OK, with the Grand Final spirit hanging thick in the air, the smell of freshly-mown grass wafting down from the MCG and the cavalcade of open-topped cars warming up for tomorrow’s lunchtime GF parade down Swanston St, Crikey is offering its legion of devoted readers the chance at winning four free 12-month subscriptions. All you’ve got to do is don your club beanie, study the formguide and nominate the winners in the following categories:
1) The Premiership team – and winning margin (or closest to the final figure; first correct entry lodged wins)
2) The Norm Smith Medal winner for best afield (all correct entries to go in a hat; winner to be picked out by neutral observer (ie me). On this point, a second Crikey subscription goes to PhilofSydney who spotted the deliberate loophole in the original rules and quickly nominated Gary Ablett.)
3) The First Goalkicker (all correct entries into a hat, etc.)
4) And the player who racks up Most Disposals (as per Champion Data stats. Again, all correct entries go into a hat, etc.)
So, get cracking. Knock yourself out. Entries close at 2pm on Saturday 27 September 2008.
The usual caveats apply (judge’s decision final, no correspondence entered into etc).
45 Comments
1) Geelong by 48
2) Gary Ablett
3) Gary Ablett
4) I’m from NSW, I don’t even know what this means. That redheaded Cameron Ling guy perhaps?
I can’t win but…
Hawks
Chance Bateman
Roughhead
Sam Mitchell
Neither can I, but what the hell …
1) Geelong by 39
2) Joel Selwood
3) Matthew Stokes
4) Joel Corey
1. Geelong by 29
2. Bartel
3. Franklin
4. Ablett
1. Geelong by 60 points
2. Jmmy Bartel
3. Lance Franklin
4. Gary Ablett
1 Hawthorn 2pts
2 Luke Hodge
3 Cameron Mooney
4 Jordan Lewis
1. Geelong, 31 points
2. Gary Ablett
3. Matthew Stokes
4. Joel Corey
1. Hawthorn, 7 points
2. Brad Sewell
3. Jarryd Roughead
4. Brad Sewell
Too easy… Is it OK to donate all four of my winning subscriptions to David Penberthy?
1. Geelong, 52 points
2. Joel Selwood
3. Steve Johnson
4. Joel Corey
1. Geelong, 26 points
2. Jimmy Bartel
3. Steve Johnson
4. Jimmy Bartel
1. Geelong, 27
2. Paul Chapman
3. Paul Chapman
4. Jimmy Bartel
I’m also ineligible, but hey, we’ll see if I can be as wrong as I was on the Brownlow predictions:
Geelong by 31 points
Sam Mitchell
Steve Johnson
God Jnr
Geelong by 23
Bartel
Paul Chapman
Joel Corey
Geelong by 17
Gary Ablett Jr
Mark Williams
Joel Corey
Hawthorn by 18
Brad Sewell
Lance Franklin
Chance Bateman
1. Hawthorn by 21
2. Jimmy Bartel
3. Buddy Franklin
4. Steve Johnson
Geelong by 8
Tom Harley
Jared Roughead
Joel Corey
Geelong by 92 points
Gary Ablett Jr
Gary Ablett Jr
Gary Ablett Jr
Cats by 32
Brad Ottens
Steve Johnson
Joel Corey
Hawthorn by 15
Chance Bateman
Cyril Rioli
Jordan Lewis
Hawthorn by 4
Cyril Rioli
Cyril Rioli
Joel Corey
1. Geelong by 14pts
2. Garry Ablett Jr.
3. Travis Varcoe
4. Jimmy Bartel
1 Hawthorn by 27 points
2 Sam Mitchell
3 Buddy Franklin
4 Sam Mitchell
1. Geelong by 23
2. Gary Ablett jr.
3. Buddy Franklin
4. Jimmy Bartel
Who gives a flying fig about a suburban kick ‘n’ giggle competition.
The real question is will Adelaide United beat Bunyodkor in the first leg of the ACL semi finals and in aggregate after the second leg in Tashkent?
Haw-11 pts
Chance Bateman
Chance Bateman
Chance Bateman
1. Hawthorn, 13 points
2. Luke Hodge
3. Michael Osbourne
4. Sam Mitchell
C’arn the Hawks!
First of G’day from USA.
Missing the Grand Final parade and watching the match, live (although thanks to AFL.com, I can at least listen to Rexy! or should I try MMM or ABC?).
Since I cannot follow AFL as much as I used to (esp living in part of USA which is very distance to Aussie sports) and seeing my Demons managed to earn the wooden spoon, I have little info on the current form and players of Cats and Hawks (maybe we should have joined with Hawks, if it wasn’t the White Knight, Joe).
So here’s my choice.
1) Geelong and 23 points
2) Gary Ablett Jr (for missing out on the Brownlow Medals, and that will inspire him further)
3) Jimmy Bartel
4) Gary Ablett Jr
1. Geelong by 17 points
2. Gary Ablett
3. Cameron Mooney
4. Gary Ablett
1. Geelong by 10 points
2. Lance Franklin
3. Lance Franklin
4. Joel Corey
1. Geelong by 21 points
2. Joel Corey
3. Jarryd Roughead
4. Jimmy Bartel
1. Hawthorn, 1 point
2.Chance Bateman
3. Gary Ablett
4. Sam Mitchell
1. Hawthorn by 15 points
2. Shane Crawford
3. Lance Franklin
4. Sam Mitchell
1. Geelong by 28
2. Travis Varcoe
3. Cyril Rioli
4. Paul Chapman
1. Geelong by 41
2. Norm Smith: Joel Selwood
3. First goal: Travis Varcoe (after a downfield free kick from a Brent Guerra late cheap shot)
4. Most disposals: Joel Corey
1. Hawthorn by 7 points
2. Chance Bateman
3. Chance Bateman
4. Gary Ablett
1. Winner and margin: Hawthorn by 21
2. Normy: Luke Hodge
3. First goal: Steve Johnson (after conning the umpire with yet another Logie worthy performance)
4. Most disposals: Jordan Lewis
1. Hawthorn by 5 points
2. Sam Mitchell
3. Tom Lonergan
4. Sam Mitchell
1. Hawthorn by 13 points
2. Norm Smith medallist – Luke Hodge
3. First Goal: Chance Bateman
4. Most stats: Sam Mitchell (and daylight came second!)
1. Geelong by 50 points
2. Norm Smith medallist – Gary Ablett
3. First Goal: Steve Johnson
4. Most stats: Gary Ablett
Predictions from my seat in the Back Row of the Top Deck – a hawk’s eye view if you like…
1. Hawthorn by 37 points
2. Norm Smith – Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin
3. First Goal – Clinton Young
4. Most Stats – Brad Sewell
1. Geelong by 28 points
2. Norm Smith: Cameron Ling
3. First goal: Jarryd Roughead
4. Most possessions: Sam Mitchell
Predictions from afar… and I hope my first tip is wrong!
1. Geelong by 14
2. Chance Bateman
3. Mark Williams
4. Sam Mitchell
1 Geelong by 33
2 Gary Ablett
3 Steve Johnson
4 Gary Ablett
Well I was going to enter even though I have no idea what I’m doing but for some reason the GF is on TV (muted) and I just saw it was 6-0 to Geelong so looks like the first goal has already been scored.