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.

Would have needed some wild dreams to imagine 4-2. Thought 2-4 would have been a pass mark.

3 hours ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

F kn spot on @Jjrogan

Ha thanks. Broken clock.

I think we are 3-3 in this next block. We're playing good football but leak a bit too much on turnovers. If we beat Sydney in Sydney all bets off.

4 hours ago, Jjrogan said:

Ha thanks. Broken clock.

I think we are 3-3 in this next block. We're playing good football but leak a bit too much on turnovers. If we beat Sydney in Sydney all bets off.

Sydney are overrated. Totally winnable game.

16 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Sydney are overrated. Totally winnable game.

Will be a VERY interesting game with Goodwin on the bench as an Assistant coach

18 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Sydney are overrated. Totally winnable game.

Nah they're not overrated at all.

It may still be a winnable game given we've risen to the occasion vs Brisbane and Gold Coast, but equally it's at the SCG, not the MCG, and we are winless in our limited opportunities away from home so far this year.

Need to keep a modest lid on things. We're not 10 days removed from being belted by Essendon, remember.

In 2025 8 wins and a percentage of 96 got you into 10th, 16 wins and a percentage of 109 got you 6th and 16 wins and a percentage of 125 got you top 4.

If we go 3-3 or 4-2 for our next 6 we will be either on the amount of wins that gets you finals (10th) this year already or one win away. And we will need to go 7-4 or 6-5 in our last 11 to be right in the hunt for top 6 or even 4.

I’m backing us to beat Tigers, WC and GWS and hoping we sneak one, probably against Hawks at the G. Crazy times.