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Bill Hutchinson is one of Essendon’s all-time greats, but in 2019 he’s likely to lose his spot on the list of the AFL’s top 100 game players.
Bill Hutchinson is one of Essendon’s all-time greats, but in 2019 he’s likely to lose his spot on the list of the AFL’s top 100 game players.
The AFL introduced live pick trading to their 2018 AFL draft in the hope of creating a spectacle from an otherwise dour event in which AFL teams read out names of largely unknown 18-year-olds.
Sam Docherty was looking forward to playing his first match in more than a year after being sidelined by injury in 2018 – but the Blues co-captain reinjured his ACL on Monday, and we can only imagine the disappointment and despair he and the club must be feeling.
My last few articles have concentrated on the players likely to disappear from the AFL top 100 goal-scorers list in 2019, so now my focus is the AFL top 100 game players.
There was such a positive reaction to the series of comprehensive meta-reviews of the 18 AFL clubs’ 2018 seasons, the temptation to follow up with a quick preview of their 2019 seasons was too much to resist.
There was such a positive reaction to the series of comprehensive meta-reviews of the eighteen AFL clubs’ 2018 seasons that the temptation to follow up with a quick preview of their 2019 seasons was too much to resist.
So if my rule of thumb is that AFLW teams need to improve twenty percent each year to hold their position in an improving league, how can I justify predicting the Dogs going back-to-back?
Coming off a season in which they claimed their first wooden spoon since 1998, the Brisbane Lions entered 2018 with their finals drought extended to eight years.
We have a saying in Australian football, if you are using the ball around the flanks and not straight through the middle of the ground you are going ‘via the cape’.
Going into his seventh year as coach of the Fremantle Football Club, Ross Lyon had the huge task of taking the Dockers back up the ladder after plummeting down it following their minor premiership in 2015.
Going into his seventh year as coach of the Fremantle Football Club, Ross Lyon had the huge task of taking the Dockers back up the ladder after plummeting down it following their minor premiership in 2015.
Going into his seventh year as coach of the Fremantle Football Club, Ross Lyon had the huge task of taking the Dockers back up the ladder after plummeting down it following their minor premiership in 2015.
Having bagged Carlton incessantly last season, it gives me genuine pleasure to see (I hope) a brighter future for them in 2019.
Having bagged Carlton incessantly last season, it gives me genuine pleasure to see (I hope) a brighter future for them in 2019.
Having bagged Carlton incessantly last season, it gives me genuine pleasure to see (I hope) a brighter future for them in 2019.
My rule of thumb is that AFLW clubs must currently improve by twenty percent per year just to avoid going backward. If Erin Phillips is fully fit in 2019, that will be most of that twenty percent right there. But that single improvement, if it happens, will be just the beginning.
2020 will be 30 years since the beginning of the AFL era and it’s still not a fully national competition. Tasmania, the Northern Territory and Canberra still do not have their own teams.
The Dees got smashed in the offseason, not just with the players they lost to expansion, but with the announcement from Daisy Pearce that she’s pregnant with twins. But despite getting smashed, they still look awfully good on paper.
With the 2018 season done and dusted, what better time than now to look back on both the top 20 memorable and ‘top’ 20 not-so-memorable games this year?
The Gold Coast Suns had an amazing draft haul this year, picking up the likes of Jack Lukosius, Izak Rankine and Ben King, all of whom are on track to be superstars of the game.
If the rule of thumb is that AFLW teams need to improve by twenty percent each year just to hold steady with the competition, then it’s hard to make a case that Brisbane could reach a third Grand Final in a row.
The Gold Coast Suns have experienced some turbulent years in their short history, but 2018 was perhaps the nadir.
The Gold Coast Suns have experienced some turbulent years in their short history, but 2018 was perhaps the nadir.
The Gold Coast Suns have experienced some turbulent years in their short history, but 2018 was perhaps the nadir.
Bill Hutchinson is one of Essendon’s all-time greats, but in 2019 he’s likely to lose his spot on the list of the AFL’s top 100 game players.
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