The 2011 Cats were the oldest Premiers and the 2010 Magpies the youngest. But age and experience are not the same thing…
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Free kick Bulldogs!
The 2016 Bulldogs have the largest free kick differential after seven games played of any team in the AFL era.
DockerWatch: The Stillbadenning
In all of AFL/VFL history, no reigning minor premier had ever lost their first seven games of the season, until the 2016 Dockers wrote their names into the record books.
Recap of our latest posts
Did you miss any of our five posts in the past week? Catch up!
How early is the top eight usually set?
Is the top eight already set? Maybe, but it usually isn’t after round six.
Are crowds at record highs for this stage of the season?
Tonight on AFL 360, Gillon McLachlan was talking about the gloriousness of the football so far in 2016 when he said that “more people have gone to the football for the first six weeks of the season in the history of the VFL/AFL… more people than ever before.” Is he right?
read more Are crowds at record highs for this stage of the season?
Is your club’s performance in 2016 driven by old campaigners or rising stars?
Is your club’s performance in 2016 driven by old campaigners or rising stars?
read more Is your club’s performance in 2016 driven by old campaigners or rising stars?
Richmond’s start is among the worst for a team that finished top 5 the previous year
Richmond’s start to the year isn’t just garden-variety bad, it’s among the worst in the modern era.
read more Richmond’s start is among the worst for a team that finished top 5 the previous year
How meaningful is a team’s record at this point of the season?
How meaningful is a team’s record at this point of the season?
read more How meaningful is a team’s record at this point of the season?
Recap of our first week
We’ve written 12 posts in our first week. Here are links to them all, in case you missed them.