Prediction 2024 Fixture Predictions

[buttermuffs]

I’m a retired high school teacher from Melbourne. For about two decades, we’d have a footy colours day as a fundraiser. The kids would pay a gold coin and wear their football gear to school.

When I started teaching at my last school in the mid 90’s, just about every kid wore an AFL jumper or something. They all identified with their particular tribe.

By the time I retired in 2019, about a quarter of the kids were wearing AFL gear. Most were wearing basketball, soccer, NFL…

The corporate obsession of the AFL management is poisoning the well of future supporters.

This has nothing to do with the AFL and more to do with how it’s a lot trendier and acceptable to wear the latter tops around as casual wear and how much more accessible top international sports are compared to the mid 90’s.

 

[Dalions]

i now believe there is a pathway to the top 8 and hopefully 6th. Lions win 6 of their last 9, get to 54 points and have a better % than Freo, who have also had the draw. On paper Freo does appear to have a slightly easier draw, hope Eagles can beat them in the derby.

Who are the 3 teams you have beating us on the way home?

 

[Elixuh]

Who are the 3 teams you have beating us on the way home?

I could see losses to Adelaide Sydney Gold Coast gws and collingwood

And if we are off our game also st Kilda and Essendon

And if we are off our game and they play well (which they have been at home) west coast

 

[Dalions]

I could see losses to Adelaide Sydney Gold Coast gws and collingwood

And if we are off our game also st Kilda and Essendon

And if we are off our game and they play well (which they have been at home) west coast

So 0-9 and a 15th place finish.
Bring on Levi before a bid.

 

[Elixuh]

So 0-9 and a 15th place finish.
Bring on Levi before a bid.

My point is more I don’t see any games which are cruisey. I think this week against the Dees will be the easiest of our remaining games.

If we play like we have been playing I could see us going 7-9 wins.

 

[Dalions]

My point is more I don’t see any games which are cruisey. I think this week against the Dees will be the easiest of our remaining games.

If we play like we have been playing I could see us going 7-9 wins.

I am hoping for more like 7-2.

 

[Lion_LegacyXL]

I'd like for us to somehow finish 5th

 

[On the quiet]

Who are the 3 teams you have beating us on the way home?

Not stated clearly in my original post, but I believe if we win 6 of the last 9 we should get 6th, I am hoping we can win 7 and possibly with our % make 4th (however the tie against Crows, might cost 4th), win 8 of the last 9, and we definitely finish top 4.

I think we lose to the Swans in about a month (although some might say they are due for a loss soon)
I am a little concerned the following week round 20 against the Suns, especially if they are still in the hunt for the top 8.
Round 22 Giants at the GABBA (who killed us in Canberra, yes we are playing better) and Bombers wont be easy in R24

Collingwood at the G round 23, at this stage have not counted as a win. So at this stage have the Swans and Pies beating us.

 

[On the quiet]

I'd like for us to somehow finish 5th

still a lot of footy left at this stage, but the way swans are going yes 5th might be OK for Lions, providing Swans win their first QF Lions would face them in the GF.

 

[M Malice]

I’m a retired high school teacher from Melbourne. For about two decades, we’d have a footy colours day as a fundraiser. The kids would pay a gold coin and wear their football gear to school.

When I started teaching at my last school in the mid 90’s, just about every kid wore an AFL jumper or something. They all identified with their particular tribe.

By the time I retired in 2019, about a quarter of the kids were wearing AFL gear. Most were wearing basketball, soccer, NFL…

The corporate obsession of the AFL management is poisoning the well of future supporters.

Yep, my 2 grandsons and their friends wear USA basketball stuff, no AFL merchandise whatsoever.

 

[Dalions]

Not stated clearly in my original post, but I believe if we win 6 of the last 9 we should get 6th, I am hoping we can win 7 and possibly with our % make 4th (however the tie against Crows, might cost 4th), win 8 of the last 9, and we definitely finish top 4.

I think we lose to the Swans in about a month (although some might say they are due for a loss soon)
I am a little concerned the following week round 20 against the Suns, especially if they are still in the hunt for the top 8.
Round 22 Giants at the GABBA (who killed us in Canberra, yes we are playing better) and Bombers wont be easy in R24

Collingwood at the G round 23, at this stage have not counted as a win. So at this stage have the Swans and Pies beating us.

I am not as concerned about Sydney as I am Collingwood and Suns.
Suns more just as a let down game and Collingwood as a mental hurdle after Round 3 and the Grand Final results.
West Coast could be a game where we will have an eye on Sydney the week later and will probably just do what is required for a small win.
Other than that I think we are better than all other teams we play as long as we turn up.

 

[M Malice]

I am not as concerned about Sydney as I am Collingwood and Suns.
Suns more just as a let down game and Collingwood as a mental hurdle after Round 3 and the Grand Final results.
West Coast could be a game where we will have an eye on Sydney the week later and will probably just do what is required for a small win.
Other than that I think we are better than all other teams we play as long as we turn up.

