate team has proven it time and time again, just win your home games. You get 12 games in your home state, you need to win at least 9-10 of them so that you just need to pick up another 4-5 interstate to comfortably make finals, Fremantle and West Coast's home advantage is a lot bigger then both ours and Port's of course but they were again prime examples in 2015 of how easy it can be to make finals if you can just win at home.

On a broader sense speaking of home grounds this years Grand Final was a prime example why for the past 3 seasons as soon as Hawthorn won the prelim I've always thought of them as certainties, as long as the Grand Finals are held at the MCG no team has looked like beating these current Hawks the past 3 years on the big stage there and until that happens why bet against them. 2012 will always be an aberration for mine but by shooting themselves in the foot that day they've inspired themselves to continually do greater things, the ultimate lose a little to gain a lot. West Coast's team seems to only get stronger with the only question for mine being can they implement their zone team defence that was so successful this season with a more structured Defensive unit, Richmond have shown they have the ability to beat anyone in past couple of years only to fall flat on their faces when it mattered, think they might just give one big push this year and break through that top 4 ceiling still have to win a final if they make it though. Tipped Freo to just make the 4 purely on home advantage plus they won the first 9 games of the year this year without much of a Backline to go along with their non-existent Forward line so why can't they do it again, Ross Lyon to continually defy Football logic in a Home & Away season.

Collingwood should improve with their wealth and resources, on paper their recruiting looks great over the last few years but they continued to under perform & capitulate in the second half of seasons, 8 and 3 at the halfway stage this year only to fail, it wouldn't seem possible but with an even easier fixture and even less travel I expect them to go on with it this year, I'm tipping them to be the out of the box team the season usually throws up. Apparently Port's sole reason for missing finals this year was only because they got ahead of themselves, their fixture virtually guarantees they'd have to get really, really, really ahead of themselves to miss finals next season, with their fans usual 'soft draw' experts on other clubs I'm surprised the 2015 January Premiers haven't written to the AFL complaining about being given one of the softest in the history of the game the saints that they are.

 

[Truck25]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Josh Kennedy
Brownlow Medalist: Dan Hannebery
Team to slide: Freo
Team to rise: Giants
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Walker
Most improved: Brad Crouch
Position on the ladder: 6th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: B Crouch

 

[Hank93]

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: Sydney
Coleman Medalist: Josh J Kennedy
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: Fremantle
Team to rise: Throw a blanket over Geelong/Port/Gold Coast
Wooden Spoon: Essendon (CAS ban)

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex 61 goals
Most improved: Mitch Grigg
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes, probably require injuries though.
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane (14 votes).

 

[Mckaye17]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Sydney
Coleman Medalist: Josh Kennedy 93
Brownlow Medalist: Nat Fyfe 31
Team to slide: North Melbourne
Team to rise: Collingwood
Wooden Spoon: North Melbourne

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex Walker 81
Most improved: Riley Knight and Jake Lever (Can't separate them)
Position on the ladder: 7th (Then win the elimination final again)
Will Milera debut? Yes of course, only plays a max of 4 games though. Doedee plays a few more
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Brad Crouch 19 and Rory Sloane 18

 

[Rotayjay]

Premiers: Have to go with West Coast
Runner-up: Hawthorn. Age won't weary them just yet
Coleman Medallist: Josh J Kennedy
Brownlow Medallist: Scott Pendlebury
Team to slide: Fremantle
Team to rise: GWS
Wooden spoon: Brisbane

Adelaide's ...
Leading goal kicker: Walker
Most improved: Lever
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the Brownlow: Sloane

 

[Jimmystephenson]

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: Fremantle
Coleman Medalist: Jeremy Cameron
Brownlow Medalist: Patrick Dangerfield
Team to slide: Adelaide
Team to rise: Port Adelaide
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Eddie Betts
Most improved: Jake Lever
Position on the ladder: 12th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the Brownlow: Brad Crouch

Glass half empty approach...? You bet ya

Just have a feeling our horrible draw to start our year is going to break our season down before it's even begun. Couple that with a league that is slowly beginning to even out a bit.

With that said, I'll be there or watching every week cheering my guts out.

Go Crows, make me look like a dick for being so pessimistic!

 

[Edddiiieee]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Bulldogs
Coleman Medalist: Buddy (72)
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: Hawthorn (reign has to end soon enough)
Team to rise: Bulldogs
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex (59)
Most improved: B. Crouch
Position on the ladder: 7
Will Milera debut? Yes (Round 3)
Highest to poll in the brownlow: B. Crouch

 

[JPetro83]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Kennedy
Brownlow Medalist: Pendelbury
Team to slide: North Melbourne
Team to rise: Geelong
Wooden Spoon: Carlton
Rising star: Clayton Oliver-Demons.

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Walker 64 goals
Most improved: Hartigan
Position on the ladder: 7-10th
Will Milera debut? yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane

 

[cammo6556]

Premiership: Eagles
Runner Up: Hawks
Coleman Medalist: Franklin
Brownlow Medalist: Ablett
Team to slide: Swans
Team to rise: GC and Port
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex
Most improved: BoB
Position on the ladder: 8
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane - 16 votes.

