AFL Record – Round 13, 2023

ONE WEEK TIME

News from in and around the AFL

PIES RIPE FOR THE PICKING

Monday’s MelbourneCollingwood clash at the MCG will be the 42nd to be played on what has now been rebadged as the King’s Birthday public holiday.

The scoreline is 21-19 in favour of the Magpies, with a drawn game in 2010 thrown into the mix. All but seven of those games have been played at the MCG.

Nothing will surpass the 1958 game, an 11-point win by the first-placed Demons over the second-placed Magpies, which drew 99,256 to the MCG, the largest crowd for a home and away game in League history. There were more there for that game than the Grand Final between the same clubs later that year.

But the 2023 clash promises to be right up there, with the AFL and the MCC expecting about 85,000 fans to attend the game which was sold out several days ago.

Melbourne is third, Collingwood is on top. The Magpies have taken all before them with 11 wins from 12 games, but from an available personnel perspective, the ledger appears to have been evened.

Already missing Steele Sidebottom, Collingwood will also be without the dynamic Jordan De Goey, who before being suspended this week was one of the favourites for the Brownlow Medal. Melbourne, on the other hand, gets back its own midfield star Clayton Oliver, who has missed the past two games with a hamstring strain.

At full strength and with Oliver back, the Demons look as well-equipped as any team in the competition to handle the rampaging Magpies.

And to add further to the intrigue in the lead-up, Monday’s game will be the first time Melbourne big man Brodie Grundy comes up against his former club.

Grundy, a dual Collingwood best and fairest and twice All-Australian ruckman, moved a few hundred metres from Collingwood to the Demons at the end of last season, for reasons largely based around Magpies’ burgeoning total player payments schedule.

There was intrigue about how he and Max Gawn would co-exist in the same team but the two premier big men have made it work.

The irony of course is that Collingwood’s ruck stocks have been largely decimated this year.

This hasn’t prevented the Magpies from cutting a swathe through the competition through the opening three months, but Grundy will have a point to prove on Monday afternoon.

The MCG will be heaving twice within the space of 24 hours.

Carlton and Essendon hope to stage what will be a recalibration of their great rivalry by claiming the Sunday night before the public holiday as their own.

u When Neale Daniher was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease 10 years ago, the wider community became aware that the average life prognosis for an MND sufferer is 27 months.

It’s worth reflecting on that figure when the ever-smiling former Essendon star and Melbourne coach heads to the MCG on Monday for Big Freeze 9.

Undeterred by that average 27-month sentence, Daniher has fought on for 10 years and once again his day has rolled around with him very much at the forefront.

Daughter Bec will be by his side as they send nine sporting and entertainment types down the slide and into the icy pool, all in the name of raising money – and creating awareness –around the disease.

About $70m has been raised so far, having started a decade ago with a modest target of a few million dollars.

While the MCG will be a sea of blue beanies – the symbol of FightMND and the Big Freeze – this year’s theme of ‘All In’ is taking the campaign to a wider audience.

A Big Freeze event was held at last Saturday’s West Coast-Collingwood game and

another will take place next Friday night at the Gabba when the Brisbane Lions take on Sydney.

The AFL Record is grateful for the assistance the FightMND team and in particular the efforts of Bec Daniher and Ian Cohen to help prepare our coverage.

Make sure you buy a beanie via the QR code on page 12 or visit fightmnd.org.au to donate.

ASHLEY BROWNE

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RICHMOND INTERIM COACH ANDREW McQUALTER ON JACK RIEWOLDT’S FIVE-GOAL HAUL LAST WEEK

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Former Magpie Brodie Grundy comes up against his old team for the first time on Monday.

The Blues are 14th and in freefall, while the sixth-placed Bombers appear bound for September.

But as fans of the two clubs have long come to understand, form counts for nought when these games come around. More than 70,000 are expected at the MCG.

Only Geelong and Gold Coast have the bye this weekend and the round is packed with great games.

Sydney has kept its slender finals hopes alive with two wins leading into the bye, but that run needs to keep going in order to save its year.

The Swans host St Kilda at the SCG as Thursday night football makes its overdue and much welcome return, with the Saints having used the bye week to determine whether their 10-point loss to Hawthorn was a bad day at the office or an indicator of a difficult second half of the season to come.

Port Adelaide’s 16-goal opening half against Hawthorn last Saturday was as dominant as any team has played all season.

The Power understandably tapered off after that, safe in the knowledge that a club-record ninth straight win was safely at hand.

Friday night at Marvel Stadium will represent a step up in class.

The Western Bulldogs have dropped their past two games after winning five on the trot before that.

They were disappointing after half-time against Geelong last week but are always hard to beat under the roof at home.

Port has just about established itself as a bona fide flag contender but face the Bulldogs and Geelong within six days of each other. Is this the week the Power slip up?

The Lions are back from the bye, looking to return to the winners’

AFL Rising Star

JACOB VAN ROOYEN MELBOURNE

Melbourne appears to have found its next key forward

A career-high 16 disposals at 86.5 per cent efficiency, seven marks and a goal for Jacob van Rooyen helped the Demons to an important win over Carlton last week and also earned him the round 12 nomination for the AFL Rising Star.

On the big Friday night stage at the MCG, he also took two contested marks, had three inside-50s and two tackles.

He kicked three goals on debut in round three and has not missed

a game for the Demons since, kicking kicked a goal in every game he has played at AFL level to have 15 for the season.

Van Rooyen was drafted with the 19th pick in the 2021 NAB AFL Draft from Claremont.

He played his juniors with Wembley Downs.

list after a last-start loss to Adelaide and Hawthorn at the MCG on Saturday afternoon should shape as a regulation four points for the Lions, except for the small matter of the Lions not having beaten the Hawks since 2019.

Richmond travels to Fremantle on Saturday night, a tough ask just six days after edging past the Giants in Sydney in a game it was lucky to win.

If the Dockers are truly finals material, they should win this comfortably.

And North Melbourne should feel confident about snapping its 10-game losing streak when it hosts GWS at Blundstone Arena on Sunday.

The Kangaroos have been thereabouts in the three games since Brett Ratten became stand-in coach and their talented youngsters are improving by the week. They should have beaten Essendon last week.

FROM BUSH TO THE BIG TIME: TEX CLOCKS 250

It’s a wonderful story of the boy from one of the smallest competitions in Australia becoming an all-time great of the AFL.

While everybody knows of Taylor Walker and what he has done as the face of the Adelaide Crows for the past 15 years, how many know where he came from to become the luminary he is today?

Walker, 33, grew up in Broken Hill – the outback NSW mining town of less than 20,000 people that isn’t known as a bastion of football.

But it is the childhood home of one of the Crows’ greatest players, plus GWS utility Isaac Cumming and the likes of Essendon premiership player Dean Solomon and West Coast’s Brent Staker, who would have been a flag winner but for an injury that cost him his spot heading into the 2006 finals.

‘Tex’, as he is widely known, arrived at the Crows from the Broken Hill North Bulldogs with the last pick in the 2007 National Draft as a graduate of the short-lived NSW Scholarship Scheme, and he has easily been its most successful as he prepares to play his 250th game against West Coast at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

The Crows knew they had a good one when he kicked seven goals to be best-on-ground in the 2007 AFL Broken Hill Grand Final as a 17-year-old and he has only gone from strength to strength ever since.

He kicked more than 50 SANFL goals for Norwood in 2008 and made his AFL debut in round one, 2009.

Heading into his milestone match, he has kicked a record 564 goals for Adelaide, he’s been the club’s leading goalkicker six times (including the past four) and spent

He has kicked a record 564 goals for the Crows

five seasons as captain, including being the AFL Players Association’s best captain in 2016-17. And he should be an Australian Football Hall of Famer when his brilliant career finally comes to an end.

TAYLOR WALKER

Born: April 25, 1990

Recruited from: North Broken Hill (NSW)/NSW-ACT U18

Debut: Round 1, 2009, v Collingwood

Height: 194cm

Weight: 102kg

Games: 249 Goals: 564

Honours: All-Australian nominee 2012, 2015, 2017, 2022; leading goalkicker 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022; AFLPA best captain 2016, 2017; pre-season premiership team 2012; captain 2015-18; co-captain 2019. Brownlow Medal: career votes 68.

Comprising 280 premiership games, 18 pre-season games, 1 State of Origin game.

MAGIC MILESTONE: Taylor Walker will celebrate his 250th game in front of the Adelaide faithful on Saturday.

OLD FOES PREPARE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT FARE

Football’s fresh take on an old-fashioned blockbuster starts on Sunday night as an under-pressure Carlton comes up against Essendon in the first King’s Birthday Eve clash.

Both clubs have worked together in recent months to pump up the game, which could become an annual event if it draws a huge crowd.

The game could hardly come at a worse time for the struggling Blues, who are under all sorts of pressure as their finals hopes slip away – with 12 games played, Carlton has just four wins and a draw.

The Blues’ latest defeat came at the hands of Melbourne in a largely forgettable Friday night contest last week which saw Michael Voss lament the tense nature of their game.

“Eventually you need that part because that’s the exciting part of the game, when you get your chance, you challenge, and we’ve found it difficult to challenge,” he said.

“We’re just playing too tight.

“We know this game is imperfect, it’s made up of mistakes and errors

and (you have to be) willing to be able to take risks at right times.

“We’re fighting, but we’re forcing, and it’s making it look really hard.”

Sunday night’s clash – as well as being a genuine blockbuster between old rivals – also presents as a somewhat sliding doors moment considering where Essendon sits.

One of the surprise packets of the season, the Bombers are sixth and on a three-game winning streak, entering this game as firm favourites to make it four before their bye.

FEELING

Carlton slumped to its seventh loss in its past eight games last Friday night; (inset) no such issues at Essendon, which has won three in a row.

They are also poised to welcome back spearhead forward Peter Wright, who hasn’t played at all this year after suffering a shoulder injury in the pre-season.

With Essendon’s 1993 premiership team holding a reunion on Friday night and a crowd of more than 70,000 expected on Sunday night, all signs are pointing to this becoming an annual fixture leading into King’s Birthday blockbuster between Collingwood and Melbourne.

LAURENCE ROSEN

THE BLUES:

u FOOTY FUNNIES – Bob Dikkenberg

The theme for FightMND in 2023 is ‘All In’ and at the event launch at Melbourne Town Hall a month ago, that mantra was well and truly lived.

