Fixture Preseason is meaningless... (or is it?)

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Obviously the results of 1 game with no premiership points attached is no indication of how H&A will go, but... I can't help but feel the 'preseason ladder' is actually not that far off



The following will almost certainly happen:

Worst Coast win b2b spoons
Horf bottom 4 again
Fold Coast and Failmantle struggle
Swines, Tuggers and Bloosers confirmed as pretenders
Handbaggers and Bummers just miss the 8/just make the 8 and get KO'd in week 1
Welfare and Crom return to the 8 (although not that high up)
Flagpies, Brions, Straight Setters, the other Straight Setters, Aints and the Great unWaShed play finals again

The only clear anomaly is lolnorf but even that game was indicative... they will write cheques they can't cash before finishing bottom 4 again

 

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[Saveloy Rockstar]

Yeah, nobody cares where their team is going to finish in H&A

Good one

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Yeah, nobody cares where their team is going to finish in H&A

Good one

And you base this on one pre-season game.

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

And you base this on one pre-season game.

Have I mentioned that you take everything way too literally?

 

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Have I mentioned that you take everything way too literally?

No one ever knows what you're on about anyway, you're a weird one.

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

I'm on about footy

In 2023 Pies, Lions, Porf, GWS, Dreamons and STK played finals and Crom should have. Cats, Bummers, Tuggers and Failmantle missed finals and Swines should have. Worst Coast won the spoon and lolnorf, Horf and GCS rounded out the bottom 4

Do you really think the above is going to change radically in season 2024? Because it's not

 

[NetworkNerd]

No chance blues miss the 8

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

They missed it 9 seasons out of the last 10 and only made it last year by 1 game + 3%

 

[V23]

They missed it 9 seasons out of the last 10 and only made it last year by 1 game + 3%

And yet we’re still living in your head #rentfree

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Who doesn’t love a good joke

You’re certainly not living in the 8

 

[Coach_Required]

I've always gone by the theory that if you were a top team the year before then preseason doesn't really mean much. However, if you are one of the bottom teams or out of the 8 then preseason means a bit more so if your getting belted in the preseason and you struggled the year before the signs aren't good.

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Correct, anyone who missed finals or made finals for the first time in a decade has a lot to prove and should be fired up and not losing by 5+ goals

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Again a couple of ?s here but overall in line with the preseason game results

Supporters of minnow clubs would be well advised to follow the advice in the left column to avoid disappointment