2004 Final 8 (in no particular order)...

[CureTheSane]

Mine is...

Sydney
Essendon
St.Kilda
Brisbane
Port
Adelaide
West Coast
Collingwood

Of those, Collingwood would be my most doubtful to make it...

[Bleed Red Blood]

Top 8 in order

Port
Brisbane (what'll stop them?)
Collingwood
St Kilda
Sydney
West Coast
Fremantle
Geelong

Wooden Spooner

Melbourne

Rising Star

Jarrad McVeigh

[Charlie]

St Kilda in, Adelaide out.

maybe Hawthorn in, West Coast out.

[Norris Lurker]

My top 8, in order:
Port Adelaide
Brisbane
Essendon
Sydney
Adelaide
Collingwood
Fremantle
Geelong

Wooden spoon - Richmond
Rising star - Jarrad McVeigh
Brownlow - Tie, James Hird and Michael Voss (1996 deja vu)
Sydney Best & Fairest - Adam Goodes.

[NMWBloods]

Brisbane
Port Adelaide
Collingwood
Fremantle
Essendon
St Kilda
Sydney
West Coast

[sharpie]

Brisbane
Freo
Collingwood
Sydney
Essendon
Port
St Kilda
West Coast

Port to be the main strugglers from last year. St Kilda to be the main improvers.

[robbieando]

Brisbane
Fremantle
Essendon
West Coast
St Kilda
Collingwood
Sydney
Port Adelaide

[stellation]

Brisbane
Fremantle
West Coast
Sydney
Adelaide
Port Adelaide
St Kilda
Essendon

In that order

I'll jump on the Rising star - Jarrad McVeigh bandwagon as well even though I haven't seen any of the pre-season... but I just want to jump on early

Adam Yze will do his ACL and need a knee reconstruction.
Nathan Brown will get 2 weeks for taking out one of the Rising Star nominee.

[dimelb]

Brisbane
Essendon
Port
Sydney
Freo
St Kilda
Collingwood
Hawthorn

Dark horse: Bulldogs, with new boys plus a full season from Grant

Brownlow: Riewoldt

[Mike_B]

Brisbane
West Coast
St Kilda
Essendon
Sydney
Port Adelaide
Hawthorn
Collingwood

Richmond to win the spoon

[dendol]

I'll have a stab at this:

Brisbane
West Coast
Fremantle
Essendon
Sydney
St Kilda
Port Adelaide
Collingwood

[chammond]

in order

Fremantle
Hawthorn
Brisbane
Sydney
Adelaide
West Coast
Port Adelaide
Essendon

but who will be the first coach to get sacked?

Frawley?
Daniher?
Thomas?
Williams?

[Rod_]

Sydney
St Kilda
Brisbane
Port Adelaide
Fremantle
West Coast
Collingwood
Essendon

[Swansinger]

Ladder
1.Brisbane
2.Essendon
3.Sydney
4.Collingwood
5.Port
6.Adelaide
7.Melbourne
8.St.Kilda

GF
Essendon to beat St.Kilda
Norm Smith - Robert Harvey

Spoon - Geelong

Brownlow and Coleman Double - Matthew Lloyd

Crappest tipster of the season - Swansinger

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by chammond
but who will be the first coach to get sacked?

Frawley?
Daniher?
Thomas?
Williams?

Frawley - with 3 rounds to go
Daniher - in first half
Thomas - no
Williams - after another finals disaster

BTW - I love all the people dropping Collingwood out of finals. Great to see it happen but I doubt it. I remember last year when I thought Collingwood could get there again most people thought I was completely wrong, yet they did. I think they'll have one more shot at finals before they begin to drop away, same as Port.

Very even looking year this year. Carlton and Richmond look the weakest, but capable of an upset. I think Melbourne could do anything, but probably underperform. The Bulldogs could increase a fair bit from last year. Adelaide and Kangaroos may weaken but still be dangerous. Two of the teams I left out of the eight - Hawthorn and Geelong - are potentials to replace some I had in the eight. Very hard to pick a run away team this year.