2019 predictions

[Giant Pete]

Premier: Eagles (solid team)
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Essendon
Wooden spoon: Gold coast
Team/s to rise: Essendon, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Geelong, Swans
Brownlow Medal: Dylan Sheil
Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy
Norm Smith: Elliot Yeo
Rising Star: Conor Rozee
AA smoky: Josh Kelly
Best recruit: Tom Lynch
Worst recruit:
Biggest shock:
Biggest controversy: Match fixing
Certainty: Essendon top 8
Impossibility: Admitting umpire corruption for AFL desired result.
Other:

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

 

[Giant Pete]

Premier: Eagles (solid team)
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Essendon
Wooden spoon: Gold coast
Team/s to rise: Essendon, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Geelong, Swans
Brownlow Medal: Dylan Sheil
Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy
Norm Smith: Elliot Yeo
Rising Star: Conor Rozee
AA smoky: Josh Kelly
Best recruit: Tom Lynch
Worst recruit:
Biggest shock:
Biggest controversy: Match fixing
Certainty: Essendon top 8
Impossibility: Admitting umpire corruption for AFL desired result.
Other:

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

 

[Giant Pete]

Premier: Eagles (solid team)
Runner-up: Richmond
Minor premier: Essendon
Wooden spoon: Gold coast
Team/s to rise: Essendon, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Geelong, Swans
Brownlow Medal: Dylan Sheil
Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy
Norm Smith: Elliot Yeo
Rising Star: Conor Rozee
AA smoky: Josh Kelly
Best recruit: Tom Lynch
Worst recruit:
Biggest shock:
Biggest controversy: Match fixing
Certainty: Essendon top 8
Impossibility: Admitting umpire corruption for AFL desired result.
Other:

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

 

[TigerTime_89]

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

Josh Kelly AA Smokey?

I agree. Tim Kelly would be a great AA smokey.

 

[MinistryOfMajak]

Premier: Collingwood
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Melbourne
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, Brisbane, North
Team/s to fall: Port, Hawthorn, Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Josh Kelly
Coleman Medal: Benny Brown
Norm Smith: Beams
Rising Star: LDU
AA smoky: Majak
Best recruit: Beams
Worst recruit: Dan Hannebery
Biggest shock: Gil to resign without explanation.
Biggest controversy: The new hands in the back rule. It's going to cause chaos with the umpiring.
Certainty: Saints to sack Richo.
Impossibility: The commentary being tolerable.
Other: The new rules won't have the desired effect.

 

[TheShardMan]

Premier: Crows
Runner-up: Dockers
Minor premier: Crows
Wooden spoon: Blues/Saints
Team/s to rise: Crows, Dockers
Team/s to fall: Eagles, Saints
Brownlow Medal: Treloar
Coleman Medal: Hogan
Norm Smith: Hogan
Rising Star: Fogarty
AA smoky: Walters
Best recruit: Hogan
Worst recruit: Setterfield
Biggest shock: Gay player outted
Biggest controversy: Adelaide win flag and get pick 1 from wooden spoon Carlton. Sos still proclaimed hero by carlton faithful due to 'unforseen' injuries
Certainty: Blues and Saints bottom 2 lock
Impossibility: Blues/Saints making finals
Other: West Coast finish bottom 6. Players misbehaving ala 2000s.

 

[BigVic]

Premier: Essendon
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: North, Adelaide, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Sydney, GWS, Geelong
Brownlow Medal: Elliot Yeo
Coleman Medal: Benny Brown
Norm Smith: Zach Merrett
Rising Star: LDU
AA smoky: Majak
Best recruit: Beams
Worst recruit: Dan Hannebery
Biggest shock: Ross Lyon walks out of Fremantle with a year left in his contract.
Biggest controversy: Grand Final decided by deliberate free kick.
Certainty: BT's pronounciation of "Irving Mosquito"
Impossibility: Sydney tumbles to bottom 4.
Other: I will improve in AFL Fantasy.

 

[Trouto]

Premier: Crows
Runner-up: Dockers
Minor premier: Crows
Wooden spoon: Blues/Saints
Team/s to rise: Crows, Dockers
Team/s to fall: Eagles, Saints
Brownlow Medal: Treloar
Coleman Medal: Hogan
Norm Smith: Hogan
Rising Star: Fogarty
AA smoky: Walters
Best recruit: Hogan
Worst recruit: Setterfield
Biggest shock: Gay player outted
Biggest controversy: Adelaide win flag and get pick 1 from wooden spoon Carlton. Sos still proclaimed hero by carlton faithful due to 'unforseen' injuries
Certainty: Blues and Saints bottom 2 lock
Impossibility: Blues/Saints making finals
Other: West Coast finish bottom 6. Players misbehaving ala 2000s.

dude, the thread asks for a prediction, not a wish-list.
Good to see the hate flowing through you though...

