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GWS, PORT ADELAIDE, HAWKS AND SWANS LEAD THE WAY IN ROUND ONE – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE GWS, PORT ADELAIDE, HAWKS AND SWANS LEAD THE WAY IN ROUND ONE BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE Get ready for another season that is supercharged with heart stopping action as the 2018 AFL competition has clearly shown after round one, and there is already every indication that it will be anyone’s premiership much like it has been over the past two years. Jumping out of the blocks and looking the goods this year are underachievers, Greater Western Sydney, Port Adelaide and reigning premiers Richmond who will have Geelong, Essendon, Hawthorn, Sydney and perhaps Adelaide and Carlton breathing down their necks. I mention the Blues because of their plucky opener against the reigning Premiers whom they gave a torrid time to before the arm wrestle petered out in the final quarter. While ...

It’s anyone’s flag as the Hawks tumble and the Swans soar to the top – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE It’s incredible what a few weeks can unravel in football mainly when the purists have decisively penciled in who will win the flag this season but are stumped when the favourites fall by the wayside in the last few rounds, throwing open a myriad of other scenarios. Hawthorn, three time champions over the past years and strongly tipped to make it a “Fourthorn’ as their diehard fans like to refer to it, have tumbled from top spot to fourth on percentage with a shock loss to last year’s losing Grand Finalist West Coast and suddenly appearing to show chinks in their amour, or are they just fencing before making that decisive final thrust? Time will tell if the opposition have worked out strategies to nullify the mighty Hawks but one ...