2016 Season Predictions

[Myron Gaines]

Saints wins: 7
Saints finishing position: 15
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Steven, 2. Billings, 3. Ross
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Eagles vs Freo
Premier: Eagles
Wooden spoon: Bombers
Brownlow: Dangerfield
Rising star: Calum Mills
Coleman: Kennedy

[St Chris]

Saints wins: 6
Saints finishing position: 15th
Saints B&F top 3: Armo, Steven, Dempster
Saints leading goal kicker: Josh Bruce

Grand final: Hawks vs. Port Adelaide
Premier: Port
Wooden spoon: Essendon
Brownlow: Fyfe
Rising star: Darcy Moore
Coleman: Tom Hawkins

[Winmar7]

Saints wins: 17
Saints finishing position: 1st
Saints B&F top 3: J Billings, J Steven, S Dempster
Saints leading goal kicker: J Bruce

Grand final: St K vs WB
Premier: St Kilda
Norm Smith: N Riewoldt
Wooden spoon: Essendon
Brownlow: J Billings
Rising star: J Gresham
Coleman: J Bruce

We can dream...

[samuraisaint]

6 or 7 wins and a 15th placing looks about right to me.

[bigred]

Saints wins: 11
Saints finishing position: 11
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Billings, 2. Steven, 3. Newnes
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Hawthorn v Freo
Premier: Hawthorn
Wooden spoon: Bombers
Brownlow: Mitchell
Rising star: Brandon White...o.O
Coleman: Kennedy

[Stephen Theodore]

Saints wins: 11
Saints finishing position: 11
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Billings, 2. Steven, 3. Newnes
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Hawthorn v Freo
Premier: Hawthorn
Wooden spoon: Bombers
Brownlow: Mitchell
Rising star: Brandon White...o.O
Coleman: Kennedy

Hope you're on the ball, Bigred

[Bluthy]

Saints wins: 8
Saints finishing position: 14
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Steven, 2. Armo, 3. Dempster
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Hawks vs West Coast
Premier: West Coast
Wooden spoon: Bombers
Brownlow: Ablett
Rising star: Jacob Weitering
Coleman: Jeremy Cameron

[BigMart]

Saints wins: 7
Saints finishing position: 14th
Saints B&F top 3: Steven - Billings - Newnes
Saints leading goal kicker: Josh Bruce

Grand final: WCE vs Freo
Premier: Freo
Wooden spoon: Essendon
Brownlow: Ablett
Rising star: Petracca
Coleman: Franklin

[WellardSaint]

Saints wins : 7
Ladder possie:14-15
B&F Top 3: Steven, Monty, Billings
Saints leading goals: Manbun
GF: WCE & Freo
Premier: don't care
Coleman: Kennedy J
Spoon: Bombers
Divorce: James & Tania Hird
New PED drama: Hawks, revealed by anon whistleblower
Most booed player: Joel Selwood

[samuraisaint]

First 8 rounds should be interesting:

Port in SA - flogging -50 point margin.
Bulldogs at Etihad - Roo's 300th - I give us a real chance here, given the emotions of the day
Collingwood at G - 50th anniversary of 66 FLAG and Saints Legend Function - club and team to be fired up and have to be at least some chance against a middle rung team.
Hawks in Tassie - No Hale, No Roughead - hopefully raining and if we give a four quarter effort, we should be competitive - 30 point loss would be a pass mark.
GWS at Etihad - winnable
Melbourne at Etihad (their home game!) - could be our first win of the season
North at Etihad - North should win comfortably, but not by too much.
West Coast in Perth - thrashing - 10 goal loss - but will be an improvement on last years effort.

Unlike last year when we had our most difficult run of consecutive games in the very last 6 matches, when injuries, fatigue and young players tiring had become a factor, this season we'll get the most challenging cluster of games out of the way early on, when the players are fresh, the veterans are healthy, and the kids are out to make a name for themselves. I don't expect a false dawn in 2016, but let's hope that we eradicate those 85+point losses which we have had so often since 2013.

[saintbob]

Saints wins: 9
Saints finishing position: 12
Saints B&F top 3: Newnes - Ross - Billings
Saints leading goal kicker: Josh Bruce

Grand final: Hawks v Eagles
Premier: Hawks
Wooden spoon: Essendon
Brownlow: Dangerfield
Rising star: Oliver
Coleman: Kennedy

[Scollop]

Along the same lines as these predictions but in the style of a Titus O'Reily piece, there was a great write up by Dean Bilton on ABC website yesterday. Very funny, especially the dig at fatEd

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-20/h ... on/7258902

[saintspremiers]

Saints wins: 4
Saints finishing position: 17
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Steven, 2. Billings, 3. Arno
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Eagles vs Hawks
Premier: Fourthorn
Wooden spoon: Bombers
Brownlow: Dangerfield
Rising star: Greshen
Coleman: Buddy Hell
Will plugger return? No!

Sainsational is in full rebuild without the most prolific poster in SS history!

[saintspremiers]

First 8 rounds should be interesting:

Port in SA - flogging -50 point margin.
Bulldogs at Etihad - Roo's 300th - I give us a real chance here, given the emotions of the day
Collingwood at G - 50th anniversary of 66 FLAG and Saints Legend Function - club and team to be fired up and have to be at least some chance against a middle rung team.
Hawks in Tassie - No Hale, No Roughead - hopefully raining and if we give a four quarter effort, we should be competitive - 30 point loss would be a pass mark.
GWS at Etihad - winnable
Melbourne at Etihad (their home game!) - could be our first win of the season
North at Etihad - North should win comfortably, but not by too much.
West Coast in Perth - thrashing - 10 goal loss - but will be an improvement on last years effort.

Unlike last year when we had our most difficult run of consecutive games in the very last 6 matches, when injuries, fatigue and young players tiring had become a factor, this season we'll get the most challenging cluster of games out of the way early on, when the players are fresh, the veterans are healthy, and the kids are out to make a name for themselves. I don't expect a false dawn in 2016, but let's hope that we eradicate those 85+point losses which we have had so often since 2013.

Could easily be one win only in the first 8. Yikes!

[darylcowie]

Saints wins: 8
Saints finishing position: 12
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Steven, 2. Newnes, 3. Billings
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Eagles vs Tigers
Premier: Eagles
Wooden spoon: Carlton
Brownlow: Cotchin
Rising star: Moore
Coleman: Kennedy

[Playon]

Saints wins: 10
Saints finishing position: 12
Saints B&F top 3: 1. Steven, 2. Armo, 3. Billings
Saints leading goal kicker: Bruce

Grand final: Hawthorn vs West Coast
Premier: West Coast
Wooden spoon: Bombers

I see us improving with the most improvement coming from Billings, Dunstan, Ross and Newnes.
A couple of cracker games from Sinclair and Gresham and perhaps Freeman will come in with a couple of solid games towards the end of the season.

But Roo shouldn't be on the wing, the faster we give up on this idea the better

[bigred]

Bump.

[shrodes]

Interesting to see all the love for Billings, given the recent mood around here. FWIW I think he's still yet to play his best footy for us, though this year obviously wasn't a step up from last year.

Most predictions are 7-10 wins. I think in that respect we've done well this year.