| IF | THEN | |
| Adelaide | Sando wants to stack the forward line... | …this is the week to do it. Tex, Pods, Lynch, Jenko. Go on, do it. See if it works. |
| Brisbane Lions | 2014 has seen Rockliff move toward the A-grade list... | ...it has also seen him slide into the "he can get sucked-in" list. Twice now he's missed matches for hitting an opponent. |
| Carlton | Mick does one thing over summer... | ...it's scour the globe for the best kicking coach to help big Levi. No point having "the best hands in the game" if you can't convert. Though four straight last weekend was a start! |
| Collingwood | the Pies want to do some damage in the finals... | ...a lot of things must happen. Top of list is to re-energise Grundy. |
| Essendon | the Bombers get within striking distance of Collingwood and lose... | …Goddard will be feeling pretty bad about that off the ball bump on Cornes. |
| Fremantle | the Essendon lawyers have some spare time soon... | ...Nat Fyfe should ask them to take an injunction against the Match Review Panel ruling which made him ineligible for the Brownlow. |
| Geelong | our gut feel is right... | ...the Cats will rip open the Demons this weekend. |
| Gold Coast | in the midst of Shouldergate you felt you missed something... | ...it was the Suns beating a top side, in front of a full crowd with no fit player on the bench for the entirety of the final quarter. Next four: Dogs, Lions, Saints, Blues. Congrats on making the finals. |
| Greater Western Sydney | Jeremy Cameron was a horse... | ...a vet wouldn't allow him to race. Looks lame, playing lame. Time for a freshen up, maybe a long spell. |
| Hawthorn | Schoenmakers wants to shake the whipping boy tag… | …he has one week to do it before Gibson returns. And it won't be easy playing against the big Texan. |
| Melbourne | you’re wanting to grow a fan base in a new market... | ...four goals in a game is probably not going to grow a fan base in a new market. |
| North Melbourne | the Roos lose to the Saints this week... | ...they should be made to swim back to Melbourne. Coach included. Seriously. |
| Port Adelaide | you lose three of your past four... | ...we're not going to rate you a premiership hope if you lose four of five. Tigers won't be easy, either. |
| Richmond | Cotchin speaks publicly every time as he did on The Footy Show... | ...you'll want to be listening. Without doubt, the most open, honest and real he's ever been when the microphone is on. Well done. |
| St Kilda | St Kilda fans wanted more heartache... | ...it'll come this week when they get rolled again, with an old favourite son at the centre of the damage, a man who this week said he was tipped out. |
| Sydney Swans | everything didn't seem just so rosy right now... | ...Tippett's absence, again, would be analysed and questioned in big picture terms a whole lot more than it has been. |
| West Coast | there's a club which is in real no man's land right now... | ...it is this one. Very, very ordinary season to this point. Might be too late to change that outlook. |
| Western Bulldogs | you want to make a statement... | ...dropping Higgins is a big one. Good clubs make tough calls. Good players respond to adversity. Let's see how this plays out in the remaining weeks of 2014. |
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