With the drafts done and dusted for the time being, the SEN commentators have turned their attention to the season ahead with 10 WAY-TOO-EARLY PREDICTIONS FOR THE 2022 AFL SEASON

These are their top ten predictions:-

• COVID will have a tangible impact on 2022 results

• An unpredictable year on and off the field

• The Tiger train to rumble back into the top four

• Emerging Saint to announce himself as a star of the competition (Max King)

• West Coast to accept their fate and commit to a rebuild

• If you thought Collingwood had hit rock bottom …

• The Blues will make the top eight

• Two key Bombers will reinvent themselves in other positions (new roles for McGrath and Shiel?)

• We'll see more variation in how teams play

• Former Brownlow Medallists to reassert themselves as league’s best (Dangerfield and Fyfe) 

What are your predictions?

Adelaide will make the 8 after a pre season under Burgess

31 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

What are your predictions?

Let’s cut to the chase.

One prediction for 2022.

Back to Back!

Ill still be waiting fulfilment from the demon shop

Just now, Satan said:

Ill still be waiting fulfilment from the demon shop

I bought an item 6 weeks ago, it hasn’t arrived and has been discounted since!  They dont respond to email or phone calls.  Pretty crappy really.

Non-premiership-winning coaches to experiment with old fashioned wingers who run up and down the flanks all day.

Same coaches to experiment with new fangled ruckmen who are skilled enough to double as athletic ballhandling midfielders in the same contests in which they are beanpoles winning tapouts.

Same coaches to try out players on their lists who are too tall to be small forwards and too short and light to be KPF, to find one who is fast on the lead, with good hands overhead and quick reflexes. Lists will be exhaustively turned over trying to find this player.

I expect Dees to stay the course in pursuit of our next Granny, Eagles, Pies, Hawks to miss the 8. Cats , Lions & Dogs to be up there again and a real battle for the other 4 spots with Swans, Freo, Dons and Blues making a strong run.!!

28 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Non-premiership-winning coaches to experiment with old fashioned wingers who run up and down the flanks all day.

Same coaches to experiment with new fangled ruckmen who are skilled enough to double as athletic ballhandling midfielders in the same contests in which they are beanpoles winning tapouts.

Same coaches to try out players on their lists who are too tall to be small forwards and too short and light to be KPF, to find one who is fast on the lead, with good hands overhead and quick reflexes. Lists will be exhaustively turned over trying to find this player.

Interestingly that article explicitly calls out that clubs will not try to copy the approach of the grand final teams -Unlike every other year. Like so many SEN bold statements it is based on absolutely nothing.

We have definitely shown a different way to get the job done. I’m not going to go as far as to say teams will try to find these exact players types but they will be looking at how to both copy and breakdown our defensive structure.

9 minutes ago, FlashInThePan said:

Interestingly that article explicitly calls out that clubs will not try to copy the approach of the grand final teams

• Media still confused about whether 2021 was Melbourne's anomaly, and feel 2019/2020 is the better predictor.

Edited November 26, 20213 yr by Engorged Onion

Ratten sacked

Geelong name a successor

Famous Carlton identity seen wearing a tin foil hat

The Weid has a break out game, again

The Pies ask mr and Mrs Daicos to pop a couple more out

Daisy Pearce voted Aussie of the Year

Dogs report on GF result is just 2 words : What happened?

I forgive Tom Scully (there goes the credibility of this post)

 

8 minutes ago, Jontee said:

 

I forgive Tom Scully (there goes the credibility of this post)

 

Who?

Melbourne will win the flag in 2022😊

Jordan De Goey (nor any other Collingwood player) will NOT be in the headlines for all the wrong reas… sorry, I can’t keep a straight face. 
My real prediction is Carlton to make the top four. And the rest of us will finally ‘know they are coming’ albeit 13 years late. 😁

Melbourne Flag

Hawks Implode

Sam Mitchell to have a stupid look on his face

Only the last one is guaranteed.

Edited November 27, 20213 yr by Biffen

Geelong to defy gravity yet again, finish top 4 and exit the finals in straight sets. 

Prediction: next year will be “unpredictable”.
Like in 2020 and 2021. Disruption, change and unpredictability. 
 

Perhaps the one true call out is Clayton Oliver for the Brownlow in 2022.  He’s one of our very best ever to wear the red and blue. A champion no doubt.  
 

Bailey Laurie to debut 

Luke Dunstan to get at least one best on ground & 3 Brownlow votes 

Ben Brown to kick more than 50 goals 

 

Edited November 27, 20213 yr by spirit of norm smith
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1 hour ago, BDA said:

Geelong to defy gravity yet again, finish top 4 and exit the finals in straight sets. 

Jeelong are stuffed and will be extremely lucky to make the 8 and if they do it will only be that of there 20something games at Moggie park they play all the bottom 8 teams twice! God I hate Jeelong😠

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Edited November 27, 20213 yr by daisycutter

GWS to make top four

Back to back Dees flags

BBB Coleman Medalist

Bailey Dale- Brownlow

Wooden Spoon- West Coast

On a related note, I loved reading the Melbourne bit in the below article:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2022-round-1-teams-afl-draft-2021-recruits-most-likely-to-debut-in-round-1-at-every-club/news-story/5c63c76358ba821c57a2ba5437d54ee1

Round 1 verdict: The draftees most likely to debut immediately at every AFL club

MELBOURNE

Three great national draft selections for the Dees, but it’s going to be a tough task for all of them to break into the reigning premiers’ senior team early. Perhaps the best chance would be first-round selection Jacob Van Rooyen. The 193cm and 91kg utility, who played a few games at WAFL league level for Claremont this year, will walk into the Demons with a strong frame and the ability to play inside either 50m arc. The biggest obstacle, though, is there’ll be a few gun players – at either end of the field – in front of Van Rooyen. But a strong pre-season from the WA product should still put him in the mix.

 

Honestly I could have predicted this would be written up as the prediction for us, both from my own analysis and also because of the cookie cutter script Fox Sports use for these articles.  But I still just liked reading the parts about us being premiers and how all these experts are fawning over our list all of a sudden.

2 hours ago, defuture15 said:

GWS to make top four

Back to back Dees flags

BBB Coleman Medalist

Bailey Dale- Brownlow

Wooden Spoon- West Coast

BAILEY DALE??? WHAT ABOUT CLAYTON OLIVER?? 

I thought that JVR was 194cm (Swarta size) for a start and possibly with some growth in the tank. Surely they can get the minor details right.

Only one outcome/prediction I care for 22 🏆

40 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

I thought that JVR was 194cm (Swarta size) for a start and possibly with some growth in the tank. Surely they can get the minor details right.

Yeah, that struck me also. I have now  seen him variously reported as 193,194 and 195cm. Let’s make sure we get the tape measure out when he starts preseason.

10 minutes ago, FlashInThePan said:

Yeah, that struck me also. I have now  seen him variously reported as 193,194 and 195cm. Let’s make sure we get the tape measure out when he starts preseason.

From an AFL article:

IN A DRAFT pool that is dominated by midfielders, Jacob van Rooyen stands out. Then you throw in his 195cm frame, the strong marking, hard running and batch of blond hair and it is easy to see why the West Australian has caught the eye of scouts.