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Round 8 player ratings in the race for the AFL's MVP A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Four weeks ago, I published an update on the individual and team ratings accumulated by our band of merry men and women at Following Football. With Round 9 just getting underway, it’s time to take another look at where things stand after eight rounds. As I’ve said before, we use 23 sources of voting and evaluations of AFL players each week: several teams of the week, Brownlow-style voting, best-on-grounds, fantasy s...

There will come a point this year when long-suffering Melbourne fans allow themselves to dream. That moment cannot be too far away after the Demons held off a late challenge from Sydney.

Sydney successfully nullified Dustin Martin’s influence in their seismic Round 3 win over Richmond. Martin and the Tigers had a rare off day as the Swans swarmed the reigning premiers, picking apart their defence with precision to notch their third 100-plus score in as many weeks. Sydney evergreens Josh Kennedy and Luke Parker were tasked with quelling the three-time Norm Smith Medallist and did a commendable job that contributed to the upset 45-point victory. Sydney youngster Chad Warner, whose two-goal performance earned him the Rising Star nomination for Round 3, shed further light o...

By 2021-04-08T20:01+10:00 Sydney’s rapid raise is one of the stories of the early part of the season. Having won their first three games of the year, including a shock 45-point win over reigning premiers Richmond, attention is quickly turning to whether the young Swans could play finals in 2021. As part of a culture-building exercise in recent days, round three Rising Star award winner Chad Warner revealed that coach John Longmire recently asked all the club’s first and second-year players to reach out to a former great of the club who wore their number in the past.

Seven talking points from Round 3 in the AFL A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size There’s been a super conspicuous absence for the first few weeks of the season, as the usual Monday morning fixture of ‘talking points’ disappeared. But fortunately, it’s been revived, and I’ll be manning it from here on out (and yeah, that means I personally won’t be penning the power rankings column this year). Let’s get into it. The Lions head from agony to euphoria, punctuated by COVID