I predict global warming will increase rapidly next year and our experience in playing in Darwin for the past decade will finally pay off.

1 - We end up 4th (15 - 7)

2 - Weed kicks 40, TMac 45

3 - Max, Oliver, May, Lever & Tracc  - AA

4 - Oliver 4th in Brownlow

5 - Make it to the Prelim (can't quite see the result as I am on a cruise somewhere in the Pacific)

6 - JV, Gus,Harmse, Sparrow & JJ all go up a notch

7 - Langdon, Tomlinson & Brown all earn their coin and help make us a better team (can't make out KK or Bennell???)

Jackson, Kozzy, Rivers and a few others show their wares at Casey keeping Casey at the top of the ladder before being injected into the Ones.

Coach and team still hanging in there..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited December 5, 20195 yr by DeeZone
one to many K's in KK!

3 hours ago, P-man said:

A template is too restrictive. You predict whatever you want. That’s the point ?

Then how did you pick the winners?  

We finish 7-10th.

Fyfe comes top 3 but doesn't win brownlow.

Oliver doesn't make AA with a stagnation, very similar year to 2019, still a contested beast but hasn't added any new tricks.

Sparrow and Petty are firmly cemented in the best 22 by the end of the year.

Pickett shows glimpses but never gets a consistent run of form.

Petracca makes AA squad but not the team.

Essendon wins a final.

GWS struggles after the grand final and finishes 6th at best.

 

1. We finish 11th with a 10-12 season. I simply can't predict us making finals off a 5 win season and playing largely disgraceful footy.

2. We'll beat the mediocre side that made us look like fools last year - St Kilda, North, Sydney.

3. Harmes to stick it up Cornes and make the All Australian squad (but not the final 22). He's making exponential improvement each year to the point where he dominated a game of footy and got the 3 BL votes against Hawthorn this year.

4. Petracca to have a career best year with 30 goals as a hybrid mid-fwd.

5. Gawn to be the sole ruckman in the AA side and proves to the footballing public that he's the clear number one. I'll take Gawn's ruck-work over Grundy's 50 taps straight to the GWS midfield in the prelim.

6. We'll no doubt get our fair share of injuries but not to the extent of 2019.

7. Bennell to make his MFC debut in round 11 against Hawthorn. Our first "away game" win to them since 2006.

8. Langdon to be an excellent recruit. Tomlinson not so much (already incurring an interrupted pre season)

9. We'll be around 9th-11th on the ladder all year.

10. We finally get that elusive scalp against one of Richmond, Collingwood or West Coast. But only one of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

On 12/4/2019 at 12:07 PM, Cranky Franky said:

Smith, Vandenberg, Hannan, Kolodashnij & Bennell will be injured all year & won't play 6 games between them

Love the positivity ?

Ladder: 5th -7th (13 or 14 wins)

Finals exit: Semi final loss,

B&F: Pettraca

Big improvers: Weiderman 40+ goals, Pettraca avg 23+ touches and 30+ goals

AA squad: Gawn, Oliver, Pettraca, Lever, May

AA team: Gawn, Pettraca

RS Nomination: Pickett

Surprise win: WC round 1. We'll catch them napping in the Perth sun

Surprise loss: GC round 5. I guess when you think about it, it wouldn't really be a surprise

Best win: a nail-biter under lights in Brisbane round 14 

Brayshaw will be traded at the end of the season. 

Mitch Brown will play 15+ games.

Oliver will make AA. 

We will finish 7th. 

If we have a poor record as of round 12 then Goodwin will be gone and a substantial board challenge mounted.

 

7 - 11 = 2020.

2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Brayshaw will be traded at the end of the season. 

Mitch Brown will play 15+ games.

Oliver will make AA. 

We will finish 7th. 

I think maybe one of Petracca or Brayshaw could end up elsewhere,  this time next year ?   And I feel like a big name might climb on board ?   We're due for a big name player.

Crystal ball gazing.

Premiers: GWS

Runners Up: Western Bulldogs

Melbourne finish: 5th

Wooden Spoon: Gold Coast - Small improvement on this year

Brownlow: Marcus Bontempelli

Coleman: Tom Lynch (Rich)

Rising Star: Deven Robertson

Story of the year: Gold Coast apply for more draft concessions after starting the year 0-11, AFL decline request.

