This week, we take a look at Melbourne’s performance in Adelaide, Essendon’s win over St Kilda and the case of the curious Cat.
LeBron James led a star-spangled American basketball squad – dubbed the Redeem Team, a spin-off of the famed Dream Team – to Olympic gold in 2008 as they righted the wrongs of a failed campaign four years earlier.The 2021 premiers were supposed to become a dynasty after one of the most devastating second-half performances in a grand final in recent memory to put paid to the shell-shocked Western Bulldogs.
Out-of-contract, 30-something veterans Tom McDonald and Ben Brown were widely written off on season eve, with the former sent back to defence and the latter undergoing more knee surgery in January. Alex Neal-Bullen is guilty of nothing but being the game’s most underrated footballer, an elite in-game-runner, who had a miserable 2020 campaign – like many at the club – but has been hugely valuable since.
Late inclusion Harry Jones showed promising signs up forward and Jye Caldwell’s numbers do not tell the full story of how influential he was in the four-point triumph, including his pass to Jake Stringer for the match-winner. North considered Daniel Curtin at pick four last year, and another option was trading down to select Nate Caddy or Connor O’Sullivan, who went to Essendon and Geelong, respectively, at selections 10 and 11.
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