It certainly does, but an AFL player having a few drinks for 2 weeks in the year is unlikely to have any longterm effects. Much less risk than they're taking with potential concussions during the season in any case.
Another difference as well is the venue, we have to travel to sydney this time. Still think we can win but it's something like 75:25 in the swans favour.
It's funny that despite it feeling like Charlie is down in form, he's still 2nd in the Coleman and pulled out match-winning quarters against GWS and Freo. It's a good problem to have, huge amount of upside for us if he can lift to the level we know he's capable of.
It won't happen. To get to 100 we'd need to focus on Curnow even more than the last 2 years, which would make the team perform worse and cause us to miss the finals, so then there wouldn't be enough games to get to the 100 anyway. It's a catch-22. And if we play better and make finals again it...