IF
 		THEN
 
Adelaide
 		the Crows are to repeat their finals heroics of 2012 …… the next four weeks are vital. Roos, Dockers, Swans and Richmond. There’s their season, right there.
Brisbane Lions
 		the Lions are fair dinkum about their heritage …… they should wear their old-school guernsey every week. The past has been forgotten for too long.
Carlton
 		Chris Judd escaped an internal Carlton sanction after his chicken-wing incident …… why did Jarrad Waite cop it for a headbutt? Standard has now been set, interesting to see if it’s non-negotiable.
Collingwood
 		the Pies, this time last week, knew Dale Thomas was going to miss the bulk of the season… why bother with the airy statement the day before?
Essendon
 		the CEO didn’t know about the substance program and fell on his sword anyway …… logic says those who did know about it and didn’t tell him will also follow.
Fremantle
 		the Dockers didn’t watch Jason Dunstall’s rant on Sunday night …… they should. Ross Lyon hates basic errors.
Geelong
 		there is a better pure-footy story to emerge in 2013 than that of Mark Blicavs …… it is going to be a belter.
Gold Coast
 		there is a player in the competition who better embodies the desire to win at all costs than Campbell Brown …… it may only be Joel Selwood.
Greater Western Sydney
Jeremy Cameron was playing at Carlton ...
... the Blues would be scary good.
Hawthorn
 		Buddy Franklin ever enters a packed bar after 9pm and isn’t harassed within two minutes …… the bar won’t be in Australia.
Melbourne
 		there’s been a positive to come from the carnage …… it’s the fact Evans, Jones and Terlich have shown they’re capable.
North MelbourneNorth had kicked an extra goal in each of its games against West Coast, Hawthorn and Geelong …… it’d be fourth on the ladder and being talked about as a premiership smoky.
Port Adelaide
 		Hamish Hartlett doesn’t learn to break a tag soon, or get enough help to do so …… he will be a very frustrated man for the rest of 2013.
Richmond
 		this was the Richmond of previous seasons …
… it would lose this weekend’s game against Essendon. Let’s see if they’ve really improved.
St Kilda
 		back problems are added to Nick Riewoldt’s long list of ailments ...… we’ll know why. He is carrying this club at the moment.
Sydney Swans
 		Shane Mumford wants his next contract to be a four-year deal …… he needs to re-focus and re-emerge as the gun ruckman he once was. Seems to be going through the motions right now.
West Coast
 		anyone out there still dares to critique Nic Naitanui based on old-school footy skills …… they’re kidding themselves. We’ve never seen anything like this guy, just embrace absolutely everything he does.
Western Bulldogsthe Bulldogs want us to believe them when they say they are going OK in the big picture perspective …… they must show something, anything, against the Saints this week.