Out of the next 6 weeks, I just hope we beat Hawthorn. Fairly convincingly would also be nice.

46 minutes ago, Sideshow Bob said:

Revisiting

St Kilda - WIN

Dockers - loss

Carlton - WIN

Suns - WIN

Bombers - loss

Brisbane - WIN

4 and 2 start. So much for all the experts with their 0 and 6 or 1 and 5 predictions.

Next 6

Richmond MCG (away)

Sydney SCG

WC Eagles MCG

Hawthorn MCG

Footscray Marvel

Giants - Alice Springs (home)

Should beat Richmond and West Coast, Sydney and hawthorn probable losses

Footscray have some injuries and look beatable but ?? Giants should be beatable but would be Melboirne like to drop our bundle in Alice again...

I think we go 3 and 3 next 6 weeks but another 4 and 2 next most likely

If we can go 4-2 next 6 we would have already exceeded last year in it’s entirety which was my pass mark for this year before it started

On 03/03/2026 at 20:13, sisso said:

Given Simmos recent track record coaching at West Coast l’ll take that as a sign we will start 5-1

You weren't far off!

On 03/03/2026 at 19:43, sisso said:

Given Simmos recent track record coaching at West Coast l’ll take that as a sign we will start 5-1

Very close.

On 03/03/2026 at 20:13, Jjrogan said:

4-2 with K. Pickett 3 best on grounds.

F kn spot on @Jjrogan

On 04/03/2026 at 12:30, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I thought that was a good feature of the recent practice match again North that we did several last 2min drills against opposition other than ourselves and won both drills in a fairly controlled way.

Granted our opposition was only North, but they did also go onto beat Collingwood in a close one in their second practice match.

It worked for us yesterday in a big way, thought we controlled it extremely well under pressure and iced the clock very well.

2 hours ago, In Harmes Way said:

Out of the next 6 weeks, I just hope we beat Hawthorn. Fairly convincingly would also be nice.

Agree. Hate those bastards

2 hours ago, binman said:

You weren't far off!

There is no way I could have forseen 2 wins against 2 of the top 4 premiership favourites! Been a ripper start hope we can keep it going

1 hour ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

It worked for us yesterday in a big way, thought we controlled it extremely well under pressure and iced the clock very well.

It really was smart coaching from Kingy to make this a focus, given how many close ones we lost last year and even just in general it's pretty low hanging fruit to be good at winning the close ones. All that effort to play well for ~110mins means nothing if you loose it in the last 10mins.

I'm not saying Goodwin was all that bad at this aspect either though. Back in 2021, we made something of a habit of winning by smallish margins and controlling the game in the second half to do so. I think it's something that perhaps got a bit lost the past couple of years as we transitioned to a more attacking game overall, that we lost that ability to change the tempo and control the dying stages of games.

Controlling the tempo of games like this in-game is something of a measure of the maturity of teams and I do think King has inherited a list with a good spread of mature leaders to implement this kind of measure.

On 04/03/2026 at 10:30, GS_1905 said:

We will do what Melbourne does. We will beat Lions, Freo and the Suns and lose to Blues, Bombers and Saints.

Not a bad assessment in retrospect.

On 04/03/2026 at 07:55, jnrmac said:

After being 0-5 last year we were 7-9 for the rest with a percentage of 107

We aren't that bad

Ignore the media

*cough **cough*

I thought best case scenario was 3-3 after 6 rounds. Brilliant start. Just a pity about the mulligan against the bombers.