The Yarra Room at the famous old building was packed and the reach and scope of an organisation that started at the Daniher family kitchen table was plain to see.

Key representatives from the Melbourne and Collingwood football clubs, as well as the AFL were front and centre.

Public awareness about motor neurone disease has grown enormously since Neale Daniher contracted the disease and so selflessly made himself the public face of the campaign, not just to fight the disease but to ease the burden on the families of those afflicted by it.

Those who decry the creep of football into the realm of issue awareness and social justice needed to be in the room that morning.

The game can do so much for the broader community – look at what the annual Essendon v Collingwood clash has done for Anzac Day observance – and the second Monday afternoon every June at the MCG is the same.

The Melbourne v Collingwood showdown on what is now the King’s Birthday public holiday and the Big Freeze festivities that precede it have captured the imagination of the nation.

And plenty of others want to join the party – Coles and Bunnings are just two of several iconic Australian businesses to become involved.

They were every bit as part of the launch as the Demons, Magpies and, of course the Daniher family.

The ‘All In’ theme has led to the Big Freeze going national.

Last week’s West Coast v Collingwood game saw several West Australian sporting identities including past and present West Coast stars Quinten Lynch and Luke Shuey, as well as West Coast Fever legend Nat Butler and Perth Wildcats champion Damian Martin take the plunge.

Western Australia has always had a special place in Neale Daniher’s heart.

He rounded out his coaching apprenticeship in the mid-1990s as Gerard Neesham’s senior assistant in Fremantle’s first few years in the AFL and his last job in football before his illness took hold was as West Coast’s football manager.

And it moves to Queensland next week, with Big Freeze events also slated to take place in and around the Friday night round 14 clash between Brisbane Lions and Sydney.

But the big one is Monday at the MCG. It is the biggest Melbourne v Collingwood clash since the Big Freeze started. Third versus first and quite possibly the end of Melbourne’s hopes for a top-two finish with another defeat. We know the Magpies will be without suspended midfield tyro Jordan De Goey while the Demons get theirs back, with Clayton Oliver returning from a hamstring strain.

But before the footy, the message.

“We know the story. We know the stats. We know the average life expectancy is 27 months,” daughter Bec Daniher said at the Big Freeze launch.

“We know that for every Neale Daniher there are plenty of others who don’t get to see the other side of that number.”

She recounted the events of 10 years ago. “They were humble beginnings,” she said.

The football community will again gather at the MCG on Monday to rally behind Neale Daniher, his family and support team as they continue their FightMND campaign. ASHLEY BROWNE

QUICK SINGLE: Justin Langer takes the plunge in 2022.

SHOW OF SUPPORT: The football family came from far and wide to support Neale and Bec Daniher at this year’s Big Freeze launch including (from left) umpire Ray Chamberlain, Melbourne’s Clayton Oliver, Collingwood’s Taylor Adams and AFL CEO elect Andrew Dillon.

“Mum and dad’s lounge room filled with beanies, we had the man at the post office giving us looks after we brought in crate after crate of hand-written envelopes with beanies in them.”

“It truly has been an amazing journey and the Big Freeze has grown into our biggest beacon of hope.”

Monday at the MCG will bring what she called, “a spine-tingling sense of togetherness”, which can only be achieved by a group with a common cause backing them.

“It really is something beautiful and something our family treasures,” she said.

For the players, it also a day they circle in their calendar from the moment they see the fixture.

And then the anticipation builds as the game draws near, especially when the Daniher family pays its customary visit to both clubs in the lead-up.

“Neale is such an inspiration,” Melbourne defender Jake Lever said.

“He comes and talks to the players every year and you

wonder how he can outdo what he said the previous year, but he always finds a way.”

At Collingwood, they don’t just hear from Daniher.

Others suffering from the disease regularly make their way to the club to meet the players.

“It’s pretty surreal,” Taylor Adams said.

“We have been touched by many families since the inception of FightMND and the Big Freeze; they come and share their stories.

“It gives us a lot of perspective and to understand how privileged we are to be in the position we’re in.”

That translates to the game itself in front of an MCG crowd mainly resplendent in “beanie blue”.

“There is obviously four points up for grabs, but there is also a lot more than four points up for grabs,” Lever said.

“We understand there is a job at hand when we play football and what we want to do is put on

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a great show. If you look at both clubs this season it’s going to be a great game.

“So we look forward to putting ourselves in the spotlight from a footy perspective, but that game is worth more than the four points.

“It’s what we do and what Neale does for MND and those people who are suffering.”

It might be the game of the year during which rival supporters are nicest towards each other.

Even out in the middle, the players notice a different vibe.

“Absolutely,” Adams said.

“The four points are overshadowed by a far greater cause and to see the sea of blue beanies at the MCG and in the leadup to the game is really special.

“It’s such a great game to be part of.”

And a great day to be ‘All In’.

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NO WALK IN THE PARK

While much of the focus around Big Freeze 9 centres around the activities at the MCG on King’s Birthday, two passionate footy supporters have been doing their bit to raise funds for FightMND.

Collingwood supporter Richard Coyne and Melbourne fan Simon Polinelli will have completed their Big Freeze in the Bay by the time next Monday’s MCG event kicks off.

The pair headed off from the MCG concourse last Sunday and spent eight gruelling days hiking around Port Phillip Bay in an anti-clockwise direction before returning to the ’G on Monday.

They walked about 35km a day and as an added “bonus” they participated in two daily Bay “freezes”, taking a dip in the chilly water each morning and night.

The two experienced long-distance walkers also added a competitive element to their walk by asking Magpie fans to dig deep for

Coyne and Demons supporters to do likewise for Polinelli.

They were planning to raise more than $125,000 each towards the FightMND campaign.

“We were inspired by selflessness of Neale Daniher and his family,” Coyne said.

“We’re also driven by the fact we are focusing on others and we can connect through friends and the challenge of MND.

“And we’ve always loved a challenge and a cold bath!”

Donations can be made via the QR code. And all supporters can donate, not just Magpie and Demon fans.

To

FAMILY FUN: Terry Daniher was there to support his brother last year.

It truly has been an amazing journey

BEC DANIHER

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ERIC BANA

AUSTRALIAN ACTOR

u I’m thrilled to be joining the team to help FightMND. What this organisation has achieved over the past eight years is simply remarkable, but the momentum must continue. Finding a cure would be incredible for people living with MND and their families. I’m keen to help spread the word.

JASON DUNSTALL

FORMER HAWTHORN CHAMPION

u It’s an honour and a privilege and the simple fact is there’s not a person in Australia that has not been touched by the incredible courage shown by Neale Daniher in his fight. So many people and many families affected by this insidious disease – we need to continue to fight it.

AARON FINCH

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET LEGEND

u It’s hard to believe we are into the ninth year of the Big Freeze. What an amazing charity, raising over $69m for research and development to find a cure for MND, which has affected so many people. Please donate as much as you can.

TAYLA HARRIS

MELBOURNE AFLW STAR

u M y partner’s family has lost a loved one to this disease so to be able to be involved in this event and help raise much needed money is something I straight away said yes to. Neale being a champion of MFC makes the involvement even more special.

TONY SHAW

COLLINGWOOD ICON

u It’s a great honour and I jumped at the chance when Bec Daniher asked me out of the great respect I have for Neale for what he’s done and what’s he’s gone through and the example he’s been for everyone who has this horrible disease.

SHAUN BURGOYNE

FORMER HAWTHORN/PORT ADELAIDE STAR

u I feel very honoured to have been asked to be involved this year by the Daniher family. To be able to help Neale and the family raise awareness and money for MND feels special.

MICK FANNING

AUSTRALIAN SURFING LEGEND

u I’m very honoured to be in the Big Freeze this year – it’s always something I wanted to contribute to. Giving back to those people who are fighting MND and helping them and showing them support is something I really believe in.

ABBEY GELMI

CHANNEL 7 SPORTS HOST

u I c ouldn’t be more honoured to be a slider for Big Freeze 9. Neale, Bec and the FightMND team have raised incredible money and awareness to take on this insidious disease. Hopefully my costume can keep out the ice because I’m terrible in the cold!

MICHELLE PAYNE

MELBOURNE CUP-WINNING JOCKEY

u (Brother) Stevie and I are really pleased to be taking part in the fight against MND. It’s a terrible disease and we’re truly honoured to be taking part in this charity to raise money. We can’t wait to be there.

What I’m thinking

with Ashley Browne

Mid-season report card

Our

chief tutor has assessed the performance of all clubs so far in 2023.

Can’t say we are fans of a four-week mid-season bye period, but at some stage it offers the opportunity for supporters to pause and reflect on the season to date. And because this is an opinionbased business, here are some mid-season thoughts on your club.

The best team in the competition on and off the field and at this stage the one to beat for the flag. But a testing few weeks looms without Steele Sidebottom and Jordan De Goey

COLLINGWOOD A

ESSENDON B+

Hiring Brad “I’m not here to be your mate” Scott as coach has been a masterstroke. The Bombers are tougher defensively, well-stocked through the midfield and are 7-5 with 2022 best and fairest Peter Wright yet to play a game. Finals beckon.

ADELAIDE B-

There are few more entertaining teams than the Crows when they move the ball swiftly and allow their talented forwards to do their best work. But they need to play better away from home.

BRISBANE LIONS B

Chalked up seven wins without a minimum of fuss before a pre-bye stumble against the Crows. Also, the only team to beat Collingwood this year. All the elements seem to be in place, but once again, this story will be written in September.

The clubhouse leader for 2023’s most disappointing team, whose stumbles through the last month have been welcomed by talkback radio hosts across the country. Can’t run. Can’t score.

CARLTON D-

Nice job by the Dockers to get back on track after their untidy start to the season. Midfield is coming together and Jye Amiss might be the gun forward they’ve been looking for. Last start win over Melbourne was impressive.

FREMANTLE B

GEELONG C

A pair of three-game losing streaks has marred their season but the Cats but will have the rest of the competition looking anxiously behind them as the reinforcements return. Port Adelaide and Melbourne games to come are massive.

GOLD COAST B

Barring catastrophe, the Suns will be playing meaningful footy in August for the first time in their history. How they handle the battling Blues on the road in a fortnight will be instructive.

GWS GIANTS C

Were a bit stiff against the Tigers last week, but that’s the story of the 2023 Giants. They bring the effort every time but some weeks they need just that little bit more.

