A whole lot of retrospect, cull debates and gazing into the past and future on this board at the minute, so heres the challenge. We all claim we know football on here, but rather than doing the usual debates on whether exuming the corpse of a proven premiership coach and having it sit in the coaches box would have been better than Neeld this year lets see some real footy knowledge.. Pick the winners of each finals game, with margin all the way to the GF, obviously if you get this round wrong you will have to post an updated draw, albeit at the loss of some street cred. So at the risk of shooting any cred I may have in the foot here's my prediction:

Hawthorn to beat Collingwood by 46 pts

Sydney over Adelaide by 18

Geelong over Freo by 37

West Coast over North by 21

Collingwood over West Coast by 15pts

Geelong over Adelaide by 26

Hawthorn over Geelong by 6

Sydney over Collingwood by 12pts

Hawthorn over Sydney by 32pts

There goes nothing, should be fun at the very least.......

Week 1

Hawks beat pies by 65

Crows beat Swans by 4

Cats beat Dockers by 37

Kangaroos beat Eagles by 15

Week 2

Kangaroos beat Pies by 8

Swans beat cats by 28

Week 3

Hawks beat Swans by 45

Crows beat kangaroos by19

Week 4

Hawks beat Crows by 89

Pies over the Hawks by 5 pts

Crows over Swans by 10pts

Cats over Freo by 9pts

Eagles over North by 15pts

Hawks over Eagles by 28pts

Cats over Swans by 1pt

Hawks over Crows by 10pts

Cats over Pies by 1pt (oh, what joy)

Cats over Hawks by 5pts

I am the World's worst tipster - fact .

Nice one Tatu, its such a hard finals series to pick, far more difficult than past years, apart from our consesus on Hawthorn we have so many different results, yet I can plausibly see each coming true, what a great year of footy! (Melbourne obviously excluded)

Macca, I suck at tipping as my love for MFC tends to cloud my ability to tip against their best interests, as soon as our season was completely over in the 2nd half of this year I tipped much better. Again, I can see everything you have tipped plausibly happening, its that close a season.

Edited September 2, 201212 yr by deejammin'

Haven't the foggiest. I think the Hawks are looking good, but it's very close. I look forward to seeing how it pans out.

Week 1

Hawthorn

Sydney

Geelong

West Coast

Week 2

Collingwood

Geelong

Week 3

Hawthorn

Collingwood

Week 4

Hawthorn

WEEK 1

Hawthorn DEF Collingwood (7 pts)

Adelaide DEF Sydney (3 pts)

Geelong DEF Fremantle (45 pts)

West Coast DEF North Melbourne (52 pts)

SEMI FINALS

Collingwood DEF West Coast (25 pts)

Geelong DEF Sydney (5 pts)

PRELIMINARY FINALS

Geelong DEF Hawthorn (1 pt)

Adelaide DEF Collingwood (21 pts)

GRAND FINAL

Geelong DEF Adelaide (19 pts)

WEEK 1

Hawthorn def Collingwood by 30 points

Adelaide def Sydney by 19 points

Geelong def Fremantle by 44 points

West Coast def North Melbourne by 65 points

WEEK 2

Geelong def Sydney by 5 points

Collingwood def West Coast by 20 points

WEEK 3

Geelong def Hawthorn by 1 point

Collingwood def Adelaide by 40 points

WEEK 4

Geelong def Collingwood by 13 points

I had to look twice.....it said footy and credibility in the same sentence on this board....

Hawthorn or Geelong, doesn't matter against who

Hawthorn 26

Adelaide 15

Fremantle 40

West Coast 6

Collingwood 36

Sydney 20

Hawthorn 60

Collingwood 22

Hawthorn 32

Hawthorn def. Collingwood by 32 pts

Sydney def. Adelaide by 12

Geelong def. Freo by 23

West Coast def. North by 44

Collingwood def. West Coast by 11

Adelaide def. Geelong by 8

Hawthorn def. Adelaide by 48

Sydney def. Collingwood by 4 pts

Hawthorn def. Sydney by 16pts

Edited September 3, 201212 yr by Dr. Gonzo