Posts that were suspiciously accurate in predicting AFL events

[Adelaide Docker]

my posts this time last year on freo ended up bang on true

A broken clock record is still right twice a day

 

[Adelaide Docker]

how the hell do u have a 24 leg multi? theres 9 games a weekend and most agencies only have odds up 1 week in advance

Most have the next 3 rounds, I think William Hill actually has the whole season up, they did before at least.

 

[jamaican_eagle]

how the hell do u have a 24 leg multi? theres 9 games a weekend and most agencies only have odds up 1 week in advance

Yeah, as the poster said sites have games for a few weeks now.

When you think about it all he did was get his tips right almost 3 weeks in a row. Sounds lucky but it can happen.

 

[Hobbes]

Lurker alert. See if this works.

Shane Warne gets to 700

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   Shane Warne is currently on 573 wickets ( as of 20/3) and with 1.5 innings left in this match and 1 more NZ test , he will be well set to get to 600 in England.
   
   Will he go for 700 , assuming 60 wickets a year makes it 2006/7 xmas series..possibly boxing day 2006?

1. 
   Must be crazy right?
   1. 
      Not even the craziest storyteller could have scripted a more fitting end to Shane Warne's Test career than what occurred during the 2006 Boxing Day Test.
   1. 
      Only reason I remember is I posted in it. Blew my mind

I think that former test cricketer Rodney Hogg gets the Nostradamus Award on Warne - he was sacked from his job at a Melbourne newspaper for predicting that Warne would take 600 test wickets (which was at that point unprecedented). This was, I think, before Warne had played a first class game.

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

My post in January 2014 on who will miss the finals.

I think a lot of people on here are under-estimating Port Adelaide, they play a good brand of footy, and have some decent kids who have cemented themselves in the side and are only going to get better. Wines is a goer, Boak if he played for a Victorian team, would be getting raved about. Wingard is a tough footballer, and they have an excellent coach.

My picks are Carlton, too much like a patchwork quilt, still relying on some old players, former stars in Judd (31), Carazzo (30), Waite (31), Simpson (30) who are prone to injury, they have lost Betts, who had a down year in 2013, but has been a proven avenue for goals for them for years. A mid tier group of high draft picks who haven't really delivered, and if they are going to it has to be this year. Murphy is good, Gibbs need to further develop, not sure why they went for a 28 year old in Dale Thomas, he has had a whole year out of the game. They have started to assemble some good kids, but there is still a lot of wood on that list. My verdict: This year they will fall down heavily, have a decent clean out at the end of the year and start rebuilding.

My other pick is Richmond, I think they play a great brand of home and away footy, but they need to develop a tougher game for finals footy, they need to be able to play contested footy. They also come across as a bit mentally weak, when things get tough, might be because they are a young team, and don't have older players who have played finals to mentor them. They will drop off a bit this year, miss the finals, but learn some valuable lessons and come back stronger in 2015.

Anyway just my humble opinion.

 

[Air_Chester]

This ones the best. Margin off by 2 but very close.
Round 19 2012

This one is an all-timer.

 

[CD__]

Must hurt to see me think so little of a club that's had infinitely more success than yours

Your posting perfectly matches your profile picture.

 

[CD__]

Did you like the arrogant implication that my opinion is revered? Kingy's all over it mate.

You need to start using more statistics that you've taken straight from Glen Luff and Champion Data but acting as if it is you that has done the research yourself.

 

[Van_Dyke]

my posts this time last year on freo ended up bang on true

Your posts on Weller ended up bang on false.

 

[Montana2Rice]

when the umpires were announced some posters on the adl board predicted exactly what would happen in fridays nights game.

What? That hawthorn would magnificently manage to come from behind and win a close game? That lots of people would moan about a call that was obviously correct on the night, and was subsequently confirmed as correct by the umpires department. That Adelaide fans would be shown as sore losers? (Btw, Eddie betts was happy with the umpiring the week before when he pushed the swans player in the back before kicking a crucial late goal, but let's not mention that)
Great effort Adelaide posters, well done!!

 

[Canary]

Reminds me of when Harry Taylor predicted the 2010 GF draw on Before the Game. One of the most bizarre moments.

