2003 Draw and likely outcomes?

[londontiger]

Anyone got any ideas of where we will realistically finish in 2003?

I will be first to have a crack. Disagree please, but make sure you justify your responses.

1 28-Mar-03 Collingwood Away M.C.G. Friday Night
2 06-Apr-03 Western Bulldogs Home Telstra Dome Sunday Aft.
3 13-Apr-03 Fremantle Home M.C.G. Sunday Aft.
4 21-Apr-03 St. Kilda Away Telstra Dome Monday Aft.
5 26-Apr-03 Hawthorn Away M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
6 03-May-03 Port Adelaide Away AAMI Stadium Saturday Night
7 10-May-03 Essendon Home M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
8 17-May-03 Melbourne Home M.C.G. Saturday Night
9 24-May-03 West Coast Away Subiaco Saturday Night
10 31-May-03 Sydney Home M.C.G. Saturday Night
11 06-Jun-03 Kangaroos Away Telstra Dome Friday Night
12 14-Jun-03 Carlton Home M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
13 28-Jun-03 Brisbane Lions Away Gabba Saturday Night
14 05-Jul-03 Adelaide Away AAMI Stadium Saturday Night
15 12-Jul-03 Geelong Home Telstra Dome Saturday Aft.
16 18-Jul-03 Collingwood Home M.C.G. Friday Night
17 26-Jul-03 Western Bulldogs Away Telstra Dome Saturday Night
18 02-Aug-03 Fremantle Away Subiaco Saturday Aft.
19 09-Aug-03 St. Kilda Home Telstra Dome Saturday Night
20 17-Aug-03 Essendon Away M.C.G. Sunday Aft.
21 24-Aug-03 Port Adelaide Home Telstra Dome Sunday Aft.
22 31-Aug-03 Hawthorn Home M.C.G. Sunday Aft.


Round One : A must win. If ever our season was to get off to a good start, then this is the game that will spur our team on for 2003. This could mean making the finals or not.

Rounds Two to Five : If the tigers are to have a realistic chance on making a good impact, these are must win games.

Position after Round Five, Must be at least 4 wins

Rounds Six to Nine : Hard work is required. If we beat Essendon, then we could have a chance against Melbourne. We will only match Port if we have all cylinders firing.

West Coast is a tough game. I hope we travel well.

Position after Round Nine : Possibly showing a 5 win, 4 loss record.

Rounds Ten to Thirteen. Must beat Sydney, Kangaroos and Carlton. All must wins. And by margins.
Brisbane will be an excellent indicator of exactly how far we have come, and how far we have to go.

Will be a great game as it is after the break.

Position after round Thirteen : 8 wins, 5 losses

Rounds Fourteen to Seventeen . Adelaide after Brisbane – Could destroy our season if we get thrashed. At best, be competitive. Must beat Geelong, Must beat Bulldogs.
Collingwood will be tough, if they do not have any loss of 2002 form.

Position after round Seventeen : 10 wins 7 losses

Rounds Eighteen to Twenty Two. Hard times ahead. Fremantle away is a must win, Then St Kilda is a must win.

The difficulty is winning one of the last 3 games to consolidate a finals spot. Possibly find it with Hawthorn.

After 22 rounds : Richmond 13 wins 9 losses, Finish 7th?

Anyone else have a plan for 2003?

Danny?

Wayne?

 

[mightytiges]

If we are fair dinkum as a club we need to go into each and every game with the attitude of believing we will win.

Take it one week at a time LT ;D.

On your comments:

I still don't rate collingwood as a top side. They finished with a 13-9 record which got them into the top 4 (which is rare) and they only won 2 of their last 8-9 games. They have a top coach and are an honest and extremely hard-working side especially for each other but like the pies' sides of the late 70's-early 80's they lack that bit of class. With our full side we should beat them both times.

With dutchy out, rounds 1-5 will be important. With him in and fully fit I would expect us to win at least 4 if not all 5. It will be interesting to see who fills in as CHB and whether our new midfield (with greater ability to rotate around the ground like you said LT) can dominate and deliver often to our strong forward line. If they can then we should be on our way.

All 5 interstate games will be tough but that's not suprising given 3 out of the top 4 sides this year were non-Victorian. We could end up being Victoria's best contender for the flag  not that I care about interstate rivalry - that's why I was glad brissy won the flag and not collingwood.

If we get a good run on the no-injury front we should do well during the home and away season. From there it's all a new competition and anything can happen .

