1st round of finals prediction

[Shipsyeagles]

Friday night : Dogs v Manly - channel 9 will love this.----- tossers :x
Saturday 5:30pm Melbourne v Souths.. great time as there will be no AFL final in Melbourne at this time
Saturday 7:30pm Cowboys v Broncs - Townsville will be pumping all weekend
Sunday arvo - Canberra v Cronulla - either at Canberra or Shark park /SFS would be great .

 

[ash the bash]

I think they would swap the Melbourne and Canberra games around IMO.

 

[Diesel]

I agree it's looking like this and that'd most likely be the schedule. Sharks would play at the SFS and not Shark Park I would have assumed

 

[Shipsyeagles]

I think they would swap the Melbourne and Canberra games around IMO.

I hope not,, raiders are playing in NZ on Sunday and flight back on Monday would give them short turnaroud wouldnt be fair and possible AFL final on Sunday arvo in Melbourne.

But who knows what channel 9 would do.:crazy:

 

[Usain Bolt]

I think a miracle will happen and the Warriors will get up over the Raiders and Broncos will win. Broncos will finish 7th and play the Sharks

 

[Shipsyeagles]

I think a miracle will happen and the Warriors will get up over the Raiders and Broncos will win. Broncos will finish 7th and play the Sharks

Could happen... and if Raiders lose and tigers win by a healthy margin , they could slip into the top 8....:shock:

 

[Card Shark]

The bottom 4 teams are scheduled to play the Saturday games but it may clash with Swans games, so who knows?

 

[Panfas]

Wow there could be some real cracker games in the round 1 of the finals. Could be either

Bulldogs v Manly 50k at ANZ or
Bulldogs v Rabbitohs 60k at ANZ

Storm v Rabbitohs 25k at AAMI or
Storm v Manly 31k at AAMI

Cowboys v Broncos 26k at DFS
Raiders v Sharks 25k at CBR

 

[azza29]

Doubt Storm v Bunnies would hit 25k. Maybe 20k max. Last year's final against the Knights didn't even crack 15k.

 

[Sleep]

Friday Night: Bulldogs/Sea Eagles

Saturday Night: Cowboys/Broncos & Sharks/Raiders

Sunday: Storm/Rabbitohs

 

[Doga]

Wow there could be some real cracker games in the round 1 of the finals. Could be either

Bulldogs v Manly 50k at ANZ or
Bulldogs v Rabbitohs 60k at ANZ

Storm v Rabbitohs 25k at AAMI or
Storm v Manly 31k at AAMI

Cowboys v Broncos 26k at DFS
Raiders v Sharks 25k at CBR

Dogs vs Souths Semi would sell out ANZ

 

[Brutus]

My prediction for week 1

Fri Night - Canterbury 22 Souths 18 @ ANZ Stadium crowd 52,641
Saturday game 1 - Cronulla 18 Canberra 4 @ SFS crowd 20,044
Saturday game 2 - Brisbane 24 Cowboys 16 @ DFS crowd 24,881
Sunday Storm 18 Sea Eagles 16 @ AAMI Park crowd 22,017

 

[Brutus]

Dogs vs Souths Semi would sell out ANZ

Not in week 1 of the finals.

 

[Big Sam]

Would be cool if we could somehow finish 2nd and Cronulla shifted their final to ANZ. Then we could lock the Swans out of Homebush for that weekend.

 

[saint pebba]

Fri Night - Storm vs Manly
Saturday - Sharks vs Raiders
Saturday - Cowboys vs Broncos
Sunday - Dogs vs Souths

 

[azza29]

Can't see Storm/Souths ending up on the Sunday. NRL would want to allow higher placed losers to get a longer break before their 2nd week match.

If 2v3 is on Sunday the loser would get a shorter break than the winner of 6v7.

Would be cool if we could somehow finish 2nd and Cronulla shifted their final to ANZ. Then we could lock the Swans out of Homebush for that weekend.

Swans could borrow Skoda Stadium from GWS maybe?

 

[Shipsyeagles]

Would be cool if we could somehow finish 2nd and Cronulla shifted their final to ANZ. Then we could lock the Swans out of Homebush for that weekend.

Unfortunatly, Swans have priority to ANZ before NRL...

They still might finish 3rd anyway, and not play a home final until week 2 or 3 .

 

[Rosetta]

1v4 - Friday
5v8 - Early Sat
6v7 - Late Sat
2v3 - Sunday

Is the plan for now so fill in to that format.

 

[Cletus]

Unfortunatly, Swans have priority to ANZ before NRL...

They still might finish 3rd anyway, and not play a home final until week 2 or 3 .

I thought it was the other way around?

 

[Raiderdave]

Could happen... and if Raiders lose and tigers win by a healthy margin , they could slip into the top 8....:shock:

they don't even need a healthy margin ... just win ,as they have a better % then the Raiders

Elimination Finals games a week early

Broncos V Penrith
Tigers V Storm
Raiders V Warriors