Realistically, where do you see us finishing this year?

[COBALT BLUE]

i see us pushing the top 8 this year...

it can happen quickly,it can also fall apart quickly.....i would rather Voss has a steady rise over a few years,we would not be ready to challenge deep into finals this year anyway

we still need more depth even in the midfield.....hopefully out development potential stock are good and or above expectations

this is a good list we have but beware injuries can eat it quick...so need to add nother 20 percent to cover the grimm

i think its a start and Carlton can go from here...Walsh signing cheap might have to set the tone to the others if we can pull something off when this thing reaches its prime in a few years cause this group could go places if together and trained hard a few seasons

 

[Accidental genius]

after wathicng our game against the dees im much more optimistic of making the 8.

 

[SOS Rules]

We'll be a strong chance to make the eight if we simply compete hard all game, most games. The little acts like Durdin's spoil on Lever create opportunities that would not exist if someone does not at least try to compete. It's a great example of the influence you can have by having a go. We undoubtedly have talent. If we couple that with team effort and have some luck with injuries we'll go places. We can't underestimate what influence winning the first few games will have on our psyche. It will be absolute vindication for a hard slog pre season and the coaching panel's game plan and will install great belief. We've recruited astutely over the last few years and Luke Power

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's work should not be underestimated. I'm quietly confident we'll be happy with what we see this year. Bring it on.

 

[OldFarmer]

I have us finishing anywhere from 4th to 10th depending on injuries. Our best football has us close to Top 4

 

[TheCoach16]

Top four with a leg in the air.
There’s no stopping us this year.

 

[Bletch]

If what we've shown in the pre-season matches is anything to go by, we shouldn't be putting a ceiling on 2022. Having just beaten the reigning premiers, with a commanding display in the midfield, we should have every reason to expect playing finals. And once there, anything's possible. No reason we couldn't go all the way.

On the other hand, we are very vulnerable in the key forward and defensive posts. With Jones gone, a lot falls upon Weitering. And at the other end, we really don't have a lot of backup for McKay and Curnow. We saw at the end of last year, just how bad this could be - for instance the North game, when McKay was out, got smashed by the spooners. While we're up and about at the moment, a reality check early in the season might burst that bubble, and see us fall away quickly.

More likely though, we'll be somewhere in the middle, perhaps winning a game or two more than we did last year, and pressing for a spot in the 8.

Having said all of that, and pondering the question in this thread for some time, I'm now ready to make my prediction. I feel with absolute certainty that we'll finish somewhere in the range 1 to 18.

 

[lukep_86]

There's a lot of factors that will influence where we finish this year, including how long it takes the players to pick up Voss and the other coach's changes, how much other times improve, how the impact of losing Jones impacts us, and of course how kind a run of injuries is.

I have us finishing anywhere from 7th to 10th.

 

[Robertio]

Think we should aim for 12 plus wins and see where that takes us.

 

[JuddgementDay]

I've voted for 7-8; but, I think we can finish from anywhere 6-9.

Let's just go through the fixture
IMO realistically, I'm breaking down as follow - but, this is all subjective...

Contending with:

• Essendon
• Fremantle
• GWS
• Geelong
• Richmond
• St Kilda
• Sydney

Below us:

• Adelaide
• Collingwood
• Gold Coast
• Hawthorn
• North
• West Coast (massive injuries)

Above us:

• Brisbane
• Melbourne
• Port Adelaide
• WBD

Going quickly through the fixtures above.

Assuming we lose to the top 4 teams, beat all the teams we should beat and half the matches with teams contending with us, we are looking at 13 wins!!!

Of course the season would work out this way. That's realistic right?
We have an easy draw this year.
Give and take on 13, so 11-14 wins is doable.

Finals bound for 2022 - bring it on

Fixture	Win	Loss	Maybe
Round 1: Richmond at the MCG (home), Thursday March 17 at 7:25pm			1​
Round 2: Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium, Thursday March 24 at 7:20pm		1​
Round 3: Hawthorn at the MCG (home), Sunday April 3 at 1:10pm	1​
Round 4: Gold Coast Suns at Metricon Stadium, Sunday April 10 at 4:10pm	1​
Round 5: Port Adelaide at the MCG, Sunday April 17 at 1:40pm		1​
Round 6: Fremantle at Optus Stadium, Saturday April 23 at 7:40pm			1​
Round 7: North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium (home), Saturday April 30 at 7:25pm	1​
Round 8: Adelaide Crows at Marvel Stadium, Sunday May 8 at 4:40pm	1​
Round 9: GWS Giants at Giants Stadium, Sunday May 15 at 3:20pm			1​
Round 10: Sydney Swans at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 11: Collingwood at the MCG	1​
Round 12: BYE
Round 13: Essendon at the MCG			1​
Round 14: Richmond at the MCG			1​
Round 15: Fremantle at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 16: St Kilda at Marvel Stadium (home)			1​
Round 17: West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium	1​
Round 18: Geelong Cats at the MCG (home)			1​
Round 19: GWS Giants at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 20: Adelaide Crows at Adelaide Oval	1​
Round 21: Brisbane Lions at the Gabba		1​
Round 22: Melbourne at the MCG		1​
Round 23: Collingwood at the MCG (home)	1​
	8​	4​	10​

 

[Accidental genius]

I've voted for 7-8; but, I think we can finish from anywhere 6-9.

Let's just go through the fixture
IMO realistically, I'm breaking down as follow - but, this is all subjective...