Will still win games through guile and experience (last Sunday against the Giants a case in point) but the gap between the Tigers and the competition elite is now too vast. Big call on Trent Cotchin looming.

RICHMOND C-

HAWTHORN C

ST

Results this season are almost immaterial. Two more drafts and another 30 games and these young Hawks could be anything. The Port Adelaide game last Saturday was emblematic of their season. Diabolical first half, encouraging thereafter.

It’s been a restless bye period for the Saints. Did they enjoy a new coach bump early in the season? Or was the round 11 loss to the lowly Hawks a more realistic assessment of where Ross Lyon’s men are at?

KILDA B

MELBOURNE B-

Probably should be a bit better than 8-4. Defensively, the Demons are great, but they have some work to do forward of the ball. Monday at the MCG against the Magpies cannot come quickly enough.

NORTH MELBOURNE C

Ten straight losses after a bright start, but the past three weeks have delivered excitement, if not premiership points. In George Wardlaw, Harry Sheezel and Will Phillips, the Kangaroos are amassing serious young talent.

Back-to-back wins before the bye snapped a four-game losing streak and keeps them just in touch with the eight – but injuries have plagued the Swans at both ends of the ground. A rare season without finals footy is on the cards.

SYDNEY C-

WEST COAST E

Another disastrous season, but this can’t be entirely sheeted home to a long injury list. There has been an alarming lack of fight at times. The Eagles have some massive decisions to make about their list, some that cannot wait until the end of the season.

The story of the season. The Power head into this weekend with a club record nine-game winning streak to their name and their demolition of Hawthorn last Saturday was Mustpopcorn-worthy. be in the conversation for the premiership.

PORT ADELAIDE A+

Their two-game losing streak has undone much of the hard work from earlier in the season and the Bulldogs shape to either just make or just miss the finals. Should have beaten the depleted Cats last week.

WESTERN BULLDOGS C+

GEORGE WARDLAW PETER WRIGHT

u FACT FILE

Born: January 1, 1987

Recruited from: Dowerin (WA)/Perth (WAFL)/Hawthorn

Debut: Round 1, 2005, v Sydney

Height: 199cm

Weight: 102kg

Games: 349 (Syd 167/Haw 182)

Goals: 1057 (Syd 477/Haw 580)

Brownlow Medal: career votes 186

MORE BUDDY MILESTONES – THAT’S A PLUS LANCE FRANKLIN

u Lance Franklin joined the record books last year as one of just six players in League history to kick 1000 goals and now, 16 months on, he is set to register his 350th game.

The Sydney Swans superstar came into last year’s round two clash against Geelong at the SCG needing four goals to reach the magical 1000 mark.

And what a night it was, with 36,578 fans crammed in hoping one the game’s modern-day greats would make their night.

But with just one goal in the opening half, many felt ‘Buddy’ might have missed the boat.

Not so. He got on the end of a couple in the third term and with the Swans holding an unassailable lead

at the final change, the result became of secondary importance. It was all about Buddy.

With six minutes remaining, Franklin wrong-footed Cats defender Jack Henry as Swans teammate Chad Warner tore out of the middle and the ball landed on his chest. From 25 metres out, he nailed the shot, which sailed through, straight as an arrow.

An estimated 20,000 fans ignored warnings not to run on to the ground, causing a 36-minute delay.

Franklin was swarmed, but good-naturedly so. He basked in the adulation and never stopped smiling, as he undertook the near-impossible task of trying to get off the ground.

Franklin has been the face of the Swans from pretty much the minute

he walked through the doors in late 2013 from Hawthorn on a nine-year, mega-dollar deal.

“I’ve been playing for 18 years, so a lot of hard work to get there, but I wouldn’t be able to get there without having some great teammates around me to provide those assists,” he said.

His legacy at two clubs – Sydney and Hawthorn – will never be forgotten and his 350-game milestone puts him equal third with Eddie Betts on the all-time games list by an Indigenous player.

He agreed to play on in 2023 and while the finish line is not far away, fans get another chance to celebrate a champion of the game in this round. That’s a plus.

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POWER SURGE

PORT ADELAIDE v HAWTHORN Adelaide O

val, June 3

u A second-club player in career-best form, a rising star returning from injury and a perfect small forward’s performance.

That’s the background of Jeremy Finlayson , Todd Marshall and Junior Rioli, who were the stars for Port Adelaide with important games for different reasons, as they booted five, five and four goals respectively.

Finlayson was sublime, kicking four of his five majors in the opening term courtesy of some superb ball movement, before moving higher up the ground.

Marshall improved as the game went on and booted his team’s only two goals in the final quarter, while Rioli had 11 of his 13 disposals and all his goals in the opening and third terms.

Together with Port’s eight other goalkickers, they helped the Power to the first 100-plus first-half score since 2019, when Richmond achieved the feat.

It was also the first time the Power had kicked more than 150 points since 2016 and was Ken Hinkley’s third-highest score as senior coach.

The way Port strung its attack together for three quarters was sensational – last Saturday saw the club’s third-best opening term (57 points), 13th-best second term (48) and eighth-best third term (52).

Given it was the third-highest score this season, it shows how well 2023 is playing out for the Power.

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JUNIOR RIOLI

TODD MARSHALL

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Each week throughout the 2023 season we will present Who’s Flying, a series of stories which will encapsulate everything that is good about our great game. It could be a star player, a coach who has inspired his men or a team that is – pardon the pun –flying. BRENDAN RHODES looks at Tim English’s brilliant game in a losing Bulldogs’ team.

Aquality ruckman who impacts games not just in the centre circle but also around the ground by winning the footy, taking marks and kicking goals … they are as rare as hen’s teeth.

In fact, how many players are ranked in the top 200 in the AFL in all three categories?

One. Yep, just one.

Western Bulldogs big man Tim English is the best ruckman in the competition right now based solely on these key numbers – and it isn’t even close.

At 25 and with 97 games under his belt, the 2016 No. 19 NAB AFL Draft selection is entering the prime of his career, and it is showing, headlined by his stunning performance in a losing team against Geelong last Saturday night.

English had 30 hit-outs and followed up with 27 disposals and 12 marks, plus eight tackles and 305 metres gained for good measure.

While his hit-out average sits at 28.6 after 10 games, which is below all of Gold Coast captain Jarrod Witts, Adelaide’s Reilly O’Brien, Fremantle’s Sean Darcy, North Melbourne’s Todd Goldstein, Brisbane Lion Oscar McInerney, Richmond’s Toby Nankervis and Carlton’s Marc Pittonet, none of those are even close to his output around the ground.

Of the 22 ruckmen averaging at least 20 hit-outs so far this season, English’s 6.6 marks per game (ranked 29th in the AFL) is the only one ranked higher than 150th, where champion Melbourne captain Max Gawn finds himself with 4.5 marks, while St Kilda’s Rowan Marshall is the only other one inside the top 200 at No. 164.

Averaging 19.9 disposals again puts English at No. 1 among ruckmen (117th overall), ahead of Marshall (19.6) and Nankervis (17.7).

Goalkicking is the only stat where English isn’t on top of the ruckmen ladder, although his

six majors is still ranked 132nd, behind only Essendon’s Sam Draper (10) and the Demon pair of Brodie Grundy (eight) and Gawn (seven), but all three of those have significantly less hit-outs, marks and disposals than the star Bulldog, and all three spend more time resting in attack.

West Australian English is contracted until the end of next year, when he enters restricted free agency, and his signature will be the most important one for the Bulldogs to secure –including that of superstar captain Marcus Bontempelli –simply because ruckmen this good are so hard to find.

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2023 TOYOTA AFL PREMIERSHIP SEASON

ROUND 13

Thursday, June 8

Sydney Swans v St Kilda (SCG) (N)

Friday, June 9

Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, June 10

Hawthorn v Brisbane Lions (MCG)

Adelaide Crows v West Coast Eagles (AO) (T)

Fremantle v Richmond (OS) (T)

Sunday, June 11

North Melbourne v GWS Giants (BA)

Carlton v Essendon (MCG) (N)

Monday, June 12

Melbourne v Collingwood (MCG)

Byes: Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Suns

ROUND 14

Thursday, June 15

Port Adelaide v Geelong Cats (AO) (N)

Friday, June 16

Brisbane Lions v Sydney Swans (G) (N)

Saturday, June 17

GWS Giants v Fremantle (GS) (T)

Richmond v St Kilda (MCG) (N)

Sunday, June 18

Carlton v Gold Coast Suns (MCG)

North Melbourne v Western Bulldogs (MRVL) (T)

Byes: Adelaide Crows, Collingwood, Essendon, Hawthorn, Melbourne, West Coast Eagles ROUND 15

Thursday, June 22

Geelong Cats v Melbourne GMHBA (N)

Friday, June 23

St Kilda v Brisbane Lions (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, June 24

Sydney Swans v West Coast Eagles (SCG) (T)

Fremantle v Essendon (OS) (T)

Sunday, June 25

Collingwood v Adelaide Crows (MCG)

Gold Coast Suns v Hawthorn (HBS) (T)

Byes: Carlton, GWS Giants, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Richmond, Western Bulldogs ROUND 16

Thursday, June 29

Brisbane Lion s v Richmond (G) (N)

Friday, June 30

Sydney Swans v Geelong Cats (SCG) (N)

Saturday, July 1

Western Bulldogs v Fremantle (MRVL) (N)

Adelaide Crows v North Melbourne (AO)

Gold Coast Suns v Collingwood (HBS) (T)

Essendon v Port Adelaide (MCG) (N)

Sunday, July 2

Hawthorn v Carlton (MCG)

Melbourne v GWS Giants (TIO)

West Coast Eagles v St Kilda (OS) ROUND 17

Thursday, July 6

Richmond v Sydney Swans (MCG) (N)

Friday, July 7

Western Bulldogs v Collingwood (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, July 8

Brisbane Lions v West Coast Eagles (Gabba)

GWS Giant v Hawthorn (GS)

St Kilda v Melbourne (MRVL) (N)

Port Adelaide v Gold Coast Suns (AO) (N)

Sunday, July 9

Geelong Cats v North Melbourne (GMHBA)

Essendon v Adelaide Crows (MRVL)

Fremantle v Carlton (OS) (T)

ROUND 18

Thursday, July 13

Sydney Swans v Western Bulldogs (SCG) (N)

Friday, July 14

Melbourne v Brisbane Lions (MCG) (N)

Saturday, July 15

Collingwood v Fremantle (MCG)

