Jack Darling celebrates a goal for North Melbourne against the Western Bulldogs in R1, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos

IN TODAY'S AFL Daily, star journalists Michael Whiting and Nathan Schmook join all the dots on football's big issues.

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- Will Patrick Cripps play a ruck type role again?
- Hawthorn has 'the most exciting small forward line in the comp'
- Sydney look anything but an 0-2 team - will it become 0-3?
- Jack Darling joins the 300 club, a helluva second banana

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