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Prediction 2018 Predictions

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Premiers - Adelaide

End of minor round:

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

Brownlow - Fyfe
Coleman - Franklin
RS: Some Brisbane/Carlton 2016 draftee

In terms of sides, Adelaide and Sydney are probably the two strongest sides when considering structural strength and list strength, with myself tipping Adelaide through bias. GWS are becoming a side that is incapable of taking the next step, and will probably remain like this until they get rid of Cameron; talented lists, no matter how scary can only go so far. Geelong are the late 00s Western Bulldogs of this generation, their max is a losing preliminary.

Beyond that the ones of note, Essendon I think will push Geelong but fall just short, Port are probably strong enough for a lower 8 spot, but have a really bad coach. Bulldogs to rebound a bit, but not hit the heights of 16 just yet. Richmond will most likely follow a Bulldogs path, campaigns after a premiership won on emotion and pressure don't usually hit those lofty heights. Brisbane are a good bet to really jump up, lot of good talent there currently. Melbourne just feels like they are in for a really disappointing campaign after the AFLPA debacle and Norf are just dogshit bad.
 
We had our chance last year and we blew it.. you don't get chances like that and we blew it big time! 19 years to get back there and we choked.
Port will win both Showdowns as well. this year wouldn't have mattered if we won the flag last year. who knows.. maybe in 2036 we will get another crack


Premiers - Sydney
Runner up- Port

End of minor round:
1. Sydney
2. Port
3. GWS
4. Geelong
5. Melbourne
6. Adelaide
7. Richmond
8. Essendon
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9. Hawthorn
10. Bulldogs
11. St Kilda
12. West Coast
13. Collingwood
14. Fremantle
15. Brisbane
16. North Melbourne
17. Carlton
18. Gold coast

Brownlow: Dangerfield
Coleman: Franklin
 
Richmond
GWS
Adelaide
Sydney
Geelong
Melbourne
Port Adelaide
Hawthorn
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Essendon
Collingwood
St Kilda
West Coast
Western Bulldogs
Fremantle
Brisbane
Carlton
Gold Coast
North Melbourne

GWS to be the best team across the year but fall in a heap in front of the baying Tigers faithful on GF day.

Adelaide and Sydney to have strong years but be run off the park by younger quicker more aggressive teams on a fast finals deck.

Geelong and Hawthorn very fitness dependent. Both could push top 4 with a clear run but a clear run is unlikely. If Jaegar and GAJ and Selwood get injured they could both miss finals.

Melbourne on the way up. Surely there’s no way they have an injury run as bad as last year.

Port will be a bit discombobulated due to all their new players.

Essendon I can’t see as a real contender because they don’t have a contested bull. They will be desperately hoping for Stringer and Smith to come through strongly here.

Collingwood have a great midfield. Quotes suggest they are finally thinking of coming up with a game plan to suit their list. Still, Buckley.

Western Bulldogs looked utterly disinterested at AFLX. Sure it was a team of noobs playing AFLX but you would think they would be possessed with a ferocious determination to push their case as the least.

Brisbane are the bottom 8 team I am most excited to watch. Set your watches to Hawthorn 2005.

Gold Coast likely to continue to be a basket case.

North have some rebuilding ahead of them. Set your watches to Carlton a few years ago.

Brownlow - Dustin Martin

Coleman - Joe Daniher

I will be doing well if 60%+ of this is correct.
 
Predict your Premier, Ladder, Browlow and Coleman.

Premier - Sydney
Coleman - Franklin
Brownlow - Bontempelli

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

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Premier - Adelaide
Coleman - Daniher
Brownlow - Fyfe

1. Adelaide
2. Sydney
3. Gws
4. West Coast
5. Essendon
6. Geelong
7. Richmond
8. Port
9. Fremantle
10. Footscray
11. St kilda
12. Melbourne
13. Hawthorn
14. Brisbane
15. Collingwood
16. North melb
17. Gold coast
18. Carlton

Crows and Swans will be the standouts and imo will play off in a gf. Gws will stagnate and cameron will go at seasons end. Richmond wont be able to repeat their dream season and will be out in the first week of finals. Essendon will climb the ladder but will still falter come finals. West Coast are the big movers for me. They will have nic nat back. They have arguably the best chb in the game in mcgovern and the best ff in the game in kennedy. Their midfield will improve without priddis much like ours did without thommo. Geelong will have some games but wont have the depth to beat the best teams. Beveridge to be sacked during the season when the dogs are burnt out. Fremantle and port to fight it out for 8th spot.
 
jaytex said:
Sorry guys, according to my Carlton supporting cousin and Sydney supporting uncle, we've lost the best young player in the cosmos and have a mean sooky captain and are sliding out of the 8 this year as a result.

**** me the media has a lot to answer for.
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I caught up with some non crows supporting mates late last year, they said almost word for word this. They proceeded to give me an almost carbon copy of the media prediction of how we'll go. Until then, I had rated these guys in footy knowledge, some of them I used to play footy with when we were younger. I was just embarrased for them after this convo, obvious they have little understanding, tho to be fair they've all got families and stuff and prolly don't spend as much time studying it as me. Anyway, needless to say, I have a few schooners on crows dropping out of 8, richmond being top 4 (that ones a bit risky, but it was worth a crack) and essendon finishing top 4 etc, etc.

