Season 2011 - Crystal Ball Predictions

[little_ripper]

Premier - Essendon
Runner Up - St Kilda
Wooden Spoon - Gold Coast
Essendon will win How Many Games and will Finish - 15 wins, 3rd in H&A
Coleman Medalist - J Reiwoldt
Brownlow Medalist - Judd
Crichton - Jobe
Biggest Slider - Geelong
Biggest Improver - Essendon

LIKE.

(although I think GC will be better than last)

[Sismis]

Hmmm.

[Windy_Hill]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder


Biggest oversight - Geelong

[Megan]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder


Biggest oversight - Geelong

Correct. Spoilt with the start of the season, now bleating when we're getting more realistic results.

[robbie67]

It's not the results though. It's the fact that the results are being provided without any fight, and by the same non descript mediocre footballers that have marked our glorious decade of achievement.

[BenDoolan]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder

That's funny, most in this thread picked us to make the 8.

[jimmyc1985]

It's not the results though. It's the fact that the results are being provided without any fight, and by the same non descript mediocre footballers that have marked our glorious decade of achievement.

Correct, but the peanut gallery don't get it.

If we got rolled by Geelong by 15 goals next week, but the "ins" were Browne, Reimers, Gumbleton, Colyer, T Slattery and Carlisle, and the "outs" were Welsh, McVeigh, Davey, Lonergan, Watson and Myers, i wouldn't give a shit. I'd actually probably be happier with that result than playing the same old washed-up shite and losing by 5 goals.

[Windy_Hill]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder

That's funny, most in this thread picked us to make the 8.

Yep - 12-8 seems to be about the average - which is where we are and likely to finish - so I guess we really have no need to complain?

[BenDoolan]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder

That's funny, most in this thread picked us to make the 8.

Yep - 12-8 seems to be about the average - which is where we are and likely to finish - so I guess we really have no need to complain?

So you're happy?

[hop]

At least I said we'd draw a game!!!!!

Where we finish will be below most B.T.ers expectations. And it's how we will finish that should be disturbing.

No one expected the barn-storming start - but given that, how the holy f*** have we allowed the season to become what it is becoming? Does anyone realistically think we will win more than one more game - if that?

What does that make us? The laughing stock of the comp!

[tonysoprano]

Interestingly most of us had conervative expectations for the Dons yet are now screaming bloody murder

That's funny, most in this thread picked us to make the 8.

Yep - 12-8 seems to be about the average - which is where we are and likely to finish - so I guess we really have no need to complain?

I have an overwhelming need to complain about the performance of this club. Competitive or better for only a third of the season and then go to pieces against clubs that probably will finish in the same bracket as us (excluding hawks)?

I don't "expect" to finish anywhere in particular on the ladder - I expect to be in the contest for much if not all of any particular game. But to be 12 goals to 2 down against an injury riddled Freo, or concede a 6 goals to none quarter against an injury riddled Melbourne, or to be 10 goals down at half-time to a reserves grade Hawthorn - well f*** me - if that's not something worth complaining about I don't know what is.

[Windy_Hill]

Didnt say I was happy - I was happy when we were sitting in the Top 4, 5 weeks ago. But in all honesty, the over reaction to the current form slump does not correlate to our pre-season expectations. It was the unexpected form of the first 8 weeks that has knocked rationality out of recent discussions.

Reality is that we are still miles off being a really top flight side. The Fools Gold of the early successes sucked me in and I guess a few others as well

[j-mac31]

[If we got rolled by Geelong by 15 goals next week, but the "ins" were Browne, Reimers, Gumbleton, Colyer, T Slattery and Carlisle, and the "outs" were Welsh, McVeigh, Davey, Lonergan, Watson and Myers, i wouldn't give a shit. I'd actually probably be happier with that result than playing the same old washed-up shite and losing by 5 goals.

Me too. I'd love to see it happen.

And BTW I refrain from making pre-season predictions.

[Rossoneri]

Premier - Dogs IDIOT
Runner Up - St Kilda IDIOT
Wooden Spoon - Richmond IDIOT
Essendon will win How Many Games and will Finish - 8/12th
Coleman Medalist - Hall IDIOT
Brownlow Medalist - Swan IDIOT
Chrichton Medalist - Hurley IDIOT
Biggest Slider - Geelong IDIOT
Biggest Improver - Essendon (not so much with our win/loss ratio, but more the fact that we wont be getting hammered 3 weeks out of 5 or interestate) IDIOT

[paddyl90]

Premier - Collingwood DEF A CHANCE
Runner Up - Hawthorn PROLLY NOT WITHOUT ROUGHEAD
Wooden Spoon - Brisbane WIN
Essendon will win How Many Games and will Finish - 11 and sneak in to 8th Should've been WIN but not anymore
Coleman Medalist - LeCras [Injury killed his chances]
Brownlow Medalist - Swan We'll see
Chrichton Medalist - Michael Hurley Not sure..see what happens later on this year
Biggest Slider - Geelong (old) EPIC FAIL
Biggest Improver - Essendon (you'd think based on last year ha) but other teams Crows too. EPIC FAIL!

[Jazz_84]

Premier - Collingwood -
Runner Up - Bulldogs -
Wooden Spoon - West Coast -
Essendon will win How Many Games and will Finish - 13/6th -
Coleman Medalist - Franklin -
Brownlow Medalist - Pendlebury -
Chrichton Medalist - Ryder -
Biggest Slider - Fremantle -
Biggest Improver - Essendon -

[Windy_Hill]

Premier - Collingwood -
Runner Up - Bulldogs -
Wooden Spoon - West Coast -
Essendon will win How Many Games and will Finish - 13/6th -
Coleman Medalist - Franklin -
Brownlow Medalist - Pendlebury -
Chrichton Medalist - Ryder -
Biggest Slider - Fremantle -
Biggest Improver - Essendon -

My winner for the best use of Smilies in a single post - well done Jazz

[Jazz_84]

haha thanks i thought it wasn't a half bad idea

[Windy_Hill]

bump

Still have the Chricton to finish off the season.

Not one of us predicted Geelong as Premier.