{"id":244058,"date":"2025-10-27T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:10:26","slug":"eagles-on-a-knifes-edge-swans-all-but-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244058\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles on a knife&#8217;s edge, Swans all but secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The race is on for the top eight, and AFL.com.au&#8217;s reporters have crunched the numbers to predict who&#8217;s likely to make finals\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                West Coast look dejected after a loss against Sydney during round 11, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>WEST Coast is likely to miss out on finals while Sydney is again set to feature, according to AFL.com.au&#8217;s\u00a0ladder predictor.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles&#8217; loss to the Swans during round 11 will prove costly, with AFL.com.au&#8217;s team of journalists using our ladder predictor to tip the final make-up of the eight ahead of a huge final round with plenty of finals implications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not enough room for both the Eagles and Carlton in the top eight, making Friday night&#8217;s clash between the two sides do or die.<\/p>\n<p>LADDER PREDICTOR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/aflw\/ladder?Competition=3&amp;Season=84&amp;Round=1311#predictor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Who will make the eight, who will miss out?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adelaide similarly has a finals spot on the line when it hosts Fremantle on Sunday evening, while the Swans are all but set to feature providing they can get the job done against Essendon.<\/p>\n<p>The Crows will need to win to lock up a finals berth, while the Swans are still at risk of slipping out of the eight if they fall to the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda is on track to feature in its first finals campaign, but will need to win over the Western Bulldogs on Sunday to guarantee a top eight place.<\/p>\n<p>AFL.com.au&#8217;s predicted ladder after round 11<\/p>\n<p>1. North Melbourne<br \/>2. Melbourne<br \/>3. Brisbane<br \/>4. Hawthorn<br \/>5. Carlton<br \/>6. St Kilda<br \/>7. Adelaide<br \/>8. Sydney<\/p>\n<p>9. West Coast<br \/>10. Port Adelaide<br \/>11. Fremantle<br \/>12. Geelong<br \/>13. Western Bulldogs<br \/>14. Richmond<br \/>15. Collingwood<br \/>16. Essendon<br \/>17. Greater Western Sydney<br \/>18. Gold Coast<\/p>\n<p>Three finals-shaping games to watch this weekend<\/p>\n<p>West Coast v Carlton at Sullivan Logistics Stadium, Friday, October 31 at 6.15pm AWST<br \/>\nSt Kilda v Western Bulldogs at RSEA Park, Sunday, November 2 at 3.05pm AEDT<br \/>\nAdelaide v Fremantle at Norwood Oval, Sunday, November 2 at 5.05pm AEDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race is on for the top eight, and AFL.com.au&#8217;s reporters have crunched the numbers to predict who&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-244058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}