Expectations for your team in 2025, do you expect your team to make the finals?

[Toump Ass]

We might fold.

And have very nice time doing so!!!

 

[Headless]

And have very nice time doing so!!!

One can only hope, Toump!

 

[BuffDog]

Ideally bottom 3 for Essendon, we lack A grade talent and need access to the genuinely elite end of the draft before Tassie come in.

 

[Orange crush]

I truly expect the giants to put on a show next season …


…. Possibly with a blow-up doll and two blokes dressed as architecture

 

[WillHayward]

I expect us to miss the 8.

Surely the other teams have figured us out by now?

Clamp down on Gulden, Warner and Heeney and it's game over. We crumble like grandma's famous apple bake.

 

[Seattle Mariners]

I expect us to miss the 8.

Surely the other teams have figured us out by now?

Clamp down on Gulden, Warner and Heeney and it's game over. We crumble like grandma's famous apple bake.

I take my hat off to posters who are pessimistic about their clubs.
Most posters around here have their head in the clouds in terms of their teams making finals.

 

[Pistol Night]

I truly expect the giants to put on a show next season …


…. Possibly with a blow-up doll and two blokes dressed as architecture

The boys got in enough shit they might as well live stream it next year

 

[Warwick]

For us, an awful lot of it is likely to come down to injuries, again. This upcoming season in particular, as we’ve lost/delisted a quarter of our list now, which means we’re likely to have less experienced depth than we’ve had in recent years. We’re going to have an awful lot of kids on the list.

So if we get a lot of injuries again (as we have the last 4 seasons- regularly missing up to 8-10 of our best 23 each season) we’re probably going to struggle, as we likely won’t have the experienced depth to cover them.

If on the other hand we finally have a decent run with injuries, we’ll definitely be aiming for finals.

Were top 6 for all bar one week of the 2023 H&A season (despite said injuries) and then this year we won 5 of our last 6 (only loss to Brisbane) and 8 of our last 12, once we were finally able to get a competitive midfield out on the park. We also started scoring consistently well during that period, which augurs well for us going forward.

So despite lots of injuries, we’ve been a top 6 side for 3/4 of the two years Lyon has been back, and with a good injury run, would be hoping to be that again in 2025. If we get hit hard by injuries again, we’ll probably be bottom 6, like we were for the first half of this year.

You should have mentioned your injuries.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

14-16 wins before falling apart in finals.

 

[juss]

Smokey for the flag I reckon

 

[Borussia Teeth]

I expect us to miss the 8.

Surely the other teams have figured us out by now?

Clamp down on Gulden, Warner and Heeney and it's game over. We crumble like grandma's famous apple bake.

Like Collingwood, teams hope to play Sydney in a grand final!

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

For us, an awful lot of it is likely to come down to injuries, again. This upcoming season in particular, as we’ve lost/delisted a quarter of our list now, which means we’re likely to have less experienced depth than we’ve had in recent years. We’re going to have an awful lot of kids on the list.

So if we get a lot of injuries again (as we have the last 4 seasons- regularly missing up to 8-10 of our best 23 each season) we’re probably going to struggle, as we likely won’t have the experienced depth to cover them.

If on the other hand we finally have a decent run with injuries, we’ll definitely be aiming for finals.

Were top 6 for all bar one week of the 2023 H&A season (despite said injuries) and then this year we won 5 of our last 6 (only loss to Brisbane) and 8 of our last 12, once we were finally able to get a competitive midfield out on the park. We also started scoring consistently well during that period, which augurs well for us going forward.

So despite lots of injuries, we’ve been a top 6 side for 3/4 of the two years Lyon has been back, and with a good injury run, would be hoping to be that again in 2025. If we get hit hard by injuries again, we’ll probably be bottom 6, like we were for the first half of this year.

I’m sorry but St Kilda simply have not been a top 6 side in the comp in 3/4 quarters of the last 2 seasons. Injuries or not.

I would have thought your chairmen’s bleating about how his club can’t compete because they don’t have enough talent and everything is so unfair would have made that plainly obvious.

 

[hawkman]

For us, an awful lot of it is likely to come down to injuries, again. This upcoming season in particular, as we’ve lost/delisted a quarter of our list now, which means we’re likely to have less experienced depth than we’ve had in recent years. We’re going to have an awful lot of kids on the list.

So if we get a lot of injuries again (as we have the last 4 seasons- regularly missing up to 8-10 of our best 23 each season) we’re probably going to struggle, as we likely won’t have the experienced depth to cover them.

If on the other hand we finally have a decent run with injuries, we’ll definitely be aiming for finals.

Were top 6 for all bar one week of the 2023 H&A season (despite said injuries) and then this year we won 5 of our last 6 (only loss to Brisbane) and 8 of our last 12, once we were finally able to get a competitive midfield out on the park. We also started scoring consistently well during that period, which augurs well for us going forward.

So despite lots of injuries, we’ve been a top 6 side for 3/4 of the two years Lyon has been back, and with a good injury run, would be hoping to be that again in 2025. If we get hit hard by injuries again, we’ll probably be bottom 6, like we were for the first half of this year.

That conveniently excludes the Saints went 6-7 over the last 13 games of 2023. You can't really state how your form was top 6 late this season while ignoring your late season form for 2023.

 

[stavro#4]

That conveniently excludes the Saints went 6-7 over the last 13 games of 2023. You can't really state how your form was top 6 late this season while ignoring your late season form for 2023.

Sure… but by your premise our poor end to 23 was followed up with a poor start to 24’

So in theory our strong finish in 24’ should be a strong start in 25’

 

[windyhill]

**** no.

 

[hawkman]

**** no.

I can see you scraping into 8th

 

[RonnieRaven]

If Darcy, Pearce and Treacy can all play 20 games for the season top 4
Otherwise second week of the finals

 

[YeoShuey]

Top 4 finish, win the Premiership. Nothing less.

 

[Saints4ever]

Anywhere from 6th to 14th realistically.
I expect to make the 8 every year.

 

[Carringbush2010]

You pricks stole our moniker.

And your zimmer frame, works good btw.

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

Even being on the pessimistic side, I don't see us finishing below Eagles or Tiges. That said, we probably sit in a mix with Suns, Dee's, Crows and Saints for the 5 positions above that pair. Though as above EFC posters have said, it's just as likely we sit inside the 8 after the bye, then fade to a 9-12 finish and another meh first round draft pick.

 

[terrybull]

Any loss under 50 points will be seen a moral victory.

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

I think for Hawthorn there will be some natural progression, however that doesn't mean we will win anymore or less games.
Teams will start to put a bit of time and effort into our game, and start tagging guys like Day and trying to stop our run and carry. As good as our forward line was last year, I feel its still very suspect. I feel we could finish anywhere from 4th-10th