It’s the time of year when sides whose final positions are secure can lose their edge and those whose players are suddenly striving for next year’s contract try that bit harder. Upsets occur. The AFL doesn’t have much space in its top eight, but apart from Richmond nobody really looks convincing. Their game this week …

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Is there a football game on somewhere, in some code, tonight? I can’t keep up. Anyway, here’s some tips. NRL (last round 4/4; season tally 75/132) Canterbury Cronulla Brisbane Gold Coast Souths Saint George Melbourne Easts AFL (last round 5/9; season tally 101/144) Richmond North Melbourne Sydney Essendon Adelaide Geelong Hawthorn West Coast Port Adelaide

Well, Queensland won the final State Of Origin game demonstrating that: there is never a huge gulf between QLD and NSW; a side that wins the first two games (and the series) has some sort of let-down in the third game; that Daly Cherry-Evans has been a very unlucky victim of team balance selection choices, …

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