Tim Miller

4 days ago | theroar.com.au | Tim Miller

Round 9 is done, and I feel like with every passing week, we learn less about the season we’re having. GWS are back in business in stunning style, while Geelong and Brisbane, the big winners out of last week, fell off their perch. Collingwood are red-hot regardless of who they put out on the park, Richmond have as many wins in the first two months of the year as we thought they’d have all season, and Gold Coast have lurched back to the ‘good’ side of the Are-they-actually-good-o-meter.

6 days ago | theroar.com.au | Tim Miller

Carlton fans would have been forgiven for thinking they’d seen this movie before. A white-hot start featuring slick ball movement, a dominant midfield and perfectly weighted passes to leading forwards. A half-time lead to reflect it. And then, slowly but surely, a wresting away of control until, sometime in the last quarter, the Blues find themselves faced with an opponent seemingly running all over the top of them.

1 week ago | theroar.com.au | Tim Miller

Collingwood’s tally of 34 inside 50s on Thursday night against Fremantle is the equal second-lowest by any team this year. It’s the same amount as the Dockers had last week against St Kilda on the way to five goals, eight scoring shots and the scorn of the footy world all week. That’s 34 chances for a forward line without its best two talls in Brody Mihocek and Daniel McStay, with delivery from someone either than Scott Pendlebury or Jordan De Goey.

1 week ago | theroar.com.au | Tim Miller

The AFL might be the VFL in disguise, but there’s one game that never fails to stop the nation – the rivalry to end all footy rivalries. That’s right – North Melbourne and Brisbane at Ninja Stadium in Hobart! Oh and there’s also a Showdown this week. Aside from that aforementioned blockbuster in Tasmania, this week is a seriously difficult one for us tipsters – mostly because two of the teams who should be easybeats in Richmond and West Coast are facing each other.

1 week ago | theroar.com.au | Tim Miller

The reigning premiers are on top of the ladder, the previous year’s champions sit second, and West Coast, North Melbourne and Richmond make up the bottom three. Brisbane rule Queensland, Sydney are champions in New South Wales, Max Gawn is the world’s best ruckman, Fremantle are untrustworthy, Marcus Bontempelli is remarkable, and James Sicily got in a fight. We’ve seen this movie before, haven’t we?