Gold Coast Suns v St Kilda (HBS)

Carlton v Port Adelaide (MRVL) (T)

Geelong Cats v Essendon (GMHBA) (N)

Adelaide Crows v GWS Giants (AO) (N)

Sunday, July 16

North Melbourne v Hawthorn (MRVL)

West Coast Eagles v Richmond (OS) (T)

ROUND 19

Friday, July 21

Essendon v Western Bulldogs (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, July 22

Richmond v Hawthorn (MCG)

Carlton v West Coast Eagles (MRVL)

Brisbane Lions v Geelong Cats (G) (T)

Port Adelaide v Collingwood (AO) (N)

Fremantle v Sydney Swans (OS) (N)

Sunday, July 23

GWS Giants v Gold Coast Suns (MO)

Melbourne v Adelaide Crows (MCG)

St Kilda v North Melbourne (MRVL) (T)

ROUND 20

Friday, July 28

Collingwood v Carlton (MCG) (N)

Saturday, July 29

Geelong Cats v Fremantle (GMHBA)

Western Bulldogs v GWS Giants (MARS)

Gold Coast Suns v Brisbane Lions (HBS) (T)

Essendon v Sydney Swans (MRVL) (N)

Adelaide Crows v Port Adelaide (AO) (N)

Sunday, July 30

Hawthorn v St Kilda (MRVL)

Richmond v Melbourne (MCG)

West Coast Eagles v North Melbourne (OS) (T)

ROUND 21

Friday, August 4

Western Bulldogs v Richmond (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, August 5

Essendon v West Coast Eagles (MRVL)

Adelaide Crows v Gold Coast Suns (AO)

Hawthorn v Collingwood (MCG) (T)

Geelong Cats v Port Adelaide (GMHBA) (N)

GWS Giants v Sydney Swans (GS) (N)

Sunday, August 6

North Melbourne v Melbourne (BA)

St Kilda v Carlton (MRVL)

Fremantle v Brisbane Lions (OS) (T)

ROUND 22

Friday, August 11

Collingwood v Geelong Cats (MCG) (N)

Saturday, August 12

North Melbourne v Essendon (MRVL)

Sydney Swans v Gold Coast Suns (SCG)

Brisbane Lions v Adelaide Crows (G) (T)

Carlton v Melbourne (MCG) (N)

West Coast Eagles v Fremantle (OS) (N)

Sunday, August 13

Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs (UTAS)

St Kilda v Richmond (MRVL)

Port Adelaide v GWS Giants (AO) (T)

ROUND 23

Friday, August 18

Collingwood v Brisbane Lions (MRVL) (N)

Saturday, August 19

Richmond v North Melbourne (MCG)

Gold Coast Suns v Carlton (HBS)

GWS Giants v Essendon (GS) (T)

St Kilda v Geelong Cats (MRVL) (N)

Adelaide Crows v Sydney Swans (AO) (N)

Sunday, August 20

Western Bulldogs v West Coast Eagles (MRVL)

Melbourne v Hawthorn (MCG)

Fremantle v Port Adelaide (OS) (T)

ROUND 24

Round starts Friday, August 25*

Brisbane Lions v St Kilda (G)

Carlton v GWS Giants (MRVL)

Essendon v Collingwood (MCG)

Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs (GMHBA)

Hawthorn v Fremantle (MCG)

North Melbourne v Gold Coast Suns (BA)

Port Adelaide v Richmond (AO)

Sydney Swans v Melbourne (SCG)

West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows (OS)

2023 TOYOTA AFL FINALS SERIES

Date TBC

Week One – Qualifying & Elimination Finals (4)

Date TBC

Week Two – Semi-Finals (2)

Date TBC

Week Three – Preliminary Finals (2)

Date TBC

Week Four – Toyota AFL Grand Final

*Matches in round 24 are listed alphabetically with timeslots to be determined at a later date.

SCOREBOARD – ROUND 11

Melbourne 3.3

Carlton 1.2

BEST: Melbourne – Petracca, Viney, Langdon, Lever, van Rooyen, Rivers. Carlton – Cripps, Cerra, Docherty, McKay, Weitering, Kemp.

GOALS: Melbourne – Fritsch 2, Petracca, Neal-Bullen, Pickett, Spargo, van Rooyen, Gawn. Carlton – McKay 3, Acres, C. Curnow, Fisher.

Substitutes: Melbourne – Harmes (replaced Bowey); Carlton – Dow (replaced Silvagni).

Umpires: C. Donlon, R. Findlay, R. O’Gorman, A. Stephens.

AFL Coaches Votes: 10 Petracca (Melb), 8 May (Melb), 5 Lever (Melb), 4 Langdon (Melb), 2 McKay (Carl), 1 Weitering (Carl).

Crowd: 49,872 at the MCG.

Port Adelaide 9.3

Hawthorn 2 .3 3.5 8.8 14.12 (96)

BEST: Port Adelaide – Butters, Rozee, Finlayson, T. Marshall, Rioli. Hawthorn – Breust, Worpel, Impey, Lewis.

GOALS: Port Adelaide – Finlayson 5, T. Marshall 5, Rioli 4, Houston 2, Wines, Burton, Horne-Francis, Butters, Rozee, Byrne-Jones, McEntee. Hawthorn – Breust 5, Lewis 3, Brockman, Impey, Newcombe, C. Macdonald, Butler, Amon.

Substitutes: Port Adelaide – Sinn (replaced Lycett); Hawthorn – Mackenzie (replaced Meek).

Umpires: C. Deboy, L. Haussen, A. Heffernan, E. Tee.

AFL Coaches Votes: 8 Rozee (PA), 7 Houston (PA), 5 Finlayson (PA), 4 Butters (PA), 3 Rioli (PA), 2 Breust (Haw), 1 Worpel (Haw).

Crowd: 34,234 at Adelaide Oval.

Collingwood 4.3 8.5 12.9 18.12 (120)

West Coast Eagles 0.3 4.3

.7 8.9 (57)

BEST: Collingwood – N. Daicos, Mihocek, Hill, Adams, Mitchell, Cameron, Johnson. West Coast Eagles – Sheed, Kelly, Yeo, Allen, Duggan, B. Williams.

GOALS: Collingwood – N. Daicos 3, Hill 3, Johnson 3, Mihocek 3, Cox 2, Adams, Crisp, Harrison, Mitchell. West Coast Eagles – Allen 3, Clark, Kelly, Long, O’Neill, Sheed.

Substitutes: West Coast Eagles – Clark (replaced West); Collingwood – Markov (replaced McCreery).

Umpires: J. Fry, J. Howorth, J. Power, N. Toner.

AFL Coaches Votes: 7 N. Daicos (Coll), 5 Mitchell (Coll), 4 Mihocek (Coll), 4 Sheed (WCE), 3 Kelly (WCE), 3 Yeo (WCE), 3 Adams (Coll), 1 Cameron (Coll).

Crowd: 41,713 at Optus Stadium.

Geelong 5.2 8.5 12.6 15.7 (97)

Western Bulldogs 5.4 8.7 10.12 10.15 (75)

BEST: Geelong – Stewart, Cameron, Miers, Blicavs, Tuohy, Atkins, Knevitt. Western Bulldogs – English, Daniel, Liberatore, Dale, Treloar, Macrae.

GOALS: Geelong – Hawkins 2, Cameron 2, Rohan 2, Tuohy, Stewart, Stengle, Miers, Knevitt, Close, Bruhn, Blicavs, O. Henry. Western Bulldogs – Weightman, Ugle-Hagan, Treloar, Smith, Richards, O’Donnell, Naughton, Macrae, Lobb, Daniel.

Substitutes: Western Bulldogs – McNeil (replaced Richards); Geelong – Simpson (replaced Ceglar).

Umpires: J. Broadbent, C. Fleer, A. Gianfagna, M. Nicholls.

AFL Coaches Votes: 10 Stewart (Geel), 8 English (WB), 5 Daniel (WB), 5 Miers (Geel), 1 Close (Geel), 1 Atkins (Geel).

VFL –ROUND11

Casey Demons 1.2 6.6 9.9 11.10 (76)

Southport 3.0 4.5 8.7 11.9 (75)

BEST: Casey Demons – Jordon, Schache, Grey, Buntine, D. Smith, Woewodin. Southport –Gahan, Edwards, Crossley, J. Joyce, Sexton, Woodcock.

GOALS: Casey Demons – Schache 4, Grey 3, Brown 2, Jordan, Sestan. Southport – Crossley 2, Foggo 2, Lockett 2, Lockhart 2, Fields, Heron, Thurlow.

Werribee 4.7 8.12 10.15 13.19 (97)

Coburg 0.3 2 .5 4.6 5.7 (37)

BEST: Werribee – T. Gribble, Hayes, Henderson, Cooper, Malual, Gray. Coburg – Nelson, D’Intinosante, Boucher, T. Jepson, B. Jepson, Nolan.

GOALS: Werribee – Gray 2, Malual 2, Paea 2, Ajang, Boyd, Declase, Garoni, Hayes, Lever, Mannagh. Coburg – Clarke 2, D’Intinosante, T. Jepson, Kemp.

Gold Coast 5.1 10.7 13.10 17.13 (115)

Port Melbourne 3.3 4.5 6.9 7.9 (51)

BEST: Gold Coast – Graham, Andrew, Flanders, McLaughlin, Tsitas, Day. Port Melbourne –Clarke, Hooper, Anastasio, Green, Hunter, Cameron.

GOALS: Gold Coast – Chol 4, McLaughlin 3, Day 2, Sexton 2, Burgess, Faulkhead, Flanders, Lake, Moyle, Sharp. Port Melbourne – Signorello 2, Anastasio, Gasper, Hird, Naismith, Stuhldreier.

Williamstown 5.3 5.6 7.8 11.10 (76)

Box Hill Hawks 4.0 7.3 9.4 9.7 (61)

BEST: Williamstown – Ellison, Jones, Downie, Hore, Greiser, Gadsby. Box Hill Hawks – Morrison, Stephens, Phillips, Beasley, Horner, Porter.

Gold Coast Suns

Crows

GOALS: Gold Coast Suns – Lukosius 5, King 3, Humphrey 2, N. Anderson 2, Casboult 2, Rowell, Jeffrey. Adelaide Crows – Fogarty 3, Walker 2, Keays 2, Rachele, Pedlar, O’Brien, Murphy, Milera, Dawson.

