2025 Ladder Predictions

[Worm4]

Are you imagining again?

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Many Crows fans thinking 2025 is finals or bust for Nicks.
I just don't see it.

They should get an okay fixture being a middle grouping team. And will get an additional home game thanks to Gather Round but I just cannot help thinking others above them have also improved, some by much more.

Firstly got to find finalists who won't make finals, and then have to justify Adelaide finishing higher than Collingwood and Fremantle for starters. Then what does Hardwick do with Gold Coast year 2??

 

[hawkman]

Many Crows fans thinking 2025 is finals or bust for Nicks.
I just don't see it.

They should get an okay fixture being a middle grouping team. And will get an additional home game thanks to Gather Round but I just cannot help thinking others above them have also improved, some by much more.

Firstly got to find finalists who won't make finals, and then have to justify Adelaide finishing higher than Collingwood and Fremantle for starters. Then what does Hardwick do with Gold Coast year 2??

Adelaide are in the bottom 6 grouping so might get lucky with at least 2 of WC, North or Richmond twice. However a good fixture generally only adds 1 or at most 2 wins to your total

 

[My Tilly]

Initial:

1: Sydney
2: Collingwood
3: Geelong
4: Hawthorn
5: Brisbane
6: Fremantle
7: St Kilda
8: Port Adelaide
9: Carlton
10: Gold Coast
11: Adelaide
12: Melbourne
13: GWS
14: North Melbourne
15: Western Bulldogs
16: Essendon
17: West Coast
18: Richmond

You don't see your mob making finals?

I can.
Cumming & Peatling are excellent acquisitions. You also have an excellent midfield trio in Dawson, Rankine, Soligo.
Worrell is tracking in the right direction.
The forward line is potent. Thilthorpe is about to become one of the best forwards in the competition.

Crows finish 6th I reckon.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Carlton
Hawthorn
Geelong
Freo
Bris
Wb
Swans
Adelaide

GWS
Port
Gc
Collingwood
Melb
Nm
Essendon
St kilda
WC
Richmond

 

[Pistol Night]

Adding Houston is a plus - the other guy isn’t much to write home about.

The problem is your old blokes (often injured last year) are another year older.

Not sure Houston can fill the gap.

The old farts that still touched up Carlton and the Premiers twice each this year?

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

The old farts that still touched up Carlton and the Premiers twice each this year?

Pies best 23 in 2025 has an average age of 29.52

They're cooked.

 

[CCurnow3picks]

The old farts that still touched up Carlton and the Premiers twice each this year?

Touched up lol

Getting ollllder & ollllder!

 

[Hippster]

Carlton
Brisbane
Western Bulldogs
Sydney
Geelong
Hawthorn
Gold Coast
Fremantle

Port Adelaide
GWS
Adelaide
Collingwood
Melbourne
StKilda
Kangaroos
Essendon
West Coast
Richmond

 

[Drexl 31]

Carlton
Brisbane
Western Bulldogs
Sydney
Geelong
Hawthorn
Gold Coast
Fremantle

Port Adelaide
GWS
Adelaide
Collingwood
Melbourne
StKilda
Kangaroos
Essendon
West Coast
Richmond

A little generous re Carlton and Collingwood, think we will finish 2nd, pies 16th.

 

[aussierulesrules]

A little generous re Carlton and Collingwood, think we will finish 2nd, pies 16th.

They’ve just significantly added to their best 22, while you’ve lost a chunk of depth from your regular best 22/23, and this year you both won the same number of games.

 

[Drexl 31]

They’ve just significantly added to their best 22, while you’ve lost a chunk of depth from your regular best 22/23, and this year you both won the same number of games.

Just being as one-eyed as most supporters here. I am not actually being serious, Collingwood are far better than 16th, maybe.

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

A little generous re Carlton and Collingwood, think we will finish 2nd, pies 16th.

As long as we beat the Blosers twice again next season like we did this year. That will compensate for us finishing your predicted 16th....

 

[Fadge]

As long as we beat the Blosers twice again next season like we did this year. That will compensate for us finishing your predicted 16th....

Median ladder finishes in the 21st century:
Collingwood - 6th
Carlton - 13th

And they think they have the list to contend for a premiership?

Pfffftt...

