Wildly speculative off-season prediction thread

[dibo]

A-League top scorer - Aloi$i

HAL Player of the season - Aloi$i

Aloi$i to miss half season with injury.

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[kennymullet]

Ladder:
1) Melbourne
2) Sydney
3) CCM
4) Queensland
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5) Adelaide
6) Wellington
7) Newcastle
8) Perth

Champions - Sydney
Premiers - Melbourne
Mariners position on the ladder - 3rd
Mariners player of the season - Wilko or Caceres
Mariners top scorer - Petrovski
A-League top scorer - Shane Smeltz
Wooden Spoon - Perth
U20 player of the season - Tahj Minnecon (sp?)
HAL Player of the season - Matt Mckay or Roddy Vargas
Coach of the year - Ernie Merrick
Out of the Left Field prediction - reigning champions sack coach within 10games of winning the a-league last year, Muscat to retire in winning GF and Mrdja to retire throughout season, Victory concede less than 10 goals, a Post 08/09 season signing worth over $1.5million, Possibly a decently referee'd match somewhere in the 90 games played next year

 

[Newieutd]

Champions - Queensland
Premiers - Queensland
Mariners position on the ladder - 6th
Mariners player of the season - Wilkinson
Mariners top scorer - Petrovski
A-League top scorer - Queenslands marquee
Wooden Spoon - Perth
U20 player of the season - Ben Kantorovski
HAL Player of the season - Matt Mckay
Coach of the year - Ricky Herbert
Out of the Left Field prediction - NZ to finish second and lose the grand final

1 ) Qld
2 ) NZ
3 ) Ade
4 ) New
5 ) Syd
6 ) CC
7 ) Mel
8 ) Perth

 

[skilbeck]

hint Newie, NZ isnt a team anymore. They folded and the Wellington franchise came in about a year ago

 

[Kareem]

no offence mate but Melbourne at 7th is possibly the worst prediction ever...dont you remember there late season surge?
top 3 finish 99%
top 4 finish for mariners 99%
only one that is agreeable there is Perth!

 

[northernspirit]

My tip: (Newcastle to be the first team to go from champions to wooden spooners)

(1) Adelaide Utd
(2) Sydney FC
(3) Melbourne Victory
(4) Central Coast Mariners
(5) Queensland Roar
(6) Wellington Phoenix
(7) Perth Glory
(8.) Newcastle United Jets

 

[brett]

no offence mate but Melbourne at 7th is possibly the worst prediction ever...dont you remember there late season surge?
top 3 finish 99%
top 4 finish for mariners 99%
only one that is agreeable there is Perth!

Last year everyone said scum would come last after they lost carle, okon, milton, coveny.

 

[Sean]

no offence mate but Melbourne at 7th is possibly the worst prediction ever...dont you remember there late season surge?
top 3 finish 99%
top 4 finish for mariners 99%
only one that is agreeable there is Perth!

Last year everyone said scum would come last after they lost carle, okon, milton, coveny.

YEAH! IN YOUR FACE! (Points to avatar)

 

[skilbeck]

that avatar has brought sus to new levels

 

[Kareem]

no offence mate but Melbourne at 7th is possibly the worst prediction ever...dont you remember there late season surge?
top 3 finish 99%
top 4 finish for mariners 99%
only one that is agreeable there is Perth!

Last year everyone said scum would come last after they lost carle, okon, milton, coveny.

hence why I havent commented on Newcastle- they got some nice players in startin 11 but no depth...but I still am unsure of how they will go- (partly coz they still got 5-8 signings left to make). I think anywhere from 3rd-7th(lol at the exactness of that guess)
However most people on here seem to think that Melb have a lot better in them than 7th! Hence why i challenged your prediction! AT, Allsoppm Fernandez, Pondeljak- sooo much quality for MV!
Same situation with mariners- elrich, caceres, jedi, boogs- potential winners- and almost definite top 4.
You may disagree with our thoughts on mariners- possibly bias on either our behalf o maybe yours (for thinkin 6th place).
However MV will definately outplace Jets and others- top 2 finish IMO

 

[thomas477]

RE: Jets coming last

Okon or Durante? Okon

Bridge or Rodrigeuz? Rodrigeuz

Mulsalik or Carle? Carle

We aint got nuthin as bad as last year

 

[Jesus]

Apart from carle i didnt see them as big losses.
But, if it wasnt for 14 goals from sack whack, where would newcastle have finished? They may have won the final, but if griffiths was injured, where would they have gone?

What if he leaves? What if he gets injured? They need someone who can score. If they cant find it, they will struggle.

Season 2 they were not a one man team. Season 3 they got really close to being. If they continue the trend in season 4 they are going to need a whole lot of luck.

 

[thomas477]

Yeah well next season you'll see more of hoffman (our matt simon ) and a Nigerian Player and a player from Serie B who has a couple of international caps

 

[dibo]

RE: Jets coming last

Okon or Durante? Okon

Bridge or Rodrigeuz? Rodrigeuz

Mulsalik or Carle? Carle

We aint got nuthin as bad as last year

you're not comparing like for like though.

last year you replaced okon through griffiths. this year you've got no replacement for durante.

the musialik/carle choice is a false one, for a start they were there concurrently and they don't play the same position.

the rodriguez/bridge thing has the issue that you had bridge while rodriguez was there too.

last year when you simply didn't replace rodriguez or carle, the goals dried up. you got *very* lucky that c**tface had a record breaking season. and that the defensive unit were tight as a fish's arsehole.

this year you've added nothing to the goalscoring while taking away from the defence. you've got a fair while til the season, but we're starting preseason in what, 3 weeks? we're also able to spend something like $475k more than you lot in player negotiations because our board aren't being dickheads with service agreements.

you're investing in kids not because of con having any deep-seated belief in youth (else coveny, okon, millicic, covic and jardel would never have been seen in jets shirts) but because you can't afford to play with the big kids in the player market.

last year was bad, and you folks got lucky. i don't expect the same thing to happen again without some tremendous signings happening in the very near future, but i'd guess that the likelihood of good signings is about the same as the likelihood of big losses in the form of one or other of the griffiths brothers or jade north.

 

[Part_Timer]

Yeah well next season you'll see more of hoffman (our matt simon ) and a """Nigerian Player and a player from Serie B who has a couple of international caps"""

lucky you have the inside information...

 

[thomas477]

Mate plenty of time till the start of season

BTW aussiecross it was in The Herald

 

[Part_Timer]

yeah i know. gez sarcasim + internerd = no fun

 

[Omni]

Yeah well next season you'll see more of hoffman (our matt simon ) ....

Yea I've seen Hoffman he can't score either

 

[Tassiemariner]

Champions - Melbourne
Premiers - Mariners
Mariners position on the ladder - 1st
Mariners player of the season - Boogaard
Mariners top scorer - Kwasaldinho
A-League top scorer - Thompson
Wooden Spoon - Perth
U20 player of the season -An under 20s Perth player
HAL Player of the season - Carlos Hernandez
Coach of the year - Ricky Herbert
Out of the Left Field prediction - Kossie sacked after 12 games, Mariners to concede 0 goals in december and january to charge to 1st position

1 ) Mariners
2 ) Melbourne
3 ) Queensland
4 ) Phoenix
5 ) Newcastle
6 ) Adelaide
7 ) Sydney
8 ) Perth

 

[~Floss~]

......... Mariners to concede 0 goals in december and january to charge to 1st position ....

LOL almost had me there, then i realised the date range. Would be a great comeback