Make the 8 and anything can happen

[Pugsley]

Bottom 8!

Look pick 4 !!

I don't gamble. How about a trifrcta?

 

[NSolis]

IMO / IIRC it's more like round 12 most years - if not 100% set, very close to it.

Edit: Round 15, when everyone had played 14 games - Freo, Collingwood & Essendon were still in it. That's got to be unusual.

So after all that, it was still 13 wins to make it.

Historically it's unusual, in recent years not so much. The competition is getting more even on the whole and the relative strength of different teams in the middle of the pack is less predictable over a long season than it used to be.

 

[Coopers]

That's why we don't play finals in May.

Well, we don't play finals any month

 

[SugarShane]

13 wins and good (110) percentage.

So if we'd won five more games we would have qualified. Missed it by just that little amount.

Note that 7th was 14 wins and a big percentage so likely next year 14 wins will be the target to make the eight.

Getting to play Richmond, Norf & WC twice will be a huge advantage to us, will only need 11 more wins from 17 games, very doable, if we don't play Murphy

Will be interesting to see what we cop as double ups.

Port can't finish lower than 6th, so they're 1 top 6 double up straight away. We seem to nearly always cop Geelong too.

Bottom 6, other than us, are GC, Melb, WCE, NM, Rich. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see us get GC and Melbourne out of that lot.

The middle 6 is ripe for stitch ups too. Plenty options in there that you would expect to be pushing for top 6 (Collingwood and 2 of Bris, WB, Haw, Carl).

The way the year has shaked out, next year's fixture could look very ugly.