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What if you just put all the best shooters of the basketball on a team and let them shoot? You get the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. What if you just put the best actors in a movie and tell them to act? You get The Godfather. What if you just get all the best runners in the AFL and get them to run? You get the 2025 Geelong Cats. Bailey Smith slots it on the run 🤩#AFLFinals pic.twitter.com/62xP8FjSlO— AFL (@AFL) September 5, 2025 Man for man, especially in contest and in the midfield, the Lions are clearly better than Geelong…

Well, the season is finally over. After one of the worst seasons in recent memory, where the AFL imitated life and was racked by debilitating inequality, we have the rich guys playing off against each other. It’s Elon v Sam Altman in this great southern land. “I wish he would just compete by building a better product,” Sam Altman says of Elon Musk.“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy… I don't think he's, like, a happy person.” pic.twitter.com/VrW26ZurKL— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 16, 2025 It should be pretty good. The nine teams that…

This has not been a good year for gameplay in the AFL. Last year, I felt like we hit a happy medium between attack and defence in the game and it was probably the best year of footy I can ever remember. This year, it’s been different. Even though scoring numbers are basically the same, there’s been a profound difference between the haves and the have nots. The league-wide scoring numbers are mostly propped up by good teams demolishing bad teams. This year we have had 20 games decided by 0-5 points, about 10% of all games. Last year we…

This season has felt like the AFL circa 2015: the quality of play has been poor, but the ladder is going to be close enough in the end for the league to spin it as ‘healthy competition’ This was a big weekend for that close finish, though, with three games between top nine sides. Here’s one takeaway from each. Fremantle v Brisbane: Fraudmantle is real Heading into Friday night against the Lions at a packed Optus stadium, Fremantle had won five in a row and three of them by less than three goals. They were in some form, even if…

I’m 29 years old, born in 1996. My first real football memory, as a Richmond fan, is Richo kicking 10 against the Dogs in 2004. That’s closely followed by Richo getting pinged for the newly introduced hands in the back to rob us of a Dreamtime win in yet another shit season. Based on that, I reckon my football consciousness started in around 2005. In that 20 years, Nathan Fyfe is the single best contested player I have ever seen, and I am sad to know that I’ll never see him in the heart of the contest again. a legend…