JLT Ladder

[roacheee]

Yeah fickle Richmond fans staying away for a likely loss

snows gone by september so all 8000 dees members will turn up maybe?

 

[hk89]

I remember back in the day the pre season comp was a good indication of how the team will travel in the year ahead but not anymore.

It might turn out to be a better predictor this year than than last few though (Hawthorn aside obviously ). There was a lot less experimenting with youth this year, and a lot more tuning up of your best available side for round 1. This is partly down to having only 2 games instead of 3. A couple of notable exceptions were Geelong leaving out their three best mids, and Essendon fielding a weak side after the club was apparently struck down with Gastro. I didn't see all the games, but from the others it seemed most clubs were putting close to their best available out there. Obviously coaches still play around with game plans, and players don't go 100% when 4 points are not up for grabs, but the latter at least probably evens out across the teams.

So, if you factor in the strength of the opposition, I'd expect JLT to be a better form guide than usual for how the early rounds will pan out. GC played a weakened Geelong and Brisbane is in many people's bottom 4, and Richmond played a weakened Essendon and a team also commonly picked for bottom 4, so I think the JLT ladder probably flatters them (especially percentage wise, Tigers looked in good form irrespective of opposition).

I think Saints and possibly West Coast would be the most concerned. Would have liked Hawks to get a win, but we did ok in most of the key stats in both our losses, so I'm not too concerned yet. Melbourne and Sydney have the most to be happy about for mine when weighing up who they played and how they went about it.

 

[donkeypunchd]

snows gone by september so all 8000 dees members will turn up maybe?

Depends on the quality of the cheese platters, are they upgraded for the finals?

 

[The Joker]

Post here if you scored more points than Freo in your two combined JLT games and aren't the Reigning Premier's, you haven't been caught cheating or you dont sell your home games for food vouchers...

 

[Brick Loosener]

Yeah fickle Richmond fans staying away for a likely loss

Melbourne fans normally love it when they lose to Richmond.

 

[hk89]

Post here if you scored more points than Freo in your two combined JLT games and aren't the Reigning Premier's, you haven't been caught cheating or you dont sell your home games for food vouchers...

So what you are saying is if you exclude a bunch of other teams, you came first in something in the JLT.

Well Hawthorn doesn't have to resort to such shenanigans. We came outright first in total number of behinds. Smashed it.

 

[Malifice]

I remember back in the day the pre season comp was a good indication of how the team will travel in the year ahead but not anymore.

I wish that were true. I really do.

 

[Topkent]

Richmond is pretty ominous being the heaviest scorers whilst hardly conceding. Though means nothing in the regular season

 

[Wallaby]

Fantastic pre-season series by Richmond.

1. No injuries.
2. Had a look at the kids.
3. No injuries.
4. Tried a few new things.
5. No injuries.
6. There is no point 6.
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2,456,842. Won some games.

 

[TJASTA]

Jack Graham

 

[HairyO]

Ok, I will stick my neck out and say that the clubs looked a bit more fair dinkum this year.

Hawks went in with 3 less players. Cant imagine us doing that in the regular season.

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

Does this mean we get Lukosius?

For a couple of years at least

 

[Snake_Baker]

For a couple of years at least

Sweet. TWO first round draft picks! I like it!

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

Sweet. TWO first round draft picks! I like it!

You may need to throw in a sweetener for two.

 

[TheSunGod]

Can this just be the regular ladder plz.

I think we could be higher?

 

[sprockets]

Richmond premiers confirmed.

You know, we are.

 

[beema limapep]

Jack Graham that is

 

[00Stinger]

north, St Kilda & Brisbane will be bottom 4 in the real season too

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[Mitchell Madness]

Means nothing given some teams went in with 7 on the bench whilst others went in with 4.
Teams have different mindsets in the preseason

 

[donkeypunchd]

Melbourne fans normally love it when they lose to Richmond.

Makes the rent collection process easier

 

[donkeypunchd]

Sweet. TWO first round draft picks! I like it!

Hmm be careful what you wish for

 

[Lsta062]

Richmond played a weakened Essendon and a team also commonly picked for bottom 4, so I think the JLT ladder probably flatters them (especially percentage wise, Tigers looked in good form irrespective of opposition)

The Essendon one is pretty spot on as they really didn't care about that match. The North Melbourne one was good for a couple of reasons:
- We smashed a team expected to be bottom 4. We are hardly flat track bullies so to see us win by a sizeable margin was good.
- Rance and Riewoldt were subbed out by half time. Hopefully that means we are not too reliant on them.
- We kicked 5.4 (34) to 0.2 (2) after Dustin Martin was apparently taken off while Rance and Riewoldt were out and still looked pretty decent. Hopefully that means we can still function without them.

Not saying that we are Premiership favourites even without Rance, Riewoldt and Martin - just that we are hopefully not a side too reliant on them that we completely crash and burn with even one of them missing.

I also liked in the JLT how offensive we were. Wasn't a strong point in the first half of the H&A season for us last year.

 

[Aphrodite]

Carlton with the 3rd highest points for. What is this witchcraft?

Typo.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I decided to do the ladder for last years 2017 JLT series to see how closely it ended up resembling the final ladder of 2017.

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What does this mean? Either your JLT results will somewhat resemble your final season performance, or is no indicator at all. Flip of the coin, really.

Take a look at the 2013 Nab Ladder.

 

[Gydafud]

Take a look at the 2013 Nab Ladder.

Geelong wasn't far off