Crystal Ball 2019: Predictions for next season

[My name is legion 158]

29 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Probably the wrong time to ask as everyone’s emotionally charged and upset, but how many game do you all think we’ll win after our disastrous start?

I’ll get the ball rolling with 7 wins after a horrid 1-10 or 2-9 first half. The club does not resemble anything of last year and is missing some handy personnel.

Lever and May will hopefully fix our defence in July and August but it will be too late.

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[Age 485]

I just took 500/1 at $100. Set to make $50k at years end when we don’t win a game. Some call me a pessimist, I call me a realist. 

[spalding 1,128]

On 12/1/2018 at 5:05 PM, spalding said:

We are the Geelong of 2006 in 2019 - where a very young and talented list goes backwards after making finals the year before and after all pundits predict a premiership tilt. Results in serious club introspection about why things went wrong which then  results Geelong of 2007-2012. 

Hoping it’s this - for 2020+ anyway

[At the break of Gawn 4,460]

Brisbane are currently the same odds as us to win the flag this year now.

[Die Hard Demon 1,224]

1 minute ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Brisbane are currently the same odds as us to win the flag this year now.

That’s ridiculous...

they should be much shorter than us !! 

[Skuit 10,031]

On 1/4/2019 at 5:17 AM, Skuit said:

There will be calls for Alex Neal-Bullen to be dropped before Easter. The proletarian MFC selectors will finally succumb to the demands of the self-anointed Demonland High Council, but when they approach Alex to inform him of his demotion, ANB will just run away, and just keep running, from coast-to-coast, an unlikely protagonist in all the nation-forming events to occur in Australia for the next 30 or so years. Sadly, Alex’s fumbly hand-eye co-ordination will prevent him from ever rising up as a world-champion talent at terrestrial ping-pong. The MFC is like a box of snakes.

It's almost spooky in its prescience. Anyone seen [censored]-Bullet lately or is he off gallivanting around the country? Expect him to pop up somehow and influence the coming federal election - perhaps by teaching Bill how to properly drop the ball.

Early club-house leader.

Edited April 10, 2019 by Skuit

[Spud 288]

Have to say, it's pretty close! Even Charlie being out!

Weird, but accurate!

[buck_nekkid 5,858]

On 2/17/2019 at 11:01 PM, Demon Dude said:

we start the year unsure of what our best defensive set up looks like and we end up going with playing the 3 talls in May, Frost and Oscar. which makes our defence too big and slow, plus they all proceed to get in each others way and we leak goals, before Goody realises by about R3 or 4 that that's pretty much what happened to us last year.

and so he then drops Oscar and brings in the smaller, more mobile Marty Hore instead, who then manages to keep his spot in the team for the rest of the year, even when Lever returns, because by then its also become apparent that Lewis is struggling more than ever to keep up with the pace of the game and needs to be permanently replaced in the backline.

The crystal ball glows strong in this one, young Jedi...

[P-man 13,366]

On 2/17/2019 at 11:01 PM, Demon Dude said:

we start the year unsure of what our best defensive set up looks like and we end up going with playing the 3 talls in May, Frost and Oscar. which makes our defence too big and slow, plus they all proceed to get in each others way and we leak goals, before Goody realises by about R3 or 4 that that's pretty much what happened to us last year.

and so he then drops Oscar and brings in the smaller, more mobile Marty Hore instead, who then manages to keep his spot in the team for the rest of the year, even when Lever returns, because by then its also become apparent that Lewis is struggling more than ever to keep up with the pace of the game and needs to be permanently replaced in the backline.

Paying out early on this one.

Congrats DD, you are the 2019 champ.

I advise everyone else to not read back through the thread ?

[spirit of norm smith 16,451]

I feel sick reading all the predictions.  It has been a horrible year. 

[Skuit 10,031]

38 minutes ago, P-man said:

Paying out early on this one.

Congrats DD, you are the 2019 champ.

I advise everyone else to not read back through the thread ?

Wait. I demand a recount! 

I'm the only one on here who predicted a complete balls-up - which has an extra degree of credibility because I'm not Old Dee.

I also effectively nailed the 2019 fates of Spargo - will collapse into an on-field coma - and ANB - to be dropped before Easter - with five weeks still to go in which Clarry may well yet become - one of the first humans on Earth to be officially recognised as a victim of global warming - especially after his grievous UV assault in Alice last week.

I also came tantalisingly close with this in Round 15 vs. Brisbane:

As a senior leader of the club, and otherwise unavailable for the next 18 weeks due to an on-field incident which effectively ends Sam Frost’s career  . . .  misidentifying the protagonist as Lewis rather than May and falling just one king-hit short of complete prophetic dominance.

Definitely closest to the pin.

 

[Bitter but optimistic 22,239]

I can say with 100% certainty that I shall [censored] myself when required 

 

sounds like blog

Edited July 25, 2019 by Bitter but optimistic

[DemonLad5 1,642]

that was depressing to read

[P-man 13,366]

13 hours ago, Skuit said:

Wait. I demand a recount! 

 

I'm the only one on here who predicted a complete balls-up - which has an extra degree of credibility because I'm not Old Dee.

 

I also effectively nailed the 2019 fates of Spargo - will collapse into an on-field coma - and ANB - to be dropped before Easter - with five weeks still to go in which Clarry may well yet become - one of the first humans on Earth to be officially recognised as a victim of global warming - especially after his grievous UV assault in Alice last week.

