W're a fortnight into the AFL season and two of the top five spots of the ladder are taken up by the undefeated...GWS and the Western Bulldogs? Meanwhile, Port Adelaide and Geelong are still chasing their first wins. What the hell is going on here?
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Our crack (pot) panel reassembles to run the rule over all the happenings from round two.
The panel:
Paul Entwistle (Rant merchant extraordinaire); David Prestipino (WAtoday wine and beer writer); Brendan Foster (WAtoday's resident grumpy old man), Steve Allen (Radio 6PR, the Interchange Podcast); Nick Alviani (Radio 6PR producer, paper waste tosser without parallel)
Vent-wistle:
1. West Coast's win on the weekend was nothing to be excited about and their fans should be worried about the derby this week.
2. Carlton can start planning its holidays for September and a pre-season under a new coach.
3. Adelaide will play finals football this year (barring injury)
Presti:
1. Essendon will play finals this year.
2. Gold Coast's results so far show that Guy McKenna could coach.
3. Eddie McGuire is the most biased commentator against non-Victorian teams.
Fossie:
1. Long-suffering Richmond fans are in for another emotional roller coaster in 2015, with the Tigers back to their inconsistent best.
2. West Coast forward Josh Kennedy may have lost his twinkle-toed, Fred Flintstone-style run up, but he remains one of the most damaging players in AFL when on song. Shame he doesn't do it against top four sides.
3. The Cats aren't cooked yet, but the Cattery will need a serious clean out by the end of the season if the players keep serving up the kind of crap they have so far against Hawthorn and Fremantle.
Steve-o:
1. Luke Beveridge has turned the Western Bulldogs into a very watchable side and completely ruined my wooden spoon prediction.
2. Nat Fyfe is better again. He tore Geelong apart.
3. Hawthorn doesn't often lose to non-finalists (Richmond in 2012 when the Tigers finished ninth). So Essendon fans have good reason to hope.
Nick:
1. Levi Casboult obviously didn't spend the summer working on his goal kicking.
2. Marcus Bontempelli is showing no signs of the second year blues. He's up to 20 tackles already this season.
3. Thanks to Channel Seven's relentless plugging of Presto, I now know what Basil Zempalis' favourite movie is. For anyone wondering, it's Titanic.
