Preview The race to 15 wins, and is 15 wins enough.

[The Round House Drunk]

Who do you have missing the 8?

Hawthorn.

They have Crows, Pies, Dees and Lions. (Only favourite in one of those)

GWS have Roos, Suns and Saints. (They are favourite in two)

 

[Dirty_banchez]

It's going to be a close game tonight. The Hawks can upset Adelaide.

 

[GingerDocker]

It's going to be a close game tonight. The Hawks can upset Adelaide.

I will lose my shit if they do.

 

[fleur]

Fun fact:

We are only half a game better off that we were this time last season (13-6, compared to 12-1-6).

We all recall what happened next.

This time at least we’re getting key players back, instead of losing them, and have a fit and firing OMac

 

[freoextra]

i like our odds against the dogs actually. pearce is one of the few defenders with the height to compete with darcy. in person hes clearly bigger than darcy. whos 203cm.
I think the defenders who match up well on naughton is someone like cox.

Yes Pearce is definitely the only one in the backline that can reasonably compete but he was given a bath by Darcy last game. Darcy is class and it is not helping that the umpires are on red alert for any touch against him. Bloody wish that had applied to Sandi.

 

[mattis117]

We need the hawks to get smashed. Just can't have them winning any of those three. Take the anxiety out of it for us Hawks.

 

[wakojako]

i like our odds against the dogs actually. pearce is one of the few defenders with the height to compete with darcy. in person hes clearly bigger than darcy. whos 203cm.
I think the defenders who match up well on naughton is someone like cox.

Darcy is 208 cm which is why he is a freak. Pearce is 201 cm.

 

[Paracleet]

We need the hawks to get smashed. Just can't have them winning any of those three. Take the anxiety out of it for us Hawks.

I mean this applies in any season at any point I'd have thought.

 

[go_the_dockers]

Here is the ladder if all top 9 vs bottom 9 games are won by the top sides.

Found it interesting, so thought I would share. Bulldogs need to win their remaining games to get to 15.
Hawks need to win one of their game's vs top 9 sides to get 15.
GWS who are struggling, just need to win vs the bottom 9 sides.

Pos	Team	W	L	%	Remaining Games vs Top 9	Projected Wins
1	Adelaide	18	5	146.8	0	18
2	Collingwood	16	4	135.9	3	17.5
3	Geelong	17	6	139.8	0	17.0
4	Brisbane Lions	14	5	113.4	4	16.0
5	Fremantle	15	6	116.6	2	16.0
6	Gold Coast	16	6	126.0	1	16.5
7	Hawthorn	14	8	118.7	2	15.0
8	GWS	15	7	114.9	1	15.5
9	Western Bulldogs	14	8	139.7	1	14.5

Round 21​

• Western Bulldogs vs GWS Giants – Thu 31 Jul, Marvel Stadium (Bulldogs)
• Adelaide Crows vs Hawthorn Hawks – Fri 1 Aug, Adelaide Oval (Crows)
• Collingwood Magpies vs Brisbane Lions – Sat 2 Aug, MCG

Round 22

• Hawthorn Hawks vs Collingwood Magpies – Thu 7 Aug, MCG

Round 23

• Fremantle Dockers vs Brisbane Lions – Friday, August 15 at Optus Stadium
• Gold Coast Suns vs GWS Giants – Saturday, August 16 at People First Stadium
• Adelaide Crows vs Collingwood Magpies – Sat 16 Aug, Adelaide Oval

Round 24

• Brisbane Lions vs Hawthorn Hawks – Likely Fri 22 Aug, Gabba
• Western Bulldogs vs Fremantle Dockers – Likely Sun 24 Aug, Marvel Stadium

 

[Vintage]

We’ll probably fly home right after the port game – I think that’s what we normally do – but yeah it will be tough. The lions will have had a six day break before us, but will travel to our game and will have had a tough run of playing the pies and then the swans before us, so hopefully they’re a bit bashed up.

Port game starts at 7.40pm, can’t see us flying out at 1am to get home that night.

 

[fleur]

Port game starts at 7.40pm, can’t see us flying out at 1am to get home that night.

It’s like a two hour trip. They don’t stay overnight with night games in Melbourne so I dont see why they’d do it with sadelaide

 

[go_the_dockers]

Port game starts at 7.40pm, can’t see us flying out at 1am to get home that night.

Adelaide airport has a curfew.

We can't fly out

 

[fleur]

Adelaide airport has a curfew.

We can't fly out

Well that’d do it

 

[Dirty_banchez]

Adelaide airport has a curfew.

We can't fly out

You're not a real city if your main airport has a curfew.

 

[dropbear101]

Darcy is 208 cm which is why he is a freak. Pearce is 201 cm.

listed at 201cm. our darcy is 203cm. i reckon in person, pearce looks as tall as him. perhaps bigger.

 

[yakamoto]

Draper was switched oo to Darcy in the early season game and did pretty well. Managed to spoil well. Darcy kicked a couple on him marking on the lead but none marking close to goal.

 

[pK75]

listed at 201cm. our darcy is 203cm. i reckon in person, pearce looks as tall as him. perhaps bigger.

 

[noise36]

Does no one remember what happened last year? Seems to be a lot of confidence that we wont shit the bed on the run home.

 

[s_wd6]

Does no one remember what happened last year? Seems to be a lot of confidence that we wont shit the bed on the run home.

3 top 4 teams last year though

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

3 top 4 teams last year though

With half our spine missong. Im nervous but still confident

 

[RonnieRaven]

Does no one remember what happened last year? Seems to be a lot of confidence that we wont shit the bed on the run home.

We also couldn’t win in the wet or win close games last year

 

[s_wd6]

With half our spine missong. Im nervous but still confident

To be fair though we had 9th placed Essendon at this time last year where both Treacy and Darcy went down...

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

To be fair though we had 9th placed Essendon at this time last year where both Treacy and Darcy went down...

 

[Purpletown]

We also couldn’t win in the wet or win close games last year

And we were notorious for our slow starts to games in 2024 too. We have definitely addressed a few areas of weaknesses this season and have much better player availability as well. We are not perfect but are a better side in a lot of ways in 2025.

 

[fleur]

We also didn’t have Murphy, Pat in his current equine form and OMac