 

[TiggerMan22]

As an aside, it's not really like he was any better in his stints on the wing (no, it wasn't a full season as some claim) than his best up forward, and the team's fortunes didn't really change, either. An overrated novelty tactical move.

He's brownlow votes say otherwise.

 

[Halorad]

someone will kick 10 tonight

This is easily the best prediction i've ever made on bigfooty

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

In 2016 I predicted the previous 10 premiership winners, Norm Smith and Brownlow Medalists and each clubs best and fairest winners for that time frame.

 

[Scotland]

Embers/Naitawhoey/Big Cox probably got one or two right on the Scandals and Rumours board, but that's sort of like tipping a dozen winners in the Melbourne Cup.

 

[MaddAdam]

My Gavin Urquhart is and will always be better than Scott Pendlebury call made circa 2008 has stood the test of time.

Someone on the Noeth board recently bumped the thread from when drafted Goldstein and there's some amazing calls there about why we needed some spindly ex basketball type when we already had the comps best ruck combo in Hamish McIntosh and David Hale with the super exciting Brad Moran poised to take over

Thankfully I didn't humiliate myself there as I did with Super Gav and Pendles.

Hilariously a key piece of evidence in the Gav thing was his run down and tackle on one Farren Ray

 

[MaddAdam]

Using "suspiciously" in the title makes it sound like the people predicting these things somehow made it happen.

The "Let's Get North Welcomes Refugees On The Banner" thread before last year's Elim Final fits this category.

And Essendon supporter fishardansin holds the title surely for his "There is some big deal with drugs going down at the club" thread on the rumour board well in advance of The Blackest Day In Sport.

 

[HR Roughnstuf]

This post was written after the 2014 AFL Season Launch video which featured a future Hodge's son and great grand daughter.

I got a bit teary-eyed there, almost as much as Brian Lake's daughter. I bet she doesn't barrack for the Dogs any more...

A few anomalies:
- Grandpa tells his granddaughter to talk the old way, then proceeds to communicate the events psychically, via palms.
- Grandpa doesn't give her the 2014, 2015 and 2016 medals...
- Hodge is not the best at voice-overs.

 

[adammania9]

Accurate one from Hutchy, kinda... sorta... hmmm

 

[Randy Campbell]

I am still waiting on the jet packs, saw one in the 84 Olympics.

I quoted this in 2014.
I am still waiting on the jet pack.

 

[yeahmate]

My Gavin Urquhart is and will always be better than Scott Pendlebury call made circa 2008 has stood the test of time.

Someone on the Noeth board recently bumped the thread from when drafted Goldstein and there's some amazing calls there about why we needed some spindly ex basketball type when we already had the comps best ruck combo in Hamish McIntosh and David Hale with the super exciting Brad Moran poised to take over

Thankfully I didn't humiliate myself there as I did with Super Gav and Pendles.

Hilariously a key piece of evidence in the Gav thing was his run down and tackle on one Farren Ray

Not going to go back and necro old threads, but I also recall many North supporters on BF from a few years back convinced that Sam Mitchell was just a poor man's Daniel Harris.

 

[NMFC 1811]

My Gavin Urquhart is and will always be better than Scott Pendlebury call made circa 2008 has stood the test of time.

Someone on the Noeth board recently bumped the thread from when drafted Goldstein and there's some amazing calls there about why we needed some spindly ex basketball type when we already had the comps best ruck combo in Hamish McIntosh and David Hale with the super exciting Brad Moran poised to take over

Thankfully I didn't humiliate myself there as I did with Super Gav and Pendles.

Hilariously a key piece of evidence in the Gav thing was his run down and tackle on one Farren Ray

He gave Cyril a bath at the G in 08 too. He was exactly what needed after the Jesse W injury.

 

[adammania9]

With his Buckley man crush he might just end up with us in 2 years

This one about James Aish in a 2013 draft thread on the Collingwood board.

 

[Always Ballin]

had a mate that got this one haha:

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Wow. This has to be a fake. WTF

 

[KevinTaylor]

This one from 2001

The Eagles will get back into the 8 this year partly due to the dominance of their 3 ruckmen.

No other teams best 3 ruckmen will come close to having the impact they will over the whole season.(injuries permitting).

KevinTaylor, Feb 12, 2015