Finals Predictions

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Using the below finals predictor, post your results here:

https://predictor.squiggle.com.au/

This is mine:

I’ve said it since the start of the year, but I think Sydney are a huge chance and along with Geelong are the biggest threats to us.

Edited August 23, 2021 by Clint Bizkit

[rpfc 28,430]

Winners 

W1

Port Syd Melb WB

W2

Syd def Geel, BL def WB

W3 

Mel def Syd, BL def Port

GF

Mel def BL

[MadAsHell 4,212]

Geelong to defeat Port by 12-20 points

GWS to defeat Sydney by less than a kick

Melbourne to defeat Brisbane by 25-30 points

Bulldogs to defeat Essendon by 30-40 points

 

Port to defeat GWS by 5 goals +

Bulldogs defeat Brisbane by less than a kick

 

Melbourne defeat Port by 30-40 points

Geelong defeat Bulldogs by 20-25 points

 

Melbourne defeat Geelong by 12-20 points.

[spalding 1,128]

5 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

Geelong to defeat Port by 12-20 points

GWS to defeat Sydney by less than a kick

Melbourne to defeat Brisbane by 25-30 points

Bulldogs to defeat Essendon by 30-40 points

 

Port to defeat GWS by 5 goals +

Bulldogs defeat Brisbane by less than a kick

 

Melbourne defeat Port by 30-40 points

Geelong defeat Bulldogs by 20-25 points

 

Melbourne defeat Geelong by 12-20 points.

I'm basically the same, although I think Syd beat GWS.

I'm most scared of the Cats - and would love them to go out in straight sets, but I think its out of them and us (whether we meet them in the PF or GF).

[picket fence 17,169]

Port to Smash Geelong

Syd to Destroy GWS

Ess to Annihilate Dogs

DEES TO OBLITERATE Brisvegas🤪

[D4Life 2,473]

All of the above!!

[dee-tox 4,835]

Swans midfield without Mills and Kennedy against one of the best midfields in the comp? Just can't see likes of Buddy, Papley getting enough supply. GWS by three goals.

Essendon might be a bit like us in 2018 after a finals drought. Enthusiasm and emotion count for plenty in finals. Dons by five goals.

Cats will beat Port. Cameron/Hawkins to play blinders.

Dees to beat Lions. Would love for us to hit them hard early and then keep them at arms length for the rest of the game. 

 

[Rob Mac...... 638]

Some case could be made for any team in the 8 to win. Never been so close. 

[roy11 3,853]

21 minutes ago, Rob Mac...... said:

Some case could be made for any team in the 8 to win. Never been so close. 

6 and above for me.

Very nervous and too scared to predict anything in case i jinx it

[DubDee 25,863]

4 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Using the below finals predictor, post your results here:

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I’ve said it since the start of the year, but I think Sydney are a huge chance and along with Geelong are the biggest threats to us.

sweet jesus, I don't think I could take watching us in the GF against the Cats

I'll be in the fetal position checking the scores every 20 minutes

[DubDee 25,863]

I have us playing the Cats in the prelim and Port in the GF

what could go wrong??!?

[Ted Lasso 19,518]

Get the feeling the Lions are the most in form team in it at the moment, Cats last 3 they're 1-3 and only fell over the line against the Saints, 

we're 4-0 and in good shape injury wise and should beat the Lions but i see them as our biggest threat. 

I think we can feel confident against anyone else 

 

[FlashInThePan 1,893]

i have a horrible feeling this thread is going to coax Dr D out of the woodwork to produce yet another factual prediction of doom and gloom. I believe his last one, based on his ability to know more about football than any other numbskull on demonland, had us dropping from 1st to finish 5th and feeling grateful to be in the 8 at all. My skills as a budding Nostrodamus have Dr D predicting we exit the finals in straight sets 😜

 

[Ted Lasso 19,518]

6 minutes ago, FlashInThePan said:

i have a horrible feeling this thread is going to coax Dr D out of the woodwork to produce yet another factual prediction of doom and gloom. I believe his last one, based on his ability to know more about football than any other numbskull on demonland, had us dropping from 1st to finish 5th and feeling grateful to be in the 8 at all. My skills as a budding Nostrodamus have Dr D predicting we exit the finals in straight sets 😜

 

Lets hope so given everything he's ever posted has been wrong, it would just about guarantee us the flag 