Contending with:

• Essendon
• Fremantle
• GWS
• Geelong
• Richmond
• St Kilda
• Sydney

Below us:

• Adelaide
• Collingwood
• Gold Coast
• Hawthorn
• North
• West Coast (massive injuries)

Above us:

• Brisbane
• Melbourne
• Port Adelaide
• WBD

Going quickly through the fixtures above.

Assuming we lose to the top 4 teams, beat all the teams we should beat and half the matches with teams contending with us, we are looking at 13 wins!!!

Of course the season would work out this way. That's realistic right?
We have an easy draw this year.
Give and take on 13, so 11-14 wins is doable.

Finals bound for 2022 - bring it on

Fixture	Win	Loss	Maybe
Round 1: Richmond at the MCG (home), Thursday March 17 at 7:25pm			1​
Round 2: Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium, Thursday March 24 at 7:20pm		1​
Round 3: Hawthorn at the MCG (home), Sunday April 3 at 1:10pm	1​
Round 4: Gold Coast Suns at Metricon Stadium, Sunday April 10 at 4:10pm	1​
Round 5: Port Adelaide at the MCG, Sunday April 17 at 1:40pm		1​
Round 6: Fremantle at Optus Stadium, Saturday April 23 at 7:40pm			1​
Round 7: North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium (home), Saturday April 30 at 7:25pm	1​
Round 8: Adelaide Crows at Marvel Stadium, Sunday May 8 at 4:40pm	1​
Round 9: GWS Giants at Giants Stadium, Sunday May 15 at 3:20pm			1​
Round 10: Sydney Swans at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 11: Collingwood at the MCG	1​
Round 12: BYE
Round 13: Essendon at the MCG			1​
Round 14: Richmond at the MCG			1​
Round 15: Fremantle at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 16: St Kilda at Marvel Stadium (home)			1​
Round 17: West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium	1​
Round 18: Geelong Cats at the MCG (home)			1​
Round 19: GWS Giants at Marvel Stadium			1​
Round 20: Adelaide Crows at Adelaide Oval	1​
Round 21: Brisbane Lions at the Gabba		1​
Round 22: Melbourne at the MCG		1​
Round 23: Collingwood at the MCG (home)	1​
	8​	4​	10​

Good work. I think the overall number of wins, losses and maybes is probably near the mark but knowing which one will be a likely win or loss is the difficult bit. For example we may lose to the filth in r23 or weagles in r17 but beat one of dees, port, brisbane or dogs. That part is difficult to predicct because on the day anything can generally happen. This has been particularly true for us. Although things may change this year based on the small sample we've seen in the 2 praccy games. But overall I think your 8 wins will most likely be doable at a minimum. Snag a few of the maybe's and that should just about get us into the 8 i think.

 

[SBYM]

One week at a time, FFS.

 

[WalshYouLegend]

Realistically, top of the ladder. But if we get back some injured players, probably much higher.

 

[thylacine60]

some seriously unrealistic realisticality here......

 

[myopic]

Somewhere around Round 23, not sooner but maybe later.

 

[GordonBlue]

Injury dependent, Top 4.

 

[gandaal]

My gut says 9-10th.

It's going to be an interesting experiment this year. Can completely changing most of the coaching staff around a playing group, that on paper has been underperforming, result in significant and obvious improvement?

I'm looking forward to finding out.

 

[Blues90]

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We had the 17th best midfield in the entire competition last year. We should be better with Cerra and Hewett but not as good as Port which have Butters and other young players taking the reins from Boak. But I can see us having a top 8 midfield by 2023 once our younger players show some consistency. But we are coming off from rock bottom and that takes time and patience.






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[Accidental genius]

If what our midfield produced in the praccy games is a true reflection of how they’ll perform in the season proper than we can easily go up high into the top 8. That’s where our deficiencies have been in recent years due to lack of enough talent or due to injuries.

So with better midfielders our forwards are going to have a picnic with much improved supply (quantity and quality supplies).

We do have more depth as well so we should be able to better cover injuries if and when they happen.

Imo it’s the year we move to the big stage.

 

[Blues90]

I'm more annoyed we were giving games to people over Kennedy for 2 years.

 

[Accidental genius]

I'm more annoyed we were giving games to people over Kennedy for 2 years.

Yeah not sure what was going on but in saying that Kennedy improved a lot when he returned to seniors late in 2021. .

 

[footyfan1978]

I think we will make finals and probably win one and be out in semi-finals.
So 5th or 6th is where I expect we will finish.
We have the ability to finish higher but think adjusting to new game plan will mean a little less progress than I would have hoped by end of 2022.

Upgrade after round one after sensing the adjustment happening quicker than I could have hoped.
Think we need to get past one of Dogs, Lions or Giants to make top four. Demons a lock for top four imo.
I think Lions almost a lock too.
So if we can beat Dogs next week top four well in reach by end of round 23.
I think Swans and Port between 5th and 8th and other team probably the Cats.

 

[Revenant1965]

I put this elsewhere, but I think it belongs here.... I know it's only Rd1, but given how games have gone, and the draw, I see Dees, Port, Lions, Cats, Swans and Giants in the 8 at end of season, with WB, Freo, GC and us in the mix for the 8.

I cannot see any of the other sides as a realistic chance for the 8. If GC still had Ben King

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, I'd have them as a strong chance for 8.

It's going to be tight, but I reckon if we get past WB this weekend, top 8 is definitely in sight.

 

[Arr0w]

Still, 11-13 wins

Might change after we play the Dogs this week

 

[skadoosh]

Ok, I originally said I'd need to wait a month before making any predictions.

After the Tigers game, I'm safe to say I'm extremely happy with what I saw. Top 8 is on the cards, and we definitely should be pushing top 6.

 

[thylacine60]

If we go in, who comes out? Oh of course........*!