 

[Danoz]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Jack Riewoldt
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: Swans
Team to rise: Power
Wooden Spoon: Blues

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex (75)
Most improved: Matt Crouch
Position on the ladder: 6th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Thommo

 

[Bring back Bas]

Hoping my notoriously pessimistic & inaccurate predictions don't come true yet again this year...

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: West Coast
Coleman Medalist: J.Kennedy (West Coast)
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: North, Sydney & Us
Team to rise: Collingwood, GWS
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex
Most improved: Matt Crouch
Position on the ladder: 8-11
Will Milera debut? No
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Matt Crouch

Top 6

1: West Coast
2: Hawthorn
3: Richmond
4: Fremantle
5: Collingwood
6: Port

Around Spots 7-12

GWS, Adelaide, Sydney, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, North Melbourne


Bottom 6

13: Gold Coast
14: St Kilda
15: Brisbane
16: Melbourne
17: Essendon
18: Carlton

Since the final siren of the semi-final have always thought next year will be very tough on us, everything that's happened with the playing group side of things coupled with a new coach and difficult draw it all seems to have set a perfect storm scenario for the football club to have a tough year on-field. Believe the class we do possess on-field though could keep us in the shuffle for one of the final two spots in the 8, believe it will be a real battle between the Bulldogs, an ever improving GWS & usual perennial finalists Sydney, Geelong and a aging North Melbourne. One things for certain we can't do what Port did this year focus so much on the tough start that you end up dropping winnable games, also historically every successful interstate team has proven it time and time again, just win your home games. You get 12 games in your home state, you need to win at least 9-10 of them so that you just need to pick up another 4-5 interstate to comfortably make finals, Fremantle and West Coast's home advantage is a lot bigger then both ours and Port's of course but they were again prime examples in 2015 of how easy it can be to make finals if you can just win at home.

On a broader sense speaking of home grounds this years Grand Final was a prime example why for the past 3 seasons as soon as Hawthorn won the prelim I've always thought of them as certainties, as long as the Grand Finals are held at the MCG no team has looked like beating these current Hawks the past 3 years on the big stage there and until that happens why bet against them. 2012 will always be an aberration for mine but by shooting themselves in the foot that day they've inspired themselves to continually do greater things, the ultimate lose a little to gain a lot. West Coast's team seems to only get stronger with the only question for mine being can they implement their zone team defence that was so successful this season with a more structured Defensive unit, Richmond have shown they have the ability to beat anyone in past couple of years only to fall flat on their faces when it mattered, think they might just give one big push this year and break through that top 4 ceiling still have to win a final if they make it though. Tipped Freo to just make the 4 purely on home advantage plus they won the first 9 games of the year this year without much of a Backline to go along with their non-existent Forward line so why can't they do it again, Ross Lyon to continually defy Football logic in a Home & Away season.

Collingwood should improve with their wealth and resources, on paper their recruiting looks great over the last few years but they continued to under perform & capitulate in the second half of seasons, 8 and 3 at the halfway stage this year only to fail, it wouldn't seem possible but with an even easier fixture and even less travel I expect them to go on with it this year, I'm tipping them to be the out of the box team the season usually throws up. Apparently Port's sole reason for missing finals this year was only because they got ahead of themselves, their fixture virtually guarantees they'd have to get really, really, really ahead of themselves to miss finals next season, with their fans usual 'soft draw' experts on other clubs I'm surprised the 2015 January Premiers haven't written to the AFL complaining about being given one of the softest in the history of the game the saints that they are.

An enjoyable read, this.

 

[ftmch]

Will Milera debut? Not sure. We'll see.

Big call there

 

[rezagun]

Headlines i would love to see this year are
'DANGERFIELD OUT FOR SEASON'
'CARLTON GIVES GEELONG THE SPOON'
'HARDWICK WALKS AWAY AFTER 140 POINT BELTING'
'PORTS INJURY CURSE DENTS FINALS CHANCES'
'DIXON BENDER INFURIATES KEN'
'WALKERS MAGNIFICENT DOZEN'
'MILERA WINS RISING STAR'
'MITCHELL DISLOCATES KNEECAP'
'CROUCH BROTHERS RUN RIOT'

 

[Bring back Bas]

Premiership: Adelaide
Runner Up: Sydney
Coleman Medalist: J.Cameron
Brownlow Medalist: Robbie Gray
Team to slide: North Melbourne
Team to rise: Port Power
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Walker
Most improved: Matt Crouch
Position on the ladder: 6th
Will Milera debut? No
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Scott Thompson (top 5 in AFL)

Additional Prodictions:
- Essendon players to be found guilty of cheating but not receive suspensions due to the clubs unwavering cooperation during the investigation!
- Usual suspects continue to bag Thompson during yet another stellar season for being old.
- Walker to win Crows B&F

