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What a fairy tale year it has been for those from the West of Melbourne, with Footscray breaking the long title drought.
Now the season is finished, it would be remiss of me not go over my 2016 pre-season predictions.
1. The ‘smallest’ Coleman Medal winner
To start the crazy predictions, I thought we’d go small, but that didn’t turn out well for me.
While Eddie Betts continued to thrill supporters throughout the league, he was never really in the hunt to take home the Coleman. Big Josh Kennedy going back to back leaves me with a big fail.
2. What’s the finals without Sydney? We will find out
After they lost the qualifying final to Greater Western Sydney, I did have a small hope of them getting bundled in straight sets so I can use the old throw-away line that the finals were really without Sydney.
Instead the Swans made the grand final again, but again came up empty-handed. Hmmm, note to self for next season.
Just like Sydney in the grand final, another fail. That’s zero from two.
3. Crouching Tiger, hidden consistency
Richmond stank it up again when I was expecting the Tiger army to finally have something to cheer about.
Wrong again! Third strike. I’m just a bad AFL drug policy away from extinction.
4. No AFL coach will be harmed in the making of 2016 season
The merry-go-round that is the coaching carousel was pretty uneventful, with only Justin Leppitsch from my Lions being asked to clean out of his desk.
Any chance of a priority pick for being close? While Gil McLachlan and the AFL ponder that question, wrong again! None from four.
5. Queen’s Birthday Weekend will be another rout – just a black and white one
Winner winner chicken dinner!
This one is a win to the good guys! If at the start of the year you were to say you could have one come true, this would be the one I desired most.
The Dees making huge in the last year of Paul Roos’ coaching regime before handing over the reigns to Simon Goodwin included a tremendous Queen’s Birthday Weekend win over the Magpies!
The eight-goal thumping leaving the win and loss record at one and four in the left-field predictions ladder – not a complete wipe out, and I feel pretty unlucky with the bounce of the ball in a couple.
But clearly in the off season, I can take stock, rebuild the list, and climb the prediction ladder.
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