ALM Season Predictions - 2022/23

[eddie]

End of season standings:

1: Melbourne
2: City
3: Adelaide
4: WSW
5: Sydney
6: Macarthur
7: Western United
8: Newcastle
9: CCM
10: Perth
11: Wellington
12: Brisbane

Grand final winner: City, continuing Popa’s GF choking streak

Grand final runner-up: Melbourne

Australia Cup winner (2023): Melbourne

Player of the season: Jake Brimmer

Player of the grand final: Florin Berenguer

Golden boot: Jamie MacLaren

Best new signing: Thomas Lam

Best young player (U23): Alex Popovic

Biggest flop signing: Beka Dartsmelia

SFC player of the season: Robert Mak

SFC golden boot: Jaiden Kucharski

First coach sacked: Steve Corica

Random predictions for this season:

• Corica sacked during the World Cup break after a winless start to the season. Ante Juric to take over.

• Brisbane’s license is taken off the Bakries after the players go on strike due to unpaid wages.

• The club and Alfie get mutual in January after he is dropped in favour of Jaiden Kucharski.

[dots218]

End of season standings:

1: Victory
2: Macarthur
3: City
4: Sydney
5: Western U
6: Adelaide
7: Wellington
8: Wanderers
9: Newcastle
10: Mariners
11: Brisbane
12: Perth

Grand final winner: Victory

Grand final runner-up: Sydney

Australia Cup winner (2023): Sydney

Player of the season: Arzani

Player of the grand final: a defender idk

Golden boot: Maclaren again probably.

Best new signing: one of the ones at Wellington

Best young player (U23): how old is Arzani?

Biggest flop signing: someone at the Wanderers.

SFC player of the season: Mak (I’ve got a feeling he’s gonna be a monster)

SFC golden boot: Alfie

First coach sacked: Warren Moon

Random predictions for this season:

Wanderers start really well, but then after a bad loss around round 7/8 Rudan begins to lose the dressing room and they plummet out of finals positions.

Michael Zullo will play a game.

Leckie gets under 5 G+A for the whole season while Tilio continues to be benched for him.

Corica out, Arnold in. (Not a sacking, J2 coaching job or something)

Buhagiar arrested for stealing oxygen

This will have the tightest finish to the league in some time.

---

Last year I was fairly confident in my guesses (and won so there ya go) but this year I’m really not. I think 3 or 4 teams will be fighting for top spot until the very end, and a whole bunch will be fighting for 6th. Perth and Brisbane 100% getting battered all year though

[Ancient_Mariner]

End of season standings:

1: City
2: Vic
3: CCM
4: W U
5: MacArthur
6: SFC
7: Adelaide
8: Welly
9: Jets
10: WSW
11: Perth
12: Brisbane

Grand final winner: CCM

Grand final runner-up: City

Australia Cup winner (2023): CCM

Player of the season: Davila

Player of the grand final: Tulio

Golden boot: Cummings

Best new signing: Tulio

Best young player (U23): Silvera

Biggest flop signing: Ninkovic

SFC player of the season: Bratton

SFC golden boot: Alf

First coach sacked: Moon

Random predictions for this season:
Increased attendances at games.
Massive upset and sackings due to rival egos at WSW.
Brisbane lose their owners
Corica is not sacked but promoted to an administrative position (mutual agreement).
Someone publicises that SFC is owned by a Russian oligarch.
From left field: Some of my predictions eventuate.
[/quote]

[HatchbackOwner]

1: Macarthur
2: City
3: Victory
4: Sydney
5: Western united
6: Nix
7: Adelaide
8: western suburbs
9: Mariners
10: Jets
11: Brisbane
12: Perth

Grand final winner: Macathur

Grand final runner-up: Victory

Australia Cup winner (2023): Victory

Player of the season: Davila

Player of the grand final: Kurto

Golden boot: Maclaren

Best new signing: Bizarro Berisha

Best young player (U23): Kucharski

Biggest flop signing: Nani

SFC player of the season: Kucharski

SFC golden boot: Kucharski

First coach sacked: Zadkovich

Random predictions for this season:

SFC

• Brattan gets another long term injury early on and barely features across our season
• ALF goes in the jan window
• We consistently average more than 12k at home this season. Regardless of biblical rain events
• Yazbek and Kucharski cement themselves in the starting 11
• Caballo turns out to be a total donkey
• Goals are largely spread around. No one gets into double figures

Non-SFC

• western and MacArthur crowd figures improve fairly substantially as people begin to seriously commit to the clubs
• Victory average more than 15k this season.
• Nani chucks a Sturridge and is a monumental flop
• Perth are a complete rabble with several players angling for an exit in jan
• Brisbane ownership situation comes to a head and their license is acquired by the league
• Cummins rips it up in the first 8 weeks and gets onto the pitch in Qatar and scores for the Roos.
• wests continue to embarrass themselves, this time in some new and incredible way.
• Ninko gets a few goals and assists, not enough to be considered worth the cap space and visa spot, but not so few that he’s a flop. He fades from all our memories after he retires at the end of this season and pens some kind of ‘i made a mistake’ post in mid 2023.
• All Sydney derbies are a bore both on and off the pitch, with all sfc fans now convinced that the big blue is the one that matters.
• A big blue kicks off with handbags (on or off the pitch)
• An f3 derby ends up being one of the games of the season
• VAR is suspended at some point after persistent fuck ups and mis-use resulting in massive fan backlash.

