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CONTENTS

ROUND 1, MARCH 18-21, 2021

FEATURES

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NEW BALL GAME

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FOOTY’S TOP 50

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Fans will see lots of changes in 2021, be it buying tickets, watching on TV or coming to grips with new rules.

ASHLEY BROWNE reports.

A host of state and federal government leaders are now among the most influential people in the game.

ASHLEY BROWNE reports.

REGULARS

One Week At A Time Answer Man Fantasy Football Kids page Match Centre Opinion: Ashley Browne

BEST OF ENEMIES: Once a star Magpie, new Bulldog Adam Treloar will line up against his old side in the opening round.

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News from in and around the AFL

SO FAR SO GOOD AS FANS’ WAIT IS OVER

We’ll continue to monitor Max over the next week ST KILDA’S SIMON LETHLEAN AFTER YOUNG STAR MAX KING WAS HIT BY A GOLF BALL, RULING HIM OUT FOR THE OPENING ROUND

WELCOME RETURN: Footy fans will return to the MCG for the first time since the Tigers’ 2019 Grand Final triumph.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

ell, we made it to the starting line.

The 125th season of League football starts at the MCG on Thursday night amid great hope that there will be little of the uncertainty, interruption and, ultimately, the dislocation that marked 2020.

Matches are scheduled across the country and as this edition of the AFL Record goes to print, it is expected the round will be played as fixtured, with games in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.

Last Sunday’s AFLW clash between Brisbane and Collingwood was moved to Victoria at short notice after a minor COVID-19 outbreak in Brisbane.

But the AFL’s oft-quoted operating mantra from last season, “flexible and agile”, will still be at the forefront, with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan promising that nothing is set in stone and that his top drawer contains not just Plan B, but most likely C, D and E if there is another COVID outbreak that causes changes to the fixture.

There may yet even be a return to the ‘Footy Frenzy’ of last season, which at one stage saw 33 games

played across the country in a 20-day period.

But for now, something resembling normal transmission has been restored and it was with great excitement that the goalposts were installed at the MCG on Monday.

The game is returning to its heartland and Thursday night’s Richmond-Carlton clash will be the first men’s game for premiership points played in Victoria since June 5 last year (286 days) and the first in front of a crowd since the 2019 Grand Final, a gap of 534 days.

In recent weeks, the conversations around footy have been hopeful and, dare it be said, normal.

u This time 12 months ago it was a surreal feeling as fans sat at home watching the opening bounce of the 2020 season on their TV screens. The first thing that struck you about the traditional season-opener between Carlton and Richmond was that the players were almost as audible as the commentators.

Fast forward to 2021 and the Blues and Tigers will lead us

off again. But instead of club officials retrieving the ball after a goal has been kicked, some 50,000 fans will be part of the action (and the Sherrin can make its way back to the playing arena with the help of the crowd!).

Welcome to the new world of sports watching.

Many have had a taste of summer sport as crowds filtered back to cricket, tennis and horse

Something resembling normal transmission has been restored

The new ‘standing the mark’ rule has sparked the usual opprobrium, and injuries have caused the usual angst.

A last-minute coach-led push to introduce a 23d man, a concussion sub, is a real chance to get off the ground.

Best 22s and season predictions have lobbed everywhere, but the consensus now is the same as it was 12 months ago.

Despite the promise of Port Adelaide and Brisbane, Geelong loading up and the excitement of Carlton and St Kilda, the path to the premiership still appears destined to run through Richmond.

racing, but now football starts to crank up. And as senior writer ASHLEY BROWNE explains on the following pages, fans will have to get used to a whole new process of ticketing, seating and even entering venues.

The AFL Record returns to venues this season and there is an online version via AFL.com. au, the AFL app, SEN.com.au and the SEN app.

A subscription service is also available via The AFL Store for those who can’t attend games (visit aflstore.com.au).

Best of all, the Record’s cover price will remain at $5.

Finally, a big welcome to the Record’s new partner Four ’N Twenty – surely there is no better fit than eating a Four ’N Twenty pie while reading the Record at the game!

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FOOTY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD

HIGHER SCORING: Sam Walsh evades Dan Butler in the frenetic AAMI Community Series match which saw 34 goals kicked.

Footy returns to a degree of normality this week after the historic, pandemic-affected 2020 season. But not everything will be as it was.

ASHLEY BROWNE looks at how the game will change in 2021, on and off the field.

NEW RULES u “Stand” might become the most contentious word in the AFL vocabulary.

That’s the command now issued by the controlling umpire when a player stands the mark after an opponent wins a free kick or takes a mark.

Even the slightest movement in any direction before the umpire indicates play on will lead to a 50m penalty.

It was introduced by the AFL as a measure to bring some speed back to the game, open up the play, break down some defensive measures and hopefully increase scoring.

There was some evidence during a fortnight of practice games that the measures might be working, with several clubs registering triple-digit scores.

But that might also be because quarters are back to their standard length of 20 minutes plus time-on, after last season’s COVID-induced 16-minute quarters.

After some games were over and done in a little more than two hours in 2020, footy in 2021 feels about right with the entire game, including breaks, lasting about 150 minutes.

Players kicking out after a behind will now have an extra five metres to work with. The mark will be set at 15m from the centre of the kick-off line towards the centre of the ground at kick-ins. It was previously at 10m.

And interchange rotations have been cut back from 90 to 75. Add this to the longer quarters and the

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hope is that the greater fatigue will open up games, especially in the final quarter, and lead to greater scoring.

The days of NEW WAYS OF GOING deciding on TO THE FOOTY the spot to u Fans are going to have to get used to accessing the footy go watch a differently in 2021, at least initially as the relevant state governments game of footy put a cap on venue capacities.

Victorian venues will be are over only half-full this weekend. The MCG will allow a crowd of no more than 50,000, Marvel Stadium can have 28,961 and GMHBA Stadium 18,546.

Crowds at games in Western Australia are capped at 65 per cent, which means about 42,000 fans can attend the 60,000-capacity Optus Stadium.

South Australia and New South Wales are permitting 75 per cent capacity crowds, while only Queensland – by and large the home of the AFL during 2020 – is allowing full-capacity crowds.

In Victoria, the restrictions are going to make for a different dynamic in terms of the make-up of the crowd.

Members of the home club will have priority access to the public areas of the ground and each club will have its own policy about who gets tickets.

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For some, it will be based on the level of membership (similar to finals tickets arrangements), for others it will be an all-in ballot or first-in, best dressed.

If you are a supporter of the away team, you might need to be an MCC, AFL or Medallion Club member to watch it play.

General admission tickets will only be sold in the event that club members do not take up their allocation and, at least early in the season, that seems unlikely.

In any event, the days of deciding on the spot to go watch a game of footy are over. Tickets won’t be available at the gate.

Supporters will be expected to buy their tickets online and scan their phones at the gates to be admitted to the ground.

All supporters will need to sit in their pre-assigned seats.

NEW VOICES

u The starkest change to the way we watch our footy on TV in 2021 will come every week when Australia’s greatest broadcaster Bruce McAvaney will no longer be the voice of Friday night football on Seven.

After 26 years of calling the footy, which included 20 Grand Finals (and 21 Brownlow Medal counts), the 68-year-old will be stepping back to concentrate on horse racing and the Olympics.

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“I’m going to miss it enormously, I just visualise when Richmond and Carlton run out there in round one and the ball is bounced, I’m going to climb a wall somewhere,” he said.

James Brayshaw gets the nod initially to partner Brian Taylor in the prestigious timeslot, with Hamish McLachlan and Luke Darcy also expected to be given the opportunity over the season.

It’s the end of an era with Eddie McGuire standing down as Collingwood president and it’s not known what his calling duties with Fox Footy will be at this stage as he takes a break from public life.

One difference that viewers will notice on both Seven and Fox Footy in 2021 is a more ‘up close and personal’ look at goal celebrations.

Both broadcasters have been permitted to have a camera operator on the field of play after a goal has been kicked to bring the viewers closer to the action.

Steadicam, as it is known, has been successfully integrated into NFL, English Premier League and rugby productions.

This year will also see a different way for fans in Australia to stream live games.

They are no longer available to watch on the official AFL Live app, with the streaming rights now belonging exclusively to Kayo Sports.

It’s an enhanced experience with live stats and match highlights embedded and available during play.

BOOM RECRUIT: The Cats have their eyes firmly on the main prize after snaring star goalkicker Jeremy Cameron.