 

[Fadge]

They’ve just significantly added to their best 22, while you’ve lost a chunk of depth from your regular best 22/23, and this year you both won the same number of games.

Not to mention the fact Collingwood had a down year after a Prelim Final and a Flag, whilst Carlton lucked into a Preliminary Final in 2023 whilst peaking as nothing more than a mid table team...

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Median ladder finishes in the 21st century:
Collingwood - 6th
Carlton - 13th

And they think they have the list to contend for a premiership?

Pfffftt...

I'm looking forward to seeing ur ladder prediction Fadge. I recall us coming in 16th in your last one... How'd that turn out?

 

[Fadge]

I'm looking forward to seeing ur ladder prediction Fadge. I recall us coming in 16th in your last one... How'd that turn out?

You're wrong, as usual.

 

[Mojo]

Carlton
Hawthorn
Geelong
Freo
Bris
Wb
Swans
Adelaide

GWS
Port
Gc
Collingwood
Melb
Nm
Essendon
St kilda
WC
Richmond

No offence, Blues' supporters... it just looks weird seeing Carlton at the top of the ladder.

 

[Makeshift Park]

No offence, Blues' supporters... it just looks weird seeing Carlton at the top of the ladder.

Fwiw I doubt their defence is up to scratch to go all the way.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Fwiw I doubt their defence is up to scratch to go all the way.

Which is why Houston would have been such a great get for them.

 

[tiger_tough]

1. Brisbane
2. Fremantle
3. GWS
4. Hawthorn
5. Sydney
6. Carlton
7. Collingwood
8. Gold Coast
9. Bulldogs
10. Adelaide
11. Geelong
12. Port Adelaide
13. St Kilda
14. Melbourne
15. North Melbourne
16. Essendon
17. West Coast
18. Richmond

 

[Freomaniac]

No Victorian teams to make the 8, bookmark it.

Papa G , ya thoughts on this? lol

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

Fwiw I doubt their defence is up to scratch to go all the way.

Don’t disagree, wouldn’t have been outlandish to make the same call re; Brisbane earlier in the year.
Each team has strengths & weaknesses, it’s how the balance of the team can support to cover that is the key.
Injuries & game plan play a huge part in that.
Carlton seemed to have cleared out non-playing (through the perennially injured) support this off season.
Don’t think Houston is as important as another big to support Weitering. Doesn’t appear that they have addressed that issue with a mature as yet.
I’d have concerns if Haynes or a returning Silvagni are seen as solutions in that respect.
Big year for the Blues, from an age demographic position, would want to jag a premiership in the next two to three years.
Keep them fit (A big year for the new HP guy Rob Innes) and they should be considered as good a shot as any from my perspective.

 

[jakefooty23]

1.Geelong
2.Brisbane
3.GWS
4.Hawks
5.Swans
6.Blues
7.Pies
8.Power
9.Dockers
10.Dogs
11.Suns
12.Crows
13.Dees
14.Saints
15.Dons
16.North
17.West Coast
18.Richmond

 

[aussierulesrules]

Interesting so many (of late in particular) tipping St Kilda to finish as low as even bottom two, despite the fact that- once we finally got some of our midfielders out on the park, and weren’t playing interstate every 2nd week- we won 5 of our last 6 games (with the only loss being to Brisbane) and 8 of our last 12.

With two of the 4 losses in the last 12 being to Brisbane (including one where we gave them a huge fright, up at the Gabba), another being a 2 point loss to another preliminary finalist, and the other to Adelaide in Adelaide (a game we were leading in, until it started hosing down).

So despite being hit hard by injuries again, we finished with 11 wins, and 6 losses by 10 points or less.

Including 1 point to GWS up north, 2 points to Port, 4 points to Essendon (when they were going well), 5 points to Hawthorn in Tassie, 8 points to Geelong in Geelong, and 10 points to Port in Adelaide.

So we were top 6 for all bar one week of the 2023 H&A season and then top 6 again on the form ladder for the last 12 games of this season.

For the 11 games in between, we won 3, and lost 5 of the aforementioned games by 10 points or less. At a time when we were smashed by injury (in particular to the midfield, which was decimated), playing interstate or Geelong every 2nd week (5 of the first 9!) and we didn’t have our first genuine home ground advantage game of the year until we played Freo at Marvel in R10!

Seems strange that such a team would suddenly be bottom 4, or even 2.