1) City
2) Sydney
3) Perth
4) Brisbane
5) MV
6) Adelaide
7) Newcastle
8) CCM
9) Wanderers
10) Wellington

GF Winner: City
Golden Boot: Fornaroli
JWM: Ninkovic

I'm going to change my predictions.
1. Sydney
2. City
3. Adelaide
4. Perth
5. Victory
6. CCM
7. Newcastle
8. Nix
9. Brisbane
10. WSW
My new GF winner will be Sydney, my new JW will be Goodwin and my new Golden Boot will be Le Fondre.

Also here's some more random predictions:
Baena to be the flop of the season. EDIT: I was gonna say the Polish mid at the nix but no one expected him to be good.
One of the new foreign imports will receive a lengthy ban.
Nix and CCM to surprise many people.
Victory will under perform.
Aloisi to be the first coach sacked.
More turmoil at WSW.
Babbel will either be under severe pressure or want out.
Sydney to get out of their group in the ACL.
Jets to struggle badly in Asia due to their limited squad depth.
Perth to have the best defence, WSW to have the worst.
Sydney to have the best attack, Brisbane or the Nix to have the worst.

Adelaide v Sydney - 2-2
Melb.Vic v Melb City - 2-1
Wellington v Newcastle - 0-1
Brisbane v Central Coast - 3-0
Perth v Western Sydney - 1-1

This is the hardest season I can remember to pick winners and losers.
Nobody has been killing it in preseason and all scorelines have been close(even against NPL teams).
SFC and MV look like they will be close to the top.
PG,NJ,BR,AU,MC are all capable of finishing high up the ladder and also collapsing.
AU should start well.But will probably steuggle with depth.
BR is an unknown with a lot resting on Lopez to plug the midfield weaknesses.
PG we have seen very little of,but have a balanced squad and Poppa should make them tougher to beat at home.
MC ,i expect will control possession as well as any team ,but no Azani,so who knows.
NJ..Still no Nabbout,but Jair and a defence pretty much the same as last year.
CCM,WSW & WP.
It would not surprise me if all performed above expectations.Which means you could add them to the middle 5.
All of that means a lottery.Because i an sure MV and SFC will lose their fair share of games.

SFC
MV
PG
NJ
BR
MC
AU
CCM
WSW
WP

So hard this season but here we go:

Sydney - they still look the benchmark unfortunately
Victory - will take time to gel
City
Perth
Adelaide
Brisbane
Newcastle
Western Sydney
Mariners
Pheonix

I am gonna go bold and pick Sydney to falter. 

1. Melbourne Victory
2. Melbourne City
3. Perth Glory
4. Adelaide United
5. Brisbane Roar
6. Sydney FC
7. Western Sydney Wanderers
8. Central Coast Mariners
9. Newcastle Jets
10. Wellington Phoenix

Pretty hard to call this year I think.

1. Melbourne Victory
2. Melbourne City
3. Sydney FC
4. Perth Glory
5. Newcastle Jets
6. Brisbane Roar
7. Western Sydney Wanderers
8. Central Coast Mariners
9. Adelaide United
10. Wellington Pheonix

I did the top 4 and wooden spoon positions easily, but really struggled and chopped and changed from 5th to 9th before settling with this, which I'm still not confident about 😂

1.City 
2. Perth 
3. CCM
4.  Brisbane
5. Sydney 
6. Adelaide 
7. Jets 
8. Victory
9.  Wanderers
10. Wellington

still think my prediction is on target 4 games in. there are only 4 teams (Victory, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth) that can win the title from here. City is the best of the rest.  

SFC
PG
MV
MC
AU
NJ
WSW
BR
WP
CCM

Perf
Mvfc
Syd
WSW
Aufc
City
New
Nux
Bris
Ccm

I reckon WSW will do strong second half of season under babbel and I expect Bris to struggle perf for me to win it all then popa will bring new team in next year as he did with WSW

I predict wmg to sign a marquee player who lives up to the hype

Wellington to finish top four and for everyone to love them only for the ffa to still kick them out

What a great laugh this thread is already!

Lots of crow to be eaten here at season's end ;D

well i got the top 4 right (albeit in the wrong order). and would have got the bottom 4 excactly right if i had slipped the Nix into the middle. not too shabby. 

Well plebs I've tallied the predictions against the end-of-season standings and the winner is . . . . . . . 

ME!!! . . . . and femski. Both of us achieved the result of 4-10. However, seeing as femski is banned that leaves me lonesome upon the Iron Throne. I therefore demand moderator-ship as my prize. 

Three of you achieved the result of 0/10. Please look up the concept of euthanasia. 
  

And now we know.

Looking back at this I only got 2/10 positions correct, however I did predict that Sydney will win the Championship.

Now to look at my other predictions...

JW will be Goodwin: - Goodwin was amazing in some matches while completely anonymous in others but I think he would have made the top 10 at least.

Golden Boot will be Le Fondre - Finished runner up with 16 goals

Baena to be the flop of the season. EDIT: I was gonna say the Polish mid at the nix but no one expected him to be good. - Baena was solid while Kopczynski was solid at CB but terrible in his natural DM position. The biggest flop would have to be Mikkelsen or Ilso.

One of the new foreign imports will receive a lengthy ban. - Correct, Ilso recieved a doping ban 

Nix and CCM to surprise many people. - They did. CCM managing to lead so many matches at half time and somehow managed to lose so many while the Nix were brilliant after their poor start.

Victory will under perform. - They did.

Aloisi to be the first coach sacked. - Wasn't sacked but the first coach to leave his post

More turmoil at WSW. - Not really.

Babbel will either be under severe pressure or want out. - He was at one point but then steadied the ship.

Sydney to get out of their group in the ACL. - Lacked a bit of luck unfortunately. 

Jets to struggle badly in Asia due to their limited squad depth. - Correct, They were well beaten in Japan and failed to qualify for the group stages.

Perth to have the best defence, WSW to have the worst. - Perth did have the best defence, WSW defence was awful but CCM and Roar somehow managed to be considerably worse.

Sydney to have the best attack, Brisbane or the Nix to have the worst. - This one I got wrong. Sydney had the 4th best attack while the Nix had third best attack while Brisbane had the third worst.

ladder predictions as of 29/7/19

1st sydney
2nd WSW
3rd Perth
4thCity
5thVictory
6thADELAIDE
7thWU
8th brisbane
9th nix
10th mariners
11th jets

Won't bother posting because I agree with you 100%.

Way to early for predictions. Lots of squads are nowhere near done. 

might need to rename this thread if its gonna stay for next season predictions.

Or start a new thread!
Which teams have a full squad or won't recruit anyone till the January window?
complete maybe
Brisbane Roar
Melbourne City
CC Mariners 
Sydney FC
Perth Glory 
Newcastle Jets

Still recruiting 
WS Wanderers 
Adelaide United 
Melbourne Victory 
Wellington Phoenix 
Western United 

i predict city will do really well this season but we still will have trouble bringing in crowds the spotlight will be on us and how to bring people in 

It's probably almost late enough in the recruitment cycle that we can make some fair predictions. I will give it a go:

1 City
2 Victory
3 Perth
4 Adelaide
5 Sydney
6 WU
7 WSW
8 Roar
9 Jets
10 Nix
11 CCM

I'll put up a new thread shortly

Pretty sure there's a 19/20 season prediction thread buried.