NEW COACHES u After an unusual job-sharing arrangement with John Worsfold last year, Ben Rutten is now running the show at Essendon.

The former Adelaide full-back cut his coaching teeth under Damien Hardwick at Richmond and in some ways gets a free pass in his first season, with the messaging out of the Bombers that this is a development year.

David Noble takes over at North Melbourne where, again, expectations are not particularly high. The Roos won just three games last season and were well beaten in both their practice matches this year.

Noble will play the kids as well and he might be the right man for the right time at Arden St, given his deep experience in both coaching and football management.

OLD FACES, NEW COLOURS

u Expectations surrounding many of the big names who have changed clubs this year will be enormous.

After just 15 games in three seasons due to a variety of ailments, Joe Daniher departed Essendon for Brisbane and has the Lions excited that he might be the additional dominant forward they need to truly open their premiership window.

ROO REBUILD: New coach David Noble shapes as the right man for the job at North Melbourne.

Carlton’s status as a destination club continues

Carlton’s status as a destination club continues. Adam Saad (Essendon) and Zac Williams (GWS) join the Blues, although Williams will miss the season opener because of a suspension.

The Western Bulldogs appear to be firmly in premiership mode having secured gun midfielder Adam Treloar from Collingwood, which had to dump a few big names for salary cap reasons.

Jaidyn Stephenson and Atu Bosenavulagi were traded to North Melbourne, while Tom Phillips is now at Hawthorn.

Geelong’s intentions for 2021 are clear. The Cats didn’t sell the farm to bring dual Coleman medallist Jeremy Cameron to GMHBA Stadium, but it did cost them three first-round draft picks, albeit with some future second-round picks in return.

Isaac Smith (Hawthorn) and Shaun Higgins (North Melbourne) came across as free agents and will walk straight into a side with its eyes firmly locked on another premiership.

Similarly, Port Adelaide hopes the addition of Orazio Fantasia (Essendon) and Aliir Aliir (Sydney) will stiffen the side at both ends of the ground and help it go one step further than last year’s preliminary final appearance.

Spearhead Ben Brown will miss the start of the season but is the true full-forward Melbourne has been missing for years.

Jack Higgins (Richmond) and Brad Crouch (Adelaide) further bolster St Kilda.

Former Hawthorn premiership full-back James Frawley came out of retirement to play for the Saints as well, but is likely to miss the first half of the season after suffering a hamstring tendon injury.

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HOW TIGERS DID IT THE HARD WAY

HARD-FOUGHT: Not even COVID-19 could stop the Tigers claiming a third premiership in four seasons.

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Hamish Hartlett PORT ADELAIDE

183 premiership games, 16 pre-season games

Darren Crocker

NORTH MELBOURNE 165 premiership games, 12 pre-season games, 15 AFL games coached, 7 AFLW games coached

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Eddie Betts CARLTON

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ow fortunate are Richmond supporters to count award-winning feature writer Konrad Marshall among them.

Within weeks of the 2017 and 2019 premiership triumphs, his ‘fly-on-the-wall’ accounts of the season – Yellow and Black and Stronger and Bolder – hit the shelves and Tiger fans devoured every word as he took them inside the four walls at Punt Rd and chronicled every step, every move and, seemingly, every key conversation on the path to the premiership.

Marshall didn’t have an access-all-areas pass to Richmond in 2020. Like so many, he followed the fortunes of the club from his TV and he didn’t relocate with the club to its Queensland hub.

But the Tiger inner sanctum have long taken him into their trust and the end result was The Hard Way, which at just 128 pages is thinner than his previous two books, but the content is just as compelling.

The reporting still excels, picking up from the pre-season camp and coach Damien Hardwick’s hand-picked theme

for 2021 – sisu – a Finnish word with no equivalent in English, but which roughly translates to, ‘noses to the grindstone’.

And then came COVID, which turned the season on its head.

The Tigers struggled early, with Hardwick at the head of the queue.

The effects and the toll coronavirus had on Richmond’s season loom large in the book, especially the travails that seemed to afflict the Tigers more than any other club.

Yet they came out triumphantly at the end.

Chief executive Brendon Gale said the 2020 premiership would have to be won “the hard way”.

And it was.

And the story of how and why is wonderfully told yet again.

The Hard Way, by Konrad Marshall.

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2021 AFL PREDICTIONS Stephen Coniglio GWS GIANTS

ASHLEY BROWNE

100 GAMES Tom Clurey

PORT ADELAIDE

Trent Dumont

NORTH MELBOURNE

George Hewett SYDNEY SWANS

Clayton Oliver MELBOURNE

Tom Papley

SYDNEY SWANS

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ANDREW SLEVISON DWAYNE RUSSELL

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1. Geelong 2. Port Adelaide 3. Richmond 4. Brisbane Lions 5. St Kilda 6. Western Bulldogs 7. West Coast 8. Carlton

1. Port Adelaide 2. Richmond 3. Geelong 4. Brisbane Lions 5. West Coast 6. St Kilda 7. Western Bulldogs 8. Collingwood

1. West Coast 2. Geelong 3. Richmond 4. Port Adelaide 5. Brisbane Lions 6. Western Bulldogs 7. St Kilda 8. Fremantle

1. Port Adelaide 2. Richmond 3. Geelong 4. West Coast 5. Brisbane Lions 6. St Kilda 7. Western Bulldogs 8. Collingwood

1. Port Adelaide 2. Geelong 3. Richmond 4. Western Bulldogs 5. Brisbane Lions 6. St Kilda 7. West Coast 8. Carlton

Premiership: Port Adelaide Wooden spoon: North Melbourne Brownlow Medal: Christian Petracca Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron NAB AFL Rising Star: Matt Rowell

Premiership: Port Adelaide Wooden spoon: North Melbourne Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron NAB AFL Rising Star: Matt Rowell

Premiership: Richmond Wooden spoon: Adelaide Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) NAB AFL Rising Star: Matt Rowell

Premiership: Port Adelaide Wooden spoon: North Melbourne Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron NAB AFL Rising Star: Matt Rowell

Premiership: Richmond Wooden spoon: North Melbourne Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron NAB AFL Rising Star: Matt Rowell

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THE NEW TOP 50 MOVERS AND SHAPERS

COALITION Sport and politics are not supposed to be ideal bedfellows but when it came to the 2020 season, the AFL needed politicians in its corner like never before. That explains why senior writer ASHLEY BROWNE’s annual Movers and Shapers list contains plenty of new additions from the political world, as well as many familiar football names and personalities.

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hat became abundantly clear when compiling the 2021 edition of the AFL Movers and Shapers, the sixth since its inception, is that for all the might and power of a $7.6 billion industry, never before has the game been so beholden to others.

Politicians – federal and state – made it clear to the AFL the terms and conditions under which the game could proceed during COVID. They never budged on health and safety regulations and border controls and the AFL wisely respected the science, followed regulations to the letter and were exemplary corporate citizens.

But it explains the abundance of political figures on the 2021 list.

Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula was the gatekeeper of footy in his state, the cradle of the game.

Annastacia Palaszczuk saved the season and guaranteed Queensland

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would be at the forefront of the AFL’s planning for generations to come.

Mark McGowan kept the AFL on its toes all year, while Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein is starting to flex his muscle as well. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt gave regular briefings to the AFL Commission.

Gillon McLachlan is the perennial No. 1 on this list, but more so in 2021 given how superbly he led the game through its biggest operational crisis in a century.

But there could be no game without the players and players boss Paul Marsh got them to agree not just to a hefty pay cut, but also a hefty relocation in order to get the season away.

And in six years, no player has stood head or shoulders over the competition as has Dustin Martin. He is the first player in that time to crack the top 10.

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GILLON McLACHLAN

AFL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER LAST YEAR: 1

u In the 2020 of his dreams,

McLachlan would likely have enjoyed one last go around in the big chair at AFL House.

Industry speculation was rife he was set to finish up some time towards the end of last year or during the early part of this season.

Instead, he will be staying put for that bit longer.

Footy needs to dig itself out of a major hole caused by COVID-19 and the focus is on McLachlan whose leadership at every level throughout 2020 was exceptional.

The game needed to be flexible and agile and it started from the top.

From the very beginning, McLachlan heeded the advice of the government and listened to science.

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He consulted widely and was happy to delegate key outcomes to his management team.

Within a week of the game’s shutdown, bank loans had been secured and the pay deal with the players restructured to the satisfaction of both parties.