[Lord Travis 10,730]

Week 1

Port

Mel

Syd

Dogs

 

Week 2

Bris

Geel

 

Week 3

Melb

Bris

Week 4

Melb

[13thFlagIsComing 542]

Week 1 (When hope turns into happiness /despair)

Port to hold off a fast finishing Cats by 5 points

Bombers to cause an upset and knock out the Dogs (who look completely lost right now) by 17 points

Melbourne to put in a 4 quarter professional performance and defeat Brisbane by 22 points (even after a 3rd quarter fightback from the Lions)

GWS to be the anti-GWS and out grind the grinding Swans in a 2 point thriller

Week 2 (Usually the most one-sided week of finals)

Lions to take care of the Bombers by 30-36 points. Just too strong and the Bombers will run out of momentum.

Cats to defeat a gallant GWS by 20-25 points. The benefit of this matchup is that Geelong's older playing list will be hanging on by a thread.

Week 3 (The Cox Plate -The best weekend of Football all year)

Demons to overrun a lethargic but determined Geelong with a last quarter 6-8 goal blitz. Dees by 30-40 points.

Port Adelaide in another Preliminary Final classic but this time it goes the way of the Power. Port to defeat Brisbane by 2 points.

Week 4 (The one where we win the whole F*cking thing) 

Grand Final will be held at Optus Stadium.

A heavyweight title fight between the best 2 teams of the home and away season.

After a tough 3 quarters where both sides have momentum but can't take advantage, I have the Dees in front at 3/4 time by 4 points. The lead won't blow out to more than 12 points for either side during the game.

Our superior fitness will see us push out to a 24 point lead with 7 minutes to play.

Port will kick a goal to bring it back to 18 points with 6 minutes to go.

A steadier from Ben Brown will take the margin back out to 24 with 4 and a half to play.

The "built for finals" gameplan will see us run the clock down with stoppage after stoppage for a 23 point win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by 13thFlagIsComing

[Webber 10,468]

3 hours ago, dee-tox said:

. Would love for us to hit them hard early

And hit them hard late, and hit them hard in the in-between bits. Surely the ticker gets a rest this week. 

[deebug 1,754]

Hope we can relax more easy than last weeks game, and have a very handy 6 goal lead from the start😏

Dream big😉

[Sir Why You Little 37,036]

4 hours ago, Rob Mac...... said:

Some case could be made for any team in the 8 to win. Never been so close. 

Yep i agree. Have never seen it so tight

Meth Coke and Richmond were pretenders this year. Their replacements will have a Red Hot go

[radar 1,865]

I have a vision/hope Charlie Spargo lights up one final with the first 3 goals of the game

[Engorged Onion 10,215]

10 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

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I’ve said it since the start of the year, but I think Sydney are a huge chance and along with Geelong are the biggest threats to us.

Mine

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,507]

I fear the 5-8 teams more than the 2-4 to be honest.
Not that any team in the finals isn't good, just that the Bulldogs, Swans, Giants and Bombers all have traits that aren't negated as easily by our strengths.  So I'm very happy to see them eliminate each other before too many of them get through to us (assuming we can do the job against the Lions.
I don't rate Port Adelaide particularly highly, but they could be blessed with two home finals in front of a crowd.

MELBOURNE       D.       BRISBANE
PT ADELAIDE.     D.       GEELONG
W. BULLDOGS.    D.       ESSENDON
SYDNEY.               D.       GWS

BRISBANE.           D.       W.BULLDOGS
GEELONG.            D.       SYDNEY

MELBOURNE.       D.       GEELONG. 
PT. ADELAIDE.      D.       BRISBANE. 

 

[titan_uranus 25,019]

8 hours ago, Dwight Schrute said:

Get the feeling the Lions are the most in form team in it at the moment, Cats last 3 they're 1-3 and only fell over the line against the Saints, 

It's easy to be in good form when your last three games are against Fremantle, Collingwood and West Coast.

It's also easy to drop a game or two when your last three games are against GWS, St Kilda and Melbourne.

IMO, Brisbane's and Essendon's formlines are mirages.

Port's and GWS' formlines are far stronger.

[BDA 22,755]

 We'll break the drought

Geelong out in straight sets

[McQueen 17,864]

Justin Longmuir is tipping either Geelong or Brisbane as premiers.