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The bogan/drug-dealer/serial killer unholy trinity has triumphed with massive bribery and blackmail securing a Port Adelaide “win”. Shame.

Melbourne pulled a similar scam and denied the Dogs - the second best team in the league after St Kilda - their rightful finals berth. Shame.

So now - The Saints will smish Adelaide, despite the massive corruption that will occur. The Dirty Birds will claw the Swans. North will mince Port and send them packing back to their ground of ill-repute. The clash of the also-rans (GFC vs Dees) will end with a narrow Cats win. It's all academic though, as the unstoppable Saints will march on to the flag.

Saints - first since 1966 and second since 1897 - in 2005.

AKA - Final Fight.

Apparently the Dockers have only won twice at Football Park and three times against the Port Adelaide Football Club. Does this concern me? Fuck no!

Port are a spent force. A Fremantle win will stitch up 7th spot for the purple army.

KEY: Pav is unstoppable, like Zabka in Shootmaster and Shootmaster II. Port's ruckmen will be no match for Grimlock. Freo - too much drive in the midfield and too many forward options for Port to counter.

The GFC have a big percentage but North (sorry, 'Kangaroos') are unlikely to fall to Carlton so the Cats will hang on to 6th after handing out a hiding to Richmond at KP.

This leaves Geelong playing Fremantle in the first week of the finals, in Victoria. Hopefully not at the MCG - Freo's home away from home - but at the Dome, which both teams hate.

Prediction? GFC by 7 points despite 5 goals from the Pav.

KEY: Jimmy Bartel. Baldy Chapman is back, and several Geelong stars will be fully recovered like the currently half-fit Steve “Shuffle” Johnson, Lord Henry Playfair and Tom Harley. GFC defence and midfield too strong. Wildcard - the Baby Jesus.

(Note: If Freo buck my prophecy and win this final they will go ALL THE WAY).

The Dogs will win and knock the Dees - who will lose to the Dons - out. If I am mistaken in that regard, North will knock the Dees straight out of the finals and on to their punk asses anyway.

KEY: Melbourne are soft. North are lead by the Junk Yard Dog - Dean “Hardest Man Alive” Laidley.

In the event of North vs Footscray, the mighty Dogs will get up.

KEY: Rohan Smith.

Sydney will lose to Adelaide because Football Park isn't a postage-stamp like their own deformed home patch.

KEY: Football Park is not a postage stamp.

The Dirty Birds will cling to top spot and face the Saints. The DBs will win in Perth, and then win again, and then be crushed by the Saints in the Grand Final.

KEY: The Grand Final is not played at Subiaco Oval.

Saints for the flag, Dirty Birds running up, unless Freo win against the GFC in the first week of the finals.

Discuss.