1) Melbourne
2) Geelong
3) Fremantle
4) Carlton
5) Brisbane Lions
6) Footscray
7) Collingwood
8) Sydney Swans
9) St Kilda
10) Richmond
11) Adelaide
12) Hawthorn
13) Gold Coast
14) Port Power
15) West Coast
16) GWS
17) North Melbourne
18) Essendon
Melbourne to defeat Freo in the GF.
Swans to drop off as most sides do after they get a shellacking in the GF (though I wouldn't expect them to be quite so fragile as teams in the past, so wouldn't surprise if they do hold up.)
Only one change among the top 8 seems too few, but apart from Carlton, no other side seems to be banging down the door. Barring any shock dropoffs, most teams probably remain.
Bottom 5 to be an absolute crapshoot of teams in various stages of rebuild and/or ongoing crisis - at least there'll be a few more wins on the table when they play each other.
2) Geelong
3) Fremantle
4) Carlton
5) Brisbane Lions
6) Footscray
7) Collingwood
8) Sydney Swans
9) St Kilda
10) Richmond
11) Adelaide
12) Hawthorn
13) Gold Coast
14) Port Power
15) West Coast
16) GWS
17) North Melbourne
18) Essendon
Melbourne to defeat Freo in the GF.
Swans to drop off as most sides do after they get a shellacking in the GF (though I wouldn't expect them to be quite so fragile as teams in the past, so wouldn't surprise if they do hold up.)
Only one change among the top 8 seems too few, but apart from Carlton, no other side seems to be banging down the door. Barring any shock dropoffs, most teams probably remain.
Bottom 5 to be an absolute crapshoot of teams in various stages of rebuild and/or ongoing crisis - at least there'll be a few more wins on the table when they play each other.