He struck an excellent new deal with the TV broadcasters and in a 10-minute phone call with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk convinced the Queensland Government to allow the AFL to pretty much relocate to the state for the remainder of the season.

It was leadership as good as anything witnessed across the country during the pandemic and McLachlan’s army of admirers grew considerably over the year.

He led with compassion and empathy and never made himself or the game bigger than it needed to be.

It did take a personal toll; he was removed from his family for much of the year and there were times when he looked as though the weight of the world was on his shoulders. At times, his friends and associates were worried for his health.

In the end, the financial losses weren’t quite as extensive as forecast and the game found a way to get through its most challenging period for a century and should return to reasonable health relatively quickly.

The end of his time as CEO is probably on the horizon, but neither he nor the League would be in any hurry to make it happen.

He led with compassion and empathy POLITICAL FOOTBALL:

(from left) Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan and Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula.

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AFL RECORD MOVERS AND SHAPERS

3 TRAVIS AULD CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND GENERAL MANAGER OF CLUBS AND BROADCASTING, AFL LAST YEAR: 11

KEY FIGURES: (clockwise from top left) players chief Paul Marsh and the AFL’s Travis Auld and Richard Goyder played crucial roles in the 2020 season being completed.

u There is no clear No. 2 at the AFL, but

2 PAUL MARSH

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION LAST YEAR: 7

u Like everyone in footy, his year

was turned on its head by COVID. He was the first person Gillon McLachlan called after receiving the news from Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula that the season was in trouble and together they worked closely on a revised pay deal that ended up ensuring the players received about 62 per cent of their entitlements for the year.

There were some anxious moments – the AFLPA was disappointed not to have been consulted about the 17-game season before the decision was reached – but amid all the white noise in those frantic few days after the season was shutdown, Marsh and McLachlan were able to hammer out a deal.

Marsh then played a huge part in getting the players to agree to relocate to the hubs.

There were legitimate concerns from the players about being away from home for such a lengthy period, but he won various concessions on their behalf and, in the end, the season was saved.

Over six years with the AFLPA and several years with the Australian Cricketers Association before then, Marsh has established himself as one of the great labour leaders in all of sport.

There has never been any indication he is looking to cross the great divide and join the AFL or one of the clubs in a senior capacity.

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Auld and his people did much of the heavy lifting as the League reinvented itself on the run.

Broadcasting, fixturing and finance all came under his watch and he was a key player in the decision made back in March to at least get the season underway.

Together with Steve Hocking, he was the AFL’s lead negotiator with the clubs over cuts to the soft cap and he pressed them hard, at one stage proposing reductions of nearly 50 per cent.

He then did much of the negotiating with the Queensland Government when it came to relocating the season once Victoria became off-limits and then the arrangement to stage the Grand Final at the Gabba.

His brief going forward will include all of the above as well as the Marvel Stadium/Docklands precinct redevelopment that is still going ahead with the support of the Victorian Government.

If there is a lead internal candidate at the AFL to eventually replace McLachlan, it would likely be Auld.

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COMMISSION CHAIRMAN, AFL LAST YEAR: 3

u It was Goyder who raised the first

coronavirus alarm at the AFL last January, having spoken to Qantas boss Alan Joyce in his capacity as the airline’s chairman and been told that the national carrier was putting its crisis management team on to the case.

Goyder then alerted Gillon McLachlan and asked him to engage in scenario planning in the event the AFL season had to proceed without crowds.

The AFL Commission tends to be hands off when it comes to the management of the game.

It sees its primary function as one of governance and oversight, but for much of 2020, it was all hands to the wheel and there were times when McLachlan and Goyder would talk up to 10 times a day.

And Goyder chaired all the meetings between the

Marsh has established himself as one of the great labour leaders in all of sport

Commission and the club presidents and CEOs, of which there were many.

Another area where Goyder led the way was to manage the sometimes prickly relationship with the West Australian Government.

The AFL was one of WA Premier Mark McGowan’s favourite punching bags – which irked some at the League – and it was left to Goyder, one of the state’s most prominent identities, to manage that important relationship.

There was criticism in some quarters that Goyder and his team weren’t visible enough in 2020, which he bristled at, and he copped some heat for not being at the Grand Final at the Gabba.

The four-week delay to play the decider wreaked havoc with his schedule and he wasn’t prepared to ask for a travel exemption, nor to miss Perth’s annual Telethon, the children’s health and medical research fund-raiser he also chairs, which last year raised $46m.

5 DUSTIN MARTIN

SUPERSTAR, RICHMOND FC LAST YEAR: 18

u Martin’s form plateaued last year to

the point where “Is ‘player x’ the new ‘Dusty’?” started to get some traction on talkback radio and among those who deal in clickbait.

It is doubtful Martin paid any heed to that debate whatsoever, but nevertheless he turned in a magnificent October, including a four-goal, best-on-ground performance that swung the Grand Final Richmond’s way, earning him an unprecedented third Norm Smith Medal.

And with that, the discussion as to who is the best player in the competition is over for now. It is Martin and by a considerable measure.

The more interesting debate is where he ranks among the best finals players, while he is now also

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and brought his experience as the former footy boss at Geelong to the table.

He also ticked off the tougher interpretation of the holding-the-ball rule following some grousing from Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson.

The AFL Review Centre (ARC) was fully operational for the first time.

This year, the new man-on-the-mark interpretation and further reduced interchange rotations will be watched closely.

Footy has become too defensive – scoring was down again last year – and speeding up the game and hopefully increasing scoring is firmly in Hocking’s remit.

ON AND OFF THE FIELD: (clockwise from top left) Richmond superstar Dustin Martin, Seven chief James Warburton, Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula, AFL General Counsel Andrew Dillon and AFL footy boss Steve Hocking were all influential in keeping the game alive for fans.

8 JAMES WARBURTON

CEO, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LAST YEAR: 6

u Whereas head of sport Lewis

in the conversation along with Kevin Bartlett, Jack Dyer and Royce Hart as the greatest Tiger of all time.

Off the field, he remains an enigma.

Apart from Bonds, he has no marketing deals of note and rarely speaks to the media unless compelled to.

Max Gawn and Patrick Dangerfield he is not, but in every other respect he is the complete package.

It is highly doubtful the Tigers would have those three flags in four years without him and, as long as he plays anywhere near his peak, they are every chance to win even more.

7 ANDREW DILLON

GENERAL COUNSEL, GENERAL MANAGER GAME DEVELOPMENT, AFL LAST YEAR: 4

u COVID meant that pretty much

6 STEVE HOCKING

GENERAL MANAGER FOOTBALL OPERATIONS, AFL LAST YEAR: 2

u Hocking takes care of the AFL’s

core business – the footy – and was intimately involved in several of the key outcomes from last season, starting with the move to 16-minute quarters, which many panned, but as a one-off move to get through the season, proved to be the right idea.

He was deeply involved in the discussions about a reduced soft cap

every major agreement at the AFL had to be altered – with venues, broadcasters, players, banks, sponsors and other key stakeholders.

When Dillon wasn’t overseeing that, grassroots football was being shut down entirely, for half a season across most of the country and for an entire season in the game’s heartland, Victoria.

Dillon remains Gillon McLachlan’s closest and most trusted advisor and, when the AFL boss took a call from Tiger chief executive Brendon Gale at 7am one day in early September in the Queensland hub, he called Dillon to join them for an impromptu meeting, fearing the worst.

Kebab-gate, as it became known, briefly threatened to derail the season.

It is rare a major decision is made at the AFL without Dillon’s tick of approval.

Martin (No. 25) works hand in glove with the AFL, it is Warburton who signs the cheques and, thanks to COVID, Seven and the League had to sit down and hammer out a new agreement after 81 days were wiped off the season and economic conditions plummeted.

The two bodies reworked their deals and on June 11, just hours before the season’s resumption, Seven extended its agreement by two years to the end of 2024, with Gillon McLachlan saying the League would pocket $730m or an average of $146m a year for free-to-air rights.

What was striking about the negotiation was the complete absence of acrimony, in marked contrast to Seven’s renegotiation with Cricket Australia, which ended up in court.

As Warburton said in the media release announcing the new deal, “... the AFL and Seven are a core part of each other’s DNA.”

It is rare a major decision is made at the AFL without Dillon’s 9 MARTIN PAKULA tick of VICTORIAN MINISTER FOR SPORT approval LAST YEAR: 30

u Even before COVID, Pakula,

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had established a strong working relationship with Gillon McLachlan.

