Prediction Your Essendon 2025 season predictions. Right or Left field.

[Runk]

Pretty realistic predictions.

Yeah I'm not much of a gambler

 

[thebigboy]

The Hawks are the exception though - there are always anomalies. I wouldn't predict 2025 to be a year we improve given the way we seem to be going with the list. The majority of posters had us winning a final in 2024 - supporters always overrate their own.

In the 18 team era, on average 3 teams per year make the finals after missing it the year prior, so it's common to an extent and big jumps have not just been limited to Hawthorn last year, see Collingwood 2021-22 as another example. We also won 11 games last year, so the tasks aren't as significant as that.

From a list perspective, replacing Stringer's 40+ goals is going to be a challenge, however, he brought significant deficiencies to our forward-line structure that we all have lived with for the last 4 years. With Kelly & Heppell, it's very difficult to argue that they are going to be hard holes to fill based on the tape they've put out there over the last few seasons. It's a popular narrative that our list is worse, but I just simply don't agree.