The Hard Road To The Premiership

[PaulP]

Appreciate what GTC and cookie are saying, but there's too many good players out, and too much last minute patching up for Essendon to do much. They might start well, but will fade pretty quickly IMO.

For what it's worth, this is my guess at the way teams will finish this year. I'm tipping Freo EDIT or Hawks for the flag - reckon the penny might've finally dropped for ol Toss. EDIT : on further thought, if the reduced rotations have a big impact, then lean and mean teams like Hawthorn would have an advantage over bigger bodied teams like Freo. Hmmm............

I do wonder whether the reduced rotations will encourage teams to play frenetic 1st and 2nd quarters, to build up a substantial half time lead, in anticipation of running out of steam late in the game ?

1-4
Fremantle
Sydney
Hawthorn
West Coast

5-8 ( in no particular order)
North Melbourne
Collingwood
Western Bulldogs or Geelong
Richmond

9-14 ( in no particular order)
Essendon or Brisbane
Giants
St Kilda
Crows
Port
Western Bulldogs or Geelong

15-18 ( in no particular order)
Melbourne
GC
Carlton
Essendon or Brisbane