They became regular and trusted confidants all though last year, from the very moment Pakula interrupted a meeting between the AFL Commissioners, the executive team, club presidents and chief executives on the morning of the AFL season launch to tell McLachlan the Victorian Government was likely to introduce bans on mass gatherings, which would mean no crowds at the footy in Victoria.

Pakula greenlighted the League’s start to the season, its mid-year resumption and encouraged McLachlan to look to Queensland when the second COVID wave hit quickly and hard in early July.

He also signed off the deal that allowed the AFL to relocate the Grand Final to the Gabba for one year, adding an extra year to the agreement with the MCG at the other end and securing several national drafts for the state over the next few years.

The AFL is hoping for more than a 50 per cent capacity at games in Victoria once the season gets underway. Any increase on that figure won’t be achieved without Pakula’s say-so.

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AND THE REST ...

11 PATRICK DELANY

Chief Executive, Foxtel LAST YEAR: 10

12 DAMIEN HARDWICK

Senior coach, Richmond FC LAST YEAR: 21

13 ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK Queensland Premier LAST YEAR: –

14 BRENDON GALE

Chief Executive, Richmond FC LAST YEAR: 12

15 ALASTAIR CLARKSON

Senior coach, Hawthorn FC LAST YEAR: 5

16 BRIAN WALSH

General Manager Corporate Affairs, Government and Communications, AFL LAST YEAR: 22

LAST YEAR: 8

u McGuire’s sphere of influence was never more

evident through much of 2020. He was among the first to be drafted to the AFL’s wartime ‘corona’ advisory cabinet and inside the room provided vast and deep knowledge based on half a century of devotion to the game as a fan, journalist and administrator.

During the shutdown period, he was often the conduit between the game and the fans and used his various media platforms to calm the waters and assure the public that the AFL was across and planning for every contingency.

Bubbling along behind the scenes for most of the 2020 season was Making Their Mark, the seven-part docuseries produced by Amazon Prime in conjunction with McGuire’s JAM TV production company.

It will expose the AFL like never before to viewers in more than 240 countries around the world. It was certainly the most ambitious and it might be the best media work McGuire has put his name to.

What is different about McGuire is that he is no longer the Collingwood president.

His 22-year tenure came to an abrupt end in February after his inexplicably poor attempt to manage the fallout from the club’s Do Better report into racism at the Magpies.

His image might have taken a battering and it is hard to imagine Collingwood without him, but footy is great at forgiving and, even if he takes some time to withdraw from the game to cool his jets and to refresh and refuel, it is likely he will remain a powerful figure, even if just behind the scenes.

17 CRAIG KELLY

Chief executive, TLA Australia LAST YEAR: 14

18 STUART FOX

Chief Executive, Melbourne Cricket Club LAST YEAR: –

19 CRAIG HUTCHISON

Chief Executive, Sports Entertainment Network, TV host, podcaster LAST YEAR: 13

20 DAISY PEARCE

AFLW captain, Melbourne FC, broadcaster and commentator LAST YEAR: 27

21 PEGGY O’NEAL

President, Richmond FC LAST YEAR: 15

22 PAUL CONNORS

Company principal, Connors Sports Management LAST YEAR: 19

23 TREVOR NISBETT

Chief Executive, West Coast Eagles FC LAST YEAR: 34

24 PATRICK DANGERFIELD Midfielder/forward, Geelong FC; president, AFLPA LAST YEAR: 9

25 LEWIS MARTIN

Director of Sport and Melbourne managing director, Seven Network LAST YEAR: –

39 ERIN PHILLIPS

AFLW player, Adelaide FC LAST YEAR: 37

40 GREG HUNT

Federal Health Minister

26 PAUL BASSAT

Venture capitalist and AFL Commissioner

LAST YEAR: –

41 MARK ROBINSON

Chief football writer, Herald Sun; co-host, AFL 360

LAST YEAR: 26

27 KYLIE ROGERS

General Manager Commercial Operations, AFL LAST YEAR: 45

LAST YEAR: 42

42 DR KARL JACKSON

Head of Data and Analytics at Champion Data

28 PETER GUTWEIN

Tasmanian Premier LAST YEAR: 28

LAST YEAR: –

43 BRAD SCOTT

Chief Executive, AFL Victoria

29 DR KATE HALL

Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing, AFL

LAST YEAR: –

LAST YEAR: 29

44 MARK McGOWAN

30 GERARD WHATELEY

LAST YEAR: –

Broadcaster, presenter, SEN and Fox Footy LAST YEAR: 17

31 JEFF KENNETT

West Australian Premier

45 MARCUS KING

Fixturing Manager, AFL

JUDE DONNELLY

SIMON CLARKE

DAVID STEVENSON

President, Hawthorn FC LAST YEAR: –

32 XAVIER CAMPBELL Chief Executive, Essendon FC LAST YEAR: 24

33 TONY COCHRANE

Chairman, Gold Coast FC LAST YEAR: –

34 ANDREW PRIDHAM Chairman, Sydney Swans FC LAST YEAR: –

35 TANYA HOSCH

General Manager Inclusion and Social Policy, AFL LAST YEAR: 43

36 CHRIS SCOTT

Senior coach, Geelong FC LAST YEAR: –

37 CHRIS FAGAN

Senior coach, Brisbane Lions FC LAST YEAR: 25

38 SIMON LETHLEAN

Chief Operating Officer, St Kilda FC LAST YEAR: –

Head of Government Relationships, AFL Head of Compliance and Risk, AFL General Manager of Operations, AFL LAST YEAR: –

46 NATHAN BUCKLEY Senior coach, Collingwood FC LAST YEAR: 23

47 EMMA RACE

Writer, podcaster, agent for change LAST YEAR: 49

48 KANE CORNES

Broadcaster, commentator, SEN, Nine, AFL.com.au LAST YEAR: –

49 PETER GORDON

Former president, Western Bulldogs FC LAST YEAR: 20

50 NICOLE LIVINGSTONE Head of AFLW LAST YEAR: –

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WELCOME RETURN: Fans will be back in the stands as AFL action returns to the MCG this season.

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STEPHEN RODGERS

s the 2020 AFL season drew to a close, MCG aficionados had no STEPHEN RODGERS choice but to make do with a patch of the hallowed turf being transported to the Gabba for the Grand Final.

But now, when the ball is bounced on Thursday night to start the Richmond-Carlton encounter and the 2021 season, a full-throated football roar will be heard at the MCG for the first time since the 2019 Grand Final.

In the unique season that 2020 became, only nine matches – all without spectators – were played at the famous ground, and none after July 5.

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It was the fewest at the venue in a season since 1946 (seven, including five finals), when the ground finally became fit to host football again in August after its World War II occupancy by troops.

Only one non-Victorian club – Brisbane in round one – got to play at the ’G in 2020.

The result, a Hawthorn win by 28 points, proved no guide at all to how the season would play out for either club, but it did condemn the Lions to continue the longest current ‘hoodoo’ of all 18 clubs at the ground.

Since defeating Collingwood in round 21, 2014, Brisbane has lost nine in a row there, to five different opponents.

Only nine matches – all without spectators – were played at the famous ground

Conversely the Hawks start 2021 with the best current winning run at the ’G – their past four, against Brisbane and Richmond in 2020 and Geelong and Collingwood from the back half of 2019.

While the Tigers may have lost to Hawthorn and drawn with the Magpies at the ’G in 2020 (as well as recording wins over Carlton and Melbourne), let’s not forget their imposing recent record there.

Since the start of 2017, Richmond has won 42 and drawn one from 49 matches at the great ground.

The comparative paucity of matches at the MCG in 2020 prompted the following study: when did each club last fail to play at the ’G?

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NO MCG MATCHES: MOST RECENT SEASON ADELAIDE – 2020 The Crows missed for the second time in their history, the other being their fourth season in 1994.

BRISBANE – NEVER

The club that started its football life with an upset win at the ’G against North Melbourne on a March Friday night in 1987 holds a unique record: the Lions (and, before them, the Bears) are the only current club to play at least once at the MCG in every season of its AFL/VFL existence.

CARLTON – 1963

A season where the Blues played Melbourne once, at Princes Park, and failed to play finals, is the only time they’ve missed at the ’G since their flag-winning 1947.

COLLINGWOOD – 1945

Win, lose and draw! That’s what the Magpies did with their three MCG games of 2020. The Magpies hold an amazing MCG record, which not even Melbourne can boast. Since 1897, they have played at the ’G at least once in every season that the ground has been operational – except the World War II years between 1942-45.

