ANALYSIS: Here are the questions to be answered in the 2019 AFL season
This time it's real. Has to be. The Swans have avoided the dreaded reset for nearly a decade — and if you count it up they have now made the finals an astonishing 15 out of the past 16 seasons.The departures of Dan Hannebery, Gary Rohan and Nic Newman are a collective blow, and there is uncertainty about the Swans' group of plus-30s including Jarrad McVeigh, Heath Grundy, Nick Smith, Kieren Jack and Josh Kennedy. Even Buddy, as great as he is, has turned 32.
The consensus seems to be building that this is the year that Sydney hits the wall — but that's been said before, and the predictions rarely come true.Are the Brisbane Lions for real? Now, despite the return of Dayne Beams to Collingwood, everything seems rosier in Brisbane, with the sense there is a resurgence on the way.
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