Pick the Final Ladder

[deejammin' 2,373]

How nice to have a competition for all finals spots only a few weeks out from the finals, so heres the thing, what will be the final 8, in order and who's your pick to go all the way?

Here's mine:

Hawthorn

Sydney

Adelaide

Collingwood

West Coast

Geelong

Essendon

North Melbourne

Hawthorn to win the lot in a tight Final against Sydney.

[Guest José Mourinho]

Hawthorn

Sydney

Adelaide

West Coast

Collingwood

Nth Melb

Geelong

St Kilda

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Fremantle

Carlton

Essendon

Richmond

Brisbane

Port

Bulldogs

Gold Coast

Melbourne

GWS

[deejammin' 2,373]

So you have us losing to GC and GC beating GWS? I really hope we can get over the suns, I fear the meltdown that may ensue...

[Guest José Mourinho]

I couldn't give a **** about the meltdown, it has already happened many times this season and it'll happen again at some stage.

I think GC have hit some solid form and we are practically a spent force for the season.

We don't have anyone the quality of Ablett, we have key outs with injuries, and we're looking more tired each week.

I really don't care because it's been plain to see for months.

What we really need is a solid preseason. The injection of quality youth will help, but we need to do our best to improve what we already have. We can't be constantly rebuilding and hoping to win the lottery with a draft pick.

GWS won't win another game.

They've solidly hit the rookie wall, and the veterans don't have it in them to play out the season either.

The losses will get bigger.

[praha 11,240]

Hawthorn are playing well but they've let all the predictors down since 2008. But they seem a step ahead everyone right now.

[Undeeterred 3,124]

So many games that shape this in the final few rounds. After going through the ladder predictor on the AFL website, I came up with:

Sydney

Adelaide

Hawthorn

West Coast

Collingwood

Geelong

North

Essendon

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St Kilda

Freo

Carlton

Richmond

......

But, this is based on:

Rd 19

Haw v Geel - Haw

Ade v Ess - Ade

Rd 20

WCE v Geel - WCE

Ess v Nth - Nth

Sydney v Collingwood (in Syd) - Syd

Rd 21

Gee v St K - Gee

Ess v Coll - Coll

Rd 22

Syd v Haw - Syd

WCE v Coll - WCE

Rd 23

Haw v WCE - Haw

Gee v Syd - Gee

St K v Carl - St K

A few of those go the other way and things could look very different.

Adelaide are a monty for top 4, and probably top 2, with Melbourne and Brisbane away and Gold Coast, Freo and Essendon at home.

[Undeeterred 3,124]

And if it panned out like that, Collingwood and Essendon in week 1 would be huge.

[Die Hard Demon 1,224]

And if it panned out like that, Collingwood and Essendon in week 1 would be huge.

Hugely overrated... Collingwood will pump essendon in front of 90,000 fans.

[Undeeterred 3,124]

Hugely overrated... Collingwood will pump essendon in front of 90,000 fans.

True, true. But it would be a big one...

[jumbo returns 6,741]

Freo will make it - soft run in.

Bring on the trade period and the draft.

I don't care who wins it, but not bloody Hawthorn - hate them.

[Guest José Mourinho]

I just hope Essendon miss finals, so it effectively bumps our mid-round compo pick up 1 place (since they'll take Daniher and we'd never have a chance to get him anyway).