 

[mistylake]

My prediction Fyfe ineligible after 2 week ban round 4

 

[knobby]

Premiership: February: Port September: Hawthorn
Runner Up: West Coast
Coleman Medalist: Kennedy (WCE)
Brownlow Medalist: Priddis
Team to slide: Bulldogs
Team to rise: Port Power
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Eddie
Most improved: Jake Lever
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane

 

[#theliveschism#]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Port Adelaide
Coleman Medallist: Josh Kennedy (WC)
Brownlow Medallist: Nat Fyfe
Team to slide: Western Bulldogs
Team to rise: Collingwood
Wooden Spoon: Brisbane

Adelaide's leading goal kicker: Eddie Betts
Most improved: Mitch Grigg (only because I already think Lever is a gun)
Position on the ladder: 8th
Will Milera debut? Yes (2 games max)
Highest to poll in the brownlow: (Brad Crouch 18 votes)

Ladder:
1. West Coast
2. Hawthorn
3. Port Adelaide
4. Fremantle
5. Collingwood
6. Sydney
7. ADELAIDE CROWS (13 WINS)
8. Richmond
9. GWS
10. Western Bulldogs
11. North Melbourne
12. Geelong
13. Essendon
14. Melbourne
15. Gold Coast
16. St Kilda
17. Carlton
18. Brisbane

 

[Golumless]

Premiership: Sydney
Runner Up: North Melbourne
Coleman Medalist: Tex Walker (75)
Brownlow Medalist: Paul Seedsman Probably Fyfe.
Team to slide: Hawthorn, West Coast
Team to rise: St. Kilda.
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex (75)
Most improved: Seedsman and Knight
Position on the ladder: 5th
Will Milera debut? Yes, Round 1.
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane (18)

 

[Team DJ]

Premiership: WEST COAST
Runner Up: HAWTHORN
Coleman Medalist: JOSH KENNEDY
Brownlow Medalist: PATRICK DANGERFIELD
Team to slide: FREMANTLE
Team to rise: COLLINGWOOD
Wooden Spoon: CARLTON

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: TEX WALKER
Most improved: RORY ATKINS
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? YES 2 GAMES (If he plays more than that, i worry about the decline/form of our depth mids - Grigg Lyons MCrouch McKay VanBerlo etc)
Highest to poll in the brownlow: SMITH

 

[Danger in Texas]

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: Geelong
Coleman Medalist: Jeremy Cameron
Brownlow Medalist: Nat Fyfe
Team to slide: Sydney
Team to rise: GWS
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex
Most improved: BoB and Knight
Position on the ladder: 9th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane

 

[huludicidal]

Premiership: Hawthorn (got one more in them I reckon - would be pretty amazing if it happens)
Runner Up: North Melbourne
Coleman Medalist: JJ Kennedy (WCE)
Brownlow Medalist: JP Kennedy (Syd)
Team to slide: Bulldogs / Adelaide (tougher draws for both the main factor, but Adelaide will have to adapt to yet another new coach in addition to having the toughest draw in the league, while the Bulldogs overachieved last year and should slide down to around 11th this time around despite their wealth of young talent. Both should drop around 4 spots and I therefore don't think either will make the 8. There'll almost definitely be another team who drops more than this but none that I can justify right now)
Team to rise: Gold Coast / Port Adelaide (by around 6 spots each - couldn't split them. Ridiculously easy draws plus Port severely underachieved in 2015 and Gold Coast were ravaged by injuries to quality players to an extent I'm not sure I've seen before)
Wooden Spoon: Essendon

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: E Betts (pipping Tex by a couple)
Most improved: C Ellis-Yolmen (Lever also a strong contender)
Position on the ladder: 10th
Will Milera debut? Yes: 2-3 games
Highest to poll in the brownlow: R Sloane (18 votes)

Port and Geelong to come into the Top 8 at the expense of us and the Dogs sadly, with the other 6 2015 finalists getting back there again. Hopefully I'm way off.

 

[George 13]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Josh Kennedy
Brownlow Medalist: Patrick Dangerfield
Team to slide: North
Team to rise: Gold coast
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Walker
Most improved: CEY
Position on the ladder: 9th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Sloane

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Premiership: West Coast
Runner Up: Hawthorn
Coleman Medalist: Jeremy Cameron
Brownlow Medalist: Dan Hannebury
Team to slide: North
Team to rise: port/GWS
Wooden Spoon: Carlton

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex Walker
Most improved: Brad Crouch
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: Brodie Smith

 

[Elder van Berlo]

Premiership: Hawthorn
Runner Up: Port
Coleman Medalist: Franklin
Brownlow Medalist: Fyfe
Team to slide: North Melbourne
Team to rise: St Kilda
Wooden Spoon: Brisbane

Adelaide's:
Leading goal kicker: Tex
Most improved: Hartigan narrowly from M Crouch
Position on the ladder: 7th
Will Milera debut? Yes
Highest to poll in the brownlow: B Crouch