| IF | THEN | |
| Adelaide | the Crows push their case too far ... | ... they'll end up watching Dangerfield run around in the blue and white hoops for nothing. |
| Brisbane Lions | the Lions opted for the charm offensive way back in April ... | ... they would have been spared a lot of angst. Credit where it is due, though. Better late than never for all to be on the same page. |
| Carlton | the umpires continue the trend of awarding Brownlow votes to a player 12 months late ... | ... watch Patrick Cripps next year. Six votes only this year, beaten by Marc Murphy. Deserved more. |
| Collingwood | you weren't aware the Pies weren't happy with their exiting no-gamer Nathan Freeman ... | ... have a listen to Nathan Buckley's comments last Tuesday night. Ouch. |
| Essendon | yet another Bombers coaching panel's time has been wasted ... | ... that'll be three panels in a row whose time has been wasted. |
| Fremantle | Nat Fyfe hadn't done enough on Monday night to convince every single person in Australia he was the complete package ... | ... Patrick Keane's iPhone photo of him on Tuesday morning surely converted the last doubter. |
| Geelong | the Cats add Dangerfield to Joel Selwood, Caddy, Guthrie, Duncan, Motlop and Cockatoo ... | ... do they actually need Scott Selwood? |
| Gold Coast | Rocket gets his way ... | ... Stevie J won't be a Sun in 2016. "He's not the age of player we need." We disagree, but we're not running the club. |
| Greater Western Sydney | Steve Silvagni is still at Carlton in 2020 ... | ... no GWS player will be left. |
| Hawthorn | scores in the GF are close at three-quarter time ... | ... those who drove the decision to leave Hartung out of the 22 will be a tad twitchy, particularly with the heat looming as a major factor. |
| Melbourne | Jack Watts is a Demon in 2016 ... | ... we'll be surprised. |
| North Melbourne | we were running North Melbourne ... | ... we'd be rolling the dice again in the free agency/trade period. It's worked very well to this point. No point retreating now. Hello Harley. |
| Port Adelaide | Wingard, Wines and Hartlett are all coming off contract at the end of 2016 ... | ... something has to give somewhere, at some stage. |
| Richmond | you recall this week two years ago ... | ... you'll remember Dusty Martin taking a tour of GWS facilities. He facilitated Harley Bennell's tour of Punt Rd this week. Can't work out whether that is a good or bad thing for Harley. We'll go with it being good. For now. |
| St Kilda | the Saints, as expected, land Carlisle ... | ... the fun begins. Not the easiest player to have on your books. Ask the Bombers. |
| Sydney Swans | we thought something was "done" ... | ... it was Jetta to the Eagles. But we now hear Freo is starting to show interest. |
| West Coast | you're a second-year coach and you take your non-finalist team of last year all the way to a GF ... | ... you'd like to think your peers might rate you as Coach Of The Year. |
| Western Bulldogs | you're racking up four best-ons in Brownlow Medal voting in your second season ... | ... you're pretty special. But we knew that anyway, didn't we? |
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