AFL LIVE updates: Kangaroos hope for breakthrough win; Crows keen to atone

For the Blues and Cats, this could beryllium a expansive last preview. The Cats person been superb astatine either extremity of the ground, and person intelligibly benefited from sending players into country earlier the extremity of past season, and besides an extended pre-season, aft their bid for back-to-back flags fell apart.

Here’s a large question - volition the Blues beryllium capable to curb Tom Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron?

The Blues boast extent they haven’t had successful decades, and that’s been connected amusement with a agelong wounded list, predominantly due to the fact that of brushed tissues. Patrick Cripps and Sam Walsh surely were among the Brownlow Medal votes past play against Greater Western Sydney, and volition look to beryllium ascendant erstwhile again today.

The Crows and Kangaroos person conscionable the 1 triumph betwixt them, the erstwhile a large disappointment, the second having expected to struggle, but possibly not to the grade we person seen. The Crows are smarting aft allowing the Bombers to tempest location and assertion a three-point triumph successful arguable circumstances, that being the Sam Draper dive, portion the Kangaroos person been picked isolated aft a woeful nonaccomplishment to Hawthorn past Sunday.

This masthead’s draught adept Marc McGowan detailed the Kangaroos’ woes successful this column.