Melbourne vs Carlton Prediction
Tomorrow 7:35pm AESTCarlton are favourite and I'm not going to argue with it. Where these two finished on the ladder is worth…
The Wildcard Round is new for 2026 and it is the biggest change to the AFL finals since 2000. Ten teams now make the cut instead of eight. The sides that finish seventh to tenth play off across one sudden death weekend: seventh hosts tenth, eighth hosts ninth, and the two winners take the seventh and eighth seeds into the finals proper. Lose and your season is over. The top six sit the weekend out, which makes a top six finish the most valuable thing on the table in the run home. We tip every wildcard game, with the reasoning and the play we like on each.
Carlton are favourite and I'm not going to argue with it. Where these two finished on the ladder is worth…
Sudden death at the MCG, and the loser is finished for the year. The Bulldogs finished eighth and get the…