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Although I only tipped six winners in Round 10, the weekend had a feeling of finality about it and the final eight door may be closed on a number of pretenders.
Whilst there may be changes in finishing positions, the top five teams have lost a maximum of one game in the past five and appear to have beaten off all challengers.
My top four sides all won. My next four finished 2-2 against each other with very small margins separating the clubs.
The next three clubs mathematically still have a chance, but two of these play each other next week and the other one travels interstate to take on a top eight team so the gap between haves and have-nots should widen considerably.
Amongst the elite, at both an AFL and club level, significant milestones were reached.
Eight of the current ten top 100 game players of all time took the field over the weekend. Shaun Burgoyne (Port Adelaide and Hawthorn) played his 364th game, becoming the equal tenth greatest game player of all time in the AFL.
(AAP Image/David Moir)
He shares this position with Western Bulldogs great Brad Johnson, who started his career at the Bulldogs in 1994 while still a school boy at Chanel College and finished it in 2010, kicking 558 goals along the way.
The ever-smiling Johnson finished his career with a cupboard full of trophies including three club best and fairest awards, four club leading goal-kicker awards, All-Australian six times including one year as captain (2016) and four seasons as skipper of the Bulldogs. He now works as a commentator.
Other top 100 game players to improve their ranking were Luke Hodge (Hawthorn and Brisbane) drawing level with Kevin Murray (Fitzroy) and David Cloke (Richmond and Collingwood), Eddie Betts (Carlton and Adelaide) now equal with Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) and Shane Crawford (Hawthorn) in 68th position, David Mundy (Fremantle) now level with Russell Greene (St Kilda and Hawthorn) in 71st position, and Heath Shaw (Collingwood and Greater Western Sydney) joining Matthew Boyd (Western Bulldogs), Anthony Stevens (North Melbourne) and Darren Milburn (Geelong) in 95th position.
Amongst the AFL goal kicking elite, Josh Kennedy (Carlton and West Coast Eagles) and Eddie Betts (Carlton and Adelaide) are equal on 583 goals and share 36th position on the AFL all time top 100 goal kickers, while Taylor Walker (Adelaide) in 96th position requires one goal to bring up his 400.
At a club level, Eddie Betts overtook Mark Ricciuto to become Adelaide’s third highest goal scorer with 293.
Matthew Kreuzer kicked one goal for the Blues to lead to the departure of Chris Judd and Chris Yarran from Carlton’s all time top 100 goal kickers list.
At Melbourne, Jeff Garlett is only three goals away from taking over as the leading current goal scorer at the Demons from incumbent Nathan Jones.
Meanwhile at St Kilda, the twin towers Josh Bruce and Tim Membrey remain locked together on 145 goals, having overtaken journeyman Barry Hall with two goals each on the weekend.
In the goal kicking battle at Sydney, Tom Papley has now moved six goals ahead of Isaac Heeney.
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