Prediction 2019 Fixture

[Ateen7tee]

Fingers crossed either Melbourne Victory or City host the A-League granny. It will mean we lose the Sunday early and replace it with a Saturday Night..

 

[CharlieKelly]

There might be a change to our fixture IF (and that's a big 'if') Melbourne Victory make the 2019 A-League Grand Final

Due to contractual obligations, the Essendon vs. Fremantle game at Marvel Stadium will be moved from Saturday night, May 18 to early Sunday afternoon, May 19

Then, our game vs. Gold Coast at Adelaide Oval will be swapped around from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night

But of course, this all hinges upon Victory making the A-League Grand Final

As much as I hate their shitc*nt fans, I hope for Port's sake they make it and lose.

 

[CharlieKelly]

Fingers crossed either Melbourne Victory or City host the A-League granny. It will mean we lose the Sunday early and replace it with a Saturday Night..

Pretty sure it's only Melbourne Victory

If Melbourne City make it, they'll play at AAMI Park

 

[Andre]

From a commercial stand point, this draw kicks arse.

From a winning stand point, very tough

Commercial point of view - good
Going to games - good

It's hard, but I'd rather we have a hard draw and crash hard, then get propped up to a 9-12 finish and yet more lipstick be put on a pig.

 

[Young Gun #6]

If we can go 5-5 through the first 10 games we could easily win 13-14 games total as we should really be going around 8-4 or 9-3 in the last 12 games.

 

[mic59]

Pretty happy with this draw and time allocations. Lots of Saturday games with twilight and night games. The early Sunday game against the Suns will draw no one other than the die hards. We play Crows, North Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle & Richmond twice so good mix of finals and non finals teams in the mix. And we get 3 successive Friday night games with 2 at home.
As far as our nemesis teams, we play Geelong at AO, Essendon at Marvel and West Coast at Optus, so not looking good for 2/3 games there.
Based on our 2018 form, I can see us wining at least 12 games but as high as 16 games which will put us in the 5th-10th spot range on the ladder. I think top 4 is still out of the question with our current playing list and coaching staff. And our run home seems pretty tough with 3 2018 finalists and 3 strong final contenders in Adelaide, Essendon and North Melbourne. If 2018 is anything to go by, we could crash pretty hard again on the back end of the season.

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And hopefully we will get a full year out of Hartlett, SPP will return to form and Ken will play two rucks regularly. With Mayes and the new draftees the losses of Polec and Wingard should be at least partially offset. In past years 16 wins has usually made 4th or higher but some years has been in the 8th-7th range. Last year was looking unusual as a lot of teams like St Kilda, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Carlton started winning just about no games and the ladder was top heavy, so to get top 4 at one point it looked like you would have to win 17. In the end it was 18, 16, 15, 15. Carlton and Gold Coast may still only win a few but Brisbane certainly should improve and St Kilda, although I don't expect them to make the eight should better last years' 4 wins.

 

[RossFC]

Nope we should be winning 10-14.

We have no 5 day breaks, we only have 3 x 6 day breaks and the 3 sides we play Eagles, Hawks and Tigers are also coming off 6 day breaks. So no excuses there. Its a straight forward draw.

I can't trust our players and coaches to amass anywhere near 14 wins. That's finals territory.

 

[GoPorts]

If we can go 5-5 through the first 10 games we could easily win 13-14 games total as we should really be going around 8-4 or 9-3 in the last 12 games.

Based on this year of course

 

[Young Gun #6]

Adelaide could easily go 9-1 or 8-2 with their double ups.

 

[Macca19]

How is it a tough draw? We have to play 17 other sides. Our double up games are 1 top 6 side in Richmond, 2 middle class sides in North and Adelaide and 2 cellar dwellers in Freo and Brisbane.

There are 5 months before finals. Every side gets a couple of tough months. We have it near the start and near the end. Big deal. Its not as if we can avoid it.

There are other things that make a draw tough other than just double up games

 

[Winganeen]

No games in Sydney? Is this allowed to happen? Is this an oversight?

Not even Canberra.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

There are other things that make a draw tough other than just double up games

Like what?

6 day breaks - we have 3 and they are against sides who also have had 6 day breaks. 5 day breaks is NIL. Travel is reasonable.

Only 3 Sunday games so far and one is in China.

We have 2 tough months, but you have a 5 month season so 2 is normal. Its tough near the start and the end.

The only way our draw would be easier is if you swap double up of Freo and Brisbane for GC and St Kilda. Finishing 7-12 means we can only play 2 double up games against 13-18 sides.

 

[Ports2GetLukosius]

Hinkley’s last game as coach, or “the loss we had to have”?

 

[Willsy10]

I can't trust our players and coaches to amass anywhere near 14 wins. That's finals territory.

We got 12 wins this year? We were in finals territory right up until the final round, yet have absolutely no hope of getting anywhere nerar that next year.

starting to wonder why i bothered renewing my membership.

 

[Papa G]

Overall I like it. Normally I'd actually be **** a hoop about this draw from a going to games point of view......but then I remember how we play.....

 

[BORK]

There might be a change to our fixture IF (and that's a big 'if') Melbourne Victory make the 2019 A-League Grand Final

Due to contractual obligations, the Essendon vs. Fremantle game at Marvel Stadium will be moved from Saturday night, May 18 to early Sunday afternoon, May 19

Then, our game vs. Gold Coast at Adelaide Oval will be swapped around from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night

But of course, this all hinges upon Victory making the A-League Grand Final

As much as I hate their shitc*nt fans, I hope for Port's sake they make it and lose.

Or they could have just fixtured it as Port and Cold Toast on Saturday night to begin with.

Will probably be the one game I miss if it stays on Sunday.

 

[badbeats]

Our performance in 2019 won't hinge on how "tough" the draw is.

We lose games we should win
We win games we should lose
Our form is erratic at best.

If the coaching staff and players can get over that, then we will do well. If not say hello to 11th.

 

[Lagooner]

Only double up against one top 8 side from last year. Home games are largely in great time slots. We should be rapt.

Great fixture but it won’t be easy. Adelaide, Brisbane and even North will probably be tougher opponents than their 2018 ladder position suggests.

 

[Portwon]

Much , much better than I was expecting. Thought we would be Sunday 12:10 as far as the eye can see with prime time against Goondiwindi thirds.

If we are good enough (yes I know) there is enough there to get us there.

 

[mic59]

The biggest joke of all of this is that champion data considers Collingwod to have the hardest draw. Whoever worked that out must have been seriously in the grape. 14 games at the MCG, including the first four rounds sets them up for another flag tilt even before the season starts. Assuming every game in Victoria has nothing to do with venue makes the champion data stats seriously flawed.

 

[Nelson051]

Have to go to Tasmania to boo Wingard! Ffs

 

[Doctor Feel]

lol we're gonna be 2-8 by round 10.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

The Power appear to have a dream run of home matches in the second half of the season, with seven out of their last 10 games at the Adelaide Oval. But a tough run of four matches from Round 18 to 21 will define their season. The Power and Crows won’t face off in a Friday night showdown, instead both games will be played on Saturday’s under lights

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/af...s/news-story/3a26d556bf552e23fa0c4ce474de96ef

 

[raptalia]

The draw is OK not so sure about our ability to capitalise on it.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Sink or swim we'll know early on I guess.