Round 14 is over, and like most AFL teams, I’m limping through till the end of the bye rounds. This week’s column is a little bit shorter than most, which might have to do with a certain prominent northern states event happening later tonight. Hopefully, you enjoy this week’s talking points all the same. Geelong blow it after the bye… again This is a team whose only other defeat in 2019 has been by four points to a fellow top-four side, GWS. To put it in kind of a silly way, this weekend’s 11-point loss represents a 375 per cent increase on their total losing margin for season 2019, 14 rounds in. Just quickly: no credit should be taken away from Port here. Ken Hinkley was brave to swing the axe at the selection table and it paid off. They’re a reasonably good side who’ve added a great scalp and deserve to be very happy with themselves. Still, it’s hopefully not too reductionist to suggest that this one might really be as simple as Geelong still not knowing how to navigate the bye. And that’s something that should worry them in a season where nothing else so far really has…. Read full this story
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