Top 4 and finals selections

[LostDoggy]

Re: Top 4 and finals selections

I think we will beat Geelong like we have in the past playing them a few weeks out of the finals and them resting players

[LostDoggy]

Re: Top 4 and finals selections

So we're in the top 4. The big questions is will we manage to stay there?
Freo looks to have a fairly easy run home, and the Hawks are coming home strong.
We play Adelaide away and Geelong...two tough games

Finish 4th we may play Collingwood 1st up....id be happy with that!

If we play like today we will be in with a shot to go all the way!

So realistically looking at it all where do you think we will finish at the end of season?

Also do you see any room for Eagleton/Everitt/Hahn/Minson or Roughhead etc.. in the side come finals time?

We should finish 4th, and I really hope Collingwood finish 1st, I really cant see the Pies winning the flag it would be a massive effort if they did. Their finals start in Round 22 and I would be extremely peeved if we couldnt beat them after the Hawks beat them up in the last round. I would expect the Pies to beat the Hawks but it is the following week after playing them when it hits home and they would be at their weakest and thats when we will strike at the heart of the Infidel!

[LostDoggy]

Re: Top 4 and finals selections

I just had a crack with this, and have us finishing 5th, half a game behind Hawthorn.

I have:

Collingwood
Geelong
St Kilda
Hawthorn
Bulldogs
Fremantle
Carlton
Adelaide

With WCE taking the wooden spoon and Port rising to 11th! (So I'm probably miles off)

We're really going to need to win one of the Adelaide or Geelong games (which we can) to secure a Top 4 spot, or hope that Hawthorn/Freo can stuff it up for themselves, IMHO.

Based on the performance yesterday, we should be able to win one or both of those games and get the double chance.

I agree in the fact that we need to at least win all but one of our games for the remainder of the home and away if we want to control our own destiny. Fremantle will lose at least one but hawthorn are going strong. Either way if freo lose 2 (likely on form, they seem very vunerable) and Hawks lose one (on form unlikely but it takes one slip and its been a very good run for them thus far) we will be a shoe in (hopefully).
(overuse of brackets) but every game we win brings us closer.

[Cooney17]

Re: Top 4 and finals selections

I did the predictor and I came up with:

Geelong
Collingwood
St. Kilda
Bulldogs
Freo
Hawthorn
Carlton
Melbourne

I think the top two could go either way depending on who wins the game in round 19. But I do think that the Dogs will finish top four, although Freo do have a relativly easy run home.

All that it comes down to though is that Finals are where we have to make it happen.