During World War I, the ground was only used for finals, in 1916-18. The Pies played in each of those series, at a time when Melbourne was in recess from the competition.

ESSENDON – 1952

The Bombers also have an impressive record. Last year was the first time they’d played just two games there since 1991.

FREMANTLE – 2020

The first non-Victorian visitors at the ground this year, the Dockers opened their playing account at the MCG against Richmond in 1995.

Before last year, they had missed at the ’G just once, in 2001.

GEELONG – 1960

While some think the modern-day Cats play too many games at the MCG, you have to go right back to 1960 to find the last time they played none at all.

GOLD COAST – 2020

The Suns missed for the first time, having previously played ‘once only’ in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

GWS GIANTS – 2020

Like Gold Coast, the Giants missed for the first time in 2020.

HAWTHORN – 1962

The Hawks finished 1961 on the ultimate high, taking their first flag, but didn’t grace the ’G the following season.

MELBOURNE – 1945

The Demons hosted Geelong in the first MCG match in round two, 1897, and since then have failed to play at their home ground only in the seasons of 1916-18, when they were in recess, and 1942-45, with the ground being out of action.

Not surprisingly, the two games of 2020, against Geelong and Richmond, are the fewest they’ve played there in their 117 seasons.

The most they have played at the ’G in a season is 16 in 1998.

NORTH MELBOURNE – 2020

After the final years at Arden St in the early-to-mid 1980s, the Kangaroos had the MCG as a home ground, until the advent of Docklands. Nowadays they seem to play at the ’G quite sparingly, with only 13 home and away games and three finals there in the 10-year period from 2011-20.

PORT ADELAIDE – 2020

From their debut match against Collingwood in the opening round of 1997, the Power have always played a match at the ’G, but like Gold Coast and GWS, saw their run end in 2020.

MISSING IN ACTION: The Roos’ last game at the MCG was back in 2019, while the Saints (below) made just one appearance there in 2020.

The Lions are the only current club to play at least once at the MCG in every season of its existence

RICHMOND – 1946

The Tigers have called the MCG home since 1965, but immediately before then – and despite a finals drought between 1947-66 – they played Melbourne as the away side each year from 1947-64.

ST KILDA – 1983

For a Victorian side that doesn’t seem to play that often at the ’G, it’s a good record that the Saints can go back to 1983. They were perhaps fortunate in 1988 when a home match against Hawthorn, originally scheduled for Waverley Park, was moved to the MCG.

SYDNEY – 2020

The Swans missed playing at the MCG for the first time since 1964.

The last time they’d even had a ‘once only’ at the ’G, was back in 1980.

WEST COAST – 2020

The Eagles missed for the second time in their history, the other being their third season in 1989.

WESTERN BULLDOGS – 2020

The Bulldogs were another club to have a long MCG run ended by the circumstances of 2020. They had previously missed in 1963.

NOT FORGETTING FITZROY

The Roys’ last Victorian match was the emotion-charged encounter against Richmond in 1996, in the second-last round of that season.

In 1964, Fitzroy did not play at the MCG – the last winless season by a club.

FOOTNOTE: All 18 clubs are scheduled to play at the MCG at least once in 2021; the ‘once onlys’ at the ground being Fremantle, Gold Coast and North Melbourne.

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QUESTIONS?

Ask Col via email at col.hutchinson@afl.com.au or write to him at AFL House, PO Box 1449, GPO, Melbourne, VIC 3001

ANSWER MAN In 2019, Fremantle won its first match by 82 points. What is the greatest winning margin in the first round of an AFL season?

FLYING STARTS: Champion Hawk Jason Dunstall kicked 12 goals in the opening round of 1990, while Warren Ralph (inset) booted nine on debut for the Blues in 1984.

BASIL BOLAND, ROCKINGHAM, WA MG: There have been 10 instances of opening round matches in the AFL/VFL producing margins of more than 100 points. In round one of 1990, the previous year’s Grand Finalists Hawthorn and Geelong met at Waverley Park, with the Hawks dominating to win by 115 points. Spearhead Jason Dunstall booted 12 goals. In 1958, Fitzroy beat North Melbourne by 120 points in the first round. The two clubs met later in the season in the first semi-final where the Roos turned the tables and were victorious by four points. The biggest margin in an opening round was in 1984 when Carlton beat North Melbourne by 137 points at Waverley Park, with the Blues scoring 31.13 (199).

Carlton had five debutants, including Tom Alvin, Fraser Murphy and Claremont’s Warren Ralph. Wayne Johnston had 43 disposals and kicked five goals, while Ralph kicked 9.4 to go with his 21 disposals and 11 marks in an impressive first match.

GREATEST WINNING MARGINS MARGIN

MATCH

SEASON

SEASON FINISH

137

Carl 31.13(199) d NM 9.8 (62) at Waverley Park

1984

Carl 4th, NM 11th

127

Geel 27.21 (183) d Melb 8.8 (56) at MCG

1996

Geel 7th, Melb 14th

120

Fitz 23.21 (159) d NM 5.9 (39) at Arden St Oval

1958

Fitz 4th, NM 3rd

115

Haw 28.24 (192) d Geel 11.11 (77) at Waverley Park

1990

Haw 5th, Geel 10th

115

WB 25.17 (167) d Rich 7.10 (52) at Marvel Stadium

2006

WB 6th, Rich 9th

110

Syd 26.20 (176) d StK 8.18 (66) at Moorabbin Oval

1985

Syd 10th, StK 12th

109

Ess 29.16 (190) d Foots 11.15 (81) at Windy Hill

1982

Ess 5th, Foots 12th

105

Melb 24.21 (165) d SM 7.18 (60) at MCG

1971

Melb 7th, SM 12th

104

Haw 23.16 (154) d Melb 6.14 (50) at MCG

2008

Haw 1st, Melb 16th

102

Geel 18.13 (121) d NM 2.7 (19) at Corio Oval

1930

Geel 2nd, NM 12th

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Adrian McAdam made a startling entrance to the AFL in 1993, scoring 23.11 in his first three matches.

He debuted in round five against Richmond on a Friday night at the MCG and kicked 7.2 as the Roos won by 37 points to move to the top of the ladder.

The following week at Princes Park, North kicked its highest score – 35.19 (229) – to beat Sydney by 124 points.

McAdam starred with 10.6 to add to his 14 marks, 24 disposals and three Brownlow votes. Teammate John Longmire kicked 9.4.

And to cap it off, in round seven at the Western Oval against Footscray, McAdam kicked 6.3 as the Roos recorded another win.

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u Writing in the goals and behinds in the Football Record has been a popular pastime for fans over the years. If you have kept Records from the following matches in the 1970s, we would be keen to hear from you to help fill in gaps in the League’s records as behinds were not published in the media at the time – round 11, 1975: St Kilda v Richmond, South Melbourne v North Melbourne, Melbourne v Collingwood, Essendon v Hawthorn, Carlton v Footscray, Geelong v Fitzroy; round 13, 1975: North Melbourne v Melbourne.

If you have Records with this information, please contact Col Hutchinson via email on Col.Hutchinson@afl.com.au.

McAdam, who was recruited from South Alice Springs in the previous year’s draft at selection 98, finished the season with 68 goals from 17 matches.

The following season his output dropped to 22 goals from 18 appearances and after just one game in 1995 he was not sighted again at the highest level. He finished his career with 92 goals from 36 games.

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AVERAGE DRAFT PICKS

STEPPING UP: Defender Jayden Short outscored the midfielders in the AAMI Community Series.

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COMMUNITY SERIES u Clubs played only one AAMI Community Series game this year, making Fantasy coaches’ annual pre-season watch on players and stats a tricky one.

How much can we take out of the solitary match as we lock in our squads for round one?

Some of the most prolific scorers weren’t the midfielders who consistently get the job done, and it was the defenders who stepped up their game.

Jayden Short and Dan Houston were the top scorers for the series with their high mark count a major factor for their epic numbers.

This was a theme across the weekend.

Port Adelaide collected 190 marks against Adelaide to help it rack up 2035 points as a team. The Power’s opponent finished with the lowest total Fantasy points.

Defenders are in vogue as the cheeky +3 for stepping

out of the square when kicking the ball in after a behind happened more often than not.

Steven May, Jordan Ridley and Jack Ziebell all played on seven times, adding a handy 21 points to each of their scores.

Players who score at a high rate (points per minute) is another stat that excites coaches.

