Just for the heck of it...

Game standard: High, but wet weather will diminish the skills
Game style: Smackfest in the first quarter
Stand out performer: Geelong - Scarlett, Hawks - Bateman
Stand out non-performer: Geelong - Ablett, Hawks - Franklin
Margin: 7 points
Winning score: 91 points
Premiers: Hawthorn
Norm Smith Medal: Rioli

Geelong in a canter. Gary Ablett Norm Smith Medal. Lance to kick 1.3 and to be suspended for the first 3 matches next year.

Powderfinger to be dressed in drag to appeal to the Sydney tv audience.

The game will begin with a perfect McLaren bounce... which will be followed up by an impeccably timed free kick awarded to the wrong player within the centre square.

Hawks in an upset.

Bateman big; Rioli gets the Norm Smith; Hodge moved forward (turns the game); Rook reported; Mooney dakked.

I think you will see a bit of biffo from Campbell Brown, Clarkson is not a steady enough hand on the wheel to control players of this type in a game of this magnitude. Hawthorn to get belted and start some fights and Shane Crawford to start crying.

The more insightful prediction would be when does he stop crying.

When he realises the umps can't hear him because Gary's crying louder. In a pink tutu. With ballet shoes on. And a little fairy wand.

geelong by 57,corey for the norm smith,bateman to wash his stinking hair,franklin wants to come to freo,im gunna win lotto,i thought i was wrong once but i was only mistaken again

The channel 7 commentary team will shoehorn in one disparaging comment about Fremantle.

Crawford will strip off his top, do a Travolta pirouette and slide on his knees to receive his premiership medal.

Scarlett will give Buddy a verbal and as a result require radical rhinoplasty.

geelong 23 ablett

Fremantle 21-9 135 d Geelong 6-10 46

Pavlich 7
Tarrant 4
Sandilands 2
Palmer 2
Headland 2

Norm Smith Medallist: Matthew Pavlich

Reported: Mooney, Johnson, Ablett

Wait, I'm chanelling the 2010 GF results...

My spiritual leader is telling me we win it again in 2010.

17 point win over Hawthorn.

Mark Williams and Pavlich both kick 4 goals each..for Fremantle.

Hayden Ballantyne to pick up the Norm Smith.

Geelong to win. One reason, because of Jeff Kennett.

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It's all about Jeff isn't it. Hopefully Scarlett smacks him one and they're both out of action for a while.

Going on recent form the Cats didn't look too great against the Dogs last week whilst the Hawks were made to look good by a gloriously inept Saints side. But Cats looked ordinary against the Pies in the prelim last year then gave Pooort a good, old-fashioned arse walloping in the big dance the following week.

Here's hoping they do the same thing again this year. The Hawks will get their turn later.

Please, please, let Buddy give Scarlett an almighty pantsing.

Have you met Pants?

Pussies by 37 points. Stevie J to go back to back with Norm Smiths.

The game will start fast but the Ox will be slow.
Geelong by 2. Ling for Norm Smith

i once asked a chinaman to translate "the ox is slow...." and he couldn't. said there was no literal translation which was odd because it camefrom confucious. or mick. buddy kicks ten and geelong wins by 10. bomber thompson has a pie in the coaches box during the third quarter and norm smith makes a surprise visit and gives his medal to ross glendenning.

A few years ago, I set up a RSS feed on the work Intranet to display the word of the day. This feed comes from dictionary.com in the US. Today's WOTD is melee. A prediction from afar, maybe?

Word of the day can be found here: click