Jump to content

Where will the Dees finish after round 24?

binman
in Melbourne Demons

Where will the Dees finish after round 24? 149 members have voted

  1. 1. Where will the Dees finish after round 24?

Please sign in or register to vote in this poll.

Featured Replies

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.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
     
    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.

  • Quote
    • Haha 6
     
    • Author
    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!

  • Quote
    • Haha 1

    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.

  • Quote

    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.

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • 2 weeks later...
    • Author

    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%
  • Quote
    •  

    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.

  • Quote
    • Like 4

    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.

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Haha 1
    • Shocked 1

    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. 

  • Quote
    • Like 7
    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.

     

     

  • Quote

    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 by Nascent

  • Quote
    • Like 4
    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. 😅

  • Quote

    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 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    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 

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    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

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    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.

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    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.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Author

    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

     

  • Quote
    •  
    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

  • Quote
    • Haha 1

    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
    Reply to this topic...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • REPORT: Port Adelaide

      Of course, it’s not the backline, you might argue and you would probably be right. It’s the boot studder (do they still have them?), the midfield, the recruiting staff, the forward line, the kicking coach, the Board, the interchange bench, the supporters, the folk at Casey, the head coach and the club psychologist  It’s all of them and all of us for having expectations that were sufficiently high to have believed three weeks ago that a restoration of the Melbourne team to a position where we might still be in contention for a finals berth when the time for the midseason bye arrived. Now let’s look at what happened over the period of time since Melbourne overwhelmed the Sydney Swans at the MCG in late May when it kicked 8.2 to 5.3 in the final quarter (and that was after scoring 3.8 to two straight goals in the second term). 

      • 2 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Essendon

      Casey’s unbeaten run was extended for at least another fortnight after the Demons overran a persistent Essendon line up by 29 points at ETU Stadium in Port Melbourne last night. After conceding the first goal of the evening, Casey went on a scoring spree from about ten minutes in, with five unanswered majors with its fleet of midsized runners headed by the much improved Paddy Cross who kicked two in quick succession and livewire Ricky Mentha who also kicked an early goal. Leading the charge was recruit of the year, Riley Bonner while Bailey Laurie continued his impressive vein of form. With Tom Campbell missing from the lineup, Will Verrall stepped up to the plate demonstrating his improvement under the veteran ruckman’s tutelage. The Demons were looking comfortable for much of the second quarter and held a 25-point lead until the Bombers struck back with two goals in the shadows of half time. On the other side of the main break their revival continued with first three goals of the half. Harry Sharp, who had been quiet scrambled in the Demons’ first score of the third term to bring the margin back to a single point at the 17 minute mark and the game became an arm-wrestle for the remainder of the quarter and into the final moments of the last.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Gold Coast

      The Demons have the Bye next week but then are on the road once again when they come up against the Gold Coast Suns on the Gold Coast in what could be a last ditch effort to salvage their season. Who comes in and who comes out?

        • Haha
      • 80 replies
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Port Adelaide

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 16th June @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Dees disappointing loss to the Power.
      Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show.
      Listen LIVE: https://demonland.com/

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 31 replies
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Port Adelaide

      The Demons simply did not take their opportunities when they presented themselves and ultimately when down by 25 points effectively ending their finals chances. Goal kicking practice during the Bye?

        • Clap
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 252 replies
      Demonland

    • VOTES: Port Adelaide

      Max Gawn has an insurmountable lead in the Demonland Player of the Year ahead of Jake Bowey, Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver and Kozzy Pickett. Your votes please; 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 31 replies
      Demonland
    View All