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OK - I know we have had a crappy start to the season and the first 11 rounds are either lost or against top teams, but the second half of the season is a much better run.

When you combine that with the moments of greatness we see periodically and another two months of training soft bodies (and maybe dumping them for stronger ones) and learning new game plans I think its not too unrealistic.

So here is my 2012 AFL Ladder Prediction:

  1. Hawthorn
  2. West Coast
  3. Carlton
  4. Geelong
  5. Collingwood
  6. Essendon
  7. Sydney
  8. North Melbourne
  9. Fremantle
  10. Melbourne
  11. Adelaide
  12. Richmond
  13. St Kilda
  14. Port Adelaide
  15. Lions
  16. Bulldogs
  17. Gold Coast
  18. GWS Giants

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Supreme optimist.

Adelaide is a top 8 proposition. Richmond, St Kilda and the Bulldogs are playing much better football than Melbourne. Even Port Adelaide and the Lions have enough home game advantage to ensure they'll get more wins than Melbourne.

16th for me, or even 17th if the Gold Coast Suns can cobble together a few home wins.

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Hahaha!! I love this club, but right now we are the worst in the league by a long way.

10th. Get Real. The 2nd half of the season will be just as hard as the beginning.

The Bears, the Tigers and the Dogs have all beaten us easily.

Wakey Wakey!

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Always an optimist!

I know that we have playing terribly for the past four weeks, and the next six weeks look tough, but I cant see how with the way the draw looks in the second half of the year, how we could do any worse than 14th.

But when it happens - you saw it here first!

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Supreme optimist.

Adelaide is a top 8 proposition. Richmond, St Kilda and the Bulldogs are playing much better football than Melbourne. Even Port Adelaide and the Lions have enough home game advantage to ensure they'll get more wins than Melbourne.

16th for me, or even 17th if the Gold Coast Suns can cobble together a few home wins.

Agree.

And if Ablett misses the Round 7 match v the giants, the Giants could have their first win.

Did a predictor exercise the other day on the AFL website and I'll just say my exercise shows we're a fair way from the optimistic OP'ers prediction. (15th-18th).

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Always an optimist!

I know that we have playing terribly for the past four weeks, and the next six weeks look tough, but I cant see how with the way the draw looks in the second half of the year, how we could do any worse than 14th.

But when it happens - you saw it here first!

I'm with you - Stay with your optimism - they are all a bunch of negative pessimists around here. (Toxic)

Realists they will "claim" - mentally scared I say.

Go Dees

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I'm with you - Stay with your optimism - they are all a bunch of negative pessimists around here. (Toxic)

Realists they will "claim" - mentally scared I say.

Go Dees

did you mean scared, scarred or sacred? I'm confused and I know your grammar is wanting.

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I'm with you - Stay with your optimism - they are all a bunch of negative pessimists around here. (Toxic)

Realists they will "claim" - mentally scared I say.

Go Dees

If you're referring to posters who express dissatisfaction at a four-year win/loss ratio of 24-62, then yes the term 'mentally scarred' is probably accurate.

But you go on being blissfully unaffected. What's that saying about ignorance?

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Then what do you care about how GWS goes? That has nothing to do with us.

It certainly does matter if GW$ beat us. Shows how useless the last 4 years have been. It hasn't happened yet, but they look far more disciplined than we do right now so it is not completely fanciful.
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17th or 18th, this is a learning year as opposed to the last 4 which have been, oh! that's right, learning years (unfortunately from what we've been told learning the wrong things, hopefully we've got it right this time).

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