Jordan Clark was the best, scoring 135 from 66 per cent time on ground. Five defenders featured in the top 10 for points per minute.

Centre bounce attendances (CBAs) is another stat experienced Fantasy coaches like to monitor.

Midfielders who spend a lot of time in the guts are often the highest scorers in their team.

Shai Bolton (92 per cent), Jack Macrae (90 per cent), James Worpel (87 per cent) and Zach Merrett (83 per cent) had the highest CBAs for the series.

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CLUB

POS

PRICE

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Jayden Short

RICH

DEF

$769,000

154

Dan Houston

PA

DEF

$777,000

152

Jack Macrae

WB

MID

$515,000

u For the past two seasons, Brodie Grundy has been the consensus pick at the top of Fantasy Draft boards.

This year, Max Gawn has overtaken the star Magpie to be the preferred option for coaches with pick No. 1 in their Draft league.

Gawn’s average of 123 last season – 10 points more than Grundy – made him the No. 1 player based on average draft pick (ADP).

Locking away a top-scoring ruckman is a priority in Fantasy Draft as there is a drop in output from the big men behind Gawn, Grundy and Reilly O’Brien, who on average is being taken at pick nine.

As usual, midfielders are popular in the opening two rounds as all-important captain options for double points. Lachie Neale and

Zach Merrett are projected to be the top-scoring men in the middle.

The top-scoring defenders (Jake Lloyd and Lachie Whitfield) plus forwards (Steele Sidebottom and Patrick Dangerfield) are being snapped up in the first two rounds.

Forwards are appearing to be the trickiest position for Draft this year.

Feedback from many coaches has been that they drop away quickly.

MAX GAWN: Most popular No. 1 pick.

TOP 20 AVERAGE DRAFT PICKS

1. Max Gawn (RUC) 2. Brodie Grundy (RUC) 3. Lachie Neale (MID) 4. Zach Merrett (MID) 5. Jake Lloyd (DEF) 6. Clayton Oliver (MID) 7. Jack Macrae (MID) 8. Jack Steele (MID) 9. Reilly O’Brien RUC 10. Taylor Adams (MID) 11. Lachie Whitfield (DEF) 12. Steele Sidebottom (MID/FWD) 13. Tom Mitchell (MID) 14. Patrick Dangerfield (MID/FWD) 15. Matt Crouch (MID) 16. Lachie Hunter (MID) 17. Andrew Gaff (MID) 18. Tom Rockliff (MID) 19. Rory Laird (DEF/MID) 20. Adam Treloar (MID)

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That is, outside of the top handful, there’s risk with each player and a large range of outcomes.

That said, it could be the forwards who offer the most value with pre-season bolters such as Jordan De Goey (ADP 99) and Zac Bailey (ADP 110) set for more midfield time and a chance to rank among the top available forwards.

Punting rucks has been a strategy employed by a lot of coaches. Grabbing Oscar McInerney (146) and Sam Draper (163) late in drafts has allowed teams to stock up on forwards or defenders earlier to fill those lines.

Roy

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u Keep an eye on the players who may gain dual-position status at rounds six, 12 and 18. I’ve drafted in the hope that Nat Fyfe will add FWD and Dyson Heppell will add DEF in the first adjustment.

u Navigating the rolling lockout might be stressful, so have some back-up plans if your rookies from the Sunday games aren’t named. Make sure you’re checking the daily team announcements.

DESTROY

CALVINATOR

141

Tom Phillips

HAW

MID/FWD

$762,000

135

Jordan Clark

GEEL

MID/DEF

$777,000

134

Zach Merrett

ESS

MID

$646,000

133

Marcus Bontempelli

WB

MID

$731,000

133

Ethan Hughes

FREM

DEF

$648,000

130

Josh Dunkley

WB

MID/FWD

$707,000

u This year is set to be one of the most open seasons of AFL Fantasy we’ve seen.

Due to the unique circumstances, there are question marks over a range of selections and few gimmie picks!

127

Jordan De Goey

FWD

$730,000

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HOW ‘CLARKO’ IS TACKLING MENTAL HEALTH Using experiences from his country upbringing, Alastair Clarkson is backing a vital health program.

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ith almost 16 seasons as a senior coach and 134 games as a player under his belt, Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has come to understand the importance of strong relationships in driving success on and off-field.

Growing up in the small rural town of Kaniva in Victoria’s wheat belt, Clarkson felt a strong sense of community through the football club and connections that were formed there.

Like many country towns across Australia, Kaniva’s local footy team was the glue that held the community together.

Clarkson credits this environment for his growth and development as a young person, helping prepare him to take the reins at Hawthorn at just 37.

Now a father figure at the Hawks, and having successfully led the club to four premierships, Clarkson is using his platform to help reduce the stigma associated

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with mental health, especially in rural communities.

“I used to think that mental health was something you either have or didn’t … in actual fact we all sit on this continuum,” Clarkson said.

“It’s like water dripping on a rock and it slowly grinds people down.

“We’re trying to make people aware and let them know that it’s OK to be feeling down.”

Clarkson has recently become an ambassador for the Tackle Your Feelings program, joining GWS Giants coach Leon Cameron, Melbourne defender Neville Jetta, Fremantle AFLW captain Kara Antonio and past AFL players Dylan Buckley, Michael Mitchell, Chad Cornes and Nathan van Berlo.

Tackle Your Feelings is a free training program delivered by a local psychologist, which aims to provide community coaches with the tools to understand, recognise and manage their response to signs of mental health in their players.

AMBASSADOR: Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has thrown his support behind a campaign helping to reduce the stigma of mental health.

We’re trying to make people aware that it’s OK to be feeling down ALASTAIR CLARKSON

The program content is based on the mental health education developed for AFL professional coaches and players, consisting of a face-to-face presentation followed by online learning.

The AFL Coaches Association, AFL Players Association and Zurich Insurance (powered by the Z Zurich Foundation) united to develop Tackle Your Feelings in 2018 after the tragic death of then Adelaide coach Phil Walsh three years earlier.

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2021 TOYOTA AFL PREMIERSHIP SEASON ROUND 1

Thursday, March 18 Richmond v Carlton (MCG) (N) Friday, March 19 Collingwood v Western Bulldogs (MCG) (N) Saturday, March 20 Melbourne v Fremantle (MCG) Adelaide Crows v Geelong Cats (AO) (T) Essendon v Hawthorn (MRVL) (N) Brisbane Lions v Sydney Swans (G) (N) Sunday, March 21 North Melbourne v Port Adelaide (MRVL) GWS Giants v St Kilda (GS) West Coast Eagles v Gold Coast Suns (OS) (T)

ROUND 2

Thursday, March 25 Carlton v Collingwood (MCG) (N) Friday, March 26 Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions (GMHBA) (N) Saturday, March 27 Sydney Swans v Adelaide Crows (SCG) Port Adelaide v Essendon (AO) (T) St Kilda v Melbourne (MRVL) (N) Gold Coast Suns v North Melbourne (MS) (N) Sunday, March 28 Hawthorn v Richmond (MCG) Western Bulldogs v West Coast Eagles (MRVL) Fremantle v GWS Giants (OS) (T)

ROUND 3

Thursday, April 1 Brisbane Lions v Collingwood (G) (N) Friday, April 2 North Melbourne v Western Bulldogs (MRVL) (N) Adelaide Crows v Gold Coast Suns (AO) (N) Saturday, April 3 Richmond v Sydney Swans (MCG) Essendon v St Kilda (MRVL) (T) West Coast Eagles v Port Adelaide (OS) (N) Sunday, April 4 Carlton v Fremantle (MRVL) GWS Giants v Melbourne (MO) (N) Monday, April 5 Geelong Cats v Hawthorn (MCG)

ROUND 4

Thursday, April 8 Sydney Swans v Essendon (SCG) (N) Friday, April 9 Port Adelaide v Richmond (AO) (N) Saturday, April 10 Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions (MARS) St Kilda v West Coast Eagles (MRVL) (T) Gold Coast Suns v Carlton (MS) (N) Collingwood v GWS Giants (MCG) (N) Sunday, April 11 North Melbourne v Adelaide Crows (MRVL) Melbourne v Geelong Cats (MCG) Fremantle v Hawthorn (OS) (T)

