For a round with only seven games, there was plenty packed into it.
Category: Melbourne
From The Notebook, Round 4: Trends from the first month
A month into the season feels like enough time for some trends to be established.
From The Notebook, Round 2: Uncharacteristic Cats, replacing Gawn, and what’s up next
Two rounds in, and my tips are officially a complete nightmare. This week I got, ‘I don’t talk about it anymore’ tips correct.
From The Notebook, Round 1: Power movement, Bulldogs’ Groundhog Day, and Rossball in effect
Round 1 had some surprising results, standout performances, and arguably confirmation the league is indeed trending towards a more offensive-based product.
2023 AFL Team Tiers
While everyone is making ladder predictions, I’m taking the easy way out and grouping teams into tiers.
Predicting over/unders for every AFL team’s 2023 win total
Unlock with PatreonThe 2023 AFL Continuity Rankings
Welcome to the second annual AFL continuity rankings; figuring out which teams carry over the most (and least) minutes from their 2022 side into 2023.
2022 Trade Period Analysis: Lachie Hunter & Josh Schache, Melbourne
Two deadline day deals for Melbourne – one to improve their best 22 and another to fill key position depth.
2022 Trade Period Analysis: Brodie Grundy, Melbourne
This … this is the post most likely to leave me wide open for derision.
Look Back/Look Ahead: Melbourne
10-0 in the first 10 matches morphed into 6-8 over the last 14, and what looked like every chance of back-to-back Grand Finals instead became back-to-back finals losses.