One thing that I always enjoy about indigenous round is the new lot of jumpers; which often feature some stunning artwork. This season's selection is no exception and it's hard to work out a personal favourite. For me, it's possibly the effort from GWS, while the Adelaide one continues their tradition of coming up with something excellent every year, but they're possibly overshadowed by the striking design of their neighbour, Port. I also like the dark blue Melbourne jumper, but I'm not that keen on the baby blue version. And on colours, the St Kilda jumper is an interesting throwback to their World War I colour scheme of red, black and yellow: while the shades of yellow ochre and brown ochre certainly is an improvement on Hawthorn's traditional mustard and turd. Anyway, I'm sure most people will have different favourites.
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And on the matches, I'll just say, that while I can see the reasoning of people who say that our season is done, I don't really agree. I mean, we're 3 and 6, but back in 2017 we were 0/6 and still made the finals. So, foolishly optimistic me, is thinking that if we win our next two games against the equally struggling North and Carlton, we then go to the bye at 5/6. Then, assuming that we suffered no significant injuries in those wins, we should get a few troops back during the bye, and then, who knows. Of course, a premiership win is unlikely after barely squeezing into the eight, but I'm not going to give up on our cripple's crusade just yet. Anyway, the reason why I mentioned that, is that our position tends to change my preference on which teams that I might want to see win. That is, I may start to prefer wins for teams at the top of the table, over teams that we will have to climb over to reach the eight. For instance, I probably now want the Lions to beat the Suns, when usually it would be the other way round. Strangely, I don't think there's another game this round that I can also use to demonstrate that point, so I'll just finish by saying, that I think tonight's clash between Port and Melbourne should be an excellent and intense game, while Hawthorn and West Coast will not.
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