AFL Power List Round 15: (Or it’s starting to get very interesting)

After 15 rounds, in the past, every side would have played every other side. That is not the case anymore – Brisbane for example hasn’t played Fremantle, but has played Geelong twice (yeah, that sounds fair).

Collingwood with games against Richmond, Sydney, Hawks and Carlton coming up, should win at least 2 of those to get the 12 wins and percentage that’ll get them home.

The Bulldogs have the easy Freo and West Coast to get them to 12.

Brisbane have Freo, Port, Kangaroos and Sydney to get 3 wins to get to 12, or the tougher tasks of Collingwood, Essendon and Bulldogs.

Adelaide have Port, Hawks, West Coast and Carlton – 2 of those gets them to 12, but they also have the Saints, Geelong and Collingwood.

Essendon need 5 wins. They have the easy Richmond. They also play West Coast and Freo, but both are at Subiaco. The other 4 games are Bulldogs, Brisbane, Saints and Hawks.

Carlton play Sydney, Kangaroos, Port and Melbourne. They may need to win all 4, because the other three are Collingwood, Geelong and Adelaide.

Hawthorn need 5 wins to get to 12. They only have one easy game – Richmond. The rest are Collingwood, Geelong, Port (AAMI), Saints, Adelaide and Essendon. They’ll need to win 4 of those, and boost their percentage. Can’t see it.

Port also need 5 wins. They play West Coast, Freo and North. If they get those 3 they’ll still need 2 from Adelaide, Hawks, Carlton and Brisbane.

	Rank	LW	Team	Record	Comment
Safe
	1	1↔	St Kilda	15-0	Had to work hard over in the West, but were never going to lose.
	2	2↔	Geelong	13-2	The Cats showed that even they are vulnerable if 7 of their best players are injured.
	3	4↑	Collingwood	10-5	The Pies nearly lost after a big lead, but just held on.
	4	3↓	Bulldogs	10-5	The Bulldogs came back from a long way, but just came up short.
Looking	good
	5	5↔	Brisbane	9-6	The Lions showed that they are good enough to beat the Geelong B side.
	6	6↔	Adelaide	10-5	In their 7 game win streak the only top 8 sides the Crows have beaten are Essendon and Carlton.
	7	7↔	Essendon	8-7	A good win in Sydney now the Bulldogs…
Need	some	wins
	8	8↔	Carlton	8-7	With Sydney, Collingwood, Kangaroos and Geelong up next, the Blues should get to 10 wins before the last 3 games of Port, Melbourne and Crows decide their fate.
	9	9↔	Hawthorn	7-8	The Hawks next 4 is Collingwood, Geelong, Port and the Saints.
	10	10↔	Port Adelaide	7-8	OK, they beat Brisbane who beat the Cats, and then they lose to Melbourne. Have fun tipping that form.
No	chance
	11	11↔	Sydney	6-9	To get to the finals they would need to win all of their remaining 7 games. They won’t.
	12	12↔	West Coast	4-11	The Eagles play 4 more time as home. .
	13	13↔	North Melbourne	4-11	“In the lead with 10 minutes to go…” how often do bad teams have that written about them followed by “but…”?
	14	15↑	Richmond	3-9	A honest loss. Now they play the kings of honest losers – North.
	15	16↑	Melbourne	3-12	Two wins on the trot?? They now face Geelong coming off two losses!
	16	14↓	Fremantle	3-12	The Fremantle team of Saturday night would have been competitive in the WAFL. Perhaps.