Realistically, where do you see us finishing this year?

[V_23]

No one has a crystal ball but I'm interested in everyone's gut feeling here. What's your best prediction, using your head, not your heart?

I see us finishing 9th or 10th this year and a game or two outside finals. Obviously I'd love to be proven wrong.

 

[thylacine60]

same

 

[HereComesJuddy]

 

[KohPhi]

Im thinking (maybe optimistically) 6th-9th. The questions are always who could likely drop out and who else may improve enough to jump in.
Melbourne, Brisbane, Bulldogs, Essendon are my certainties.
Port Adelaide and Geelong should stay in, which leaves Sydney and GWS as possibly falling out.
I think Freo will improve and Richmond have the talent, experience and gamestyle to make it.
So much will come down to which club may be hit hardest by covid..

 

[RedFury]

The sad thing is, this is the year I had use earmarked for the flag when this rebuild started back in 15 draft.

Obviously things haven't gone entirely to plan and realistically, I'd have us just missing finals this year (9-10.) This is due to a completely new coaching panel / game-plan and changing best 22. I expect us to start slow-ish and improve significantly as the year goes on.

Next year top 8 (and not in a making-up-the-numbers way.) No excuses.

 

[skadoosh]

No idea. I'd probably want to see how we play over the first month to get a feel of our new game plan etc. before I'd be confident of going one way or the other.

 

[Osc1]

I believe we will be the team that rises out of the bottom 6 and into the top 8, anywhere from 4th to 8th.

 

[WFGodot]

I’m a tad more bullish. I can see finals 12 wins (7-8) but the derailleur as always is fitness and injury.

 

[Coona Blues]

5-6, with the rider that the injury gods need to be a bit kinder. Very bullish Melbourne and Brisbane the bench marks, Dogs and Port next level, then I see us on a par with any of the others if our list remains healthy

 

[Tjblues]

7-12. If all goes well we can make the finals and maybe win one. Certainly not out of the question.

Just as likely to stutter out of the blocks and struggle for consistency.

 

[bigdog43]

A midfield with Cerra, Cripps, Walsh, the coleman medalist and a superstar CHB. We should be playing finals, anything else is a failure in my opinion. Definitely see us anywhere from 6-10.

 

[Jatz]

Hoping 6-8th.

Realistically 10-12th

 

[Mike D]

I went 7-8 ... with some luck

 

[bigblueboy]

Im thinking (maybe optimistically) 6th-9th. The questions are always who could likely drop out and who else may improve enough to jump in.
Melbourne, Brisbane, Bulldogs, Essendon are my certainties.
Port Adelaide and Geelong should stay in, which leaves Sydney and GWS as possibly falling out.
I think Freo will improve and Richmond have the talent, experience and gamestyle to make it.
So much will come down to which club may be hit hardest by covid..

Essendon are severely overrated. Had the easiest draw last year and Stringer had a year out of the box.
We’ll finish in front of them - but not sure that will mean finals.
Won’t make finals - WCE, Nth, Hawthorn, Adelaide, GCS, Collingwood, St Kilda
Possibles: Carlton, Richmond, Essendon, Freo, Sydney, GWS, Geelong
Finals bound: Melb, WB, Port, Brisbane

 

[Red_man2008]

Im thinking (maybe optimistically) 6th-9th. The questions are always who could likely drop out and who else may improve enough to jump in.
Melbourne, Brisbane, Bulldogs, Essendon are my certainties.
Port Adelaide and Geelong should stay in, which leaves Sydney and GWS as possibly falling out.
I think Freo will improve and Richmond have the talent, experience and gamestyle to make it.
So much will come down to which club may be hit hardest by covid..

Don’t know how you put Essendon In That basket. No KPD or KPF. Midfield is strong but they remind me of western bulldogs of 2018-2020. But more a Kmart version.

 

[Revenant1965]

I've gone 7-8 for this year, given additions to side, and our draw, even with injuries (unless we have an annus horribilis with injuries). Serendipitously, I am currently off work for today and streaming an episode of a show titled 'All is possible'.

 

[CJMB]

Who voted 13-14 and 15-16?…

 

[Accidental genius]

I think a 7-8 is an obvious minimum target based on our progression so far and with the inclusions of Cerra and Hewitt. We need to make the 8. It is time.

More broadly speaking and as the voting tally is showing we will likely finish somewhere between 5 to 12. I know that is a big range for this exercise but too many factors that impact on final ladder position to be more specific than this.

 

[JuddgementDay]

6-9 for me.

We just have to make finals this year.
So 9th would hurt, but it's not out the question.

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

 

[thylacine60]

Who voted 13-14 and 15-16?…

 

[footyfan1978]

No one has a crystal ball but I'm interested in everyone's gut feeling here. What's your best prediction, using your head, not your heart?

I see us finishing 9th or 10th this year and a game or two outside finals. Obviously I'd love to be proven wrong.

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.

 

[creamPIES]

Who voted 13-14 and 15-16?…

Someone being realistic
You finished 13th last year with a relatively good injury run(compared to other teams around you) you have a new coach, likely a new complete game plan I think 6th-10th for your mob is most definitely best case scenario but I can’t see it
If you take out mckay, you had Eddie who kicked 25 odd goals, he’s gone now, and your next highest was 15(owies) and this is all with an extremely attacking gameplan
Curnow can potentially become a 1-2 goal a game player but other then that is there anyone else on your list that I can see getting into that range? To win games you need to kick goals, and to kick goals you need a decent forward line, without mckay and curnow there’s nothing and you can’t realistically rely on either of them to play a full season, let alone carry you to finals.
13th-15th for me.

 

[La Dispute]

Can see reasons why clubs will drop out next year.

Port Adelaide - are they that good? Might have been playing to their potential and just not good enough.

Sydney - big jump last year with a young squad, could slide a bit

Essendon - tough draw, had everything go right last year and now there’s expectation heaped on them

Geelong - think this might be the year they finally slide. Still a good top end, just not sure they can continue backing up

I can see us finishing above St Kilda and Freo, but below Richmond.

Expecting, generally speaking, a big shuffle of the ladder. Doesn’t guarantee us a spot, but we should at least hit 11-12 wins

 

[La Dispute]

Someone being realistic
You finished 13th last year with a relatively good injury run(compared to other teams around you) you have a new coach, likely a new complete game plan I think 6th-10th for your mob is most definitely best case scenario but I can’t see it
If you take out mckay, you had Eddie who kicked 25 odd goals, he’s gone now, and your next highest was 15(owies) and this is all with an extremely attacking gameplan
Curnow can potentially become a 1-2 goal a game player but other then that is there anyone else on your list that I can see getting into that range? To win games you need to kick goals, and to kick goals you need a decent forward line, without mckay and curnow there’s nothing and you can’t realistically rely on either of them to play a full season, let alone carry you to finals.
13th-15th for me.

Essendon made the finals last year with an average forwardline.

We have the Coleman medalist, another extremely talent tall forward and have reset our structure to include a number of clever pressure forwards who now have a couple of pre-seasons under their belt.

Then we’ve got Martin and JSOS who are capable players in the front half.

Easily enough scoring power to kick winning scores.

Our forwardline wasn’t our issue last year, it was our midfield that was a major weak point.

 

[WFGodot]

A fat, drunk, disrespectful idiot. Matty Hogg says hello M mcGuane.