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... what's your ladder predictions for season 2003! Get in early and see how ya go!

 1. Port Adelaide  - Port will shrug their mediocre finals performances to date and secure the flag

 2. Collingwood  - Good list of young stars will lose N.Davis in trade with Nic Fosdike  but fall in last hurdle against Port

 3. Brisbane  - Perform well throughout the year but not quite as well as 2001 & 02

 4. Hawthorn  - Made a Prelim like in 2001 but unable to go further

 5. Adelaide  - Have a solid season though fail to perform up to pre-season hopes

 6. West Coast  - Kerr, Judd, Cousins fire the Coast to some fine performances

 7. Fremantle  - Hell, I've predicted Freo to make the finals for three years now, they've gotta eventually!

 8. Essendon  - Reasonable season though unable to republicate their seasons of '99, '00 and '01

9. Sydney - Up and down season with some stirring performances and frequent narrow defeats

10. Richmond - Perform marginally better than '02 but unable to match '01 performances

11. St. Kilda - Team continues to excite but just can't get enough wins together

12. Kangaroos - Finds the change of coach unsettling in first half of season, finish strong but not enough for finals

13. Western Bulldogs - Rodhe performs reasonably well in first season as coach but team loses couple too many tight matches

14. Melbourne - Follow form of recent seasons: Even years up the ladder, Odd years down

15. Geelong - Early season loses crush confidence of younger players who never fully re-group

16. Carlton - Dark days for the Blues: losing top two draft picks before season's begun and winning second consecutive wooden spoon