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Freddy Fuschia
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21 minutes ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

Early season predictions from the experts …

Crystal Ball: Our predictions for the 2021 AFL season are in

Great Read FF.

Iv'e never seen so much amusing fiction , since I read some James Bond Novels.

However at least Barrett came up with the gem "...Clarkson and Kennett will come to blows..." 

But anyone could have tipped this come to think of it.

 

 

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    Pretty sure Demonland's own crystal ball was more accurate and more adventurous, too.

    We are the experts, after all.

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    Noakes had us in 8. Putting us behind Saints and Blues did not age well for some. These ladders show why we have been disrespected all year. The ongoing expectation we will fall over. It why our odds have been overs

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    And those blokes are paid money to be "experts"?  No more of an idea than the average fan.

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    Every single tipster had Rchmond in the 8

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    To be fair they're just football journalists... Calling them experts is flattering. 

    Most of them wont mind getting us wrong too much if Port win the flag.

    I had us around the 6th-8th mark.

    The season has been terrific at helping us forget just how poor we were at times last season and horrendous the year before. Feel like we've only just won the full trust of all AFL media in the last month.

    Edited by Yung Blood

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    The catalyst for this year was the disastrous 2019 season. That free fall was not a true reflection of our position. It allowed us to improve our squad with real top end talent. This list was always on talent top four it just required some proper leadership and soul searching a la Geelong 2006. Cam Mooney spotted it but just had his years wrong.

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    2 hours ago, Yung Blood said:

    To be fair they're just football journalists... Calling them experts is flattering. 

    Most of them wont mind getting us wrong too much if Port win the flag.

    I had us around the 6th-8th mark.

    The season has been terrific at helping us forget just how poor we were at times last season and horrendous the year before. Feel like we've only just won the full trust of all AFL media in the last month.

    Poor enough last year to have 107% !!

    and more wins than losses.

    ONE bad game in 2020 vs port 

    TWO others not great bs Dogs and Eagles

    TWO AFL and poor culture losses in CAIRNS

    Rest were wins by good margins and when our defence started to evolve we beat Saints and GWS.

    Looking back last 9 games were 6/3 so we started to launch part of our defence  style and 2020 was not wasted PLUS games into Dogga Kossie Riv  and Langers and Tommo.!!

    not so poor after all YB ??? 

     

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    2 minutes ago, 58er said:

    Poor enough last year to have 107% !!

    and more wins than losses.

    ONE bad game in 2020 vs port 

    TWO others not great bs Dogs and Eagles

    TWO AFL and poor culture losses in CAIRNS

    Rest were wins by good margins and when our defence started to evolve we beat Saints and GWS.

    Looking back last 9 games were 6/3 so we started to launch part of our defence  style and 2020 was not wasted PLUS games into Dogga Kossie Riv  and Langers and Tommo.!!

    not so poor after all YB ??? 

     

    haha thanks for solidifying my statement that we were poor 'at times' last season.

    🙃

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    5 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    Every single tipster had Rchmond in the 8

    Would've been a brave person to leave them out after 3 flags in 4 years! A drop to 6th/7th sure but not outside the 8.

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    23 hours ago, Young Blood said:

    To be fair they're just football journalists... Calling them experts is flattering. 

    Most of them wont mind getting us wrong too much if Port win the flag.

    I had us around the 6th-8th mark.

    The season has been terrific at helping us forget just how poor we were at times last season and horrendous the year before. Feel like we've only just won the full trust of all AFL media in the last month.

    The amount of these so called experts who put Collingwood in the 8 is staggering, blind Freddy could see them collapse down the ladder, with the stars they traded out.

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    23 hours ago, Young Blood said:

    To be fair they're just football journalists... Calling them experts is flattering. 

    Most of them wont mind getting us wrong too much if Port win the flag.

    I had us around the 6th-8th mark.

    The season has been terrific at helping us forget just how poor we were at times last season and horrendous the year before. Feel like we've only just won the full trust of all AFL media in the last month.

    I'd argue that many of them are not journalists, just 'reporters'.

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    19 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Fair play to Goodwin in that interview, what he said has pretty much all happened (or could happen).

    Goody knows more in that interview than all the "expert scribes"!

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    On 8/31/2021 at 12:13 PM, Young Blood said:

    haha thanks for solidifying my statement that we were poor 'at times' last season.

    🙃

    I am saying we were not POOR as much as you said and we set up some defence and learnings last season which have been extended this year in our plans and form.

    ie we weren't so poor as you said in 2020 in fact a good development year in prep for 2021.' Ph

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    2 minutes ago, 58er said:

    I am saying we were not POOR as much as you said and we set up some defence and learnings last season which have been extended this year in our plans and form.

    ie we weren't so poor as you said in 2020 in fact a good development year in prep for 2021.' Ph

    You need to read my statement. I said we were poor 'at times', that's all. You backed this up by stating the games we were poor. There weren't many of them yes but they were crucial games for us making the finals.

    I think we had an underrated year last year especially the way we built up form through the back part of the year. Internally the club was pleased with the performances especially in the hubs. 

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    Coming into 2019 I predicted over the next 3 years we would miss the finals at least once and make a GF at least once.  Needless to say it wasn't looking good in March this year!  but I'm happy to brag about it now (well soon hopefully!)

    improvement is rarely linear with a young team

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