Substitutes: Gold Coast – Uwland (replaced Berry); Adelaide Crows – McHenry (replaced Doedee).

Umpires: N. Foot, D. Johanson, B. Rosebury, N. Williamson.

Richmond 6.4 9.4 11.10 16.14 (110) GWS Giants 2 .4 6.9 8.12 15.14 (104)

BEST: Richmond – Riewoldt, Taranto, Bolton, Prestia, Short, Martin. GWS Giants – Green, Ward, Callaghan, Ash, Whitfield, Bedford.

GOALS: Richmond – Riewoldt 5, Clarke 2, Pickett 2, Taranto, Mansell, Bolton, Graham, McIntosh, Ryan, Prestia. GWS Giants – Greene 3, Briggs 2, Riccardi, Brown, Hogan, O’Halloran, Callaghan, Daniels, Ward, Bedford, Cadman, Fahey.

Substitutes: GWS Giants – Fahey (replaced Daniels); Richmond – Cumberland (replaced Mansell).

Umpires: H. Gavine, B. Hosking, S. Meredith, M. Stevic.

AFL Coaches Votes: 7 Riewoldt (Rich), 5 Bolton (Rich), 5 Taranto (Rich), 5 Ward (GWS), 5 Balta (Rich), 3 Green (GWS).

Crowd: 9723 at Giants Stadium.

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GOALS: Essendon –Langford 4, Perkins 2, Merrett 2, Martin 2, Guelfi 2, Stringer, Menzie, Draper, D’Ambrosio. North Melbourne – Zurhaar 4, Larkey 2, Coleman-Jones 2, Tucker, Thomas, Scott, Phillips, McDonald, Goldstein, Stephenson.

Substitutes: Essendon – D’Ambrosio (replaced Shiel); North Melbourne – Powell (replaced Simpkin).

Umpires: T. Bryce, R. Chamberlain, B. Wallace, A. Whetton.

AFL Coaches Votes: 9 Merrett (Ess), 9 Ridley (Ess), 6 McKay (NM), 3 Martin (Ess), 3 Phillips (NM).

Crowd: 40,488 at Marvel Stadium.

AFL NAT. U18 C’SHIPS – RD 1

Allies 6.2 9.7 10.9 12.12 (84) South Australia 2 .0 3.0 7.1 11.2 (68)

BEST: Allies – Walter, Sanders, Rogerts, McKercher, Read, Graham. South Australia – Draper, Delean, Holt, van Wyk, McAuliffe, McCabe.

GOALS: Allies – McCormack 3, Walter 3, Rider 2, Sanders 2, Gothard, Kirk. South Australia – Delean 4, Fawcett 2, Gladigau, Herbert, Holt, McShane, Moir.

BYE: Victoria Country, Victoria Metro, Western Australia.

LADDER: Allies 4, South Australia 0 (80.9%), Victoria Country 0, Victoria.

Carlton 2 .4 6.8 7.10 10.16 (76) Frankston 6.3 6.9 9.10 10.13 (73)

BEST: Carlton – Binns, Crocker, Fogarty, Plowman, Honey, O’Keeffe. Frankston – Owens, Szybkowski, Nayna, Davies, Small, Lambert.

5.7 9.12 12.15 15.18 (108)

Votes Player Club 63 Zak Butters Port Adelaide 63 Nick Daicos Collingwood 61 Christian Petracca Melbourne 52 Zach Merrett Essendon 47 Jordan De Goey Collingwood 45 Matt Rowell Gold Coast Suns 44 Noah Anderson Gold Coast Suns 44 Marcus Bontempelli Western Bulldogs 43 Connor Rozee Port Adelaide 43 Tim Taranto Richmond

LEADING GOALKICKERS

Geelong

GOALS: Footscray – Chatfield 3, Hannan 3, West 2, Ballyntyne, Crozier, Darcy, Garner, Khamis, McComb, Raak. Geelong – Chalcraft 2, Foster 2, Annand, Clohesy, Ham.

Richmond 2 .4 5.11 6.16 10.22 (82)

GWS 3.1 6.3 10.6 12.8 (80)

BEST: Richmond – Street, Green, Hicks, Nyuon, Miller, Olden. GWS – Fleeton, Rowston, O’Connor, McMullin, Anderson, Gruzewski.

GOALS: Richmond – Green 2, Nyuon 2, Banks, Bauer, Bilston-McGillen, Bradtke, Coulthard, Lefau. GWS – Derksen 2, Flynn 2, Gruzewski 2, McMullin 2, Clark, O’Connor, Peatling, Romensky.

North Melbourne 1.2 5.4 9.5 12.8 (80)

Essendon 4.4 5.6 7.7 10.9 (69)

BEST: North Melbourne – Sellers, Howe, Downie, Butler, Lazzaro, Curtis. Essendon – Rasinac, Wanganeen, Kelly, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Tsatas.

GOALS: North Melbourne – Curtis 2, Downie 2, Sellers 2, Bath, Harvey, Lazzaro, Lowson, Perez, Turner. Essendon – Cootee 2, McDonald-Tipungwuti 2, Wanganeen 2, A. Davey, Hunter, Tsatas, Voss.

Collingwood 4.6 8.9 12.17 16.19 (115)

Northern Bullants 0.2 3.5 3.8 9.10 (64)

BEST: Collingwood – Macrae, Bianco, T. Wilson snr, Hustwaite, Glover, Eyre. Northern Bullants – Velissaris, King, Johnson, Fairlie, Maley, O’Dwyer.

GOALS: Collingwood – Glover 4, T. G. Wilson 4, Kreuger 3, McInnes 2, Steene 2, Voulanas. Northern Bullants – Ham 2, Wild 2, El-Hawli, Honey, Maley, Roumeliotis, Velissaris.

BYE: Brisbane Lions, Sandringham, Sydney.

WAFL – ROUND 8

Claremont 7.6 8.12 13.14 19.17 (131)

Perth 2 .2 4.5 4.10 6.11 (47)

BEST: Claremont – Bolton, Davis, Manuel, Maibaum, Lewsey. Perth – Brogan-Henry, Stubbs, Clarke, Quartermaine, Baldwin-Wright.

GOALS: Claremont – Manuel 5, Minear 3, Mountford 2, Delacey, Smallwood, Mainwaring, Lewsey, Treacy, Sheldrick. Perth – Stubbs 2, Quartermaine 2, Sinclair, Hayward.

Swan Districts 4.5 5.10 7.16 16.18 (114) West Coast 2 .2 4.2

BEST: Swan Districts – Edwards, Clarke, Blakely, Stephens, Watson. West Coast – Creasey, Watson, Barnett, Nelson, Collins.

GOALS: Swan Districts – Edwards 6, Riley 2, Reidy 2, Palmer, Clarke, Noble, Blakely, Turner, Cartwright. West Coast - Barnett 2, Dewar, Garlett, Maric.

Subiaco 2 .6 3.7

Peel Thunder 1.3 3.6

.7 8.8 (56)

BEST: Subiaco – Golding, Clarke, Hickmott, Dewar, Alone. Peel Thunder – Henry, Sturt, Sellwood, Wagner.

GOALS: Subiaco – Sokol 2, Giro, Borchet, Hickmott, Robbins, Alone, Golding. Peel Thunder –Sturt 2, Reidy, Worner, Corbett, Wemm, Henry, Colyer. South Fremantle

BEST: South Fremantle – James, Harbour, McQuilkin, Strom, Byron. East Fremantle – Dixon, Marlin, Turner, Eardley.

GOALS: South Fremantle – Harbour 3, Donaldson, Datson. East Fremantle – Lawler, D O’Reilly. East

BEST: East Perth – Robertson, Jones, Crowden, Msando, Tedesco. West Perth – Pegoraro, Todd, Black, Nelson, Hinder.

GOALS: East Perth – Hille 3, Tedesco 3, Van Diemen 2, Brayshaw 2, Crowden, Ameduri, Schofield, Scott. West Perth – Meadows 2, Keitel 2, Dixon 2, Black, Sprigg.

LADDER: Claremont 24 (145.6%), Peel Thunder 24 (145.1%), Subiaco 24 (107.3%), East Fremantle 20 (132.1%), East Perth 20 (122.4%), West Perth 16, South Fremantle 8 (110.2%), Swan Districts 8 (103.3%), Perth 8 (69.7%), West Coast 0.

TSL – ROUND 9

BEST: Launceston – Palfreyman, Hyatt, B. Gillow, Thorp, Jones, Jake Hinds. Clarence –Preshaw, Ryan, Bealey, Paprotny, Howard.

GOALS: Launceston – Jake Hinds 5, Hyatt 5, Jones 2, Cowell, B. Gillow, Jayden Hinds, Palfreyman. Clarence – Garland, Harper, Saward, Tremayne.

BEST: Kingborough – L. Clifford, Webb, Griggs, Tomkinson, Zeitzen, Bastick. Glenorchy –Arnold, Thompson, M. Dilger, Blowfield, Manson, McInnes.

GOALS: Kingborough – Tomkinson 6, Zeitzen 5, Carter 3, L. Clifford 2, Collidge 2, Bastick, Campbell, Lovell, McCulloch, O’Neill, Williams. Glenorchy – Joseph, Poulson, Thompson.

BEST: Lauderdale – Siggins, Sutton, Martin, Rackett, Broomhall, Francis. North Hobart –McGinniss, McCulloch, Stephenson, Jackson, Sandric, Edmondson.

GOALS: Lauderdale – Stanley 3, Christensen 2, Siggins 2, Blackburn, Hooker, McGuinness, Perkins. North Hobart – McCulloch 3, Jackson 2, Barrow, Bingham, Payne, Stephenson, Tilbury, D. White.

BYE: North Launceston.

LADDER: Kingborough 28, Launceston 20 (140.0%), North Launceston 20 (138.7%), Clarence 16, Lauderdale 12 (91.6%), North Hobart 12 (83.5%), Glenorchy 0.

SANFL – ROUND 8

Central District 1.3 3.3 7.6 8.8 (56)

Norwood 3.1 3.4 5.5 7.9 (51)

BEST: Central District – Schiller, Grant, A. Lochowiak, Chisholm, Barreau. Norwood – Boyd, Seymour, Rokahr, McLean, Heard, Richards.

GOALS: Central District – Barreau 2, A. Lochowiak 2, Whitelum 2, Chisholm, Grace. Norwood – Boyd, Hamilton, Lok, Lowe, McLean, Panos, Tranfa.

