AFL Power List: Round 10 (or, and then there were… well the same as last week really)

Ok, last week it was the Cats, Saints, Bulldogs and Hawks looking safe. This week I’ll drop the Hawks from that list. Yeah they’ll probably make it, but they were beaten pretty easily by the Crows and so they can go into the list fighting for the 8. But the Kangaroos are gone.

So that’s keeps it at eight teams but now they’re fighting for five spots: Hawks, Carlton, Lions, Port, Pies, Crows, Swans and the Bombers.

Carlton and the Lions are the only ones of the eight teams with a percentage over 100, and they play each other this week. The Crows and Bombers have the worst percentage of the eight teams, and they play each other this week. So expect to hear the phrase “8 point game” mentioned a few times.

	Rank	LW	Team	Record	Comment
	1	1 ↔	Geelong	10-0	Easy. The Cats now have the Eagles and Fremantle in Perth, and Port at home before meeting the Saints.
	2	2↔	St Kilda	10-0	After the training drill against the Demons, the Saints now get to play the toothless Kangaroos.
	3	3↔	Bulldogs	6-4	The Bulldogs are really starting to look like winners.
	4	5↑	Carlton	5-5	A good return to form, but now they play an in form Brisbane team in Brisbane.
	5	7↑	Brisbane	5-5	The Lions did it comfortably in the end; Carlton this week will tell us a lot.
	6	4↓	Hawthorn	5-5	Take away Rioli and the Hawks would have been truly embarrassed against the Crows. Their next 3 weeks of Sydney, Brisbane (in Tassie) and the Eagles, should right the ship.
	7	8↑	Collingwood	5-5	The Pies were slow to start, but 9 in a row gave them the win. They now play Melbourne before getting the week off (or should I say they now have two weeks off).
	8	10↑	Adelaide	5-5	The Crows first half was as good as I’ve seen them play for 3 years, but they’ve only won two 3rd quarters all year (only Melbourne has won less). Walker has the biggest “upside” of any first year player going around at the moment.
	9	6↓	Port Adelaide	5-5	Before the game, the Fox commentators told Mark Williams that Port had won every game in which they had won the first quarter. How’s that for a nice jinx.
	10	9↓	Sydney	5-5	The Swans looked good in the first 15 minutes. Then the cold Canberra weather had them frozen.
	11	11↔	Essendon	5-5	After beating the Tigers last week, the Bombers played a real footy team this week. The result wasn’t pretty.
	12	12↔	North Melbourne	4-6	The Roos next 4 games: Saints, Crows (in Adelaide), Swans (in Sydney), Bulldogs, and Hawks (in Tassie). Anyone want to bet they won’t be 4-10?
	13	13↔	Fremantle	3-7	Repeat after me: Don’t ever tip the Dockers, don’t ever tip the Dockers.
	14	14↔	West Coast	3-7	The good news – they’re home this week. The bad news – it’s against Geelong
	15	15↔	Richmond	2-8	The Tiger’s “brave win” will seem a long time ago when they go up against a rampant Bulldogs.
	16	16↔	Melbourne	1-9	Big game this week – traditional rivals… blah blah. Let’s be honest Pies-Melbourne hasn’t meant anything since the 1950s.