 

I also came tantalisingly close with this in Round 15 vs. Brisbane:

As a senior leader of the club, and otherwise unavailable for the next 18 weeks due to an on-field incident which effectively ends Sam Frost’s career  . . .  misidentifying the protagonist as Lewis rather than May and falling just one king-hit short of complete prophetic dominance.

 

Definitely closest to the pin.

 

 

As an ex-title holder, I hope you channel your energy from this gross injustice into a concerted effort in 2020. Much like our shitty football team.

[Skuit 10,031]

20 hours ago, P-man said:

As an ex-title holder, I hope you channel your energy from this gross injustice into a concerted effort in 2020. Much like our shitty football team.

I think I'd rather channel my sense of injustice in taking you to the sack everyone thread.

[DeeZee 7,393]

Unless we can find that killer instinct I’m afraid it will be more of the same.

Just look at the Hunger a team like Richmond has, going hammer and tongs for 4 quarters .

If we don’t have that desire to monster the opposition and win at all costs ,we will be just making up the numbers.

[Sir Why You Little 37,035]

1 hour ago, DeeZee said:

Unless we can find that killer instinct I’m afraid it will be more of the same.

Just look at the Hunger a team like Richmond has, going hammer and tongs for 4 quarters .

If we don’t have that desire to monster the opposition and win at all costs ,we will be just making up the numbers.

Yep. It’s all about attitude. 

I could not believe in  2017 that the Club released that September Video for Nathan Jones before we had qualified for Finals. 

That was just so wrong. We still have a lot to learn. 

The Supporters get it. The Club  I am not sure....

[Wiseblood 24,637]

On 12/1/2018 at 2:13 PM, Wiseblood said:

I predict we finish in the Top 4.  Not sure exactly where in the Top 4, but it will happen.

I also predict that we'll have a mini slump during the season - now that we've made a Prelim, we'll be the hunted more than the hunters, and this might take a little to adjust to.  It might be a few losses in a row or something like that, but I think it will be the making of us next season.

Jake Lever will make a successful return from injury and slot into our backline alongside May superbly.

Weideman and McDonald to combine to kick more than 80 goals between them.

Oliver, Brayshaw, Harmes and Viney to combine with Gawn to be the most effective midfield in the competition.

Nev Jetta to finally be AA, where he belongs.

Absolutely covered myself in glory right here. 

Only thing I got right was the slump, but it certainly wasn't mini. 

[Engorged Onion 10,215]

5 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Yep. It’s all about attitude. 

I could not believe in  2017 that the Club released that September Video for Nathan Jones before we had qualified for Finals. 

That was just so wrong. We still have a lot to learn. 

The Supporters get it. The Club  I am not sure....

He says, reaching for evidence 2 years ago. 

[Wiseblood 24,637]

4 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

He says, reaching for evidence 2 years ago. 

He reaches for evidence from 1964, 20 years after he got home from the War. He will always do it. 

[Sir Why You Little 37,035]

14 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

He says, reaching for evidence 2 years ago. 

It was St. Kilda players we asked “what are you doing this September”

2 years ago or 10 months ago. Not the issue. We don’t back up

Until we actually learn that, it will keep repeating 

Simple really. But obviously hard 

[Sir Why You Little 37,035]

15 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

He reaches for evidence from 1964, 20 years after he got home from the War. He will always do it. 

What rubbish are you dribbling now??

You know so much about me....

[roy11 3,853]

Whilst this thread no doubt makes us sad,

 

Let's predict the rest of our season; Slightly easier task 

Final Position for Melbourne - 

Melbourne Best & Fairest winner- 

Melbourne Top Goal Scorer - 
(top 5 listed for your reference)

Christian Petracca (21)
Jayden Hunt (19)
Tom McDonald (18)
Bayley Fritsch (15)
James Harmes (12)
Sam Weideman (11)
Jake Melksham (10)

 

At least we have surpassed 2014 winner Chris Dawes (20 goals)

[Ted Lasso 19,516]

2 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Whilst this thread no doubt makes us sad,

 

Let's predict the rest of our season; Slightly easier task 

Final Position for Melbourne - 

Melbourne Best & Fairest winner- 

Melbourne Top Goal Scorer - 
(top 5 listed for your reference)

Christian Petracca (21)
Jayden Hunt (19)
Tom McDonald (18)
Bayley Fritsch (15)
James Harmes (12)
Sam Weideman (11)
Jake Melksham (10)

 

At least we have surpassed 2014 winner Chris Dawes (20 goals)

Bluey top 5 in my opinion 

1. Max Gawn 

2. Clayton Oliver

3. Christian Salem 

4. Christian Petracca 

5. James Harmes 

 

goal kicker, i reckon in the last 4 Fritsch might be a chance to run down Track on current form. though 25-30 goals and averaging 20 touches per game is a strong return from Track 

[Dee Zephyr 19,267]

6 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Whilst this thread no doubt makes us sad,

 

Let's predict the rest of our season; Slightly easier task 

Final Position for Melbourne - 

Melbourne Best & Fairest winner- 

Melbourne Top Goal Scorer - 

No way I’m going back page 1 to see how far off my predictions were. Shizen!

This seems much simpler.

17th.

B&F Winner - Gawn

2. Oliver 

3. Harmes

4. Salem 

5. Petracca 

I think Trac holds on to Top Goalscorer just. Wouldn’t be surprised if Fritta gets very close, how funny would it be if a guy that spent 2 thirds of the season in the backline tops your goals scored.