Glenelg 2 .2

Adelaide 4.4

BEST: Glenelg – Bailey, McBean, Proud, Allen, Partington. Adelaide – Schoenberg, Hamill, Crouch, Gollant, Berry.

GOALS: Glenelg – McBean 5, Reynolds 2, Allen, Hosie, Lyons, Proud, Turner. Adelaide – Gollant 4, Schoenberg 2, Boyle, Brown, Clamp, Dowling, Hately, Himmelberg.

COATES TALENT LEAGUE – ROUND 9

Western

BEST: Western Jets – Matofai-Forbes, Smith, Raso, Grego, Morris, Petric. Eastern Ranges –Tovey, Hider, Maclean, Sruk, Baldwin, Horlock.

GOALS: Western Jets – Morris 4, Matofai-Forbes 3, Miller 3, Cilmi 2, Smith, Freeman, Raso, Parker, Tsia. Eastern Ranges – Cantwell 2, Horlock 2, Laplanche, Monteath, Tanzimat.

BEST: Northern Knights – Green, Young, Lawson, D’Arro, Cameron, Farrar. Murray Bushrangers – Darcy Wilson, Cooper, Laverty, Cossor, Ryan, Willis.

GOALS: Northern Knights – Stumpf 3, Green 2, Riley 2, Sims 2, Cameron, Farrar, Carelli, Christidis. Murray Bushrangers – Laverty 2, Murphy, Darcy Wilson, Berry, Paton, Holland-Dean, Les, Way, J. Whitlock.

BEST: Calder Cannons – Rutley, Scott, Taha, Nguyen, Fitzpatrick, Leedham. Oakleigh Chargers – Brown, Huddleston, Walker, Riley, Dowling, Quaynor.

GOALS: Calder Cannons – Rutley 5, Croft 3, Naim 2, Kako 2, Taha 2, Leedham 2, Scott, Bolmat. Oakleigh Chargers – Elliott 3, Brown, Askew.

AFL SYDNEY – ROUND 9

UNSW-Eastern Suburbs 5.3 12.7 16.9 2 1.11 (137) UTS 1.2 3.2 4.4 10.4 (64)

BEST: UNSW-Eastern Suburbs – Endemann, Tricks, Ham. Morrison, Baxter, Wood, Emery. UTS – Gordon, Eussen, Stanlan-Velt, Lee, Backlund, Robertson. GOALS: UNSW-Eastern Suburbs – Emery 7, Baxter 2, Longmire 2, Tikkeros 2, Tricks 2, Turner 2, Brown, Gaden, K. Kilpatrick, Wood. UTS – Stanlan-Velt 5, Barry-Murphy, Dyson, Elliott, Palmer, Robertson. North Shore 2 .7 3.10 7.15 13.17 (95)

University 2 .3 4.7 7.12 9.15 (69)

BEST: North Shore – Brewer, Robertson, Loone, Netting, Campbell, Woodman. Sydney University – Whitaker, Davis, Goddard, Dimery, Dale, Gibbs. GOALS: North Shore – Loone 4, Thomas 4, Brewer 2, Hill, Law, Meacham. Sydney University – Gibbs 2, Davis, Fitzroy, Hughes, Kozlik, M. Krochmal, Lucy, McLean.

QAFL –ROUND10

BEST: Mt Gravatt – Young, Leahy, Licht, Macdonald, Kalbfell, Gordon. Noosa – Laskey, Flagg, O’Dwyer, Crisp, Fitzpatrick, Airey-Bamback. GOALS: Mt Gravatt – Leahy 3, Licht 3, O’Dea 2, Smith 2, Costa, Gordon, Halkias, Macdonald, Milford, Moncur, Townson. Noosa – Fitzpatrick 3, Airey-Bamback, Lasker, Owers, Pettigrove.

BEST: Wilston Grange – Fidler, Eagles, Martyn, Westerberg, Budarick, J. Gordon. Morningside – Wille, Hodge, Dwyer, Martin, A. Peak, M. Peak. GOALS: Wilston Grange – Fidler 4, Richardson 2, Budarick, B. Gordon, Hewett, Stewart, Westerberg. Morningside – Dadds 2, Nelson 2, M. Peak 2, Cox, Downie, Hodge.

BEST: Redland-Victoria Point – Brown, Aston, Rolls, Murdock, Hammelmann, Matthews. Labrador – Simpson, Bristow, Lee, Law, Anderson.

GOALS: Redland-Victoria Point – Hammelmann 7, Brown 6, Matthews 3, Huddy 2, B. Aston, Benson, Lemana-Pakau, O’Sullivan, Rolls. Labrador – Law 3, Anderson, Back, Hoy, Hughes, Simpson, Wright.

BEST: Dandenong Stingrays – Grant, Shipp, Wilson, Hynes, Langford, K. De La Rue. Bendigo Pioneers – Shanahan, Byrne, Nihill, Day-Wicks, Cain, Smartt. GOALS: Dandenong Stingrays – Doughton 3, Grant 2, Hynes 2, Langford, Frangalas, Farris-White, Nelson, Rigg, J. Wilson. Bendigo Pioneers – Byrne 2, Day-Wicks, Rohde, Smartt, Hurse, McMillan, Shanahan, Uerata.

BEST: Tasmania Devils – Summers, Ollington, C. Ling, Payne, Vandam, L. Ling. Sandringham Dragons – May, Lloyd, Clayton, Sullivan, Dear, Johnston.

GOALS: Tasmania Devils – Ollington 2, C. Ling 2, Nash, Dolliver, DepaoliKubank, Groom, Harper, Van Dam. Sandringham Dragons – May 5, Dear 3, Lloyd.

BEST: Gippsland Power – Smith, Ireland, Duursma, Hoghton, Lindsay, Donohue. GWV Rebels – Lalor, L. Lual, Hannaford, Freijah, Faull, Rantall. GOALS: Gippsland Power – Duursma 4, Smith 3, Amorosa, Eastham, Mentha, Ward, Hoghton, Serong. GWV Rebels – L. Charleson 2, Faull, Lloyd, Lalor, L. Lual.

BYE: Geelong Falcons.

BEST: St George – Flanagan, Hodgson, Jones, Carey, Ritchie, Crossle. Inner West – Klemke, Tiziani, Evans, Jamieson, McCormack, Hamilton. GOALS: St George – Ritchie 3, Gander 2, Hodgson 2, Jones 2, Mills-Vasa 2, Saunders 2, Flanagan, Kenny, Lycakis. Inner West – Tiziani 3, Zoppo 3, Kelly 2, Evans, Guinan, Jamieson, Penna.

Pennant Hills 1.2

BEST: Pennant Hills – Mitchell, Boag, Richards, Eynaud, Skrivanic, Vidler. Manly-Warringah –Laws, McClennan, Lugsdin, McGrath, Marsh, Wright. GOALS: Pennant Hills – Maguire 3, Boag, Browne, Eynaud, Moraitis, Mudge, Richards. Manly-Warringah – Gabila, Jacobs, Martin, McGrath.

BYE: East Coast.

BEST: Broadbeach – Lower, Jellyman-Turner, Boakye, Gledhill, Bowman, Reeves. Maroochydore – Govan, Thomas, Wagner, Pearson, Robinson, Malthouse.

GOALS: Broadbeach – Jasper 3, Townsend 3, Filippone, Harrington, Huppatz, Major, McInnes, Reeves, Watson. Maroochydore – Kerr 2, Robinson 2, Thomas 2, Govan, Jacka, Keleher, Malthouse, McLachlan, Scholard.

BEST: Surfers Paradise – Beardsell, Topping, Millane, Smith, Ford, Doran. Sherwood – Reville, Marango, W. Cruice, Prest, Fletcher, Austin.

GOALS: Surfers Paradise – Finch 3, Smith 3, Curtis 2, Beardsell, Brauman, Woodburn. Sherwood – McCarthy 5, Austin 3, Baker, Bidgood, J. Cruice, Ryan.

BEST: Aspley – Hayden, Dawson, Stackelberg, Craven, Batchelor, Rayner. Palm Beach-Currumbin – McBurnie, Harrison, Granville, Nicholson, Hayes, Patterson.

GOALS: Aspley – Stackelberg 5, Freeman 3, Crawley 2, Joseph, Lonergan, Rayner, Toye. Palm Beach-Currumbin – Dawson 2, Dumas, Hall, Nicholson.

South Adelaide 3.1

BEST: South Adelaide – Brooksby, Clavarino, Ramsay, Haines, Heaslip. North Adelaide –Szekely, McInerney, Finlay, Craig, Combe.

GOALS: South Adelaide – Sproule 3, Fitt 2, Shillabeer 2, Freitag, Heaslip, Smith, Wilkinson. North Adelaide – Hilder 2, Elbrow, Gowers, McInerney, White, Young.

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Woodville-West Torrens 2 .1 4.5 5.8 9.8 (62)

Port Adelaide 1.3 1.8 2 .10 8.11 (59)

BEST: Woodville-West Torrens – Beecken, Lehmann, Litster, Knight, Toumpas. Port Adelaide – Narkle, Hagen, Dumont, Moore, Evans.

GOALS: Woodville-West Torrens – D. Menzel 3, Cameron 2, Beattie, Pearce, Sinor, Williams. Port Adelaide – Szust 3, Evans 2, Hagan 2, Weidemann.

Sturt 1.3 2 .6 6.11 8.15 (63)

West Adelaide 4.1 4.4 8.5 9.5 (59)

BEST: Sturt – Hone, Coomblas, Fahey-Sparks, Mathews, Edmonds. West Adelaide – Frost, McCormick, Ryan, Mattingly, Park.

GOALS: Sturt – Hone 4, Mathews 2, Burrows, Fahey-Sparks. West Adelaide – Gore 3, Laudato 2, McCormick 2, Morrish, Redfern.

LADDER: Sturt 16, Glenelg 14, Adelaide 10, Woodville-West Torrens 8 (51.6%), Central District 8 (49.2%), North Adelaide 8 (47.1%), Port Adelaide 6 (46.2%), South Adelaide 6 (44.9%), West Adelaide 4, Norwood 0.

* The SANFL awards two premiership points for a win and one for a draw. Percentage is calculated by team points scored divided by total points.

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If you’re asked to name the genuine stars of the developing Adelaide Crows, where would you look?

There are the obvious ones, such as experienced guns Taylor Walker, Rory Sloane, Rory Laird, Jordan Dawson, Reilly O’Brien and Brodie Smith.

