Prediction 2024 Expectations Thread (with poll!!!)

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Prior to the pre season games I had us winning our first 3 games and winning about 5 to 6 of our first 10 games.

Now I can't see us winning more than 3 games from our first 10.

Freo in Perth now looks very tough, we have Melb in Gather Round and then Carlton at the MCG.

We could easily be 0-5.

Next week is my opinion is do or die, if we lose that I think we can pretty much kiss making the finals goodbye.

 

[Scorpus]

I am very happy with my selection in the poll that had us missing finals

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Expectations????
We're F****D.

 

[Rix31]

The players and coaches promised us they were all chomping at the bit to play well after the way last year ended.

I expect...more disappointment

 

[Rotayjay]

If we play like last night, we're finishing no higher than 10th, and I don't see us playing much better than last night.

 

[1970crow]

Well my expectations took a serious drop after last night. That was a must win in the context of our 1st 5 games and our season and we blew it. Somehow finals seem a long way off at this point.

Cats beat Saints, who had a good win against Pies. Chances are we've played a couple of teams battling for the spots available in the 8, so they're likely not terrible losses, but we'll need to start winning soon. Not that's there's any pressure, there's nothing suggesting we've transformed to a performance expectation club. Tex's comments on his coaches suggest we've regressed in that area.

 

[Crowboto]

We smell.

 

[Kenny Dee]

I really did expect us to make the 8 but the 2 loses and more importantly the performances we've dished up make it look pretty hard right now. It's only 2 loses but we now have to win 13-14 games from our remaining 21. We can only lose another 7-8. Really can't see that happening.

 

[Scorpus]

* and I thought I was being a bit pessimistic thinking we'd finish 9th or 10th

Looking like I got it wrong

Because I overestimated us

 

[1970crow]

The teams competing in our bloc are winning reasonably well. We're going to need to get our skates on.

 

[FR0GGY]

Anything less than a sacking would be a disappointment.

 

[George Kramer]

We will improve by a little bit or stagnate
Finish 6-10
Nicks signed before season starts

Well both wrong.

 

[WetCrow1991]

Well both wrong.

Well to be fair we could have just stagnated and our opponents have gone ahead of us.
We will probably finish 6-10 spots outside the top 8.
Nicks was signed before the season started, just announced round 1.

 

[PCORF]

I am very happy with my selection in the poll that had us missing finals

I did not have us in the top 8.

Looks like either Collingwood or Brisbane won't be playing finals either despite having them in my top 4.

 

[GreyCrow]

We should improve. Given a linear trend

Nicks signed already announced before our 1st home game

I said 7-8 but think 5-6 is also possible

I would hate for us to go backwards

Signing right

Backwards unfortunately right

 

[footy4ever]

I did a dogs105 and went over-the-top optimistic for a laugh , but genuinely thought comfortable top eight.

Not laughing now. Not even smiling.


Who was it posted some time ago about the trajectory of rebuilds and said this would be a down year before making finals the next? Well I hope your theory's correct. Only 3 games in but looks like you certainly got it right for this year.

 

[dogs105]

I did a dogs105 and went over-the-top optimistic for a laugh , but genuinely thought comfortable top eight.

Not laughing now. Not even smiling.


Who was it posted some time ago about the trajectory of rebuilds and said this would be a down year before making finals the next? Well I hope your theory's correct. Only 3 games in but looks like you certainly got it right for this year.

We'll turn it around.





I hope.



Getting big 1994 vibes.

 

[aabp1978]

So realistically- what is our most likely result this year? I am going with 3-4 wins. I still think we are much better than West Coast and Hawthorn, and marginally ahead of North. We will also pinch one unexpected game. But that is it. Our draw is far tougher than it looked even a month ago. That puts us 16-17th. What a friggin disaster.

 

[GreyCrow]

So realistically- what is our most likely result this year? I am going with 3-4 wins. I still think we are much better than West Coast and Hawthorn, and marginally ahead of North. We will also pinch one unexpected game. But that is it. Our draw is far tougher than it looked even a month ago. That puts us 16-17th. What a friggin disaster.

I'm going with 7-9 wins

 

[ams4crows]

Two long term injuries to Thilthorpe and Milera plus an unfit Tex and Murray still half a season away takes us from scraping into finals to genuinely bottom 4 team, how ******* sad

 

[aabp1978]

I'm going with 7-9 wins

That is very optimistic. Hope you are right

 

[GreyCrow]

Two long term injuries to Thilthorpe and Milera plus an unfit Tex and Murray still half a season away takes us from scraping into finals to genuinely bottom 4 team, how ******* sad

Question is why?

If it's next soldier up why doesn't he have experience in gun handling?

 

[Sanders]

Two long term injuries to Thilthorpe and Milera plus an unfit Tex and Murray still half a season away takes us from scraping into finals to genuinely bottom 4 team, how ******* sad

We had a soft draw and a dream injury run last year; there was always a risk of that reverting back to mean

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

We had a soft draw and a dream injury run last year; there was always a risk of that reverting back to mean

Dream injury run yes... & we are finding out now we don't have depth.

Soft draw no, as we had the 2nd hardest draw I believe based on where teams finished.

 

[1970crow]

Two long term injuries to Thilthorpe and Milera plus an unfit Tex and Murray still half a season away takes us from scraping into finals to genuinely bottom 4 team, how ******* sad

I wonder if Tex would be right if they just ruled a line through the first month and focussed on nothing but rehab. We’re going to be 0-4 or 1-3 anyway and whatever he started with, it doesn’t look like fitness tests and playing makes it better.