Prediction Round 4, 2026: Changes vs Sydney

[FootyOutlier]

I'm not liking the disrespect on my sponsor Owies.

Hope he outmarks Cripps and kicks 4

 

[Boohemian]

The 2026 season has seen the Dev, Kelly and Allan haters eating humble pie so far.

Maybe the Matt Owies haters will be grabbing a plate next?

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

The 2026 season has seen the Dev, Kelly and Allan haters eating humble pie so far.

Maybe the Matt Owies haters will be grabbing a plate next?

I would love that. I doubt it, but would certainly improve our stocks in a weak area.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Absolute dogs**t.
They are legit trolling us with Owies as the face of the team selection.
What sort of form has he brought in from the WAFL.
Anyways, did we really need both Champion and him???
A defender and 2 forwards in for 2 mids & 1 forward. Makes complete sense...

 

[Avalor]

Absolute dogs**t.
They are legit trolling us with Owies as the face of the team selection.
What sort of form has he brought in from the WAFL.
Anyways, did we really need both Champion and him???
A defender and 2 forwards in for 2 mids & 1 forward. Makes complete sense...

yEP, NOT HAPPY WITH OWIES BEING IN. iF HEWETT is good enough to be emergency, then he is fit enough to be on the bench.

 

[FKASC]

Goaties

 

[Dark Sharks]

Owies is legit going to ruin everything.


I don't mean to rude but that bloke has no business being on an AFL list let alone in our starting team this week.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

'friggin Owies, surely we have someone better to bring in.

 

[Cuzz09]

Unsure what he needs redemption from? Been solid last 2 rounds.
But kicking 6 sounds good!

Think we'll get our party balloons popped on Saturday, but if we scrape a win, holey-moley.

Redemption from the hits he takes from this forum really

 

[jdisc]

Owies is legit going to ruin everything.

ruin everything for the Swans you mean

 

[Barrybran]

I'm happy to give Owies another chance, he's a confidence player and usually plays well when the team is up.

 

[stallon]

So our team looks something like:
Defenders: Young, Brock, Ginbey, Hough, Duggan, Lindsay, Baker(def/mid) (7)
Mids: Harley, Graham, Kelly, McCarthy, Allan(wing/mid/def) (5)
Wings: Duursma, Davis (2)
Ruck: Flynn, CDT (2)
Waterman, Shanahan, Archer, Owies, Cripps, Champion, Schoenberg(fwd/mid) (7)

Harley, Graham and Kelly to do the biggest share of CBAs, McCarthy and Allan/Baker/Schoenberg to fill in.
Schoenberg probably a small % of midfield minutes
Allan probably does a bit of wing to cover for Duursma/Davis to have a rest and defence too letting Baker move around a little bit?
I hope Allan or Duursma get bigger CBA minutes but I suspect they wont get a huge amount if any.

 

[Barrybran]

Maybe Owies is in for Hurn as the runner?

 

[Keys]

Preview thread is up - it’s a good one

Carry on discussion there

Game Day Post in thread 'Round 4, 2026: West Coast vs Sydney'

Apr 2, 2026

Could be one of the last times we see the Crips v the Bloods

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[Keys]

Average age and experience for selected R4 sides per Footywire, from oldest to youngest:

28yr 3mth - Collingwood (142.5 games)

26yr 11mth - Sydney (124.4 games)
26yr 10mth - Brisbane (119.0 games)
26yr 5mth - Melbourne (113.7 games)
26yr 0mth - Adelaide (94.4 games)

25yr 11mth - North (110.6 games)
25yr 10mth - Carlton (107.6 games)
25yr 6mth - Fremantle (94.7 games)
25yr 4mth - Bulldogs (86.8 games)
25yr 2mth - Essendon (84.0 games)
25yr 1mth - Port (80.9 games)
25yr 0mth - Gold Coast (95.1 games)

24yr 10mth - Richmond (76.0 games)
24yr 5mth - West Coast (68.8 games)

TBA - Hawthorn and Geelong

With Yeo coming out of the side, we’re back to being the youngest team this week

Collingwood losing Pendlebury dropped their average age by almost a full year and their average age by 28 - yet they’re still comfortably the oldest and most experienced side

Melbourne are pretty old/experienced for a side some commentators are saying are in a rebuild

And as a direct comparison to Sydney we have 12 players with less than 50 games experience to their 4