2014 AFL Ladder Predictions

[BananaOnTheRun]

don't forget the new rules where the teams are split into three groups of six from the last ladder. North and gold coast will jump up the ladder a bit.

 

[DOCKER MAN]

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

 

[Stazzaz]

It definitely won't end up like this, but I'd be smiling on September 1, 2014 if...

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

Who am I to judge we need a lot of changes a lot changed last year to this year A lot can happen in 12 months

 

[schnoods]

1. Sydney
2. Fremantle
3. North Melbourne
4. Hawthorn
5. Geelong
6. Collingwood
7. Richmond
8. Carlton

9. West Coast
10. Port Adelaide
11. Goldcoast
12. Adelaide
13. Bulldogs
14. Essendon
15. Brisbane
16. Melbourne
17 St Kilda
18 GWS

 

[Righteo]

coulda jnr's first poll, they grow up so fast

 

[Stazzaz]

Just thought I'd let you guys know when the fixtures are released.
Here: October 31st
Then we can step it up a little with these AFL 2014 Toyota Season Ladder Predictions.

 

[Stazzaz]

What does it mean,
2012/13 Buddy of #33 Cam Sutcliffe. 2013 Grand Finalist
I've seen a lot of those around but with different players are you actually friends in real life or what someone inform me please

 

[Alfonz]

1. Sydney
2. Fremantle
3. Hawthorn
4. Essendon
5. Geelong
6. North Melbourne
7. West Coast
8. Richmond

9. Adelaide
10. Port Adelaide
11. Collingwood
12. Gold Coast
13. Carlton
14. Bulldogs
15. Brisbane
16. Melbourne
17 St Kilda
18 GWS

 

[pavsbootlace]

Not enough love for Gold Coast in this thread.

 

[Stazzaz]

As you can see I figured out how to do the thing under the post see...
LET"S GO FREO!!!

 

[Grape Bear]

Fremantle top 4. (hopefully)
Other top 4 - Hawthorn, Sydney, maybe Richmond or Collingwood.
Geelong to slide.
Gold Coast, North to make the 8.

Can't pick a premiere... praying we make the GF, but it smells like Sydney and Hawthorn this year. Bloody COLA money...

 

[Stazzaz]

1. Sydney
2. Fremantle
3. Hawthorn
4. Essendon
5. Geelong
6. North Melbourne
7. West Coast
8. Richmond

9. Adelaide
10. Port Adelaide
11. Collingwood
12. Gold Coast
13. Carlton
14. Bulldogs
15. Brisbane
16. Melbourne
17 St Kilda
18 GWS

Nice but I thought Freo and WCE were rivals why did you put them in the top eight?

 

[Tazmania]

What does it mean,
2012/13 Buddy of #33 Cam Sutcliffe. 2013 Grand Finalist
I've seen a lot of those around but with different players are you actually friends in real life or what someone inform me please

I f you're assigned you have to stalk them until they accept you as a friend

 

[manpurple]

1. Hawthorn
2. Freo
3. Sydney
4. Richmond
5. Port Adelaide
6. Geelong
7. North Melbourne
8. Essendon

9. Collingwood
10. Carlton
11. West Coast
12. Gold Coast
13. Adelaide
14. Western Bulldogs
15. Brisbane
16. St Kilda
17. GWS
18. Melbourne

Grr. The stupid rule about teams playing with the teams in ttheir "6 group". Means that teams like Richmond should win most of their double up's where as Carlton who made the top 6 are going to get done by Geelong and the Hawks.

 

[Stazzaz]

1. Hawthorn
2. Freo
3. Sydney
4. Richmond
5. Port Adelaide
6. Geelong
7. North Melbourne
8. Essendon

9. Collingwood
10. Carlton
11. West Coast
12. Gold Coast
13. Adelaide
14. Western Bulldogs
15. Brisbane
16. St Kilda
17. GWS
18. Melbourne

Grr. The stupid rule about teams playing with the teams in ttheir "6 group". Means that teams like Richmond should win most of their double up's where as Carlton who made the top 6 are going to get done by Geelong and the Hawks.

There has been a lot of talk about 6 group stuff can you just clarify this for me please?

 

[TweeBeard]

1. Freo
2. Sydney
3. Hawthorn
4. Richmond
5. Geelong
6. Port Adelaide
7. Adelaide
8. Essendon

9. Collingwood
10. Gold Coast
11. North Melbourne
12. Carlton
13. West Coast
14. Brisbane
15. Western Bulldogs
16. Melbourne
17. GWS
18. Saint Kilda

Obvious bias with Freo at the top, but who says one can't live in hope

 

[pavsbootlace]

There has been a lot of talk about 6 group stuff can you just clarify this for me please?

There are 22 rounds in the home and away season but only 18 teams, therefore you play 5 teams twice. As of next year the AFL is trying to make it more even by scheduling 3 of those 5 "Double up games" against teams that finished near you on the ladder in the previous year. Teams finishing in the top 6 will play 3 of their 5 double up games against other top 6 sides. Same goes for "middle 6 teams" and "bottom 6" teams.

The final ladder position is determined AFTER the finals so Carlton and POrt finished top 6 but Richmond and Collingwood finished middle 6.

Does that make sense?

The structure for the Toyota AFL Finals Series remains unchanged from the current top eight format.

Separately, Mr Lethlean said the AFL Commission had also approved a more formalised ‘weighted’ rule to govern the five double match-ups for each club as part of the premiership season.

