Week 1 of Finals Tips and Crowd Expectations

[Bulldog Brent]

What time are they announcing the schedule?

 

[Americanpies]

West Coast
Dogs
Richmond
Geelong

Feel like 3 games may be decided by default due to available personnel.

Essendon, Collingwood, GWS all have awful injury situations to important players.. whilst their opponents West Coast, Geelong and The Dogs are all pretty much at full strength.

Richmond over Brisbane just because of finals experience. Brisbane probably need another 2 years to to have that mental toughness in big stage games.

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

West Coast
Geelong
GWS
Richmond

 

[StevenwellerHFC]

West Coast vs. Essendon - 102pts 56K

Geelong vs. Collingwood - 61pts 93K

GWS vs. Western Bulldogs - 34pts 15K

Brisbane vs. Richmond - 83pts 35K

 

[Bulldog1954]

whilst their opponents West Coast, Geelong and The Dogs are all pretty much at strength

The Dogs were without Libba, Wallis, Morris, Dickson and Daniel from the best 22 today and have had Picken and Boyd retire this year due to injury / mental health issues. Far from the worst injury list, but a fair bit from full strength.

 

[Chaisa]

Essendon, Collingwood, GWS all have awful injury situations to important players

In fairness you and GWS will get a few players back IIRC.

 

[PerthBoy86]

West Coast
Dogs
Richmond
Geelong

Feel like 3 games may be decided by default due to available personnel.

Essendon, Collingwood, GWS all have awful injury situations to important players.. whilst their opponents West Coast, Geelong and The Dogs are all pretty much at full strength.

Richmond over Brisbane just because of finals experience. Brisbane probably need another 2 years to to have that mental toughness in big stage games.

I initially thought Collingwood but now leaning towards the Catters.

 

[Chaisa]

I'll estimate scores too. Expect these to be way off.

West Coast v Essendon - 131 v 48 - 58k
Geelong v Collingwood - 65 v 79 - 84k
GWS v Western Bulldogs - 90 v 81 - 22k
Brisbane v Richmond - 89 v 86 - 40k

 

[Billy ray]

I'll estimate scores too. Expect these to be way off.

West Coast v Essendon - 131 v 48 - 58k
Geelong v Collingwood - 65 v 79 - 84k
GWS v Western Bulldogs - 90 v 81 - 22k
Brisbane v Richmond - 89 v 86 - 40k

22k at GIANTS stadium is ambitious

 

[almuz]

Eagles by 35
Pies by 10
Bulldogs by 18
Lions by 2

 

[JackFlash]

West Coast V Essendon - 40pts 58K

Geelong V Collingwood - 35pts 92K

GWS V Western Bulldogs - 16pts 15K

Brisbane V Richmond - 7pts 36k

 

[ShaunWCEFC]

Richmond have never won an away final and Brisbane have never lost at the Gabba.

 

[PCORF]

West Coast def Essendon by 62pts, 57,500
Geelong def Collingwood by 3pts, 90,000
Western Bulldogs def GWS Giants by 12pts, 13,000
Brisbane Lions def Richmond by 37pts, 38,000

 

[Goalski14]

West Coast vs. Essendon - 52 points, 58,500
Geelong vs. Collingwood - 8 points, 91,000
GWS vs. Western Bulldogs - 31 points, 15,500
Brisbane vs. Richmond - 2 points, 37,000

 

[dean33]

Collingwood
Richmond
West Coast
Bulldogs

Semis:

West Coast d. Geelong
Lions d. Bulldogs

Prelim:

West Coast d. Brisbane
Richmond d. Collingwood

West Coast Richmond GF

Think you have the prelims wrong, if Richmond win first week winner of eagles Geelong would play the tiges in one prelim while winner of lions dogs would play the pies.
Your prelims should be
Richmond v west coast
Collingwood v Brisbane

 

[Max Caddy]

West Coast V Essendon - 40

Geelong V Collingwood - 3

GWS V Western Bulldogs - 33

Brisbane V Richmond - 23

 

[PerthBoy86]

Think you have the prelims wrong, if Richmond win first week winner of eagles Geelong would play the tiges in one prelim while winner of lions dogs would play the cats.
Your prelims should be
Richmond v west coast
Collingwood v Brisbane

Okay guess I got it wrong lol

 

[PerthBoy86]

My revised predictions:

West Coast 85 d Essendon 69, 60k
Geelong 88 d Collingwood 72, 80k
GWS 54 d by WB 90, 20k
Brisbane 81 d by Richmond 93, 34k

 

[My Tilly]

West Coast Vs Essendon - 9pts 55K
Geelong Vs Collingwood - 3pts 95K
GWS Vs Western Bulldogs - 18pts 22K
Brisbane Vs Richmond - 10pts 36K

 

[Great8]

West Coast by 87
Collingwood by 5
Dogs by 41
Richmond by 23

 

[The_Big_Ship]

West Coast Vs Essendon - 8pts

Geelong Vs Collingwood - 44pts

GWS Vs Western Bulldogs - 21pts

Brisbane Vs Richmond - 60pts

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I predict Richmond to win - based on the fact we've won 13 games in a row against Brisbane and they haven't beat us at the Gabba since 2004.

When was the last time you won a final at the gabba tho?

 

[Van_Dyke]

West Coast vs Essendon 22 points (70,000)

70k in a 60k stadium?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Eagles by about 7 goals

Cats/Pies will be relatively tight all night and then one team will pull away to win by 3 or 4 goals in the last 5 minutes. I'm taking the Pussy's

Giants/Dogs is a bit of an everyone says game, this is going to be tighter than most think. * it, dogs by 5 goals

Gut feel is the Lions get up. They'll crack the damn wall at some point in the 4th quarter, anywhere from a few points to 3/4 goals

 

[MCG-Unit]

WC Eagles v Essendon
Geelong v Collingwood

GWS Giants v W Bulldogs
Brisbane Lions v Richmond