2025 Pre-Season Analysis
Here we are, as Queen once sung. Born to be Kings, the Princes of our Universe. The AFL season is a lot like the movie Highlander (1986). I don’t mean it in the way that there is a Scottish guy playing a Spaniard-named Egyptian fellow who is culturally Japanese, while the American-born Frenchman plays the Scottish guy trying to behead the American guy who is Russian…that would be too simple. I mean that “There Can Be Only One.” Except when it is a draw. But ultimately there really can be only one. Still with me? The off-season is almost at a close and what a ride it has been. The cricket tests against India were less than convivial but very engaging. Sinner lived up to his name but then was given a sentence so light that gravity couldn’t even capture it, and Trump was inaugurated heralding in an era of…I don’t know what. Sadly, we lost a few past champions of the game, all within a day of each other. The “Match Simula...