ROUND 5

Thursday, April 15 St Kilda v Richmond (MRVL) (N) Friday, April 16 West Coast Eagles v Collingwood (OS) (N) Saturday, April 17 Western Bulldogs v Gold Coast Suns (MRVL) Sydney Swans v GWS Giants (SCG) Carlton v Port Adelaide (MCG) (N) Brisbane Lions v Essendon (G) (N) Sunday, April 18 Adelaide Crows v Fremantle (AO) Hawthorn v Melbourne (MCG) Geelong Cats v North Melbourne (GMHBA) (T)

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ROUND 6

Friday, April 23 GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs (MO) (N) Saturday, April 24 Geelong Cats v West Coast Eagles (GMHBA) Gold Coast Suns v Sydney Swans (MS) Carlton v Brisbane Lions (MRVL) (T) Melbourne v Richmond (MCG) (N) Fremantle v North Melbourne (OS) (N) Sunday, April 25 Hawthorn v Adelaide Crows (UTAS) Collingwood v Essendon (MCG) Port Adelaide v St Kilda (AO) (N)

ROUND 7

Round Begins Friday, April 30* Adelaide Crows v GWS Giants (AO) Brisbane Lions v Port Adelaide (G) Collingwood v Gold Coast Suns (MCG) Essendon v Carlton (MCG) North Melbourne v Melbourne (BA) Richmond v Western Bulldogs (MCG) St Kilda v Hawthorn (MRVL) Sydney Swans v Geelong Cats (SCG) West Coast Eagles v Fremantle (OS)

ROUND 8

Round Begins Friday, May 7* Fremantle v Brisbane Lions (OS) Gold Coast Suns v St Kilda (MS) GWS Giants v Essendon (GS) Hawthorn v West Coast Eagles (MCG) Melbourne v Sydney Swans (MCG) North Melbourne v Collingwood (MRVL) Port Adelaide v Adelaide Crows (AO) Richmond v Geelong Cats (MCG) Western Bulldogs v Carlton (MRVL)

ROUND 9

Round Begins Friday, May 14* Essendon v Fremantle (MRVL) Gold Coast Suns v Brisbane Lions (MS) Hawthorn v North Melbourne (UTAS) Melbourne v Carlton (MCG Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs (AO) Richmond v GWS Giants (MRVL) St Kilda v Geelong Cats (MRVL) Sydney Swans v Collingwood (SCG) West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows (OS)

ROUND 10

Round Begins Friday, May 21* Adelaide Crows v Melbourne (AO) Brisbane Lions v Richmond (G) Carlton v Hawthorn (MCG) Collingwood v Port Adelaide (MCG) Essendon v North Melbourne (MRVL) Fremantle v Sydney Swans (OS) Geelong Cats v Gold Coast Suns (GMHBA) GWS Giants v West Coast Eagles (GS) Western Bulldogs v St Kilda (MRVL)

ROUND 11

Round Begins Friday, May 28* Brisbane Lions v GWS Giants (G) Collingwood v Geelong Cats (MCG) Gold Coast Suns v Hawthorn (TIO) Port Adelaide v Fremantle (AO) Richmond v Adelaide Crows (MCG) St Kilda v North Melbourne (MRVL) Sydney Swans v Carlton (SCG) West Coast Eagles v Essendon (OS) Western Bulldogs v Melbourne (MRVL)

ROUND 12

Round Begins Friday, June 4* Adelaide Crows v Collingwood (AO) Carlton v West Coast Eagles (MCG) Essendon v Richmond (MCG) Fremantle v Western Bulldogs (OS) Melbourne v Brisbane Lions (TP) St Kilda v Sydney Swans (MRVL) Byes: Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Suns, GWS Giants, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide

ROUND 13

Round Begins Thursday, June 10* Fremantle v Gold Coast Suns (OS) Melbourne v Collingwood (MCG) North Melbourne v GWS Giants (BA) Port Adelaide v Geelong Cats (AO) St Kilda v Adelaide Crows (MRVL) Sydney Swans v Hawthorn (SCG) Byes: Brisbane Lions, Carlton, Essendon, Richmond, West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs

ROUND 14

Round Begins Thursday, June 17* Geelong Cats v Western Bulldogs (GMHBA) Gold Coast Suns v Port Adelaide (MS) GWS Giants v Carlton (GS) Hawthorn v Essendon (MCG) North Melbourne v Brisbane Lions (MRVL) West Coast Eagles v Richmond (OS) Byes: Adelaide Crows, Collingwood, Fremantle, Melbourne, St Kilda, Sydney Swans

ROUND 15

Round Begins Thursday, June 24* Brisbane Lions v Geelong Cats (G) Carlton v Adelaide Crows (MRVL) Collingwood v Fremantle (MRVL) Essendon v Melbourne (MCG) GWS Giants v Hawthorn (GS) North Melbourne v Gold Coast Suns (BA) Port Adelaide v Sydney Swans (AO) Richmond v St Kilda (MCG) West Coast Eagles v Western Bulldogs (OS)

ROUND 16

Round Begins Thursday, July 1* Adelaide Crows v Brisbane Lions (AO) Collingwood v St Kilda (MCG) Fremantle v Carlton (OS) Geelong Cats v Essendon (GMHBA) Gold Coast Suns v Richmond (MS) Hawthorn v Port Adelaide (MRVL) Melbourne v GWS Giants (MCG) Sydney Swans v West Coast Eagles (SCG) Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne (MRVL)

ROUND 17

Round Begins Friday, July 9* Brisbane Lions v St Kilda (G) Carlton v Geelong Cats (MCG) Essendon v Adelaide Crows (MRVL) GWS Giants v Gold Coast Suns (GS) Hawthorn v Fremantle (UTAS) Port Adelaide v Melbourne (AO) Richmond v Collingwood (MCG) West Coast Eagles v North Melbourne (OS) Western Bulldogs v Sydney Swans (MRVL)

ROUND 18

Round Begins Friday, July 16* Adelaide Crows v West Coast Eagles (AO) Collingwood v Carlton (MCG) Fremantle v Geelong Cats (OS) Gold Coast Suns v Western Bulldogs (MS) GWS Giants v Sydney Swans (GS) Melbourne v Hawthorn (MCG) North Melbourne v Essendon (MRVL) Richmond v Brisbane Lions (MCG) St Kilda v Port Adelaide (MRVL)

ROUND 19

Round Begins Friday, July 23* Carlton v North Melbourne (MRVL) Essendon v GWS Giants (MRVL) Geelong Cats v Richmond (MCG) Gold Coast Suns v Melbourne (MS) Hawthorn v Brisbane Lions (MCG) Port Adelaide v Collingwood (AO) Sydney Swans v Fremantle (SCG) West Coast Eagles v St Kilda (OS) Western Bulldogs v Adelaide Crows (MARS)

ROUND 20

Round Begins Friday, July 30* Adelaide Crows v Hawthorn (AO) Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast Suns (G) Collingwood v West Coast Eagles (MCG) Essendon v Sydney Swans (MRVL) Fremantle v Richmond (OS) GWS Giants v Port Adelaide (MO) Melbourne v Western Bulldogs (MCG) North Melbourne v Geelong Cats (BA) St Kilda v Carlton (MRVL)

ROUND 21

Round Begins Friday, August 6* Adelaide Crows v Port Adelaide (AO) Brisbane Lions v Fremantle (G) Carlton v Gold Coast Suns (MRVL) Geelong Cats v GWS Giants (GMHBA) Hawthorn v Collingwood (MCG) Richmond v North Melbourne (MCG) Sydney Swans v St Kilda (SCG) West Coast Eagles v Melbourne (OS) Western Bulldogs v Essendon (MRVL)

ROUND 22

Round Begins Friday, August 13* Collingwood v Brisbane Lions (MRVL) Fremantle v West Coast Eagles (OS) Geelong Cats v St Kilda (GMHBA) Gold Coast Suns v Essendon (MS) GWS Giants v Richmond (GS) Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs (UTAS) Melbourne v Adelaide Crows (MCG) North Melbourne v Sydney Swans (MRVL) Port Adelaide v Carlton (AO)

ROUND 23

Round Begins Friday, August 20* Adelaide Crows v North Melbourne (AO) Brisbane Lions v West Coast Eagles (G) Carlton v GWS Giants (MRVL) Essendon v Collingwood (MCG) Geelong Cats v Melbourne (GMHBA) Richmond v Hawthorn (MCG) St Kilda v Fremantle (MRVL) Sydney Swans v Gold Coast Suns (SCG) Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide (MRVL)

2021 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 *All matches in rounds 7-23 are listed alphabetically with timeslots to be determined at a later date.

