2010 Ladder Predictions

[SM]

1. Collingwood
2. Western Bulldogs
3. St Kilda
4. Hawthorn
5. Adelaide
6. Sydney
7. Essendon
8. Brisbane
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9. West Coast
10. Carlton
11. North Melbourne
12. Geelong
13. Melbourne
14. Fremantle
15. Port Adelaide
16. Richmond

Melbourne to improve, Sydney to get back up to Finals as guys like White, Hannebery, Veszpremi, Smith, Jack, Bird, Meredith and Thornton get consistent footy into them, Geelong to miss Finals in a big slide a la Hawthorn of this year, West Coast to be pushing for Finals again, and Carlton to dissapoint fans by missing Finals.

Richmond and Port will have big list turn overs this year I suspect and will suffer because of it. Freo's players will begin getting on the park consistently and will win 6-7 games, but it'll be another year before they can truly be competitive.

 

[Bombers1234]

Collingwood - Very good backline if Presti plays on and if Rocca or JA play consistent footy next year, they will be hard to beat.

Port Adelaide - I just look at their list and see so much talent, I think they severley under performed this year and will bounce back next year.

Brisbane - Improving list and will give the likes of Brown, Bradshaw, Black and Power will give want to give the flag one last crack before they allow the younger players to take their spots.

St Kilda - Still a great side but winning 09 flag will diminish their hunger a bit

Hawks - Will improve, but i think the best years to come will be post '10

Bulldogs - If they can get two big fowards in the side then they might climb into top 4, but I don't like their fowardline

Carlton - Still young and developing but enough talent to make finals

Essendon - See Carlton


Geelong - Once a great team on the slide

Adelaide - Still rely on Goodwin, Edwards, McLeod, Burton and not sure about the depth

Sydney - Pure grit and determination will see them win a few games while they get games into their youngesters

Fremantle - Really hope their youngsters come on, good young midfield but i hope they recruit some good KPP talent to compliment the likes of Suban, Hill, Palmer

North Melbourne - New coach will need time to stamp his authority on the club

West Coast - I think my hatred of the club sways my opinion, but in all honesty, they are very young and have hardly any decent players in the 24-28 age bracket so best years are still to come.

Melbourne - Unproven kids but most likely will be top 8 in 2012-13

Richmond - I reckon Hardwick will clear out alot of players, which is big step backwards because they have been rebuilding for 5 years and dont think they need to start again.

 

[AG]

Port Adelaide second.

 

[hougie]

Adelaide
St.Kilda
Port Adelaide
Carlton
Geelong
Hawthorn
North Melbourne
Collingwood

Sydney
Richmond
Western Bulldogs
Fremantle
Brisbane
Melbourne
West Coast
Essendon


Kick up a stink if you want, but you all know I've got NFI.

 

[Bosk]

Hawthorn
Geelong
Collingwood
St.Kilda
Adelaide
Western Bulldogs
Carlton
Port Adelaide

Essendon
West Coast
Brisbane
Sydney
North Melbourne
Melbourne
Fremantle
Richmond

 

[Tassie Bulldog]

Top 7 this year are miles in front of the rest but one of them is bound to get ravaged by injuries ala Hawks this year so reckon 6 of this 7 are certainties

St Kilda, Geelong, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton

remaining 2 spots to come from

Essendon, Hawthorn, WCE, Freo

Going to back both Power and Kangaroos for spoon

1. Adelaide
2. St Kilda
3. Collingwood
4. Geelong
5. Bulldogs
6. Brisbane
7. Hawthorn
8. Essendon
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9. Carlton
10. WCE
11. Fremantle
12. Richmond
13. Sydney
14. Melbourne
15. Port Power
16. North Melbourne

 

[Bomber32]

St.Kilda
Western Bulldogs
Collingwood
Geelong
Adelaide
Hawthorn
Essendon
Brisbane
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Carlton
Sydney
West Coast
Port Adelaide
North Melbourne
Fremantle
Melbourne
Richmond

 

[pjcrows]

Adelaide - Still rely on Goodwin, Edwards, McLeod, Burton and not sure about the depth

Everyone can have their opinion... but...

 

[SM]

Bird = Quality player who will be better for this year.
Hannebury = Looks at ease with the game at the elite level. Future star.
White = Will be a very important KPP in the front half.
Vezpremi = Lost to 2009 through injury
Thornton = Very controlled. Great decision maker.
Orreal = Yet to debut but looking the goods.

You're the idiot who thinks White is shit, just because he did well in the Reserves? And you think Orreal will do well?

