Reviewing The Soarings 2006 predictions
Thankfully, I suck badly at making ladder predictions. I say thankfully because on March 29 this year I predicted us to finish 4th. “Oh me of little faith”.
On top of that I also predicted Geelong to finish 3rd, Brisbane to make the eight and the Bulldogs to finish 13th. But apart from that I got it near enough. Oh, except to having the Dockers finish 8th, which was kindly pointed out to me in the comments by “Bob”, God bless him.
My other West Coast Eagles 2006 predictions were also a bit off the mark.
1. We will finish 4th after the home and away season, but with good form leading into the finals… NO
2. Quinten Lynch will win the leading goal kicker award for the club (and will surprise many with an impressively impassioned and articulate acceptance speech lobbying for the reduction of third world debt). YES!
3. We will win a third straight Brownlow (fill in the blank yourself). NO, not quite (blame injuries)
4. Michael Gardiner will play more games in 2006 than he did in 2005. NOPE, not quite (3 vs 12).
5. Beau Waters will catch the ebola virus, but still manage to play 8 games including a stellar tagging job on Stephen Milne in round 18. Thankfully, NO (but his Rnd 18 game vs. Saints WAS stellar).
6. Tyson Stenglein and Mark Seaby will be the only two Eagles either not injured, arrested or summons before a royal commission during the 2006 season. Just about right!
7. Chris Judd register career highs in goals kicked in a season (I predict more than 30) and “returning to Victoria” rumours (I predict 816,592, 800k + coming from the Channel 9 commentary team). WRONG
8. Andrew Embley will play more than 18 games in 2006 and will lead the Eagles in marks (yep, that’s two predictions). YES (no)
9. We will have 3 debutants in 2006. NO, only Priddis and Hurn.
10. Peter Sumich will take a mid year training session dressed as a medieval bard and will instruct players using King James english. YES, I’m pretty sure…
3 and a bit out of 10.
But who cares because we won the flag!
Oct 5th 2006
I love your Lynch prediction, winning the club goal kicing award and an:
“Impressively impassioned and articulate acceptance speech”
IT’S F—–N’ FANTASTIC!
Oct 5th 2006
It was certainly impassioned and articulate on Saturday!!
Oct 5th 2006
They’re good predictions. After Coxy broke his collar bone in the ‘Dogs game I sat back in my chair at the game and said out loud “that’s it, we’re gone now”.
Thankfully it was only Coxy that was gone and then it wasn’t for that long in the end.
And the rest, they say, is history.