Note: fixture is subject to change.

(T) Twilight match; (N) Night match; (AO) Adelaide Oval; (BA) Blundstone Arena, Hobart; (G) Gabba, Brisbane; (GMHBA) GMHBA Stadium, Geelong; (GS) Giants Stadium, Sydney; (MO) Manuka Oval, Canberra; (MARS) Mars Stadium, Ballarat; (MRVL) Marvel Stadium, Melbourne; (MCG) Melbourne Cricket Ground; (MS) Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast; (OS) Optus Stadium, Perth; (SCG) Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney; (TIO) TIO Stadium, Darwin; (TP) TIO Traeger Park, Alice Springs; (UTAS) University of Tasmania Stadium, Launceston.

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22 Steele SIDEBOTTOM

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26 Reef McINNES

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2 Sam POWELL-PEPPER

3 Jed ANDERSON

3 Ryan BURTON

4 Aidan CORR

4 Todd MARSHALL

5 Curtis TAYLOR

5 Dan HOUSTON

6 Taylor GARNER

6 Steven MOTLOP

7 Jack ZIEBELL

7 Xavier DUURSMA

8 Bailey SCOTT

8 Hamish HARTLETT

9 Luke DAVIES-UNIACKE

9 Robbie GRAY

10 Ben CUNNINGTON

10 Travis BOAK

11 Luke McDONALD

11 Tom ROCKLIFF

12 Jy SIMPKIN

12 Trent McKENZIE

13 Jared POLEC

13 Orazio FANTASIA

14 Trent DUMONT

14 Miles BERGMAN

15 Atu BOSENAVULAGI

15 Karl AMON

16 Aiden BONAR

16 Ollie WINES

17 Lachie YOUNG

17 Tom CLUREY

18 Shaun ATLEY

18 Zak BUTTERS

19 Josh WALKER

19 Mitch GEORGIADES

20 Nick LARKEY

20 Connor ROZEE

21 Dom TYSON

21 Aliir ALIIR

22 Todd GOLDSTEIN

22 Charlie DIXON

23 Ben McKAY

23 Dylan WILLIAMS

24 Tom POWELL

24 Kane FARRELL

25 Robbie TARRANT

25 Sam HAYES

26 Tarryn THOMAS

26 Riley BONNER

27 Will WALKER

27 Joel GARNER

28 Kayne TURNER

28 Willem DREW

29 Will PHILLIPS

29 Scott LYCETT

30 Charlie COMBEN

30 Ollie LORD

31 Connor MENADUE

31 Trent BURGOYNE

33 Patrick WALKER

32 Sam MAYES

35 Charlie LAZZARO

33 Darcy BYRNE-JONES

36 Phoenix SPICER

34 Lachie JONES

37 Kyron HAYDEN

36 Boyd WOODCOCK

38 Tristan XERRI

37 Taj SCHOFIELD

39 Flynn PEREZ

38 Peter LADHAMS

40 Eddie FORD

40 Jarrod LIENERT

41 Matt McGUINNESS

44 Jackson MEAD

42 Tom CAMPBELL

45 Martin FREDERICK

43 Aaron HALL

48 Jake PASINI

44 Cameron ZURHAAR

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Jarrod BRANDER

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Tim KELLY

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Oscar ALLEN

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Luke SHUEY

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Liam DUGGAN

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Jamie CRIPPS

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Luke EDWARDS

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Josh KENNEDY

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Daniel VENABLES

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Nathan VARDY

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Jeremy McGOVERN

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Jack PETRUCCELLE

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Isiah WINDER

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Alex WITHERDEN

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Xavier O’NEILL

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Shannon HURN

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Zane TREW

27

Jack DARLING

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Tom COLE

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Luke FOLEY

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Jackson NELSON

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Jamaine JONES

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Bailey WILLIAMS

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Brayden AINSWORTH

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Mark HUTCHINGS

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Josh ROTHAM

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Tom BARRASS

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Ben JOHNSON

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Jarrod CAMERON

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Callum JAMIESON

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Brendon AH CHEE

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Harry EDWARDS

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Games 214 Finals 6

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Games 128 Finals 3

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John Howorth

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Games 86 Finals 2

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Games 23 Finals 0

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Games 433 Finals 44

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Games 331 Finals 29

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Games 254 Finals 8

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Matt Stevic

Games 401 Finals 45

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Hayden Gavine

Games 69 Finals 1

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Alex Whetton

Games 40 Finals 0

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David Harris

Games 146 Finals 1

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Dan Johanson

Games 5 Finals 0

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Leigh Haussen

Games 64 Finals 0

10

Robert O’Gorman

Games 126 Finals 1

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Mathew Nicholls

Games 360 Finals 27

20

Jamie Broadbent

Games 11 Finals 0

26

Craig Fleer

Games 140 Finals 5

31

Paul Rebeschini

Games 11 Finals 0

Eleni Glouftsis

Games 40 Finals 0

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What I’m thinking with Ashley Browne

Calling time on a stellar career After three decades as football’s pre-eminent commentator, Bruce McAvaney is standing aside to concentrate on the Olympics and horse racing.

B

ruce McAvaney sits comfortably in the group of world-class sports broadcasters.

Think Jim Nantz at Augusta.

Al Michaels on the NFL. Martin Tyler at the soccer. Jim Maxwell at the cricket. Voices of authority, all of them, without having played the game at any professional level.

McAvaney might even have them covered. Never content to restrict himself to one sport, he excelled at horse racing and the Olympics, especially track and field when he worked for Channel Ten in the 1980s.

He didn’t just broadcast those sports, he informed and educated the viewer at the same time.

He followed the Olympics from Ten to Seven in 1990, but Seven wasn’t about to warehouse him.

He became an instrumental part of the AFL coverage from the very start, bringing the same trademark knowledge, passion and excitement to the footy with him.

He brought a level of journalism and attention to detail that sports viewers were unaccustomed to, at least in this country.

It took some time, too long in fact, for Seven to pair them together, but once he and Dennis Cometti became a tandem on Friday nights

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WORLD CLASS: Commentator Bruce McAvaney called 20 Grand Finals and hosted 21 Brownlow Medal counts.

and Grand Finals, AFL fans were truly spoilt.

Everyone has their favourite McAvaney commentary moment and news of his retirement from footy broadcasting a few weeks ago sparked a flood of memories and tributes across social media.

There were so many to choose from. An Essendon-Richmond game from the 1990s has had a lot of airplay. Wayne Carey at his regal best at around the same time.

Bulldogs fans love his call at the end of 2016. The same for Richmond fans the following year (“It’s Tiger Time!”).

And Cyril Rioli. The excitement levels went up that bit more when he did something ‘special’ on a Friday night.

Mine was from his first year of commentary in 1990.

When he crossed to Seven and joined the AFL team there, he promised he’d do the work and bring the professionalism that marked his horse racing and Olympics work to his footy calling. And he did.

It was a late-season Sunday game at the MCG between Footscray and Collingwood. The Bulldogs were resurgent, having been nearly merged out of existence the year before, while the Magpies were on their way to a drought-breaking flag.

This one was a beauty and try as they might, the Pies could not put their opponents away.

They led by a point with three minutes to go when the Dogs

Excitement levels went up that bit more when Cyril did something ‘special’ on a Friday night

rebounded the ball from half-back and into the hands of the graceful Leon Cameron. He passed to Stephen Kolyniuk, who marked on the forward flank, but too far out from goal.

“Still a chance Footscray.

Kolyniuk. Will he take Wright on?

Yes he does! I thought he would. One bounce. Another bounce. Left foot.

Look at this. A maaaarvellous kick.

He’s put them in front! It’s as good as you’ll ever see!”

It was the perfect call and it sounded even better against the backdrop of 30,000 delirious Footscray fans losing their minds.

But it gave a glimpse of what McAvaney the football commentator would become – studious, prepared, excitable and able to find the right words when needed.

If he was calling a game, you knew it would be appointment viewing.

It is fitting that McAvaney will continue to work across the Olympics and the races. When pressed, he’d probably admit they are his favourites.

But calling footy, and especially the Grand Final, meant the world to him and you could tell he was proud as punch when he interviewed another broadcasting legend, the NBC’s Bob Costas, at the MCG in the moments before the 2000 Grand Final.

McAvaney called 20 Grand Finals and hosted 21 Brownlow Medal counts.

His retirement leaves Tim Lane as the last of the cross-generational AFL commentary giants. @hashbrowne

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