What are the best/worst predictions ever made?

[99cents]

There were people talking up Carlton's flag chances in about 2015 or something; maybe it was earlier

 

[99cents]

well we're supposed to be wooden spooners apparently

i don't really get why these journo's put themselves out there like this, when have pre-season predictions ever been close to accurate? maybe you get lucky once in a while, but its mostly just pure speculation based on the idea that clubs go bottom 4, rebuild, shoot back up into the top 4, with everything else just being clubs in between these two phases

sports pundits hang their hats on the occasional 'hail mary' call- people usually don't remember the twenty idiotic predictions

 

[Godchin]

There were people talking up Carlton's flag chances in about 2015 or something; maybe it was earlier

2012 maybe?

They were premiership favourites after starting 5-1.

 

[Royce Hafey]

I remember a Bigfooty post, circa 2012 or 2013: "Richmond will never go anywhere with spuds like Rance on their list".

 

[Nugett]

I went to Sydney to see the Test against India at the end of 1991, returned home convinced that the blonde leggie never would amount to nothing.

That bloody Gatting ball.

 

[99cents]

2012 maybe?

They were premiership favourites after starting 5-1.

that sounds about right. they finished tenth

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Saw this article today about the worst predictions made and it got me thinking - what are the best/worst predictions made by journos/pundits/coaches etc.?

Best: in recent memory, probably Brad Johnson at the start of 2016 predicting Freo would miss the finals in that year and 2017 right after a minor premiership and prelim final (which they could have won).

Worst: possibly all those who tipped Sydney in 2003 to win the spoon. Ten even made a video about it in their coverage of the 03 prelim.

Pissing myself at the Swans vid.

A whole pile of Swans greats pictures... and first year Adam Schneider??? Went on to become a good player but sticks out like a sore thumb in that video.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

They did make 3 prelims in a row by the time the Pies won their only flag. That's far from the worst.

They also finished last and second last in the two years following the prediction, while the Pies went on to play consecutive Grand Finals... I don’t think he was predicting seven years down the track.

 

[joop]

I saw Dal Santo live in his 5th game and said he’d never make 20 games.

 

[26_Miles]

This was a gem of a thread back in 2014 for the 9-0 run to finals

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...in-it-come-rnd-23-toty.1071056/#post-34217165

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou, 30th April 2005:

“Unless the Swans change that style of play, they won't win many football matches.”

 

[76woodenspooners]

Amongst the best I’ve seen ...

TradeDraft 2010 preseason prediction that Collingwood would beat St Kilda by 1 point in the GF.

He wasn’t far off ...

 

[BigVic]

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/03/25/walls-mason-cox-isnt-going-to-make-it-in-the-afl/

Bump.

We can post this here.

 

[Registered User]

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/03/25/walls-mason-cox-isnt-going-to-make-it-in-the-afl/ Bump. We can post this here.

How about Robert Walls saying the The Eagles would finished last? But I suppose there's 10 threads about that already.
Jeez, I hope they win, mostly so I can see the 50kg of scrambled egg on his face, then watch it run down and get stuck in his beard. HA.
Fair dinkum, he should far'k off and retire if they win. I suppose he wasn't alone in his predictions, but as far as I know, he had them bottom, not just "dropping down the ladder", as others did.
A wooden spoon prediction to premiers obviously doesn't get more 'wronger'

 

[PerthBoy86]

Surely Walls saying we'd win the spoon has to top em. Won't be taken seriously ever again.

 

[010203]

I want Robert Walls to pick Brisbane for the wooden spoon next season.

 

[specq]

According to the Superfooty podcast I just finished listening to, Bruce McAvaney's pre-season tip for the GF was West Coast vs Collingwood. Not many would have got that right.

But then again, when Richmond's Jayden and Collingwood's Mason were somehow involved in the same passage of play in the PF he said "Short and Cox: two words that don't belong in the same sentence."

So he's clearly still capable of flashes of brilliant insight.

 

[tonk]

I remember saying Carlton were too old in 94..........genius.

 

[Del165198]

Gws will dominate the competition and win about 5 flags in a row

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

Nakia's prediction after round 12 that West Coast would still miss finals and Geelong were certainties for top 2.

 

[Jibroni]

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/03/25/walls-mason-cox-isnt-going-to-make-it-in-the-afl/

Bump.

We can post this here.

Didn't he say West Coast would finish bottom 4? The man is seriously incompetent.

 

[BigVic]

Didn't he say West Coast would finish bottom 4? The man is seriously incompetent.

The same guy who a week earlier said West Coast would finish last and Fremantle to play Finals

 

[AndysAngels]

Adz infamous thread is looking like one of the greatest bigfooty blunders of all time. has trashed and sulked about the eagles at every turn, and here we are with an opportunity to beat them in a grand final. would be glorious

 

[caloschwaby]

Adz infamous thread is looking like one of the greatest bigfooty blunders of all time. has trashed and sulked about the eagles at every turn, and here we are with an opportunity to beat them in a grand final. would be glorious

And you'd no doubt bring all the other Collingwood BF supporters along with him because there's no way Collingwood supporters could differ in opinion.

 

[caloschwaby]

Probably already been posted here.
Probably as worse as his 2014 GF prediction.