We should start a media predictions and calls thread and keep track of them. They're crap at their initial predictions and then even after that, very conveniently, forgetful of what they said and prone to poetic license in reinterpreting their calls.
 
jaytex said:
Sorry guys, according to my Carlton supporting cousin and Sydney supporting uncle, we've lost the best young player in the cosmos and have a mean sooky captain and are sliding out of the 8 this year as a result.

**** me the media has a lot to answer for.
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Yeah, you know, I just can't understand how our captain was voted best captain by all the other captains...

FOR TWO ****ING YEARS IN A ROW!!!!

Now see, if I shout it loud enough, do you think those idiots and Port supporter idiots might see how salty and plain pig-ignorant stupid they are?
 
jaytex said:
Sorry guys, according to my Carlton supporting cousin and Sydney supporting uncle, we've lost the best young player in the cosmos and have a mean sooky captain and are sliding out of the 8 this year as a result.

**** me the media has a lot to answer for.
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It boogles the mind how the captain voted best captain in the league back to back by his peers can suddenly be no good on the back of one game (where few, if any, can hold their heads up high) thanks to some dopey VIC journos... and all the sheep jump on board.

EDIT: What footy4ever said.
 
Carmo said:
I caught up with some non crows supporting mates late last year, they said almost word for word this. They proceeded to give me an almost carbon copy of the media prediction of how we'll go. Until then, I had rated these guys in footy knowledge, some of them I used to play footy with when we were younger. I was just embarrased for them after this convo, obvious they have little understanding, tho to be fair they've all got families and stuff and prolly don't spend as much time studying it as me. Anyway, needless to say, I have a few schooners on crows dropping out of 8, richmond being top 4 (that ones a bit risky, but it was worth a crack) and essendon finishing top 4 etc, etc.

We should start a media predictions and calls thread and keep track of them. They're crap at their initial predictions and then even after that, very conveniently, forgetful of what they said and prone to poetic license in reinterpreting their calls.
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I was just embarrased for them after this convo, obvious they have little understanding, tho to be fair they've all got families and stuff and prolly don't spend as much time studying it as me.
 
Banshee23 said:
It boogles the mind how the captain voted best captain in the league back to back by his peers can suddenly be no good on the back of one game (where few, if any, can hold their heads up high) thanks to some dopey VIC journos... and all the sheep jump on board.

EDIT: What footy4ever said.
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One game, a short speech, and the fact he ran poor innocent Jake Lever out of town with a rusty fire poker :rolleyes:
 
Port will go close.

Our midfield will win is 15 games

Betts will have his best chance at a Coleman

Sloane will go home.

Richmond likely to fall away

Dangerfield wins brownlow
 

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Crows to win the flag, beating Collingwood by 120 points.

Eddie to win the Coleman

Sloane to win the Brownlow and sign a 4 year deal

McGovern wins mark of the year

Josh Jenkins wins goal of the year

Crows unbeaten at home

Richmond wooden spooners

Port 17th

Port winless at home

Ollie Wines goes to Carlton

Alberton Oval burns down

David Mackay requests trade to Richmond, Richmond trade Pick 1.

Crows sign J McGovern as a free agent

Crows draft Rankine and Lukosius

Simples. :)
 
Here's something to chew on for the 2018 Pre-season predictions ... just how important is the fixture?

We are coming off a season where we had one of the toughest fixtures (in hindsight) and finished top.

Check out some of the other "improved" teams from last year that moved up the ladder:

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Essendon, Richmond, Power all had much easier fixture's than their ladder position appears to show. Melbourne and the Bulldogs didn't make it even with an easy run. These 5 teams played the bottom 4 in 6 games.

(Don't Richmond stand out in that top 4?)

I've picked Freo to jump back up the ladder in 2018, and they had it tough last year ... as did the Hawks ... but Collingwood have a potential to move up quickly with a half decent fixture this year.

Also see GWS not going anywhere, and unfortunately probably Geelong too.

Just some more food for thought.
 
If we win the close games and defend our home ground (8 wins minimum at AO) we'll get the double chance and anything can happen. First few rounds of the season very important. They either want it or they don't, and if they want to get another chance at the end of the year I'm sure they are capable of getting it shall they have the belief. But in the past, we've had some horror seasons after falling short and in 2017 we almost went all the way after that disastrous end to 2016.
 

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OutofTownCrow said:
When you are the best team in the regular season - your fixture always looks ok :)
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Even before the start of the year I said we had a good fixture. All the 'harder' teams at home and the easier teams away. Our double ups were good as well
 
Vooligan said:
Crows to win the flag, beating Collingwood by 120 points.

Eddie to win the Coleman

Sloane to win the Brownlow and sign a 4 year deal

McGovern wins mark of the year

Josh Jenkins wins goal of the year

Crows unbeaten at home

Richmond wooden spooners

Port 17th

Port winless at home

Ollie Wines goes to Carlton

Alberton Oval burns down

David Mackay requests trade to Richmond, Richmond trade Pick 1.

Crows sign J McGovern as a free agent

Crows draft Rankine and Lukosius

Simples. :)
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Either you posted in the wrong thread (should it be "Bold predictions 2018"?), or you had one fine dream last night!
 
Premier - Adelaide
Coleman - C. Dixon
Brownlow - N. Fyfe

Ladder:

Sydney
Adelaide
GWS
Essendon
Port
Geelong
Richmond
St.Kilda

Hawthorn
Melbourne
Western Bulldogs
Collingwood
Fremantle
Carlton
West Coast
Brisbane
Gold Coast
North Melbourne
 

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