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AFL Round 16 Preview – North Melbourne v Hawthorn

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 North Melbourne v Hawthorn

Etihad Stadium, Friday July 4, 7:50pm AEST

The opening game of Round 16 sees a clash of two teams who couldn’t have had more contrasting results last weekend, top of the ladder Hawthorn versus 7th placed North Melbourne.

The Hawks come off a strong win over the Gold Coast Suns at Aurora Stadium. In a game that was competitive for much of the first half the Hawks put their foot on the gas just before half time and blew the Suns away, scoring 57 points straight without the Suns hitting the scoreboard at one point. The only negative to come out of the game was yet another serious hamstring injury to star small forward Cyril Rioli, who looks set to miss at least the next 2 months.

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AFL Round 15 Preview – Hawthorn Vs Gold Coast #AFLHawksSuns

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Saturday afternoon sees Hawthorn taking on the Gold Coast Suns at Aurora Stadium in Tasmania.  The 2nd on the ladder Hawks are coming off a strong win over Collingwood, their 10th for the season.

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AFL Match Review – Round 14 Essendon Vs Adelaide

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Saturday, June 21 at Etihad Stadium
Essendon 15.11 (101) Defeated Adelaide 14.8 (92)

A withering 7 goal first quarter burst was enough to help Essendon overcome a dogged Adelaide outfit in front of just under 31,000 people at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night. The exceptional start – the Bombers had kicked 7 goals straight to the Crows 2.6 by quarter time – meant the Bombers would lead from start to finish, though they wouldn’t have it all their own way with the Crows pegging that early advantage back to just 9 points by the final siren.

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AFL Match Preview – Round 14 Essendon Vs Adelaide

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Saturday, June 21 at Etihad Stadium, 7.40pm (AEST)

Saturday night at Etihad this week sees the stumbling Bombers come up against a revitalized Adelaide Crows.

The Bombers are coming off a disastrous loss against Melbourne in a game they dominated in every way, other than on the scoreboard when the final siren rang. Most tellingly they had almost double the amount of inside 50′s of the Demons, along with 9 more scoring shots, but lost by a point. Get the feeling goalkicking practice would have been high on the agenda at Tullamarine this week.

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Andrew Demetriou : A Bastion of integrity?

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Not for the first time in the past 16 months there’s something smelly following Andrew Demetriou.

The former CEO of the AFL, who finished his highly successful yet sometimes tumultuous 11 year tenure in the highest profile job in Australian sport last Wednesday, is widely expected to take up the kind of cosy board position with a high profile company that most former CEO’s seem to semi retire to these days.

Yesterday however courtesy of Caroline Wilson at The Age came the somewhat surprising announcement that Demetriou would be joining the board of local Sports Marketing company The Bastion Group.

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