Story you're unlikely to see: "Hird returns to Essendon to inject some team spirit"

 

Random Melbourne Predictions

• Rivers first of draftees to debut
• Petracca to kick 30 goals playing predominantly as a mid and star for most of the season.
• Lever, Gawn, Oliver & Petracca to make AA team
• Jordan to establish himself in the team by half way through the year.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 20195 yr by Nascent

I've examined the data gathered over the last 50yrs and I predict more mental fragility.
When the moments come we'll be found wanting.
If you have a strong club,  seasons like last years total capitulation don't happen.
We might go alright with a fit list but when the whips are cracking the intestinal fortitude to get the job done won't be there.

Any predictions on how good the New staff are going to be ?

13 hours ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

I think maybe one of Petracca or Brayshaw could end up elsewhere,  this time next year ?   And I feel like a big name might climb on board ?   We're due for a big name player.

Crystal ball gazing.

I definitely have that feeling too. I hope it’s not Petracca as he has more weapons and point of difference than Brayshaw.

My prediction is that before round 1, a certain poster who we all admire, will try and sneak his “predicted best 22 team” onto this thread.

13 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I definitely have that feeling too. I hope it’s not Petracca as he has more weapons and point of difference than Brayshaw.

Yes, but has lacked the consistency and level of effort.   Brayshaw always has the highest level of effort,  consistently.   But he has to fix his ball use.  Both of them do.

Most of the team needs to fix their delivery. ?

12th.

9 wins, 13 losses

high percentage 

scoring deficiences to hurt us in a number of games

injuries to start peaking up around round 15

OR

Top 2

Premiers 

One or the other.

22 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

I've examined the data gathered over the last 50yrs and I predict more mental fragility.
When the moments come we'll be found wanting.
If you have a strong club,  seasons like last years total capitulation don't happen.

This is part of culture.  We're building a winning culture, and that will take years to settle into solid club belief. 

MFCss,  isn't just amongst the fans.

 

The Hawks were vfl easy beats up until the 60's.  Look what they managed to achieve Via getting some beaut tough hard headed coaches (Kanga Kennedy + Jeans),  to develop discipline with vigor,  and a club first approach.

And now they have another in Clarkson, who has taken that club to become  a more skill oriented club.  But the basics come fist in culture building.  Vigor, aggression first, to grow the believing,  and then slowly bridge to be more skilled.

Being skilled without the hardness,  only allows clubs to bully the skilled soft side.  We've been in that position before, and it does not work.

Edited December 6, 20195 yr by MyFavouriteMartian

On 12/4/2019 at 9:54 PM, willmoy said:

We learn how to handle the Media, and they start to love us because we don't start making stupid predictions about the season.

Only Club reps with an IQ above 100 are allowed to talk to the Media.

We invite all the Umpires to come to the Club incessantly instead of going to Cats or Bummers period....

Razer gets an all expenses trip to Los Vegas or The Vatican depending on how he bounces, after the GF no strings attached...

Not sure that having Saty and Old Dee as our sole media frontmen is necessarily a good idea?  ?

Melbourne and Essendon grand final. 

- We will play finals

- Tracc to be considered A Grade by all pundits. 

- Joel Smith to cement a spot in best 22 (assuming he is injury free) 

- Chunk Jones to spend more time in VFL than AFL 

- S. May will be top 3 most valuable/reliable player. 

 

We'll win the Premiership

Easier draw, great run with injuries, an ounce of luck and a lucky bounce of the ball in the dying seconds sees Petracca kick the winner after we were 45 points down in the second quarter

33 minutes ago, Roost It said:

We'll win the Premiership

Easier draw, great run with injuries, an ounce of luck and a lucky bounce of the ball in the dying seconds sees Petracca kick the winner after we were 45 points down in the second quarter

On past history we'll hit the front late in the 3rd.
The players will start celebrating like they have it won and then get run over in the last.

Petracca wins his first B&F.

KK retires before the end of the year. 

Dees make Semi-Final.

In other news:

The Saints make finals but bomb in the first round - They have recruited a bunch of B+ types but lack real quality and there's only so much The Rat can do. 

Adelaide have a horror year.

Age wearies the Pies.

Fremantle culture problems worsen. 

Geelong go downhill as their aging core players fail to maintain their previous levels.