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The A-League Men's 2023-2024 predictions thread


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With the Men's A-League season for 2023-24 kicking off in roughly 20 days time from this post. I thought I'll start the predictions thread for another year. However, this year I'm going to give it a little bit of a twist ;).

So, here's the predictions I'm looking to get from everybody:

- The ladder prediction at the end of the regular season from 1st to 12th
- Who will be crowned the A-League Champions of 2023-24?
- Who will win the Joe Marston Medal? (The medal awarded to the player of the match at the A-League Men's Grand Final)
- Who will win the Alex Tobin Medal? (The medal awarded to the player of the year by the 10 Network panellists during the regular season)
- Who will win the Johnny Warren Medal? (The medal awarded by to the player at the end of the regular season as voted by 1 technical football expert, 1 football media representative, 1 former professional player representative and a combined vote from match officials per game)
- Who will be the golden boot winner? How many goals will that player get?
- Who will be the golden gloves winner? How many clean sheets will that goalkeeper get?
- Who will win the coach of the year award?
- Who will win the young footballer of the year award? 
- Who will win the Wanderers Medal for the Player of the Year? 

and now this is important bit! I'm requesting you provide between 5 to 10 bold predictions for this upcoming season. Since I'm feeling generous, there is a prize up for grabs this year!

Whoever has the most boldest prediction for this season and somehow that prediction is correct by the end of the A-League Men's 2023-24 season, they will win a Wanderers shop gift voucher to the value of $100.00 from me. The more bolder or absurd your prediction is, the more chance that you are of winning the gift voucher.


PLEASE NOTE: You must submit your bold predictions by midnight on Monday 16th October 2023. (I will most likely make a post on when the bold prediction entries will close just as a friendly reminder to everyone anyway)

So...good luck and start predicting!

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Ladder:

  1. Smurfs
  2. City
  3. Mariners
  4. Brisbane
  5. WU
  6. WSW
  7. Nix
  8. Adelaide
  9. Victory
  10. Perth
  11. Macarthur
  12. Newcastle

Champions: Smurfs

JMM: Caceres

Tobin: Caceres

JWM: Caceres

Golden Boot: Robert Mak (17)

Golden Gloves: Jamie Young (9)

Coach of the Year: Corica

Young Player: Irankunda

WSW POTY: Antonsson

Predictions: Newcastle will have 10 scored against them at some point. A goalkeeper will score. All Sydney Derbies are drawn.

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Ladder:

1st - Sydney FC 

2nd - Melbourne City 

3rd - Brisbane Roar

4th - Western United 

5th - Adelaide United 

6th - Perth Glory 

7th - Melbourne Victory 

8th - Western Sydney

9th - Macarthur FC 

10th - Central Coast 

11th - Newcastle Jets

12th - Wellington Phoenix 

 

Champions:

Sydney FC

 

Golden Boot:

Jamie Maclaren 

 

Golden Gloves:

Andrew Redmayne

 

Young Player: 

Thomas Waddingham

 

Predictions:

  • Rudan sacked in March 2024
  • Auckland confirmed as the next expansion team using the nickname "Titans"
  • 10 matches rescheduled to midweek nights due to excessive heat
  • The Destination NSW deal over the Grand Final is not overturned 
  • Irankunda will lose his contract to Bayern Munich (deemed a "hothead") as he gets regularly booked for aggression towards opposition players
  • Similar to 2018, the VAR will shutdown during a finals match due to technical difficulties 
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Alright, I guess I better do my predictions:

The ladder prediction:

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


Who will be crowned the A-League Champions of 2023-24: Melbourne City
Who will win the Joe Marston Medal: Brian Kaltak
Who will win the Alex Tobin Medal: Marcus Antonsson
Who will win the Johnny Warren Medal: Alou Kuol
Who will be the golden boot winner? How many goals? Jamie MacLaren - 21
Who will be the golden gloves winner? How many clean sheets? Jamie Young - 9
Who will the coach of the year award? Mark Jackson
Who will win young footballer of the year award? Thomas Waddingham
Who will win the Wanderers Medal for the play of the year? Marcus Antonsson


Bold predictions: 
- Roughly 3 or 4 managers will be sacked or depart on a mutual termination from the club they are currently managing.
- Tony Popovic will give Daniel Arzani the 'popa effect' just after the new year with Arzani requesting to leave Victory on a mutual agreement at the end of the season.
- Tomislav Uskok will request to depart from Macarthur FC since Mile Sterjovski keeps selecting Matthew Jurman and Jonathan Aspro instead of him. Uskok will be in talks with Rudan to join the Wanderers mid-season
- AirAsia owner and Queens Park Rangers part owner Tony Fernandes will buy a portion of Central Coast Mariners.
- Shae Cahill will get overhyped on the KeepUp social media sites and some of panellists on the 10 Network (especially Andy Harper) when he debuts and plays on the field. 
- Thomas Waddingham will gain interest from clubs overseas
- Daniel Margush will go out on loan when the mid-season transfer window is open
- Marcus Younis, Nicolas Milanovic or Dylan Scicluna will gain interest from clubs overseas 
- Terry Antonis will score against the Wanderers and do some sort of celebration in front of Mark Rudan. This causes Antonis and Rudan to argue at each other with the ref and players from each squad having to intervene and separate them. Afterwards, the ref decides to give a red card to both Antonis and Rudan.
- The mid-season transfer window will see all clubs using all their foreign players spots except Newcastle Jets.

