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Eagles getting a football lesson on the road. Reverting back to their flat track bully status.
Once again, major cracks beginning to show in the beaten grand final side. I don't know why, but that has become somewhat of a routine in recent years when a team loses the grand final badly. Someone posted a full history not too long ago (in the ladder prediction thread I think).
 
Once again, major cracks beginning to show in the beaten grand final side. I don't know why, but that has become somewhat of a routine in recent years when a team loses the grand final badly. Someone posted a full history not too long ago (in the ladder prediction thread I think).
2015 we didn't have a great season, sort of what could go wrong went wrong. Even the same in 2013 after we won it.
 

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My ladder predictor has them locked into ninth place, several matches behind eighth and several matches ahead of tenth.
On current form that seems about right. I'm really keen to see how we go against some top eight sides though (and even the Saints next week - they've looked alright at times).
Long season though, we can still find a way to dig a hole for ourselves.
 
Round 5, 2016

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Hawthorn are winning all the close games, just like they lost them last year. Karma! This doesn't mean much to the squiggle, though, since a close game is a close game, no matter who won. But it does a lot for the Hawks' Top 2 chances in a season where it's easy to imagine a glut at the top.

Sydney and Geelong had great weeks, which squiggled them off to where most of their supporters probably thought they belonged all along. Similarly, the squiggle's faith in Port and Richmond, based on 2015 results, evaporated further. Curiously, though, Richmond is in almost exactly the same place as the same time last year. And in the weeks after that, they slid even further. So things can turn around. It was the Round 8 game vs Port Adelaide that ignited the Tigers' season, winning away 43-76, and those two play each other this week.

Also an important week for the Giants, with an away win over one of those teams the Hawks beat by 3 points, I forget which. Melbourne delivered their third 100-pt game in a row, while also executing a neat squiggle twist that looks like they're nimbly dodging around other teams' squiggles. And Carlton made Essendon look a lot more like a wooden spooner, and crossed streams with them to boot.

Ladder Predictor!

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Flagpole! It was 1-Hawks, 2-Eagles, 3-Crows before Round 1 and it's still that now, but they're a lot closer.

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Live squiggles that update during games!
 
Round 5, 2016

VMYsuuk.jpg

Animated!

JV89ZAW.gif

Hawthorn are winning all the close games, just like they lost them last year. Karma! This doesn't mean much to the squiggle, though, since a close game is a close game, no matter who won. But it does a lot for the Hawks' Top 2 chances in a season where it's easy to imagine a glut at the top.

Sydney and Geelong had great weeks, which squiggled them off to where most of their supporters probably thought they belonged all along. Similarly, the squiggle's faith in Port and Richmond, based on 2015 results, evaporated further. Curiously, though, Richmond is in almost exactly the same place as the same time last year. And in the weeks after that, they slid even further. So things can turn around. It was the Round 8 game vs Port Adelaide that ignited the Tigers' season, winning away 43-76, and those two play each other this week.

Also an important week for the Giants, with an away win over one of those teams the Hawks beat by 3 points, I forget which. Melbourne delivered their third 100-pt game in a row, while also executing a neat squiggle twist that looks like they're nimbly dodging around other teams' squiggles. And Carlton made Essendon look a lot more like a wooden spooner, and crossed streams with them to boot.

Ladder Predictor!

qXLufJA.png

Flagpole! It was 1-Hawks, 2-Eagles, 3-Crows before Round 1 and it's still that now, but they're a lot closer.

IZYaOHx.gif

Live squiggles that update during games!
After only 5 rounds I think the squiggle has nailed the top 8 with that prediction. The order will no doubt change but in a season that appeared so close it feels like there's a big drop off from 8th to 9th and beyond.

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Round 5, 2016

VMYsuuk.jpg

Animated!

JV89ZAW.gif

Hawthorn are winning all the close games, just like they lost them last year. Karma! This doesn't mean much to the squiggle, though, since a close game is a close game, no matter who won. But it does a lot for the Hawks' Top 2 chances in a season where it's easy to imagine a glut at the top.

Sydney and Geelong had great weeks, which squiggled them off to where most of their supporters probably thought they belonged all along. Similarly, the squiggle's faith in Port and Richmond, based on 2015 results, evaporated further. Curiously, though, Richmond is in almost exactly the same place as the same time last year. And in the weeks after that, they slid even further. So things can turn around. It was the Round 8 game vs Port Adelaide that ignited the Tigers' season, winning away 43-76, and those two play each other this week.

Also an important week for the Giants, with an away win over one of those teams the Hawks beat by 3 points, I forget which. Melbourne delivered their third 100-pt game in a row, while also executing a neat squiggle twist that looks like they're nimbly dodging around other teams' squiggles. And Carlton made Essendon look a lot more like a wooden spooner, and crossed streams with them to boot.

Ladder Predictor!

qXLufJA.png

Flagpole! It was 1-Hawks, 2-Eagles, 3-Crows before Round 1 and it's still that now, but they're a lot closer.

IZYaOHx.gif

Live squiggles that update during games!

Tigers in 9th.

Magnificent, absolutely magnificent!
 

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I don't like Hawks lurking around our 2009 Cup.
I'm thinking we'll really start to click into gear a couple rounds out from the bye. Also get Roughy back not long after that. Then we'll have a surge up and right. Not as great as last year, but enough to put us deep into the middle of the premiership zone again.

Of course this is based on hope. Could just as easily collapse and head off in the opposite direction. Either way it's been a great run!
 

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