Us, Roos and maybe Eagles fighting out the bottom spots. But Eagles may get it together if they get their players back and have a decent back half of the year.
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Us, Roos and maybe Eagles fighting out the bottom spots. But Eagles may get it together if they get their players back and have a decent back half of the year.
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Although I have faith we can find a few wins, you can make a case that we could end up 0-12
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Potentially we have gotten worse, or at least other sides around us have improved more than we have, which is functionally the same. Could easily see us win the spoon again. Then again it is round 1. The excuses run out at the end of this season, I hope the club makes the most of it.
Dont think the Eagles will finish bottom...even with 8 players out they were able to almost get over the line against the Suns. Equally playing in Perth is a far greater advantage than playing in Adelaide or Melbourne. Honestly, and I know I am way too pessimistic, but I cant see us winning more than say 3-4 games this year...our mid-field is simply atrocious (and arguably getting worse than last year given Sloane's rapid decline)...so hope I am wrong, but this has 2020 written all over it again....
Maybe we have got worse, maybe we will be the spoon winning side but a simple rule of data analysis is don't hang your hat on one piece of data. At least wait 3 or 4 weeks before getting full on gloomy! Half the sides lose round 1.
Can't see us winning the spoon. I think our range is 6-8 wins, so anywhere between 14th and 17th is likely.
Hard to pick a wooden spooner right now, but you'd expect it to be between Adel, North, WCE, Hawthorn with St K and even Collingwood an outside chance with a few injuries.
I think GC keep improving, and Freo are at the point where they will win more home games than they lose, so I'm not considering either of those.
Honestly, another pick 1-3 would be nice for a mid
Hard to pick a wooden spooner right now, but you'd expect it to be between Adel, North, WCE, Hawthorn with St K and even Collingwood an outside chance with a few injuries.
I think GC keep improving, and Freo are at the point where they will win more home games than they lose, so I'm not considering either of those.
Honestly, another pick 1-3 would be nice for a mid
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A bigger deal out west.
Hawks aren't crash hot. Collingwood could easily fall into a hole. Gold Coast could Gold Coast, injuries/coivd could wreck a mid table team etc.
Plenty of room to move up, especially if we're in a year where 4-5 wins gets bottom of the table.
I don't think the midfield is 'worse' per se. We've got Crouch back which allows us to keep playing Sloane anywhere else and the only negative with that is wherever he's deployed. But the midfield of Crouch, Keays, Schoey and Laird is no worse than Keays, Schoey, Laird and Sloane. In fact, dumping Sloane out of the midfield improves it markedly. More time for Schoey, despite his horrific execution on Sunday and no loss anywhere else.
We're not moving up, that's insanity talking. We're bottom 3, lock it in. Only question is which position we find ourselves finishing. Even if individually our midfield is improved, it's not improved as a group. Sloane will remain a first bounce mid all year, despite output and it's highly unlikely that we'll rotate developing mids through there. 100 game players like Dawson will always get first crack, just like Seed did before him. There remains no faith in kids, which is why we rushed back Milera. You can turnover the list, you can change the age and experience profile, but you can't change embedded club philosophy. And it's that philosophy that has selected and encouraged the coaches since Craig.
This is a little off-tap and only a new thought. And don't get me wrong, I think the group underneath the senior coach is the most league wide valued ever assembled at our club. But what if they're all the highest priced commodities that are all cut from the same Neil Craig cloth philosophies that has cloked our club in the stench of failure since he was arseholed in a physical capacity? Have we just finally assembled the best of the available people that live for the same failed philosophies that have served us so poorly since Craig ascended the role?
Tex had a great year, last year and won us a few games of his own boot. If he has a poor year, we will stagnate and be bottom 3. Our poor midfield will leave our defenders completely exposed, bottom 4 is where I think we will be
The sample size has now doubled, want to change your hypothesis yet?
Like many in here, I seemed to be overly optimistic about this season, I had us as a certain Bottom 4 team. I’d now like to revise that to Bottom 2.
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Yeah I was more positive than I am now
I completely forgot Buckley wasnt coaching Collingwood and thought Gold Coast, Hawks and North might struggle this year
I completely forgot Buckley wasnt coaching Collingwood and thought Gold Coast, Hawks and North might struggle this year
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38 entries, not bad.
Average finishing position predictions:
Representative - most similar to the board consensus.
Contrarian - most different to the board consensus:
crows dude lapping the field for free thought. I hope you win.
Average finishing position predictions:
| Melbourne | 2.2 |
| Brisbane | 2.5 |
| Western Bulldogs | 2.7 |
| Port Adelaide | 6 |
| GWS | 6.7 |
| Essendon | 7.1 |
| Geelong | 7.3 |
| Richmond | 7.7 |
| Sydney | 7.9 |
| St Kilda | 10.1 |
| Fremantle | 10.2 |
| Carlton | 10.9 |
| West Coast | 12.9 |
| Adelaide | 13.4 |
| Collingwood | 15.3 |
| North Melbourne | 15.7 |
| Gold Coast | 15.8 |
| Hawthorn | 16.5 |
Representative - most similar to the board consensus.
| latinoheat | 22 |
| BrissyCrow | 22 |
| I Lost My Keays | 22 |
| Ciao Giacomo | 20 |
| eddiespocket | 20 |
| GameofSloanes | 20 |
| Scorpus | 18 |
Contrarian - most different to the board consensus:
| crows dude | 84 |
| WeeBlake | 78 |
| Mego Red | 68 |
| AFC979810 | 48 |
| Golumless | 46 |
| kulak | 46 |
| PCORF | 42 |
crows dude lapping the field for free thought. I hope you win.
Nah, not yet. Am worried though. Not sure I shouldve believed Nicks when he said he was confident we got better by looking out our training.
Pretty sure they coaches are crapping their dacks about our lack of experience tho. I'm not sure they would've thought they'd be missing Laird or Seedsman when putting together the plans late last year. Murphy unavailable as well was another they wouldn't have been counting on. They probably thought Milera would be more advanced. Macadam would be available etc.
Anyway, not sure things will be better in that dept this week, we might get Laird back but then loose sloane. If we have both it will be a good help. Dont be surprised if Murphy comes straight back in once he's deemed fit.
Given all this surprised Berry hasn't been in. He got enough of a run last year to understand the gameplan.
We get Tex back the week after. That will be a major help.
Still holding out hope for Seed to be back in the next few weeks as well.
Don't believe Nicks, he's full of s**t.
I kind of asked this question in another thread but received no suggestions...maybe because there are none to give.
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I thought the Poorwer wouldn't make the top 8, but I didn't think they were spoon bad.
Finally home and away results are reflecting the capabilities of their side that is normally shown up in finals.
Finally home and away results are reflecting the capabilities of their side that is normally shown up in finals.
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