 

[admin]

1 28-Mar-03 Collingwood Away M.C.G. Friday Night
Win The boys will be keen to atone, the goals will flow freely and a 68 point win.

2 06-Apr-03 Western Bulldogs Home Telstra Dome Sunday Aft.
WinNot as easy as the previous week, but a hard fought win.

3 13-Apr-03 Fremantle Home M.C.G. Sunday Aft.
Win If we are serious should win easily. Why does that make me nervous, ha?

4 21-Apr-03 St. Kilda Away Telstra Dome Monday Aft.
Win As above.

5 26-Apr-03 Hawthorn Away M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
WinTime to show the Hawks we are serious.  We let them get away with a bit over us, both teams were well below expectation last season and have soemthing to prove here. Go Tiges.

6 03-May-03 Port Adelaide Away AAMI Stadium Saturday Night
? ? ?Should mark it in as a loss, but on the law of averages we are due to crack it for a win over there.

7 10-May-03 Essendon Home M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
Win Time to turn the tables on the Bummers.

8 17-May-03 Melbourne Home M.C.G. Saturday Night
WinAm always confident against Melbourne.

9 24-May-03 West Coast Away Subiaco Saturday Night
? ? ?Fingers crossed, we should do it.  Have a good record over there.

10 31-May-03 Sydney Home M.C.G. Saturday Night
WinHome ground advantage is massive against Sydney.

11 06-Jun-03 Kangaroos Away Telstra Dome Friday Night
WinWe should be a better team than them, enough said.

12 14-Jun-03 Carlton Home M.C.G. Saturday Aft.
WIN!!Or the membership tickets will fly.  Oh the humility last season, ha.

13 28-Jun-03 Brisbane Lions Away Gabba Saturday Night
Ok Likely loss

14 05-Jul-03 Adelaide Away AAMI Stadium Saturday Night
? ? ? Ok likely loss

15 12-Jul-03 Geelong Home Telstra Dome Saturday Aft.
WinI'm sick of losing bets to my Geelong friend.

16 18-Jul-03 Collingwood Home M.C.G. Friday Night
? ? ? Am nervous about this one.  We don't often beat a good team twice in a  season. Time to change that.

17 26-Jul-03 Western Bulldogs Away Telstra Dome Saturday Night
Win

18 02-Aug-03 Fremantle Away Subiaco Saturday Aft.
Should win

19 09-Aug-03 St. Kilda Home Telstra Dome Saturday Night
Win
 
20 17-Aug-03 Essendon Away M.C.G. Sunday Aft.
? ? ? Read Collingwood round 16

21 24-Aug-03 Port Adelaide Home Telstra Dome Sunday Aft.
? ? ? Win if we lost to them first round.

22 31-Aug-03 Hawthorn Home M.C.G. Sunday Aft.
Win
Go into the finals full of confidence.

15 wins at least and 3rd position after the H&A games.   ;D

 

[mightytiges]

Collingwood -
We don't often beat a good team twice in a  season

Isn't this a contradiction rosy? ;D :rollin

 

[londontiger]

Oh at Christmas time, we can all dream of 15 wins in 2003.

Lets be serious. If Richmond were any good, we should win 22 games.

Ho, Ho, Ho....

 

[admin]

Oh at Christmas time, we can all dream of 15 wins in 2003.

Lets be serious.  If Richmond were any good, we should win 22 games.

Ho, Ho, Ho....

Nah I don't dream of 15 wins, I expect 15 wins, ha. ;D
I dream of 22 wins.....nah actually I expect that too.
I look at every round and see us winning. I put in a token couple of losses in case people didn't take me seriously. :cheekysanta

 

[Rampaging_Richo]

The matches that really worry me are against the Bulldogs and Geelong. We are pretty evenly matched across the ground, but they both scrap alot harder than we are prepared or have the ability to.

The only thing that will cost us games this year that are winnable is if we are as SOFT as we were against the above mentioned and St Kilda in 2002.

Me thinks 13-14 wins is a very realistic and achieveable target for 2003.

Hope every tiger had a great Xmas

RR

 

[Koalalill]

We have 5 games interstate in 2003 - we must win at least 2 of those.

Danger game = Carlton - we always struggle against teams coached by Pagan.

We need to get off to a decent start. By round 7 - I would hope we are 4-3 or 5-2. I think we can go 5-2 if the talls stay healthy. From there anything is possible.

Rounds 9 to 15 seem mega dangerous. 3 of our interstate games - including Brisbane.