The best 22 or the 22 best? If you wanted a case study for a philosophical debate about team versus talent, two games in Melbourne on Sunday provided some interesting and persuasive evidence for the former.
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Essendon is back in the top eight after a late surge against North Melbourne. But the Bombers will need to play a lot better to stay there.
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Unlike Adelaide’s first clash with Geelong, from the outset this time, it looked like the Crows were intent on making a statement. And it was a pretty emphatic one.
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There’s an elephant in the AFL’s room. And if there isn’t a finals tale as romantic as the Bulldogs of last year, it might end up stomping all over the integrity of the competition.
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I’m never comfortable when media outlets start lecturing on morality, particularly when the morals in question concern fidelity.
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The top two teams taking each other on in a potential grand final preview, and no fewer than three games between two top-eight rivals. Round 18 is a corker.
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St Kilda coach Ross Lyon had to deal with grand final defeat in 2010, his Saints losing a grand final replay to Collingwood after drawing their first clash. But even that was loss on a smaller scale to the real tragedies that occurred in his life that same year.
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An amazing result. Amazing scenes which followed it. But, appropriate to a moment of such historical magnitude, an amazing grand final in its own right. The Western Bulldogs’ breaking of a 62-year premiership drought is like some sort of fantasy.
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There was always a chance this grand final was going to come down to one moment, one act that would finally separate two magnificent teams. And so it ended up being the case in Geelong’s gripping, dramatic premiership win.
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We did say it would be close. Funnily enough, despite that, no one had considered the possibility that, as commentator Mike Williamson said during a succession of nail-biting grand finals in the 1960s and ’70s, ”we could be back here next week”. This time, we actually will.
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