IF | THEN | |
Adelaide | Sando can devise a way to overcome the loss of Big Tex, which follows the exit of Tippett, and gets this team back into the finals … | … he deserves coach-of-year status. #noTexnoCrows |
Brisbane Lions | Vossy is coach of the Lions in 2014 … | … he will have produced a miracle in what’s left of the 2013 season. #miracleshappen |
Carlton | Jarrad Waite stays fit, and that is a massive “if” … | … watch the glint return to the eye of Mick Malthouse. #historysaysno |
Collingwood | more footballers spoke as openly as Scott Pendlebury … | … the game would be better. #speakyourmind |
Essendon | the Bombers this weekend against GWS play to the standards they’ve shown in the five matches of 2013 … | … it will win this one by 30 goals. #lookoutthiscouldgetrealugly |
Fremantle | the Dockers applied any sort of logic to the thought processes around heading to the tribunal with Fyfe … | … they wouldn’t have headed to the tribunal with Fyfe. #whatweretheythinking |
Geelong | there’s been a better trick-bag than that belonging to Stevie J in his 199 games … | … maybe, just maybe, only Gary Ablett senior can lay claim to it. #takingthepi55 |
Gold Coast | the Suns want us to believe them when they say they are on the improve … | … this weekend’s match against a depleted Dockers is one they just have to win. #actionslouderthanwords |
GWS Giants | Tom Scully doesn’t start to show some real form … | ... the Giants need to justify why they’re wasting millions of football industry dollars on talent. #HelloIzzy |
Hawthorn | Brian Lake had been a Hawk for the past two years … | … this club right now would be seeking a third consecutive flag. #whatcouldhavebeen |
Melbourne | Peter Jackson emerges from his time as Dees CEO as the level-headed, clear-thinking person he currently is … | … the Loch Ness monster exists. #nightmareahead |
North Melbourne | Lindsay Thomas could market the magic formula which has transformed him from goalkicking choker into goalkicking dead-eye … | … he would become an overnight millionaire. #ianbakerfinchwouldhavelikedsome |
Port Adelaide | David Koch can fix the Power so quickly and easily … | … look out Julia Gillard, the man is capable of absolutely anything! #nothinghecannotdo |
Richmond | Jack Riewoldt listens to the narks calling for him to change his ways … | … the game will be in a far worse place. #stickitupemJack |
St Kilda | the Saints really are on a long-term rebuild … | … they are obliged to consider trading midfield guns Nick Dal Santo and Leigh Montagna. #winwin |
Sydney Swans | Sam Reid and Lewis Jetta continue their peculiarly terrible form … | … John Longmire won’t hesitate in dropping them next week. #whatshappened |
West Coast | Nic Nat has been rushed back too early … | … there will be hell to play for those who made the decision. #maybewaitonemoreweek |
Western Bulldogs | the Bulldogs don’t show something, anything, by way of improvement against West Coast this weekend after Round 4’s embarrassment against the Crows … | … their fans will rightly give up any hope for 2013. |
Sliding doors: round six
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