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Around the country: Giants skipper returns, Tiger reported, young Pie could be 8th debutant
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2021-07-05T12:04+10:00
There was plenty of action across the state leagues for your AFL sides this weekend.
There were players returning from injury, young guns standing up and dominant performances across the board, highlighted by the returns of Stephen Coniglio and Jesse Hogan for GWS and Zak Butters for Port Adelaide.
The WAFL did not run due to COVID-19 restrictions in Western Australia.
Here’s some of our takeaways:
Promising signs for Port
Port Adelaide edged closer to the top five by beating Central District by nine points in a low-scoring affair.
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Unlike some, I m not prepared to write them off totally yet. I think even the best sides now are perhaps more prone to some particularly bad days, albeit not the four stinkers the Saints have turned in thus far.
But there is a disturbing similarity starting to emerge for St Kilda, and it s with the Brisbane team which made finals in 2009. They promptly loaded up on senior trade-ins from other clubs, only to nosedive into a mediocrity from which it didn t emerge for nearly a decade.
Like the Saints last year, the Lions managed to win an elimination final, before being found well short of the mark in a semifinal loss. Still, the club was understandably optimistic about the future.