EP by 20pts and Schumacher for the Simpson.
Peel by 20 points and Erasmus
East Perth by 32, Crowden for Simpson
EP will do what EF did last year v Peel…win easily by 30 + points, with Crowden doing a Murdock, by winning the Simpson, in front of a crowd of 27770 fans, with most wearing black n blue and a handful of Freo fans wearing Teal …
East Perth by 48 points
crowd 12,834.
Its going to be another 2010 classic
Royals by 1 point
Brayshaw for the Simpson.
Not the 35,000 Sd v Ep fairytale GF
Attendance 25,500
WAFC projection is 30,000
East Perth by 27 points and Mitch Crowden. 29,750 for the crowd.
[quote=“gtrxuone post=238028 userid=2215”]Its going to be another 2010 classic
Royals by 1 point
Brayshaw for the Simpson.
Not the 35,000 Sd v Ep fairytale GF
Attendance 25,500
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Good idea Gtr. Let’s include crowd predictions as well.
So for me EP by 20 points, Schumacher and 24,500.
EP by 7, Tedesco 4 goals, Crowden to win the Simpson and 26,800 crowd
Given EP haven’t been there for a while and they do actually have the biggest WAFL following you would expect at least a similar crowd to last year if the weather holds. Freo were ruthless after 1/4 time at Basso, bigger, stronger and fitter, they looked fresh as a daisy at the end of the game as you would expect with so many full time professional athletes and AFL recovery protocols.
EP are the best equipped team to challenge Peelmantle with plenty of big bodies and a ruckman than can more than match Reidy’s dominance. I think Jones is better around the ground than Reidy.
That being said I think … hope that EP win. Margin 15pts, Simpson to Schumacher.
Peel by 37
Simpson Taberner
Crowd 25 632
With East Perth having won 5 games by 3 points this year, I’ll tip the Royals by 3 points in another tight game and accept that my dodgy ticker might finally say “enough”.
Mitch Crowden to win the Simpson Medal and a crowd of 30,250, with a lot of understandably disgruntled Royals fans due to the alignment of a few years ago coming out of the woodwork.
East Perth ?
Pros: Midfield , Half-back line , Crowden’s inside knowledge & Ruckman
Cons: Forward line , some periods of inactivity in games
Mandurah ?
Pros: the VFL contingent , Midfield , entire Backline , 2 big Ruck’s available , will attempt to suck opposition in at every opportunity & will get favourable free kicks
Cons: can be jeckyll & hyde in the forward line
Result ?
East Perth by 12 points ****
**** however to get that East Perth must split the midfield , and Jones must run with Reidy otherwise they will be crushed like ants & Brodie / Erasmus will have to be put on the ground and not allowed to swivel around like the VFL prima donnas do nowadays because the umpires will just allow it to happen time and time again
Simpson ?
it’ll go to the winner - so either Crowden / Schumacher - Brodie / Erasmus
The factor?
someone from either side has to kick goals and that’ll probably decide it
Good analysis Southy. Agree that EP have to get physical to see if the full time AFL prima donna’s have an appetite to get down and dirty. EP can’t overdo it as the umpires will want to take control but make the dockers earn every disposal.
[quote=“BC post=238087 userid=892”]Good analysis Southy. Agree that EP have to get physical to see if the full time AFL prima donna’s have an appetite to get down and dirty. EP can’t overdo it as the umpires will want to take control but make the dockers earn every disposal.
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He forgot crowd size
geez crowd ???
well there will not be that many Mandurah representatives
most of those are on annual holidays in Casuarina or Bandyup 
so I’m going to say 18000 and just about all of them East Perth
freo 27 pts
Simpson -voss
crowd- 29535
Apparently only 2000 tickets sold so far.
$45 bucks pretty steep I reckon.
[quote=“Bazza post”]Apparently only 2000 tickets sold so far.
That’s staggering if that’s the case, Bazza.
Perhaps some of my Royals brethren have been unable to get bail or have booked dental appointments for the day. 
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A diehard East Perth mate of mine reckons that as of Tuesday, over 15,000 tickets had been sold.
With 25C forecast for tomorrow, you’d think/hope it will be a 25,000-plus crowd and hopefully crack 30,000.