There is the generation next such as Riley Thilthorpe, Josh Rachele, Izak Rankine, Darcy Fogarty and Max Michalanney.

But there’s another man who now sits comfortably alongside the first group as established stars of a team that finished 14th last year with eight wins but already have six this year to be ninth and a genuine chance of playing finals.

Ben Keays is 26 and played his 100th game last month after a chequered start to his career that saw him drafted at No. 24 by the Brisbane Lions in 2015,

KEAYS UNLOCKS DOOR TO STARDOM

playing 16 games in his first year before stagnating and being delisted at the end of 2019 having managed just four games in the previous two seasons.

Thrown a lifeline by the Crows at pick No. 6 in the 2020 Rookie Draft, Keays has missed just one game since arriving at West Lakes, starring with averages of 28.1 and 26.6 disposals in 2021 and 2022.

While his average has dropped off a little this year to 17.8 in the first 12 games, it’s his gut-running and work without ball in hand that is impressing just as much.

Against Gold Coast at TIO Stadium last Saturday night, Keays went toe-to-toe with Suns star Matt Rowell in an enthralling contest that grabbed the attention of neutral viewers.

Having had a season-best 28 disposals, nine tackles and six

clearances against the Lions in round 11, Keays picked up another 25 touches, 10 tackles and six clearances while kicking two goals to be one of his team’s best as the Crows built a 35-point lead in the second quarter against the Suns.

Keays also kept the Suns’ young gun to his second-lowest tally for the season of 15 touches and no marks (although Rowell still worked hard to make an important contribution with 10 clearances and eight tackles as Gold Coast fought back to win).

It is a body of work now totalling 72 games at Adelaide that deserves to place him among the stars of the club, and while he’ll never get the attention of his higher profile teammates and opponents, his contribution is just as important.

CONSISTENT CROW: Ben Keays has been a revelation for Adelaide since arriving at the end of the 2019 season

STAR CAT BREAKS BLUES’ HEARTS

It was the mid-point of the 2002 season and things weren’t going according to plan for Carlton heading into its round 11 clash with Geelong at Marvel Stadium.

The Blues were anchored to the bottom of the ladder with a 1-9 win-loss record under second-year coach Wayne Brittain and, not for the first time in the club’s history, the natives were getting decidedly restless.

Not that the Cats were travelling all that flash either.

In what was then a 16-team competition, Geelong had stumbled its way to a 4-6 record and was sitting 12th under third-year coach Mark Thompson.

But clearly the heat was on the Blues that Sunday afternoon given they were coming off seven successive losses and just a fortnight earlier had suffered an embarrassing 56-point loss at their home patch at Princes Park to the Adelaide Crows.

So it was a somewhat apprehensive crowd of 37,294 that filed into the Docklands venue and for the first three quarters, the patience of Blues fans was again being tested.

They had watched their side fall behind at each break and by three-quarter time the margin was out to 37 points as Geelong, led by tough midfielder Cameron Ling and

journeyman forward Kent Kingsley (four goals), established what most thought was a match-winning lead.

But after a see-sawing opening 10 minutes of the final term, the Blues got on a roll and piled on seven goals in an extraordinary burst to get within four points.

With less than a minute remaining, Carlton’s Matthew Lappin goaled from a controversial 50-metre penalty to put the Blues in front by two points with 26 seconds left.

But the Cats moved the ball from the centre bounce and David Clarke’s low left-foot pass was marked by Peter Riccardi.

The veteran Cat, who had already booted three goals, calmly went back from 50 metres out on a 30-degree angle and kicked the winning goal just ahead of the final siren.

A furious Simon Wiggins, who stood the mark for Carlton, claimed he had touched the ball, but all clear was given.

The Blues managed just two more wins for the season and finished 3-19 to win their first wooden spoon.

Brittain lost his job.

The Cats went agonisingly close to making the eight but had to settle for ninth place (11-11), just 2.7 per cent behind eighth side West Coast.

ROUND 11, 2002

Geelong 4.4 8.4 13.6 15.10 (100)

Carlton 2.1 5.7 6.11 14.12 (96)

BEST: Geelong – Ling, Riccardi, Kingsley, King, Corey, Lord. Carlton – Bradley, Fletcher, Ratten, Fevola, Whitnall.

GOALS: Geelong – Kingsley 4, Riccardi 4, Lord 3, Burns, Clarke, Kelly, Sholl. Carlton – Fevola 4, Whitnall 3, Lappin 2, Campbell, Fletcher, McKernan, Plunkett, Wiggins.

Umpires: M. Head, S. Jeffrey, M. Vozzo.

Crowd: 37,294 at Marvel Stadium.

Brownlow Medal votes: 3 C. Ling (Geel), 2 P. Riccardi (Geel), 1 C. Bradley (Carl).

CAT STEALS THE CREAM: An ecstatic Peter Riccardi celebrates his match-winning goal against the Blues.

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u Last Friday night’s MelbourneCarlton clash didn’t scale any great heights but it did provide Demon fans with a couple of highlights, including this Bayley Fritsch mark over Brodie Kemp. The Demons

rebounded from their loss to Fremantle the previous week with Fritsch booting two goals in a low-scoring affair. The Blues? Well, it was another frustrating night for their long-suffering fans

as they watched their side slump to its seventh loss from its past eight games. And it doesn’t get any easier with a round 13 clash against an in-form Essendon back at the ’G on Sunday night.

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DANE SWAN MEDAL

CASH COW OF THE WEEK

5 Will Phillips NM, MID – 90

u B ack-to-back scores of 90 and back-to-back maximum votes in the Michael Barlow Medal, Phillips had 27 disposals, six tackles and kicked a goal last Sunday against the Bombers.

4 Josh Weddle HAW, DEF – 82

u Finding his feet at senior level, Weddle enjoyed a cracking match against tough opposition. He collected 25 disposals and took a couple of highflying marks against the Power.

3 Kade Chandler MELB, FWD – 80

MICHAEL BARLOW MEDAL

u There was a familiar face at the top of the table this week. Bulldogs big man Tim English (RUC, $1.01M) had his snout out once again, running his opponents into the ground and taking marks at will as a result. He finished with a sensational stat line in last week’s game against the Cats with 27 possessions, eight tackles, 12 marks and 30 hit-outs for an individual season-high 158. He is having a phenomenal year with nine scores over 110 and a low of 92. Bombers skipper Zach Merrett (MID, $982,000) has been a popular trade target over the past couple of weeks and he didn’t let any of them down in last week’s match-up with the Roos. He took his own footy in the first quarter, collecting 16 possessions, two marks, two tackles and two goals for 68 points in that time alone before finishing on a thumping 155.

Warnie

WARNE DAWGS

Eagle Dom Sheed (MID, $785,000) popped up with his second 130-plus score in three weeks after collecting 43 possessions, taking nine marks and kicking a goal for 138 while teammate Liam Duggan (DEF, $851,000) continued his great form with 13 marks contributing to his score of 137.

TOP ROUND 12 SCORERS

ROUND 12 1820 pts

This should be the ‘easiest’ bye round with just two teams resting. is the most popular premium selection while other common players missing are mid-pricers such Rory Atkins and Brayden Fiorini who can now be traded.

Roy DESTROY

u We have seen Chandler score this year, knocking up a couple of Fantasy tons. His score could have been better if he kicked straight last week. The Demon booted three behinds.

2 Dylan Williams PA, DEF/FWD – 78

u After adding dual-position status due to his role in the backline, Williams has been a reliable player who loves a mark/kick plus-six. He took nine marks against the Hawks.

1 Jacob VanRooyen MELB, FWD – 77

u If there’s a time you want your cash cows to stand up, it’s in the bye rounds. ‘JVR’ racked up his highest Fantasy score in round 12 after six of his first eight games were sub-50-point returns.

LEADERBOARD: 44 – Harry Sheezel; 25 – Will Ashcroft; 11 – Reuben Ginbey; 10 – Kade Chandler, Will Phillips; 9 – Alex Cincotta, Ollie Hollands; 7 – Cam Mackenzie, Josh Weddle; 6 – Seamus Mitchell, Bailey Humphrey, Dylan Williams.

ROUND 12 1814 pts

After making a charge, my team is in a bit of a slump so I need to be wise with my trades not only to put some points on the board this week, but also improve my team long-term.

My favourite trade target is Andrew Brayshaw who is set for a big finish.

Calvin CALVINATOR

ROUND 12 1837 pts

Two weeks in a row I’ve been the top-scoring Trader and the bye rounds are mine! I’m looking forward to making up some ground over these four weeks as I aim to have at least 20 playing in each round. Hopefully my 18th player can have one out of the box!

THE TRADERS’ FANTASY CLASSIC STOCK MARKET

STOCKS UP

The stocks are up for almost everybody coming off the round 12 bye because, realistically, they all have one more game to play. Having said that, we know it’s not as simple as that in Fantasy and we have a pretty narrow focus when looking at our trade targets. Assuming most coaches have Rowan Marshall (RUC, $941,000) and Errol Gulden (FWD/MID, $972,000), my top two targets are two star Docker midfielders who both happen to sit in Roy’s Rollin’ 22. Andrew Brayshaw (MID, $982,000) is averaging an impressive 123 in his past five games and has a great match-up against the Tigers this week. He is going into the game with a big BE of 118, but that’s nothing to be concerned about. His partner in crime Caleb Serong (MID, $922,000) is $60K cheaper and enjoying a breakout season where he has elevated his scoring to the top echelon. The hardnosed midfielder is averaging 114 in his past three games and is owned by just 13 per cent of the competition. Lions ball magnet Lachie Neale (MID, $829,000) is a bargain price after a slow start to the year by his standards, averaging 94 before the bye. His most recent form is more a reflection of what we can expect with a three-game average of 107. Swans defensive ball magnet Jake Lloyd (DEF, $806,000) could be a great play this week against the Saints who give up plenty to opposition defenders.