In the construction of each year’s fixture, the final ladder will be grouped into the top six teams, middle six teams and bottom six teams with regard to better managing the equality of double match-ups for all clubs the following season.

· Sides ranked 1-6 on the ladder will have a minimum of two double-meetings with other top six sides and a maximum of three meetings with sides ranked 1-6. They will have a minimum of one double-meeting of sides ranked 7-12 and a maximum of two double-meetings of sides in the 7-12 range. They will have either no double meetings or a maximum of one double meeting with a side ranked 13-18.

· Sides ranked 7-12 on the ladder will have a minimum of one double-meeting with sides ranked 1-6 on the ladder and a maximum of two meetings with sides ranked 1-6. They will have a minimum of two double-meetings of sides ranked 7-12 and a maximum of three double-meetings of sides 7-12. They will have a minimum of one double-meeting of sides ranked 13-18 and a maximum of two double-meetings of sides ranked 13-18.

· Sides ranked 13-18 on the ladder will have either no double meeting or a maximum of one double meeting with a side ranked 1-6. They will have a minimum of one double-meeting with sides ranked 7-12 and a maximum of two double-meetings of sides ranked 7-12. They will have a minimum of two double-meetings of sides ranked 13-18 and a maximum of three double-meetings of sides 13-18.

“The weighting of second-time match ups for clubs enables the AFL to better deal with the key requirement of equality, as well as continuing to ensure that our venue obligations and our broadcast obligations can be met,” Mr Lethlean said.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-08-28/full-statement-from-the-afl

 

[Randomizor]

Wouldn't it be awesome if:

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

Not one Melbourne team in the finals, would the AFL implode?

 

[Stazzaz]

Wouldn't it be awesome if:

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

Not one Melbourne team in the finals, would the AFL implode?

Wouldn't that be great...

 

[teamex]

1 Sydney
2 Hawthorn
3 Fremantle
4 Richmond
5 Port Adelaide
6 Essendon
7 Geelong
8 Collingwood

9 Carlton
10 North Melbourne
11 West Coast
12 Gold Coast
13 Adelaide
14 Brisbane
15 Western Bulldogs
16 GWS
17 Melbourne
18 St Kilda

While I don't think the Buddy coup will win them a flag (in fact i think in the long term it will fail spectacularly) if they can keep a few on the park sydney will be hard to beat. Hawks Probably haven't lost more than any more than they've added so far this post season. So I see us hangin around about the mark. From there it's very tough to pick indeed. People aren't rating essendon much and it's obviously not hard to see why. But there were times this year they were very hard to beat and if not for the AFL they would have played finals. I also saw Port's season as very similar to our 2012. it's not to see them continuing to rise slightly. Geelong and Collingwood being the next two logical teams to make it. Geelong probably still good enough to get there which leaves collingwood's spot sort of up for grabs

 

[DCFCFAN84]

1. Hawthorn
2. Fremantle
3. Sydney
4. North Melbourne
5. Essendon
6. Geelong
7. Carlton
8. Adelaide

9. Richmond
10. Collingwood
11. Port Adelaide
12. Gold Coast
13. West Coast
14. Brisbane Lions
15. Western Bulldogs
16. Melbourne
17. St Kilda
18. GWS

 

[ep2018]

Nice but I thought Freo and WCE were rivals why did you put them in the top eight?

You guys are cute!

 

[rgauci]

I posted this in another thread on the main board but it applies here too:

1. Sydney - Their big gamble may cost us our first flag, Buddy inclusion is massive, a better run with injuries will see them dominate the season
2. Fremantle - The bookends don't matter, we won without them, our midfield has been strengthened further
3. Richmond - Ridiculous list, talent on every line and finally figured out that Maric can't do it alone. Hampson will be a threat inside 50 and also on ball.
4. Hawthorn - too much midfield depth and talent to slide any further, will be a massive chance from 4th for the flag. Guerra, Buddy and Bailey (1st --> 4th)
5. West Coast - finishing bottom 6 will give them a dream draw, chances rest on the fitness of Naitanui, turns a vanilla midfield into a dynamic onball division.
6. Gold Coast - Will add Jack Martin to perhaps the greatest midfield ever assembled. In 3 years no-one will be able to touch them.
7. Carlton - Will depend on Malthouse coming to terms with his outdated gameplan
8. Adelaide - They are better than where they finished this year
9. Essendon - Overhyped, fall from grace every 2nd half of the year whether on drugs (2012), or accused of it (2013).
10. Collingwood - Buckley's just not that good a coach. Can't lose Daisy and H.Shaw and expect to rise.
11. Geelong - Finally (surely). Corey, Chapman, Hunt, Podsiadly this year. Scarlett, Ling, Mooney, GAblett, Rooke, Byrnes, Egan, Ottens, Mumford in the last few. Surely it has to end.
12. Melbourne - dead cat bounce
13. North - As more teams turn to a pressure game, their free wheeling game plan will fall apart. Scott first coach sacked in 2014.
14. Port - Unlucky, injuries.
15. Western Bulldogs - Unlucky, injuries.
16. Brisbane - Just too much talent walking out the door.
17. GWS - Too young
18. Saints - Too crap

 

[VolgaBoatman]

Top 8 - Fremantle, Sydney, Hawthorn, Richmond, Essendon, Adelaide, North Melbourne, Geelong
9-13 - Gold Coast, Collingwood, Port Adelaide, Carlton, West Coast
14-18 - Brisbane, Western Bulldogs, GWS, St Kilda, Melbourne,

 

[Stazzaz]

What do you mean you filthy West Coast Weasle supporter why are you even here GTFO