The Race for the Flag in Squiggly Lines – Round 9

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The top 8 teams bunched up a little more, just to keep things interesting. There really isn’t a whole lot of insight you can get from the squiggle at the moment, other than that it’s even.

Eight teams could plausibly shift into firm flag favouritism from here, but none has really seized it yet.

Squiggle still likes West Coast, who had a good week despite the underwhelming win, since it was so bad for Geelong and Hawthorn.

Also good for North, who finally delivered a thumping win. And Sydney, who squiggled toward a very Sydney-like position, while knocking Hawthorn down to a very un-Hawthorn-like one. 55 points! It used to be shocking when the Hawks were kept under 100.

Richmond complete the hairpin turn, just like they did at the same time in 2015. If they could have a season where they don’t piss away the first 7 weeks, that would be good.

And probably a slightly depressing week for Essendon, Carlton, Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Fremantle, who did badly while potential train wrecks in Collingwood, Melbourne, St. Kilda, and Richmond got better.

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