Main headlines will be in September. Front pages will be dominated by a big share market crash while the back pages will be dominated by the following:
Director of coaching fiasco as Buckley quits - Deja vu for Eddie:
Collingwood playing poorly in the first 7 weeks of the season and then Eddie plans to appoint assistant coach Scott Burns as new coach at the end of the season and appoint Buckley as new director of coaching to lessen the pain of the sacking. Collingwood then start finding good form with minimal injuries and finish 6th at the end of the season, winning 1 final. Buckley, regretting agreeing on the planned changes earlier in the season, decides he no longer wants the director of coaching job and quits the club.
Bontempelli wins the Brownlow medal.
Sydney win an epic grand final, defeating GWS by under a goal.