Prediction It Starts Here

[Forzaport]

This win is so massive in the context of our season that the AFL Squiggle now has us top 4.

1 week ago we were making up numbers in the 8. That's what it means to beat a genuine contender. We have now done the one thing we couldn't do at all last year.

 

[RossFC]

This win is so massive in the context of our season that the AFL Squiggle now has us top 4.

1 week ago we were making up numbers in the 8. That's what it means to beat a genuine contender. We have now done the one thing we couldn't do at all last year.

Sydney and West Coast last year?

 

[Forzaport]

Sydney and West Coast last year?

Wouldn’t have called either genuine contenders. They finished 6th & 8th from memory?

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

Sydney and West Coast last year?

They definitely constituted Top 8 sides last year, but neither of them were "genuine contenders".

Sydney left it until it was too late and West Coast were a very flaky side that literally only fell in after Melbourne choked.

 

[yepits2020]

Did we beat a top 8 side yet ?

Other than Sydney, no one of consequence.

 

[bos10]

Does any one know how many of their goals were the result of our turnovers ?

Seven out of eight in the first half. Considering our score was a miserable 4 goals 6 - you can see the trouble we were in. Missing goals at one end and gifting the opposition easy ones at the other. You don't win many games playing like that.

 

[PAFC66]

Wouldn’t have called either genuine contenders. They finished 6th & 8th from memory?

Exactly. First time we've beat a contender at home in alnost 3 years.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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[QPower]

I will reserve judgement until after the coming block of games at home finishing with Melbourne on June 22.

If you can’t get up for a Showdown then you may as well give up.

In particular, the effort against the Hawks in Tasmania will tell us something about where we are headed in 2018.

I am not pessimistic, but after years of disappointment I want to see the proof in the form of a winning sequence of games.

 

[Interstater]

 

[Arsene Wenger]

Lets hope it is a turning point. We need to win against GC and not take this for granted.

We then have a month where if we are serious, we really need to go 3 from 4, being Hawks (Tassie), Rich (AO), Dogs (AO), Melb (AO).

I dont usually look too far ahead, but after the next 5 if we go 4-1 and are 9-4 going into Carlton/StK i think we can still manage to finish top 4.

 

[VineValerian]

As someone posted (not sure who), this better be our "benchmark" standard from now on in.

Not the exception to the rule.

 

[xflamedancer]

I can see us getting umpired out of the game in Tassie (its happened before) but we definitely should be winning 4 of the next 5

 

[Jakksynn]

Nah you’re all too overconfident tbh, we’ll drop this game this week against GC. Just cause the expectations are back on us and we don’t deal with that.

 

[Chewy316]

Lets hope it is a turning point. We need to win against GC and not take this for granted.

We then have a month where if we are serious, we really need to go 3 from 4, being Hawks (Tassie), Rich (AO), Dogs (AO), Melb (AO).

I dont usually look too far ahead, but after the next 5 if we go 4-1 and are 9-4 going into Carlton/StK i think we can still manage to finish top 4.

We were 9-4 in 2004 after 13 games and that worked out alright.