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Ladder

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

 

Who will be crowned the A-League Champions of 2023-24: Mariners
Who will win the Joe Marston Medal: Vukovic
Who will win the Alex Tobin Medal: Marcus Antonsson
Who will win the Johnny Warren Medal: Jamie Maclaren
Who will be the golden boot winner? How many goals? Jamie MacLaren - 20
Who will be the golden gloves winner? How many clean sheets?  Lawrence Thomas 7
Who will the coach of the year award? Mark Jackson
Who will win young footballer of the year award? Aidan Simmons
Who will win the Wanderers Medal for the play of the year? Marcus Antonsson

 

Bold predictions: 

Rudan will be sacked. JPdM to take over.

 

 

 

 

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The ladder prediction:

 

ay I have city coming on top, they still have Mac and some good players Bos will be loss but Behich in you don't lose much, but I dont think it will be much. Maybe 5 points. 

popa rarely has 2 bad seasons in a row, I like Stajic to finally awake Glory again and if Taggart is healthy to rip it up and I like WSW and Roar. Basically I think these teams will sort out 2-5. Roar the most likely to prove me wrong and just be average. 

Next batch I have Mariners Adelaide and WU ESFC to fight for the 6th spot, I know I'm disrespect ESFC but FTM (f_ _ k those Mother F_ _ kers)

I see Mariners losing too much with coach gone but holding on. 

Nix, WU , Cow and Jets to make up the numbers. If you ask me who could actually make 6 from here I saw no-one. 

My darhouse to Adelaide to really rise. 

1st - City
2nd - Victory
3rd - Perth Glory (yes you heard it right)
4th - WSW
5th - Roar
6th - Mariners
7th - Adelaide
8th - ESFC (probably not by feels good)
9th - Nix
10th - WU
11th - Cows
12th - Jets


Who will be crowned the A-League Champions of 2023-24: This is the year Mack finally wins in. Someone has to be positive. Thread title - MACK BLOWS LOAD AS WSW Finally win a GF
Who will win the Joe Marston Medal: Brandon Borello 
Who will win the Alex Tobin Medal: Marcus Antonsson
Who will win the Johnny Warren Medal: Adam Taggart
Who will be the golden boot winner? How many goals? Marcus Antonsson - 17
Who will be the golden gloves winner? How many clean sheets? Whoever City has in goals - 10 game of clean sheets.
Who will the coach of the year award? Mark Rudan
Who will win young footballer of the year award? Thomas Waddingham
Who will win the Wanderers Medal for the play of the year? Marcus Antonsson

 

CBF with bold prediction I'll go for one. Rudan gets married to Mel. Full roundabout and certain forum members can save effort on regular pokes at him haha

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On 15/10/2023 at 5:03 PM, sonar said:

Ladder

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

 

Who will be crowned the A-League Champions of 2023-24: Mariners
Who will win the Joe Marston Medal: Vukovic
Who will win the Alex Tobin Medal: Marcus Antonsson
Who will win the Johnny Warren Medal: Jamie Maclaren
Who will be the golden boot winner? How many goals? Jamie MacLaren - 20
Who will be the golden gloves winner? How many clean sheets?  Lawrence Thomas 7
Who will the coach of the year award? Mark Jackson
Who will win young footballer of the year award? Aidan Simmons
Who will win the Wanderers Medal for the play of the year? Marcus Antonsson

 

Bold predictions: 

Rudan will be sacked. JPdM to take over.

 

 

 

 

If Antonessen and wins Tobin award then we are scoring goals if Thomas.gets golden Globe then we aren't conceeding goals.

Generally if you score.goals without conceeding you win football games,.so if you are right on them we will finish higher than 9th.

Not to say we won't finish 9th with Rudan sacked.bur it that's the case then Antonessen is Pio Mk ài

 

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18 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

If Antonessen and wins Tobin award then we are scoring goals if Thomas.gets golden Globe then we aren't conceeding goals.

Generally if you score.goals without conceeding you win football games,.so if you are right on them we will finish higher than 9th.

Not to say we won't finish 9th with Rudan sacked.bur it that's the case then Antonessen is Pio Mk ài

 

Brooks scored 5 goals in one game...........so if Antonsson does it in 5 games that's 25................we win those 5 games to nil and draw two others to nil.....7.......clean sheets.........loose the rest and we are on 17 points.........last season 12th was 26 points.  This is WSW we're talking about....it's doable.....:rofl:.....tbh I have nfi how we'll go.

 

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1. Melbourne City

2. WSW 

3. ESFC 

4. Adelaide 

5. MVC

6. Western

7. Wellington

8. Bulls 

9. CCM

10. Newcastle

11. Perth 

12. Roar

Champions - City

Marston - Mclaren

Tobin - Mclaren

Warren- McLaren 

Boot - McLaren 23 

Young player - Waddingham 

Gloves - Thomas 

Coach - Rudan 

Wanderers - Borello 

Wild 5:

1 Goodwin back at Adelaide in January window 

2. CCM last at Xmas 

3. Newcastle fan walkout 

4. Big increase in crowds followed by Telegraph 'scandal' in November 

5. Rudan coach of the year, WSW GF (see above). I understand I am now kicked off the forum!!!

 

 

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