STOCKS DOWN

The stocks are down for a couple of Suns who were targeted as perfect bye players. Rory Atkins (DEF/MID, $547,000) has been a great stepping stone since consolidating a spot in the 22, averaging 74 to ensure a handy price rise. Now is a great time to cash out given he has the bye and a BE of 71. Teammate Brayden Fiorini (MID, $589,000) is in the same boat. He has proven to be an elite scorer when playing as an inside midfielder, but his current role out on a wing isn’t as fruitful from a scoring perspective as his three-game average of 58 and a BE of 99 suggests. After a slow start to the season, Hawk James Worpel (MID, $707,000) has become a very consistent and serviceable performer with a five-game average of 81. But he has a tough match-up with the Lions and a BE of 92 which is a total he hasn’t reached in the past five games. Although he doesn’t have his bye this week, it is OK to trade him early if you can field 20-21 players this week. There are a lot of teams that are planning ahead for round 15 as they are loaded with premium players in that round and as it sits, wouldn’t be able to field 18 players. That is why popular Roo Jack Ziebell (FWD/ DEF, $854,000) has been traded by many coaches despite an average of 100.

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HEALTHY BODY

The importance of exercise in our daily lives in order to maintain a strong and healthy body! Participants will partake in a range of group cardio fitness activities and challenges.

2 HEALTHY FOOD

To keep our body and mind healthy, we need to fuel ourselves with a range of nutritious and delicious foods. Participants’ knowledge will be challenged in multiple food activities that will test andproblem-solvingtheirskills understanding of food.

HEALTHY TEAM

Theimportanceofworking together,supportingone anotheranddeveloping relationships.Participants willplayarangeof team-buildinggames, with the inclusionofcompetitions andchallenges.

4 HEALTHYMIND needTotrulybehealthy,wetocareforourmind justasmuchasourbody. ParticipantswilllearnBox tacticsBreathingstrategiesand tohelpregulatetheiremotions.

Coles Healthy Kicks aims to educate, activate and motivate students to become more physically active, eat nutritious foods and develop a healthy mind while having fun with others.

Mobility & Strength

Mobility and strength don’t just help you be the best at your game but they also reduce your risk of injury and increase your athletic longevity. Maintaining mobility and strength means you can safely and more effectively train and develop new skills and further your athletic abilities.

EXERCISES

• Balance On One Leg With Eyes Closed –Standing on one leg, close your eyes and keep balanced for 30 seconds. Once done, change to other leg and balance again.

• T Push-Ups – Start in a push-up position. Start with a normal push-up and when you push back up, rotate and raise one side to the air stretching your arm to the sky. Now repeat, raising your other side now. If this is a little hard, try doing the push-up from your knees. Do this five times for each side.

• Lunges – Start standing up with feet/shoulder width apart. Take one big step out and slowly drop your back knee. Make sure your front knee does not go further than your foot. Repeat this for the other leg and do five each side.

• Mule Kicks – Start with hands and feet on the ground so your body is bent over. Once you feel your hands are comfortable, kick both legs out into the air. If this is a bit hard, focus on just getting your legs off the ground without losing balance in your arms and hands. Do this six times.

• Side Bridges – Start laying on your side, supporting yourself with your arm. Using your legs and arm, lift your body into the air and hold for one second. Do this five times on each side of the body.

• Mat Balance Beam – Place a mat, towel or blanket on the ground. Using the outside of your mat, walk along the whole outside taking one step at a time. You should feel like a tightrope walker at the circus! Try to balance and walk along the outside of your mat three times.

The program is built on four key pillars –Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Healthy Food and Healthy Team.

Healthy Body is all about physical activity and movement.

Keeping fit and active is a great way to stay healthy and have fun with friends.

Be it kicking the footy or checking out one of the Coles Healthy Kicks training videos, there are heaps of easy ways to have a Healthy Body.

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MULE KICKS

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Can you unscramble these letters to reveal the AFL players’ names?

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Can you find the surnames of these 300-game past and current players and healthy activity

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Jack Riewoldt Coach Challenge

Tom Hawkins

Todd Goldstein

Simon Madden

Scott Pendlebury

Adam Goodes

FACE FACE FACEMASH MASH MASH

Can you name the two players who have been merged to create these new faces?

A – Melbourne, B – Collingwood

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UNSCRAMBLE: A: Luke Jackson

B: Dylan Moore C: Bayley Fritsch

D: Scott Pendlebury

E: Oscar Allen F: Lachie Weller FACE MASH:

Max Gawn, Steven May B: Tom Mitchell, Brody Mihocek

Scores are level and your team has the ball from a kick-in. Can you help them?

ANSWER: Page 74

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: An extra finger has been added to Kane Farrell’s right hand; the AFL logo has been removed from Connor Rozee’s guernsey; Scott Lycett’s ear has been removed ; the black

armband on Swan Logan McDonald’s left arm has been removed; the bandage on teammate Tom

Papley’s right hand has been removed.

WHERE’S THE BALL: K2, K3

ANSWER MAN

A couple of weeks ago Hawthorn captain James Sicily played an amazing game against St Kilda, accumulating 16 marks, 24 kicks and 19 handballs for the match, including 16 disposals in the last quarter. Not many players, particularly defenders, would have had so many possessions. What records exist of players having extraordinary match statistics?

PETER BROADBRIDGE VIA EMAIL

CH: Consistent publication of players’ disposals match by match dates back to 1965. In many seasons from the early 1930s, some data for finals was recorded. Players’ behinds tallies in scoring tables can be located for most seasons in the past nine decades. From time to time, football writers, knowing that a particular player had a reputation as a prolific mark-taker, would systematically count that particular statistic. One interesting observation was recorded in a newspaper account of the round 14, 1899 Geelong-St Kilda game at Corio Oval. It was stated that Eddy James, the home team’s top goalscorer, booted five majors from 21 shots at goal, suggesting that he may have registered as many as 16 behinds.

SUPERSTATS RECORD PERFORMANCES IN A GAME

ROUND 13, 2022

u The second bye round saw six games spread over five days. One of the highlights was the Big Freeze event returning to the MCG after a two-year break due to COVID. More than 76,000 fans saw celebrities and sports stars, including retired tennis champion Ash Barty, take the icy plunge. On the field, Collingwood recovered from a 20-point deficit to down Melbourne by 26 points. The Magpies were well served by Brody Mihocek (four goals) and Mason Cox (21 disposals, eight marks), while Demon Clayton Oliver (43 disposals) won the Neale Daniher Trophy for best on ground. Richmond kicked off the round with a gritty 12-point win over Port Adelaide in co-captain Dylan Grimes’ 200th game, while the following night Carlton spoiled Essendon’s 150-year celebrations with a 26-point win. Fremantle star Nat Fyfe returned for his first game since round 19, 2021, after back and shoulder surgeries. The Dockers held out a gallant Hawthorn by 13 points at Optus Stadium. Brisbane downed a banged-up St Kilda by 21 points and GWS was too good for North Melbourne.

CAN YOU ASSIST?

u ABC TV reporter Danny Morgan played 16 matches for Essendon from 1995 until 1997. His great-great grandfather Gerald Brosnan was a legendary Fitzroy identity between 1900 and 1909, who scored 160 goals in 131 games, was captain for three seasons and played in two premiership teams.

Tom Murphy played for Hawthorn and Gold Coast in a 10-season career which started in 2005. His grandfather Stan Smith represented the Swans 26 times from 1951 until 1954, and his great-great grandfather Jim McShane played 82 games for Geelong between 1897 and 1901.

If

examples of

players who have ancestors with a different surname who also played in the equivalent competition, please contact col.hutchinson@afl.com.au.

you know of other

relatively recent AFL

RACKING UP THE STATS: Hawthorn captain James Sicily had the ball on a string in round 12.

AFL

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Who plays his 250th AFL game this weekend?

A Lance Franklin B Taylor Walker

C Trent Cotchin D Andrew Gaff

Who became the first player to beat a dangerous tackle suspension this year to be Carlton’s best player against Melbourne?

A Adam Cerra B Patrick Cripps

C S am Walsh D Jacob Weitering

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How many games has Carlton now lost in a row?

A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6

How much did Port Adelaide lead Hawthorn by during the third quarter?

A 66 B 76 C 86 D 96

Port Adelaide broke its record number of consecutive wins. How many?

A 6 B 9 C 12 D 15

Wereyou payingattention?

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Who played his 150th match in the West Coast v Collingwood game?

A Dom Sheed B Brody Mihocek

C E lliot Yeo D Darcy Moore

Jordan De Goey was sent straight to the Tribunal for a high bump on which Eagle?

A Andrew Gaff B Oscar Allen

C Reuben Ginbey D Elijah Hewett

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Who led all comers with 35 disposals in the Western Bulldogs v Geelong game?

A Marcus Bontempelli B Caleb Daniel

C Tom Stewart D Zach Tuohy

How many Bulldogs appeared in the top 10 ball-winners against Geelong?

A 2 B 4 C 6 D 8

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How many points did Gold Coast trail Adelaide by in Darwin last Saturday night?

A 15 B 25 C 35 D 45

Which player in that game failed to score a goal for the first time this season?

A Taylor Walker B Ben King

C Izak Rankine D Matt Rowell

Who kicked the winning goal for Richmond against GWS?

A Marlion Pickett B Jack Riewoldt

C S hai Bolton D Samson Ryan

Which GWS or Richmond player gained extra satisfaction from topping the stats sheet with 36 disposals?

A Tom Green B Tim Taranto

C J acob Hopper D Liam Baker

Who kicked the winning goal for Essendon against North Melbourne?

A M assimo D’Ambrosio

B J ake Stringer C Darcy Parish

D S am Weideman 15

The Kangaroos’ hopes of an upset were cruelled by a concussion to which player?

A Todd Goldstein B Nick Larkey

C W ill Phillips D Jy Simpkin

Blastfrom thepast

WITH LACHLAN ESSING

whoamI?

6pts: I was born in Perth in 1987.

5pts: I am the son of a former state level hockey player and the nephew of a Grand Final star at my current club.

4pts: I have played more than 150 games at two different clubs.

3pts: I have won two premierships, four Coleman Medals and 13 club leading goalkicker awards.

2pts: I am third on the list of games played by indigenous players.

1pts: I am about to become the fourth-highest goalkicker of all time.

Name: Stuart Trott

Games: 200

Goals: 86

Club span: St Kilda 1967-74/Hawthorn 1975-77

Player honours: St K best and fairest 1972; St K 2nd best and fairest 1969, 1970; Haw pre-season/night series premiership 1977

Recruited from Frankston Peninsula, Trott played 200 games across an 11-year career with St Kilda and Hawthorn. Trott was one of the best wingers in the early-mid 1970s. He won a best and fairest in 1972 and captained the Saints in 1973. Trott crossed to the Hawks in 1975 and finished his career in 1977.

Who Am I?: Lance Franklin

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