[BlueSky]

End of season standings:

1: Melbourne Victory
2: Melbourne City
3: Adelaide United
4: Newcastle Jets
5: Western United
6: Wellington Phoenix
7: Sydney FC
8: Western Sydney Wanderers
9: Macarthur
10: Central Coast Mariners
11: Perth Glory
12: Brisbane Roar

Grand final winner: City

Grand final runner-up: Victory (because its a Popovic team)

Australia Cup winner (2023): Adelaide

Player of the season: Nani (sadly)

Player of the grand final: Valon Berisha (City)

Golden boot: Maclaren

Best new signing: Nani (sadly)

Best young player (U23): Garang Kuol (despite only being here for half of the season)

Biggest flop signing: Milos Ninkovic

SFC player of the season: Robert Mak

SFC golden boot: ALF

First coach sacked: Rudan

Random predictions for this season:

• Wanderers to run 8th more or less all season
• Macarthur’s cup run against mostly NPL teams put them on a hype train they can’t live up to in the league
• Wanderers sack Rudan after a slow start to the season, getting in just before Sydney sacks Corica
• Poor defensive record to cost Sydney a finals berth
• Jets to have a good season on the back of strong signings
• JayFC to create another Zadkovich montage by the end of the season as Ruben’s frustrations boil over on the touchline game after game
• Brisbane to be on the brink all season after everyone has officially had enough of Bakrie Group

[rhysmcfc]

End of season standings:

1: victory
2: bulls
3: city
4: Sydney
5: Western
6: mariners
7: western suburbs
8: Adelaide
9: nux
10: jets
11: Brisbane
12: Perth

Grand final winner: bulls

Grand final runner-up: victory

Australia Cup winner (2023): Sydney

Player of the season: nani

Player of the grand final: nani

Golden boot: maclaren

Best new signing: mak

Best young player (U23): segacic

Biggest flop signing: ninko

SFC player of the season: mak

SFC golden boot: lolley

First coach sacked: zadkid

Random predictions for this season: kucharski to leap frog wood in the pecking order. Ninko to be completely forced out of the wanderers before the end of the season.

[RedKat]

Going off these predictions I’m fully expecting a Perth:Wanderers final with Ninkovic winning the player of the season, player of the grand final and setting an aleague assists record

[Clovis]

Bump

A reminder that entries for the predictions competition close at COB this Friday

[Clovis]

So, entries for the 2022/23 ALM Season Prediction Competition are now closed. If you still want to enter I will put you in the spreadsheet (with an asterix) but you cannot win the competition.

The first graphic shows the predicted end of season table according to the collective wisdom of all 19 SFCU Forum members who participated. Most have a Melbourne team as first and second with Brisbane and Perth fighting it out for the wooden spoon.

Below are all the predications as entered into my spreadsheet, please let me know if I made any typos.

[eddie]

@Paulska really hates NSW…

[BlueSky]

And look at that! He put Victorian teams first, second and third

[RedKat]

I’m also one of three who predicted wanderers ahead of us. Not sure what that says about me

[eddie]

Someone has some explaining to do.

[Paulska]

If NSW goes well, then i’ll be happy and forget about the predictions if they go badly and Vic teams go better, at least I go good in the comp!

[Clovis]

As we go into the World Cup break, here is an update on how the predictions competition is going.

The first table shows the collective wisdom of the SFCU forum. Perth and Wellington are currently the most accurately predicted teams, followed by City, Macarthur, Sydney FC and Newcastle. The teams about which this forum is most deluded are (in order) Western United, Wanderers and MVFC.

This is the current individual tally, bazm is currently the person to beat.

[dots218]

Well on my way to achieving my goal of winning last season and coming last this season.

[RoryBunk]

Solidly mid table. Don’t make waves…

[BlueSky]

I have the most points of anyone! That’s good, right?

[Ancient_Mariner]

I am not saying anything.

[RedKat]

Endless laughs here. Had Victory in 2nd and Macarthur winning the final, Adelaide 8th and Mariner’s 9th. Least I had us in 6th.

Ninkovic wasnt as much of a flop, not far off on Irankunda, and no Boehly takeover of Western