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[port_rule]

we can win 5/7 games we should be in the top four....

would mean
def rich
def melb
def crows
def carl
los haw
los geel
def freo

not impossible... even if we lost showdown, could win vs hawks with a good record in tassie.

i did a ladder predictor with favourites winning the other games...

1 Geelong 22 17 5 0 2391 1757 68 136.0
6 Collingwood 22 15 7 0 2099 1959 60 107.1
2 Hawthorn 22 14 8 0 2115 1907 56 110.9
5 Port Adel 22 14 8 0 2272 2063 56 110.1
4 West Coast 22 14 8 0 2060 1891 56 108.9
7 W Bulldogs 22 14 8 0 2299 2217 56 103.6
8 Sydney 22 12 10 0 2046 1825 48 112.1
9 Adelaide 22 12 10 0 1954 1784 48 109.5
3 Kangaroos 22 12 10 0 2071 2106 48 98.3
11 St Kilda 22 12 10 0 1919 1974 48 97.2
12 Bris Lions 22 10 11 1 1977 2037 42 97.0
13 Fremantle 22 9 13 0 2146 2176 36 98.6
10 Essendon 22 9 13 0 2168 2288 36 94.7
15 Melbourne 22 5 17 0 1934 2330 20 83.0
14 Carlton 22 4 18 0 2151 2768 16 77.7
16 Richmond 22 2 19 1 1941 2461 10 78.8

Pretty surprising to see Roos out of the 8... they have a hard, hard draw.
Pies draw is very easy.

Hopefully Geelong choke in first week of finals and Port get a home prelim...

Ok, I'll wake up from my dream now

 

[RoosterLad]

If Port don't lose another game they win the flag.

 

[eathb]

Rich - W
Melb - W
Cows - W
Carlton - W
Hawks - W
Cats - W
Shockers - W

 

[port_rule]

Rich - W
Melb - W
Cows - W
Carlton - W
Hawks - W
Cats - W
Shockers - W

i like this prediction

 

[*PAF]

If Port don't lose another game they win the flag.

Hehe.

 

[Malibu#27]

I remember a thread like this coming out about 8 weeks ago ... suggesting we could ve 10 and 1 at the break (or something similar).

 

[cooperjai]

i did a ladder predictor with favourites winning the other games...

1 Geelong 22 17 5 0 2391 1757 68 136.0
6 Collingwood 22 15 7 0 2099 1959 60 107.1
2 Hawthorn 22 14 8 0 2115 1907 56 110.9
5 Port Adel 22 14 8 0 2272 2063 56 110.1
4 West Coast 22 14 8 0 2060 1891 56 108.9
7 W Bulldogs 22 14 8 0 2299 2217 56 103.6
8 Sydney 22 12 10 0 2046 1825 48 112.1
9 Adelaide 22 12 10 0 1954 1784 48 109.5
3 Kangaroos 22 12 10 0 2071 2106 48 98.3
11 St Kilda 22 12 10 0 1919 1974 48 97.2
12 Bris Lions 22 10 11 1 1977 2037 42 97.0
13 Fremantle 22 9 13 0 2146 2176 36 98.6
10 Essendon 22 9 13 0 2168 2288 36 94.7
15 Melbourne 22 5 17 0 1934 2330 20 83.0
14 Carlton 22 4 18 0 2151 2768 16 77.7
16 Richmond 22 2 19 1 1941 2461 10 78.8

miss out on percentage, can't script it any better than that.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master,
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

 

[Ported]

If we lose every game from here on in, we'll probably still finish above freo.

 

[Andre]

If Port don't lose another game they win the flag.

As long as Port make the eight and win their last game of the year, the rest I can live with

 

[portentous]

I hate these threads.

 

[Steve Dore]

I hate these threads.

But what would the world be like if there were no hypothetical questions?

 

[portentous]

But what would the world be like if there were no hypothetical questions?

Hypothetically speaking you mean?

 

[Papa G]

One of the games I am most confident of winning is the Hawks down in Tassie. This obviously means we will drop a stupid one at home though.

