Unofficial Preview AtGi30D: The Final Results

[George]

Over the past 30 days we've looked at each Saints game for the 2018 season to determine where we think we'll finish. I had the idea from Persevering Saint who had done it last season which included some great discussion.

All of the previous threads can be found here;

Rounds 1-4: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-1-4.1186077/
Rounds 5-8: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-5-8.1186271/
Rounds 9-12: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-9-12.1186418/
Rounds 13-17: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-13-17.1186617/
Rounds 18-20: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-18-20.1186825/
Rounds 21-23: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/atgi30d-rounds-21-23.1186981/


I tried to give as little info as possible to not skew the results of the polls, so I simply just posted the lineups and everyone got to voting. I voted in each game and finished with us at 13-9, so not pretty far off!

Now that all 23 rounds are complete, here are the final results;

What do you guys think? Are we around the mark? Any games you think we should win that we have us losing?


Added a poll to see what everyone thinks, and cheers for everyone's contributions!

 

[Phoenix_9]

Out of our 10 losses, 3 of them are very close, and none of our wins are close. If we can sneak one of those close games,13-9 will guarantee us finals. I have us 12-10 and it will be % to be in or out again...

 

[Premium]

Great job George , 12 wins would be around the mark

 

[bird_man]

Out of our 10 losses, 3 of them are very close, and none of our wins are close. If we can sneak one of those close games,13-9 will guarantee us finals. I have us 12-10 and it will be % to be in or out again...

Not sure about that. Melbourne and Western Bulldogs are far from guaranteed wins, not to mention we have to play in Perth twice in about a month so I wouldn’t be pencilling those wins in either.

It’s going to be a tight year and we have to win most of those 50-50 games to be a chance.

 

[bird_man]

I’d take 12 wins to be honest. Doesn’t guarantee us a finals spot, but it’s a pretty tough draw.

Imperative we get off to a good start to the year.

 

[Saint Watto]

Over the past 30 days we've looked at each Saints game for the 2018 season to determine where we think we'll finish. I had the idea from Persevering Saint who had done it last season which included some great discussion.

Outstanding work there George...well done !!!!!!!!

I'm on the optimistic side.....12-13 wins is my best outcome at this point.

I maybe wearing my Saints Rose coloured glasses........but there's way more upside with our squad than many think.

Then again....this time last year I thought Richmond were a rabble......show's how much I know !!!!!!!

 

[gringo2011]

I’d take 12 wins to be honest. Doesn’t guarantee us a finals spot, but it’s a pretty tough draw.

Imperative we get off to a good start to the year.

I remember when the fixture came out I thought it looked like we might end up around 9th even with improvement in our playing group, I think we could be anything from 4th to 18th though if everything goes right or wrong. It's a really hard to confidently predict where we end up. If you weren't a Saints fan you'd probably think we were a 9th to 15th type of squad but as fans we are all hoping a whole lot of kids come on at once. If we get a couple more unexpected wins and win the ones we are expected to win finals are definitely a good chance.

 

[Phoenix_9]

Not sure about that. Melbourne and Western Bulldogs are far from guaranteed wins, not to mention we have to play in Perth twice in about a month so I wouldn’t be pencilling those wins in either.

It’s going to be a tight year and we have to win most of those 50-50 games to be a chance.

Definitely, I based my comment on what the consensus perceived as close games, whereby we lost them all. I agree, that those games should have been a lot closer in our voting, the Perth games too.

 

[StCicatriz]

great job george!!!!

can we do the best 22 one perse also ran with?

 

[George]

great job george!!!!

can we do the best 22 one perse also ran with?

More than happy to if people want to do that mate

 

[Mowman]

Same great work George

 

[Robstar2000]

I honestly think we will finish 8-10th, I think it's those last 3 rounds that will define it. Win all three we and we will make finals but if we win 2, I reckon it will be percentage, lose 2 and we're out of finals. Essendon and Hawthorn are the danger games.

 

[borderbarry]

Talking about the draw, of ten games against interstate teams we have four home games and six (seven if you include the Hawthorn game in Tassy) How hard would it have been to make it 5 of each?

 

[LiterallyNobody]

I honestly think we will finish 8-10th, I think it's those last 3 rounds that will define it. Win all three we and we will make finals but if we win 2, I reckon it will be percentage, lose 2 and we're out of finals. Essendon and Hawthorn are the danger games.

100% this. I reckon we'll be 9 or 10 wins going into those games. Will need to win all three to play finals.