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Standings

Melbourne Heart - 27 points

Sydney - 27 points

Newcastle - 27 points

Brisbane - 25 points

Run Home - my predictions

Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - draw

Adelaide Home - draw

West Sydney Home - draw

Brisbane Away - loss

CCM Away - loss

+3 points

30 points total

Newcastle

Victory Away - loss

Perth Home - win

Adelaide away - loss

Wellington Away - win (being played right now for some reason even though its a round 26 game)

West Sydney Home - draw

+7 points

34 points total

Sydney

Perth Away - win

CCM Home - loss

Victory Home - draw

West Sydney Away - loss

Brisbane Away - draw

+5 points

32 points total

Brisbane

Adelaide away - loss

Victory Home - draw

CCM Away - loss

Melbourne Heart Home - win

Sydney Home - draw

+5 points

30 points total

In summary, I don't think we're going to finals, but these are just predictions and its so close so it could go anyway.

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Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - draw

Adelaide Home - draw

West Sydney Home - draw

Brisbane Away - loss

CCM Away - loss

+3 points

30 points total

Obviously I've not followed much of this season, but my thoughts are:

Wellington just changed manager - this can go 2 ways, they can step up or be quite vulnerable. It's certainly not out of the question we could draw or win there, given they're not really 'at home' either..

Adelaide home, our home form has got us where we are - long may it continue.

Brisbane away - for whatever reason we always seem to play well against Bris, so don't think it should be written off as a loss.

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our last match against CCM could be a nothing game for them as they might already have the league wrapped up or WSW might already have the league wrapped up by that stage so there's a possibility they will rest some players if they've got nothing more to play for, especially since they are in the ACL. So it could in fact be a good match for us to get a result up there

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Hope we get 5th so we have a chance at a home final!

i also hope we play MV and knock them out in the first round of finals.

Would be the ultimate

Ultimate would be winning the Grand Final.

Beating Victory would be nice though I agree. But winning everything is the ultimate.

Beating victory in the grand final.. Now that's the ultimate :D:P

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Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - win

Adelaide Home - win

West Sydney Home - win

Brisbane Away - win

CCM Away - win

Newcastle

Victory Away - win

Perth Home - win

Adelaide away - loss

West Sydney Home - draw

Sydney

Perth Away - win

CCM Home - win

Victory Home - win

West Sydney Away - loss

Brisbane Away - draw

Brisbane

Adelaide away - loss

Victory Home - win

CCM Away - loss

Melbourne Heart Home - win

Sydney Home - draw

Melbourne Victory

Newcastle home - loss

Brisbane away - loss

Sydney away - loss

Perth home - loss

Wellington away - loss

4. Heart 42

5. Newcastle 37

6. Sydney 37

7. Victory 36

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Run Home - my predictions

+3 points

30 points total

Why would you be so pessimistic?

We have won 5 in a row at home and look great. Surely we can do better than 3 draws in our last 5 games. Our squad looks strong, we are playing well and the bench packs a punch- basically (unlike last year) we have hit form at the right time. Anyway having said all that, 3 draws seems pretty unlikely, thats all the draws we've had all year-we seem to either win or lose games, which I don't mind, especially chasing a tight finals berth.

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The mental aspect to a footballer is massive "I've been told" so given the fact that Newcastle won last night the Boys in Red &White must win... This means that the intensity in our game needs to lift and pressure is on.

If we beat Wellington the monkey is off the back and our solid home form will be to much for Adelaide. The way I see it ...

If we make final no other team in the 6 will want to play us because they won't know what Heart side will show up, and this makes us very dangerous.

I my opinion this is were you see what type of players we have ... The pressure is on and I'm waiting to see which players step up. Will we see the amazing Willo? or will Kelma deliver on his great potential?

Come on you boys in Red...

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Run Home - my predictions

+3 points

30 points total

Why would you be so pessimistic?

We have won 5 in a row at home and look great. Surely we can do better than 3 draws in our last 5 games. Our squad looks strong, we are playing well and the bench packs a punch- basically (unlike last year) we have hit form at the right time. Anyway having said all that, 3 draws seems pretty unlikely, thats all the draws we've had all year-we seem to either win or lose games, which I don't mind, especially chasing a tight finals berth.