 

[Suitcase]

Thread for general predictions in 2019. Add any other categories you can think of.

Premier:
Runner-up:
Minor premier:
Wooden spoon:
Team/s to rise:
Team/s to fall:
Brownlow Medal:
Coleman Medal:
Norm Smith:
Rising Star:
AA smoky:
Best recruit:
Worst recruit:
Biggest shock:
Biggest controversy:
Certainty:
Impossibility:
Other:

Premier: Collingwood
Runner-up: Sydney
Minor premier: Collingwood
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Adelaide
Team/s to fall: Port
Brownlow Medal: M. Crouch
Coleman Medal: Buddy
Norm Smith: Sidebottom
Rising Star: Rankine
AA smoky: Harris Andrews
Best recruit: Steven May
Worst recruit: Jesse Hogan
Biggest shock: Port Adelaide only manage 5 wins
Biggest controversy: Star player gets a drug ban
Certainty: Gold Coast spoon
Impossibility: Gold Coast make finals

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Awww
The nasty man in a prediction thread predicted another bad year for your team did he?

No the idiotic man is just predictable.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

No the idiotic man is just predictable.

It's good you can recognise that. It's hard to address idiocy but I wish you well.

 

[freddy mercury]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: Melbourne
Minor premier: Melbourne
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Suns
Team/s to rise: Essendon, Adelaide and Carlton
Team/s to fall: Collingwood to come out of the top 4 and Sydney
Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch
Norm Smith: Dustin Martin
Rising Star: Sam Walsh
AA smoky: Dyson Heppell
Best recruit: Dylan Shiel
Worst recruit: Shane Mumford
Biggest shock: Hinkley Sacked
Biggest controversy: Taylor Walker to cheap shot either Jake Lever or McGovern. Possibly any other ex Crow.
Certainty: Collingwood to miss the top 4, but still make the 8.
Impossibility: The Suns getting off the bottom of the ladder.
Other: Fyfe to win the Brownlow by 6 votes ahead of Mitchell and Gawn.

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

Premier: Geelong (Doomsayers say not again!)
Runner-up: Collingwood
Minor premier: Adelaide
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Geelong, Adelaide, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Port Adelaide, West Coast
Brownlow Medal: Dangerfield
Coleman Medal: Hawkins
Norm Smith: Menegola
Rising Star: Ratugolea
AA smoky: Henry
Best recruit: Rohan
Worst recruit: Shiel
Biggest shock: Rohan explodes
Biggest controversy: Hawkins overlooked by AA selectors again despite winning the Coleman Medal
Certainty: Geelong top 4
Impossibility: West Coast back to back

 

[Smokeyr67]

Premier: Essendon

Norm Smith: Beams.

Huh?

 

[kaiserchief13]

Huh?

Mid season trade period being brought in

 

[Forward Press]

Premier: Geelong (Doomsayers say not again!)
Runner-up: Collingwood
Minor premier: Adelaide
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Geelong, Adelaide, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Port Adelaide, West Coast
Brownlow Medal: Dangerfield
Coleman Medal: Hawkins
Norm Smith: Menegola
Rising Star: Ratugolea
AA smoky: Henry
Best recruit: Rohan
Worst recruit: Shiel
Biggest shock: Rohan explodes
Biggest controversy: Hawkins overlooked by AA selectors again despite winning the Coleman Medal
Certainty: Geelong top 4
Impossibility: West Coast back to back

 

[st_trav_ofWA]

Premier: Richmond
Runner-up: WCE
Minor premier: Richmond
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Suns
Team/s to rise: Adelaide, Fremantle, Bulldogs, St Kilda
Team/s to fall: Geelong, Sydney, Hawthorn, North
Brownlow Medal: Bont
Coleman Medal: Riewoldt
Norm Smith: Gaff (in a losing side)
Rising Star: Bailey Smith
AA smoky: Jade Gresham
Best recruit: Neale
Worst recruit: Chad Wingard
Biggest shock: NicNat suffers a third season ending injury
Biggest controversy: Ross Lyon public spat with Fyfe leads to Lyon shown the door
Certainty: three coaches sacked by year end
Impossibility: Saints in talks with Lyon
Other: Recently retired footballer sells story about coming out of the closet

