IF
 		THEN
 
Adelaide
 		anyone ever forgets how dangerous this game can be, even in training ...... just think of Brent Reilly.
Brisbane Lions
 		the tension has been removed, temporarily at least, from the James Aish situation after a meeting on Monday ...... expect the future of Matthew Leuenberger, a No.4 draft pick, to become the hot topic.
Carlton
 		games of footy were won based on how many times senior players said: "We have to take responsibility" ...... the Blues wouldn’t have lost in 2015.
Collingwood
 		 it’s good enough for Kieron Pollard to bowl two metres behind the crease ...... Travis Cloke should consider taking every set shot from 45m, even when he’s marked the ball 10m out.
Essendon
 		you go back to last year when players were offered two-week deals to make all this soul-destroying carnage just go away ...... right now you'd have to be wishing for your time over again.
Fremantle
 		Ryan Crowley escaped sanction for performance-enhancing drug use ...... he wouldn't get back in the side anyway.
Geelong
 		a big, gangly Irishman revolutionised the way football was played by ruckmen in the very late 1980s into the 1990s ......based on what we've seen in recent years and, very particularly the first six rounds of 2015, a big, gangly, ex-track athlete appears poised to do the same in coming years.
Gold Coast
 		you understandably leave a team which has played in the last three Grand Finals because you can’t get a regular game ...... you don't want to be omitted from the under-performing, injury-smashed team for which you now play. Massive watch on Mitch Hallahan.
Greater Western Sydney

 		Jezza Cameron wants to really announce his official arrival into the AFL elite ......a bag of 10 against the hapless Blues would do it.
Hawthorn
 		Ryan Schoenmakers was convinced he made the right decision to stay at the Hawks last October ...... he's probably reconsidering about now.
Melbourne
 		Jack Watts is not at another club next year ...... we will be very surprised.
North Melbournethe Roos are going to reach top four again ...... they must convincingly defeat the Bombers.
Port Adelaide
 		there’s been an issue which has seriously confused us to this point of 2015  ...... it is Kane Cornes' retirement announcement before round seven. To become a firefighter. It may well be all hunky dory, but it just doesn't seem right.
Richmond
 		our gut feel is right (but we need to be honest here and say it hasn't been this year when it comes to tipping results of games) ...... the Tiges beat the Pies and, woo-la, their season is back on track.
St Kilda
 		Nick Riewoldt is prepared to play wing for the remainder of his career ...... he'll scream past 300 career games and probably reach 350.
Sydney Swans
 		Buddy fails to kick a goal, again ...... we'll know that the mail we're hearing about his dodgy ankle is 100 per cent right.
West Coast
 		this time last week you thought the Eagles, without Mackenzie and Brown, could travel to the Portress and keep a team which boasted Wingard, Schulz, Ryder and Gray to 10 goals ...... you're either a liar or a true genius.
Western Bulldogsa player has TWICE required a full knee reconstruction in a short career, and you diagnose that he has just destroyed an ACL for a THIRD time in that short career ...... we don’t care if you have a medical certificate (and we don’t) - under NO circumstances do you send that player back onto the ground. And please spare us the Monday press release spin next time.


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