On the eve of another @ALeague season, here are our predictions…

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1. A record number of podcasts will be released about Australian Football. While the last two full-time football journos in the country will be forced to cover ‘breaking news’ about the NRL and AFL off-seasons.

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2. Fans will be incensed about ‘biased' commentary, then go on to complain about there 'not being enough passion in the game’.

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3. Several articles will be written about @SamKerr1’s love of AFL.

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4. A white middle-aged journo from another sport (is there any other kind?) will declare he 'didn’t know the league had started’ — despite him (and his employer) actively ignoring the game due to their commercial relationships with other said sports.

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5. A prominent ex-player will declare that 'referees are ruining the game’.

A week later he’ll complain about ‘ #VAR ruining the game’.

The following week he’ll urge everyone ‘to have more respect for referees’.

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6. On April 1 @TheRealALM will start a crowd-sourcing campaign to buy the Mariners. On the same day, a complimentary article about the @ALeague will appear on the World Game.

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7. @AndyHowe_statto will release a mind-blowing stat that you've never considered, but now can't stop thinking about.

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8. An ex-cricketer who never ‘walked’ will say the thing he 'hates about Soccer is the staging'.

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9. @DRT15 will again stubbornly refuse to update his social avatar.

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10. Eddie Maguire will say something racist.

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11. @SimonHill1894 will be missed… (forlornly).

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12. James Johnson will single-handedly bring peace to the Middle East, yet struggle to unify the local game.

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13. Fans will urge us to take the 'Asian game more seriously’, then be disappointed 'we didn't put 'seven past them’.

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14. John Aloisi will be linked to three vacant coaching positions.

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15. Lisa De Vanna will score four goals in her final @TheMatildas game to take her above Tim Cahill.

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16. Robbie Slater and Ned Zelic will start their own political party. While in the ultimate #codewar, Eddie Maguire and Craig Foster will contest the same marginal seat in Melbourne.

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17. Peter Fitzsimmons will rehash his annual article on why HE ALONE will NOT ALLOW Football being called anything else but ’Soccer’.

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18. VAR will make an ungainly return for the finals and royally stuff up an important game.

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19. Bozza’s hair will miraculously change colour on the first day of Autumn.

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20. @DGeorgievski17 will not be invited back on the Today show.

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21. A controversial refereeing decision will convince fans that @SydneyFC are linked to the Illuminati.

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22.

#ALeague
Premiers @MFCbulls
GF Winners @MelbourneCity
FA Cup Winners @goMVFC
Golden Boot @MattDerbyshire2
Wooden Spoon @NewcastleJetsFC

#WLeague
Premiers @BrisbaneRoar
GF Winners @MelbourneCity
Golden Boot @EGielnik
Wooden Spoon @CanberraUnited

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23. @Optus will buy the @ALeague rights.

Tasmania, @CBRRegionHAL and @WollGongWOLVES will be granted A-League licences.

And for a brief moment, the world will feel at peace.

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