Crystal ball predictions for 2018 season

[qldmagpie67]

For a bit of fun let's make our predictions for 2018 season and then we can see how we went at seasons end

Collingwood ladder finish - 6th
Wins - 13
Copeland medalist - Treloar
Most goals - Elliott 53
Best 1st year player - Shephenson
Highest Brownlow finish - Trelaor top 5 (25 votes)
Success story - Scharenberg plays all 22 games cementing his spot
AA nominations - Grundy Treloar Pendles Elliott

Biggest story - Pendles steps down as skipper for 2019 season replaced by Adams with all new leadership group of Treloar Grundy Moore

Headline breaker - Lynch commits future to Collingwood in mega deal
List changes - Out - Seir Blair Langdon Oxley Smith Thomas

[Dave The Man]

Collingwood ladder finish - 17th
Wins - 5
Copeland medalist - Brody Grundy
Most goals - Moore 35
Best 1st year player - Shephenson
Highest Brownlow finish - Trelaor 20 Votes
Success story - Aish plays all 22 games cementing his spot
AA nominations - Grundy Treloar Pendles Elliott

Biggest story - Bucks Sacked

Headline breaker - Bucks Sacked

[inxs88]

Departures:

1. Fasolo: free agent to West Coast
2. Goldsack: retires
3. Blair: the cockroach surely delisted
4. Mayne: payout
5. J Thomas: delisted
6. Oxley: delisted
7. J Smith: delisted

Vulnerable: (all in last year of contracts)

8. Aish
9. Broomhead
10. Greenwood
11. Varcoe
12. Wells: has performance triggers
13. Ben Reid: legs are shot

2019 Targets:

R Sloane
T Lynch

* so expect some aggressive de-listings if we are to share 1or 2 feee agents.

[inxs88]

[inxs88]

[surfer1]

[Skids]

[Skids]

Well finish 4th
With 15 wins
Sidey will take the copeland
And Cox will kick 63 goals
Daics crumbling plenty and taking the rising star
as well as a top 3 finish in the brownlow for Sidey
The big Coxs success will be known around the globe
and he along with; Grundy, Treloar, Sidey, WHE, Faz, Daics & Pendles will push for AA selection.

Dominant PIES will be headlines across the country, with the biggest story being the decline of the Giants as their hierarchy implodes.

[BazBoy]

At this time all of us desire a good season and without any facts to back this up I have a notion we will have a better win to loss ratio in 2018

Enough to move into eight ????

There are other clubs in bottom eight club who,s supporters are thinking simalar thoughts and apart from us knocking off the power sides we must
not let ourselves down by dropping games against side,s we shared bottom eight with

[sixpoints]

[npalm]

inxs88. You refer to one of our players as a cockroach. What does that make you?
Clearly not a Collingwood supporter.

[slangman]

9th
10-11 wins
Howe to win Copeland
Mason Cox top goalkicker with 37 goals
Pendles steps down as captain at seasons end.
We have our customary 6 week patch of horrible form and drop games that we shouldn’t have.
Rely on too few once more
Unable to kick enough goals on a regular basis is once again our Achilles heel

Headline at years end will be all about Lynch (if he still hasn’t re-signed with the suns)

[AnthonyC]

FMD, Hope Springs Eternal at the beginning of the season.

Is it a case of don't get your hopes up so that you're not disappointed, or is that your outlook...?

With my rose coloured glasses still in the draw, anyone who thinks that we will be worse this year than last is incredibly pessimistic or really does have a crystal ball! I won't guarantee a high finish but with just an even break we'll be better this year.

[3rd degree]

8TH
With 13 WINS
De Goey will win copeland
Kirby will kick 75 goals and taunt Back Pockets with a Kirby Dance after each goal.
Maynard will knock out Viney on QB match
Pendles will be top 3 at Brownlow
Mason Cox will put out a hip hop single with Fasolo
Carlton will be beaten twice by avenging Pies.
Jamie Elliot - will be pressure king inside 50.

NEWS HEADLINE: Didak appointed Skills Coach at Pies.
NEWS HEAD LINE: Gault Unretires and Becomes Magpie President ,Stunned McGuire defeated at Election by Former Tall SandGroper.

[Mugwump]

I did mine without looking and found they were so close to Qldmagpie’s that it’s not worth posting. The only changes I’d have from his are that I expect Moore to have a breakout year. I really can’t wait for the season to start. It’s too many sleeps away.