I have no idea where we will finish. I never get these things right.

Given the state of our list with injuries etc we would need a lucky run for the rest of the season and McAdam and Billings to star. A couple of young players step up like McVee last year and with luck we might finish in the 8.

19 hours ago, DubDee said:

what’s next?

Trac joins the mormons and leaves?

Imagine if Jack Viney joined the Mormons.

He'd go around knocking on people's doors and tell THEM to  @!#**&% off.

18 hours ago, M_9 said:

10 - 12.

Very fair prediction.

33 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Imagine if Jack Viney joined the Mormons.

He'd go around knocking on people's doors and tell THEM to  @!#**&% off.

Knocking?

Quick hip and shoulder and he'd be inside your house in a flash!

The loss of Gus has made me rethink that we will finish top 8 and not top 4.

Thanks Maynard .

Interesting that's where the poll is now.

After round 24 we'll finish at the MCG, having just crushed the faltering reigning premiers in front of the season's biggest crowd and taken their spot in the top 4 thanks to an eight game winning streak.

Rnd17 on goes; Eagles, Bombers, Dockers, Giants, Bulldogs, Power, Suns, Magpies.

The first half of this season will be tough but even a 50% win rate will be enough to let us launch into a relatively soft late draw.

2024 will be like 2000 if there was no Essendon.

Reupping this thread.

Anyone who want to put their flag in the ground about where we will finish the 2024 home and away season AHEAD of round one has three days to do so. 

Current data:

116 members have voted and the prediction ladder looks like:  

1. 5th to 8th - 44 votes: 39.29%
2. Top 4 - 43 votes: 38.39%
3. Missing finals - 25 votes: 22.32%

I am supremely confident of a top 4 finish, driven by an injection of youth and class. 

I know we’re a pessimistic bunch but 22% voting to miss finals surprises me.

i voted top 4 originally and im sticking with that.

I always think us at our best is better than anyone. And I’m generally glass half full that we’ll be at our best.

So my guesstimate is minor premiers with a three game gap to second place.

5 minutes ago, Boots and all said:

I am supremely confident of a top 4 finish, driven by an injection of youth and class. 

Salem to the guts.

Billing's delivery.

Youth knocking on the door.

Oliver returning.

The last week has definitely increased the mood. 

16 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Salem to the guts.

Billing's delivery.

Youth knocking on the door.

Oliver returning.

The last week has definitely increased the mood. 

All of the above and I'm not discounting a couple of players staying at the Club after they finish playing.

We have pretty well the best FB aand FF and the best Ruckman in the  comp that are ready to pass on a heap of knowledge to their understudies. Their understudies are moving up with experience quickly. 

I didn't see anything in any of the matches played so far that resembled our discipline, our finesse or variation.

If that's what it looked like, then that's what it is.

I say top 4and nothing less and i don't want to touch on 2 prime reasons stirring everyone who supports these players and this Club, and me.

 

 

Haven't really seen a prediction thread so I thought I would throw a few darts at the wall without too much thought.

1. Brisbane
2. Melbourne
3. Collingwood
4. GWS
5. Carlton
6. Port
7. Bulldogs
8. Adelaide
9. Freo
10. Sydney
11. St Kilda
12. Gold Coast
13. Geelong
14. Kangaroos
15. Essendon
16. Richmond
17. Hawks
18. West Coast

Premiers: Melbourne (biased of course)

Runners up: GWS

Wooden Spoon: Eagles

Brownlow: Daicos

Rising Star: Sanders

Melbourne BnF: Petracca

 

Freo and Sydney are two I'm unsure about. Can see a world where they're both in the 8 but equally I wouldn't be surprised to see them fall further than I have them here.

Edited March 4, 20242 yr by Nascent

We might have some holes and deficiencies, but not as many as 17 others.

On 20/02/2024 at 22:47, binman said:

The corresponding pies and blues footy forum poll is:

Top 4: 100%

5th to 8th: 0%

Missing finals: 0%

Winning flag: 100%

Geez, I might be barracking for the wrong team. These results are how I feel about the Dees… every year. 😅

The same as in 2023 but we will win finals this year.

15 hours ago, Nascent said:

Haven't really seen a prediction thread so I thought I would throw a few darts at the wall without too much thought.

1. Brisbane
2. Melbourne
3. Collingwood
4. GWS
5. Carlton
6. Port
7. Bulldogs
8. Adelaide
9. Freo
10. Sydney
11. St Kilda
12. Gold Coast
13. Geelong
14. Kangaroos
15. Essendon
16. Richmond
17. Hawks
18. West Coast

Premiers: Melbourne (biased of course)

Runners up: GWS

Wooden Spoon: Eagles

Brownlow: Daicos

Rising Star: Sanders

Melbourne BnF: Petracca

 

Freo and Sydney are two I'm unsure about. Can see a world where they're both in the 8 but equally I wouldn't be surprised to see them fall further than I have them here.

That's pretty much as I have it.

Impressed with our improved delivery into the forward line against Carlton and the scoreline could have looked even more dominant if Fritsch and JVR kicked with their normally elite accuracy.  If we can win enough games early and then build towards finals without the consistent injuries we had last season, I think we are right up there again.  Yes we've lost Gus, but we played almost half the season without Clarry last year and still managed.

Will be interesting to see if Collingwood can back up again. They have the oldest list in the comp and with Scott Pendlebury (36 at the start of the season), Steele Sidebottom (33), who are still pretty key.  I think their come from behind mode of winning games is confidence based and could set them up for the wheels to fall off completely if they loose a few on the trot.  They now also have to well and truely deal with being the hunted every week and let's see how the deal with that.

Brisbane have a good opertuity to finish in top, through having the biggest home ground advantage of all the contenders.

Edited March 4, 20242 yr by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

GWS and the Blues were 14th and 15th at round fifteen last year and everyone now has them as top 4/ serious flag chances? either or both could easily miss finals 

Top 4 without a worry. Firstly i have watched the "PRACTICE" game against the Tigers 4 times and I bet the Dees coaches never once worried about the scores, what was evident was the way they moved the ball forward lower and fast ,then we move forward to the Blues game and that "PRACTICE" was on show with great ball forward use. low with purpose.  Our forward line is not as poor as the doomers believe . I thought the marking was strong from our main  forwards and with the inclusion of Mc Adams, Billings and up and comer Windsor , the kicking into our forwards will improve.     GO DEES

We were banged up coming into finals last year, and then performed poorly right across the ground (but most obviously in front of goals) in both finals and yet still expected scores had us ahead by 3 goals in both games.

The pessimists somehow see finishing in the top 4 for the third year straight as the annomaly and the scoreboard result of the two finals as the norm.  Bizarre.

Top 4 for me unless we are crueled by injuries.  Our best is still the best.

I'd guess we will set our year up very similar to last season where everything is built towards hitting our best form in the finals. 

if we're healthy i am confident we will be playing in a prelim at least.

Top 4 surging! 

Suggested headline and sub header for the media:

• DEES FANS DEEMAND SUCCESS
• STUDY SHOWS HALF OF DEES FANS EXPECT TOP 4 FINISH

Headline and sub header media run with:

• DEES FANS DEELUSIONAL 
• AGAINST ALL LOGIC STUDY SHOWS HALF OF DEES FANS EXPECT TOP 4 FINISH

 

I think we will finish somewhere between 1st and 18th.

3 hours ago, Dwight Schrute said:

I'd guess we will set our year up very similar to last season where everything is built towards hitting our best form in the finals. 

if we're healthy i am confident we will be playing in a prelim at least.

Please don't mention the "L" word

I missed Mark Williams' departure??  Must have been having a nap.