 

[Mitch Power]

we can win 5/7 games we should be in the top four....

would mean
def rich
def melb
def crows
def carl
los haw
los geel
def freo

not impossible... even if we lost showdown, could win vs hawks with a good record in tassie.

i did a ladder predictor with favourites winning the other games...

1 Geelong 22 17 5 0 2391 1757 68 136.0
6 Collingwood 22 15 7 0 2099 1959 60 107.1
2 Hawthorn 22 14 8 0 2115 1907 56 110.9
5 Port Adel 22 14 8 0 2272 2063 56 110.1
4 West Coast 22 14 8 0 2060 1891 56 108.9
7 W Bulldogs 22 14 8 0 2299 2217 56 103.6
8 Sydney 22 12 10 0 2046 1825 48 112.1
9 Adelaide 22 12 10 0 1954 1784 48 109.5
3 Kangaroos 22 12 10 0 2071 2106 48 98.3
11 St Kilda 22 12 10 0 1919 1974 48 97.2
12 Bris Lions 22 10 11 1 1977 2037 42 97.0
13 Fremantle 22 9 13 0 2146 2176 36 98.6
10 Essendon 22 9 13 0 2168 2288 36 94.7
15 Melbourne 22 5 17 0 1934 2330 20 83.0
14 Carlton 22 4 18 0 2151 2768 16 77.7
16 Richmond 22 2 19 1 1941 2461 10 78.8

Pretty surprising to see Roos out of the 8... they have a hard, hard draw.
Pies draw is very easy.

Hopefully Geelong choke in first week of finals and Port get a home prelim...

Ok, I'll wake up from my dream now

you know port rule.....I had the same dream. It's a worry

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

What if we get too cocky and lose to Richmond on the weekend...

 

[P.A.F.C]

I did a ladder prediction and we ended up 7th

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

Realistically this is what I think will happen-

Richmond (WIN)
Melbourne (WIN)
Adelaide (LOSS)
Carltom (WIN)
Hawthorn (WIN)
Geelong (LOSS)
Fremantle (WIN)

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

...I think people are also forgetting we have only ever lost 1 game at Aurora (one which we should have won). Hawthorn play crap against us there

 

[Papa G]

...I think people are also forgetting we have only ever lost 1 game at Aurora (one which we should have won). Hawthorn play crap against us there

I think it's more like St Kilda, but I am confident of winning this one. We play well there and we need payback for that insipid performance we gave them at home. Plus I just don't reckon Hawthorn are as good as the Victorian media makes them out to be.

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

I think it's more like St Kilda, but I am confident of winning this one. We play well there and we need payback for that insipid performance we gave them at home. Plus I just don't reckon Hawthorn are as good as the Victorian media makes them out to be.

I agree...they only beat us last time because we were pathetic...we actually led 41-14 in the 2nd quater so im also confident of winning this one.

 

[Andre]

Hawthorn play crap against us there

Half right, Hawthorn played like crap against us everywhere up till earlier this year. I have it down as a loss.

My run home for us is :

Richmond (WIN)
Melbourne (WIN)
Adelaide (LOSS)
Carltom (WIN)
Hawthorn (LOSS)
Geelong (LOSS)
Fremantle (WIN)

Which should get us into the eight. Other then the Geelong game I think we're a chance in them all. However given our performances against Melbourne and Carlton earlier in the year the chance we'll bring our Z game along is still a possibility for any of them to.

 

[Sandola]

I think we're 3-1 against St Kilda and 1-0 against Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium.

I've had us as losing r18 against Adelaide until this week, but I'm switching that game to our win column. I still have the Hawthorn game as a loss for us (but I really think we'll win it!). So 5-2 for 14 wins, possible top four finish.

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

The round 18 Showdown is going to be the vital match as to where we finish come round 22. Providing we beat Richmond and Melbourne, then the rnd 18 Showdown will probably decide if we have a crack at making the top 4, likewise with Adelaide. It's going to be one hell of a match.

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

The round 18 Showdown is going to be the vital match as to where we finish come round 22. Providing we beat Richmond and Melbourne, then the rnd 18 Showdown will probably decide if we have a crack at making the top 4, likewise with Adelaide. It's going to be one hell of a match.

I am being pessamistic about that game...