 

[magic_johnson!]

loss of Ablett to the Gold Coast combined with the mental scars from the 200 point grand final defeat mean we should expect a huge drop in form.

Not sure about Ablett dropping down and spending a year in the vfl

 

[SirJimi05]

1. Adelaide
2. Collingwood
3. Brisbane
4. St Kilda
5. West Coast
6. Essendon
7. Western Bulldogs
8. North Melbourne

9. Geelong
10. Carlton
11. Hawthorn
12. Fremantle
13. Sydney
14. Port Adelaide
15. Richmond
16. Melbourne

 

[Dalzielling]

Pending results of finals, however...

1. Collingwood
2. St Kilda
3. Carlton
4. Adelaide
5. Hawthorn
6. Brisbane
7. Geelong
8. Western Bulldogs
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9. West Coast
10. Richmond
11. Essendon
12. Sydney
13. Melbourne
14. Fremantle
15. North Melbourne
16. Port Adelaide

I see it playing out similiar to this year some-what - Collingwood and Saints as tear-away leaders, 3-6 to all be bundled closely together, same with 7-9, with the rest falling behind. Also tipping Geelong and Bulldogs to begin to fall, West Coast to rise, Hawthorn to bounce back, and Hardwick to toughen up Richmond's list and get far better results than expected.

 

[jonoman89]

Cant help but laugh at how stupid some of these predictions are. Sydney in the top 8. Right.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Cant help but laugh at how stupid some of these predictions are. Sydney in the top 8. Right.

The best ones were Essendon for the spoon and Port to finish top 2.

 

[hougie]

The best ones were Essendon for the spoon and Port to finish top 2.

Suck it up chief, ladders are unpredictable. Less sense it makes the closer you'll be.

 

[Jilly]

Adelaide - Still rely on Goodwin, Edwards, McLeod, Burton and not sure about the depth.

I actually feel sorry for McLeod, Edwards, Goodwin and Burton. They have a couple of bad games and people say they should retire. Then they start playing well and people say we rely on them too much. Make up your mind!!

Btw, we hardly rely on them. Have you seen a crows game aside from round 11 this year?

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Suck it up chief, ladders are unpredictable. Less sense it makes the closer you'll be.

Can you logically justify either of those?

 

[hcd199]

1 Adelaide
2 Collingwood
3 W/Bulldogs
4 St. Kilda
5 Hawthorn
6 Brisbane Lions
7 Geelong
8 Essendon
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9 Carlton
10 North Melbourne
11 West Coast
12 Fremantle
13 Sydney
14 Port Adelaide
15 Melbourne
16 Richmond

Have to say it is a little similar to this year's, but I can't think of much else to do. Adelaide will have their old leaders finishing their careers in 2010 just as the younger group hit form - the perfect year for them to seize the premiership.

 

[Meow]

1. Western Bulldogs
2. Collingwood
3. Geelong
4. Adelaide
5. St. Kilda
6. Hawthorn
7. Brisbane Lions
8. Carlton
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9. Essendon
10. Port Adelaide
11. North Melbourne
12. West Coast
13. Sydney
14. Melbourne
15. Fremantle
16. Richmond

Premiers: Western Bulldogs
Runners-Up: Collingwood
Brownlow Medal: Joel Selwood

 

[StonesThrow]

I could hazard a guess at the top 4 and bottom 4 in no particular order. As for the rest I have no idea.

Top 4:
Collingwood
St Kilda
Geelong
Adelaide

Bottom 4: (the usuals)
Richmond
Fremantle
Melbourne
North Melbourne

 

[TheBrownlowMan37]

Cant help but laugh at how stupid some of these predictions are. Sydney in the top 8. Right.

Got the winning lotto numbers by any chance?

 

[TheBrownlowMan37]

Can you logically justify either of those?

When does logic come into ladder predicitons? If you get half the teams in the correct position you're doing very well.

 

[StonesThrow]

Just have a gander at this thread to see what a massive load of toss ladder predictions are.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=483261

Lol at all of the Richmond predictions. Had most of the football world fooled. Trying to dig up my post but I remember not rating them very highly.

Other big f*** ups were Collingwood too low and Adelaide in alot of peoples bottom 8.

 

[Doggies_2008]

1. Western Bulldogs
2. Collingwood
3. Geelong
4. Adelaide Crows
5. Hawthorn
6. St.Kilda
7. Carlton
8. West Coast/ Essendon

 

[hougie]

Can you logically justify either of those?

When does logic come into ladder predicitons?

Ta da.

Settle down, I'm not going to sit here and mount a case for your mob coming last. In fact when I composed the ladder I made choices that I found intuitively wrong just because they felt intuitively wrong. It happens.