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MOST POINTS CONCEDED

🔥 Richmond
🔥 Essendon
🔥 West Coast
🔥 Melbourne
🔥 St Kilda

MOST 100 & 120 SCORES P.G

🔥 Richmond
🔥 West Coast
🔥 Melbourne
🔥 Bulldogs
🔥 Geelong

DEFENDERS

🔥 West Coast, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Melbourne
❄️ Gold Coast, Port Adelaide

🥇 Lachie Whitfield (predicted top DEF this week)
Last week prediction: Zorko 79… ouch

The Dockers have the dream run approaching but so do a few other teams as well. I’m happy to look at Whitfield after he plays his two games in Adelaide, but at the same time expect him to be huge again this weekend.

MIDFIELDERS

🔥 Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle, Carlton
❄️ Sydney, St Kilda, Bulldogs

🥇 Andrew Brayshaw (predicted top MID this week)
Last week prediction: Dunkley 116

The Dockers play the #2 and #1 easiest teams over the coming two weeks (see the ranks below). It’s hard to see how Brayshaw and Serong don’t provide and instant ‘boost’ over this time in their scores.

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We all know that the colours allocated to a team reflect the points they give up. However, above is the breakdown and ‘rank’ of where these teams as positioned.

Richmond are easy… we get that, but it was interesting to see that the Suns give up more points in defence than the Tigers, as do Melbourne in the midfield (for now anway). Obviously, we only have limited 2025 data, but as it sits right now… this is how easy some teams are.

I’ve done the same for the ‘hard teams‘… so head HERE to get that wicked info.
FYI – error in the graphic above… DEF (Switch GCS and RICH)

TAG WATCH

The Tag Watch Scale has been added a new colour. “Light Red”… which is basically pink, and it indicates the ‘flags’ that might be approaching. Some of these teams hardly tag, but like we saw with Melbourne last week when they used Sparrow to run with Holmes… it could happen and that’s why it needs to be flagged.

Biggest tag concerns this week are…

James Jordon 🏷️ Nick Daicos – went to him last year and held him to 71!
Toby Bedford 🏷️Jack Sinclair – this could be a number of Saints but Sinclair is the front runner.
Marcus Windhager 🏷️GWS MID – could be Green, Callaghan or even Kelly who he went to last year.
Tom Sparrow 🏷️Zach Merrett – I doubt the Demons will do this… but it’s a chance.

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