Eagles away is the one I'm worried about, they should have some good players back in the side with a couple of games under their belt by then eg. Oscar Allen, Harley Reid, Dom Sheed, Liam Duggan and Tim Kelly. To top it off they have been playing a lot better lately without those guys in the side.

Danger game written all over it IMO.

 

[Darren Downunder]

This has nothing to do with the AFL and more to do with how it’s a lot trendier and acceptable to wear the latter tops around as casual wear and how much more accessible top international sports are compared to the mid 90’s.

Maybe, buttermuffs. I can only comment on my own experience. When I was a kid (in the 60’s) we were obsessed with football. We played it every recess and lunch time. We were fiercely tribal, not just for our team but for the code. We had disparaging (probably racist and homophobic) names for soccor, basketball and rugby.

As a teacher, I saw this in my early career but as the AFL got more corporate, the passion in the kids declined. Maybe, as you imply, it’s a cultural consequence of globalisation but I suspect that the game has lost a large part of its soul. It’s becoming more and more a business and a reality tv show.

 

[MSB ROYS]

Maybe, buttermuffs. I can only comment on my own experience. When I was a kid (in the 60’s) we were obsessed with football. We played it every recess and lunch time. We were fiercely tribal, not just for our team but for the code. We had disparaging (probably racist and homophobic) names for soccor, basketball and rugby.

As a teacher, I saw this in my early career but as the AFL got more corporate, the passion in the kids declined. Maybe, as you imply, it’s a cultural consequence of globalisation but I suspect that the game has lost a large part of its soul. It’s becoming more and more a business and a reality tv show.

Agree 100%. There is a thread on the main board that's quite old now about the AFL, the kids just aren't into you anymore.
Growing up in Geelong in the early 1970s, it was >95% football (and a little hockey and soccer for some). Kick to kick every recess in primary school (after British Bulldog got inevitably got banned) with everyone trying to take speccies and the smaller kids running past for the handball or making to leads to get away from the big kids In summer it was a little more balanced between cricket and tennis (some swimming and athletics). Some people surfed all year round. Simple life!

 

[Grasshopper17]

Agree 100%. There is a thread on the main board that's quite old now about the AFL, the kids just aren't into you anymore.
Growing up in Geelong in the early 1970s, it was >95% football (and a little hockey and soccer for some). Kick to kick every recess in primary school (after British Bulldog got inevitably got banned) with everyone trying to take speccies and the smaller kids running past for the handball or making to leads to get away from the big kids In summer it was a little more balanced between cricket and tennis (some swimming and athletics). Some people surfed all year round. Simple life!

Could never understand why schools banned British bulldog. It was character building.

 

[Darren Downunder]

Could never understand why schools banned British bulldog. It was character building.

It was sooo much fun.

 

[Dalions]

Could never understand why schools banned British bulldog. It was character building.

I love a British Bulldog.

 

[M Malice]

I love a British Bulldog.View attachment 2030261

Me too.

 

[LongLion]

Agree 100%. There is a thread on the main board that's quite old now about the AFL, the kids just aren't into you anymore.
Growing up in Geelong in the early 1970s, it was >95% football (and a little hockey and soccer for some). Kick to kick every recess in primary school (after British Bulldog got inevitably got banned) with everyone trying to take speccies and the smaller kids running past for the handball or making to leads to get away from the big kids In summer it was a little more balanced between cricket and tennis (some swimming and athletics). Some people surfed all year round. Simple life!

British Bulldogs. There's a blast from the past for us older codgers.

 

[Dalions]

British Bulldogs. There's a blast from the past for us older codgers.

I am a reasonably Ole Codger and I have never heard of it.
Must have been out of the loop.

 

[M Malice]

I am a reasonably Ole Codger and I have never heard of it.
Must have been out of the loop.

I'm 64 and my decrepit brain remembers playing red rover endlessly on the school oval during primary school.

I googled it and the game we actually played reads like British Bulldog and not red rover. I call fake news, it will always be red rover to me.

 

[dlanod]

I'm 64 and my decrepit brain remembers playing red rover endlessly on the school oval during primary school.

I googled it and the game we actually played reads like British Bulldog and not red rover. I call fake news, it will always be red rover to me.

I played it under both names, it really depended on who was organising.

My kid has played it at Aussie Rules training, but I don't recall what they called it.

 

[Grasshopper17]

I am a reasonably Ole Codger and I have never heard of it.
Must have been out of the loop.

Imagine a game of rugby but there is no ball. No in goal areas either. And actually come to think of it, not really any teams either.

Kinda that.

 

[Darren Downunder]

I am a reasonably Ole Codger and I have never heard of it.
Must have been out of the loop.

 

[Darren Downunder]

I'm 64 and my decrepit brain remembers playing red rover endlessly on the school oval during primary school.

I googled it and the game we actually played reads like British Bulldog and not red rover. I call fake news, it will always be red rover to me.

Yeah… I remember calling out “Red rover,red rover, can I come over.” And only one person ran first yeah? Then the rest of us? Gee I’m getting all my memories mixed up.