 

[Bastyy]

Premier: Melbourne
Runner-up: Adelaide
Minor premier: West Coast
Wooden spoon: Gold Coast
Team/s to rise: Bulldogs, Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane
Team/s to fall: Sydney, Geelong, Port Adelaide, Collingwood (Still Top 8)
Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe
Coleman Medal: Jack Riewoldt
Norm Smith: Jake Melksham
Rising Star: Bailey Smith
AA smoky: Alex Witherden
Best recruit: Jesse Hogan
Worst recruit: Travis Colyer
Biggest shock: Coniglio on the move to Hawthorn
Biggest controversy: Brownlow Favourite Dustin Martin suspended Round 22
Certainty: Tim Kelly to West Coast
Impossibility: Brownlow for Max Gawn
Other: Brett Bewley is Mature Ager of the Year

 

[st_trav_ofWA]

funny that so many people thing Hannabery is going to be the worst recruite - considering the Saints midfield and the lack of class in there just getting on the park would see he become the most important player for the saints so i cant see him being the worst especially when you have recruits going into stronger sides who are going to have to fight just to make the starting 22 so therefor will spend time in the reserves ....

the other thing i find stange is the selection of St Kilda as the team to fall ... i would have thought finishing 3rd last with only 4.5 wins for the season there wasnt much further to fall ...

 

[OniAu]

Premier: Crows
Runner-up: Dockers
Minor premier: Crows
Wooden spoon: Blues/Saints
Team/s to rise: Crows, Dockers
Team/s to fall: Eagles, Saints
Brownlow Medal: Treloar
Coleman Medal: Hogan
Norm Smith: Hogan
Rising Star: Fogarty
AA smoky: Walters
Best recruit: Hogan
Worst recruit: Setterfield
Biggest shock: Gay player outted
Biggest controversy: Adelaide win flag and get pick 1 from wooden spoon Carlton. Sos still proclaimed hero by carlton faithful due to 'unforseen' injuries
Certainty: Blues and Saints bottom 2 lock
Impossibility: Blues/Saints making finals
Other: West Coast finish bottom 6. Players misbehaving ala 2000s.

With Hogan now on the Freo list , would say that last prediction about eagles is more apt for Freo

 

[Simon_Says]

Wooden spoon: snus

Oh man, i love the snus

 

[Judd is a port power fan]

Premiers: Melbourne Demons
Runner ups: Port Adelaide
Minor Premiers: West Coast
Wooden Spoon: Gold Coast
Teams set to rise: Port, Brisbane, North, Crows, Bulldogs, Fremantle, Bombers
Trans set to fall: GWS Sydney Geelong, Tigers, Magpies
Brownlow: Travis Boak
Coleman: Charlie Dixon
Norm Smith: Max Gawn
Rising Star: Conner Rozze
All Australia Smokey: Sam Powell Pepper
Best Recruit: Ryan Burton
Wrost Recruit: Chad Wingard
Biggest Shock: Tigers and Magpies miss the eight
Biggest Controversy: the new rules make teams to lose games by 2 points
Certainty: Melbourne in the top 4
Impossible: Gold Coast to make Finals
Other: Port surprise everyone and make finals

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Premiers: Melbourne Demons
Runner ups: Port Adelaide
Minor Premiers: West Coast
Wooden Spoon: Gold Coast
Teams set to rise: Port, Brisbane, North, Crows, Bulldogs, Fremantle, Bombers
Trans set to fall: GWS Sydney Geelong, Tigers, Magpies
Brownlow: Travis Boak
Coleman: Charlie Dixon
Norm Smith: Max Gawn
Rising Star: Conner Rozze
All Australia Smokey: Sam Powell Pepper
Best Recruit: Ryan Burton
Wrost Recruit: Chad Wingard
Biggest Shock: Tigers and Magpies miss the eight
Biggest Controversy: the new rules make teams to lose games by 2 points
Certainty: Melbourne in the top 4
Impossible: Gold Coast to make Finals
Other: Port surprise everyone and make finals

That's hilarious.

 

[Unique Name]

What is the general consensus with Port? Does anyone think they are improving next year? People were talking up Port massively last year, they finished the season in abysmal form and then lost Polec and Wingard. Burton is a great pickup and a big fan of Rozee... but feel Robbie Gray might have seen the last of finals action in his career now.

 

[kirky]

im 100% certain collingwood will win the flag book mark it

What odds are you offering?