We've also not won a single away game this season, so I don't see why it would be reasonable to expect that to change (though we have a good chance against Wellington). We have 3 away games left. Then our two home games are against good teams. I don't think us not winning another game this season is as unreasonable as you think.

Obviously I hope I'm wrong, and 2 of those games I have as draws could easily be wins, which would put us at 34 and should be enough.

Its so close, every point is crucial right now, hopefully now that Hoffman has disappeared from the match day squad, we won't drop points late in the second half of games like we always do.

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My predictions

Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - draw

Adelaide Home - Win

West Sydney Home - draw

Brisbane Away - loss

CCM Away - Draw (I think CCM will have the league wrapped up and we'll sneak a draw)

+6 points

33 points total

Newcastle

Victory Away - loss

Perth Home - win

Adelaide away - loss

West Sydney Home - draw

+4 points

34 points total

Sydney

Perth Away - draw

CCM Home - loss

Victory Home - draw

West Sydney Away - loss

Brisbane Away - draw

+3 points

30 points total

Brisbane

Adelaide away - loss

Victory Home - draw

CCM Away - loss

Melbourne Heart Home - win

Sydney Home - draw

+5 points

30 points total

I think we'll get Victory in a 3rd vs 6th.

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My predictions

Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - draw

Adelaide Home - Win

West Sydney Home - draw

Brisbane Away - loss

CCM Away - Draw (I think CCM will have the league wrapped up and we'll sneak a draw)

+6 points

33 points total

Newcastle

Victory Away - loss

Perth Home - win

Adelaide away - loss

West Sydney Home - draw

+4 points

34 points total

Sydney

Perth Away - draw

CCM Home - loss

Victory Home - draw

West Sydney Away - loss

Brisbane Away - draw

+3 points

30 points total

Brisbane

Adelaide away - loss

Victory Home - draw

CCM Away - loss

Melbourne Heart Home - win

Sydney Home - draw

+5 points

30 points total

I think we'll get Victory in a 3rd vs 6th.

There's no doubt victory would be shitting themselves if they have to play us in the finals. Then their last two wins over us are useless and if we win the final against them, we have all the bragging rights

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Just read JA's comments about this weekends game.

He said creating 3 good chances away from home was good and we should be converting 2 ....

Can someone at the club please tell JA that its 2013 and modern football no longer looks to ( win at home and draw away) We should be playing at a high temp every week, and our game should be adaptive to counter any team. This is the reason why we lose because JA is filling the players head with this rubbish.. If the players miss a chance to score there heads will drop because in their minds they need to create at least 2 more. Which means they are no longer focused on the game plan, its just about getting 1more chance...

Some of the best strikers in the world miss at least 2 chances before they score 1 ...

I'm sick of hearing JA talk as if he knows what he is doing, not even he could convert 2goals out of 3 chances. Not even in his hey day could he do that.

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Wellington have the worst record for scoring in the first 15 minutes. Heart I think are 1st or 2nd for first half goals, but unfortunately (although it got better recently) we're one of the shittest sides in the second half. We proved this several times, especailly in the game against Wellington last time we played them away.

They're not in a good place and even more rattled with Herbert's exit. We're coming off a dominant and 'heart-pumping' win so where they're down and out, we're on a massive high so we shouldn't have a problem dominating and winning this match.

We could very well do "a Hawthorn"; peaking at just the right time in 2008 to become Premiers...Heart has the team to do the same thing this season ;)

If we don't win this Sunday, it'll piss me off so much and I think we don't deserve to play finals!

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Confident that if we can get a win in Dunedin that things will fall into place nicely for us, irrespective of our shit away form. Think there's a good feeling at the club right now.

Run Home - Che's predictions

Melbourne Heart

Wellington Away - Win

Adelaide Home - draw

West Sydney Home - draw

Brisbane Away - Win

CCM Away - loss

+8 points

35 points total

Can't really be bothered looking at the other clubs until second last round or so.

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