| IF | THEN | |
| Adelaide | anyone ever forgets how dangerous this game can be, even in training ... | ... just think of Brent Reilly. |
| Brisbane Lions | the tension has been removed, temporarily at least, from the James Aish situation after a meeting on Monday ... | ... expect the future of Matthew Leuenberger, a No.4 draft pick, to become the hot topic. |
| Carlton | games of footy were won based on how many times senior players said: "We have to take responsibility" ... | ... the Blues wouldn’t have lost in 2015. |
| Collingwood | it’s good enough for Kieron Pollard to bowl two metres behind the crease ... | ... Travis Cloke should consider taking every set shot from 45m, even when he’s marked the ball 10m out. |
| Essendon | you go back to last year when players were offered two-week deals to make all this soul-destroying carnage just go away ... | ... right now you'd have to be wishing for your time over again. |
| Fremantle | Ryan Crowley escaped sanction for performance-enhancing drug use ... | ... he wouldn't get back in the side anyway. |
| Geelong | a big, gangly Irishman revolutionised the way football was played by ruckmen in the very late 1980s into the 1990s ... | ...based on what we've seen in recent years and, very particularly the first six rounds of 2015, a big, gangly, ex-track athlete appears poised to do the same in coming years. |
| Gold Coast | you understandably leave a team which has played in the last three Grand Finals because you can’t get a regular game ... | ... you don't want to be omitted from the under-performing, injury-smashed team for which you now play. Massive watch on Mitch Hallahan. |
| Greater Western Sydney | Jezza Cameron wants to really announce his official arrival into the AFL elite ... | ...a bag of 10 against the hapless Blues would do it. |
| Hawthorn | Ryan Schoenmakers was convinced he made the right decision to stay at the Hawks last October ... | ... he's probably reconsidering about now. |
| Melbourne | Jack Watts is not at another club next year ... | ... we will be very surprised. |
| North Melbourne | the Roos are going to reach top four again ... | ... they must convincingly defeat the Bombers. |
| Port Adelaide | there’s been an issue which has seriously confused us to this point of 2015 ... | ... it is Kane Cornes' retirement announcement before round seven. To become a firefighter. It may well be all hunky dory, but it just doesn't seem right. |
| Richmond | our gut feel is right (but we need to be honest here and say it hasn't been this year when it comes to tipping results of games) ... | ... the Tiges beat the Pies and, woo-la, their season is back on track. |
| St Kilda | Nick Riewoldt is prepared to play wing for the remainder of his career ... | ... he'll scream past 300 career games and probably reach 350. |
| Sydney Swans | Buddy fails to kick a goal, again ... | ... we'll know that the mail we're hearing about his dodgy ankle is 100 per cent right. |
| West Coast | this time last week you thought the Eagles, without Mackenzie and Brown, could travel to the Portress and keep a team which boasted Wingard, Schulz, Ryder and Gray to 10 goals ... | ... you're either a liar or a true genius. |
| Western Bulldogs | a player has TWICE required a full knee reconstruction in a short career, and you diagnose that he has just destroyed an ACL for a THIRD time in that short career ... | ... we don’t care if you have a medical certificate (and we don’t) - under NO circumstances do you send that player back onto the ground. And please spare us the Monday press release spin next time. |
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