Although only 12 teams played this weekend it was probably one of the most intense round of games we have seen this weekend with comebacks, tight games, big hits by players, stingrays and trams, and the first official interchange stuff up by St Kilda.

Hawthorn defeated West Coast by 57 points

John Worsfold is happy with a 60 point loss? Now that is unacceptable imo! Yes the Hawks are probably a 10 goal better side but should you be happy? No way! It is good to see someone in the Eagles camp who has put the club on notice. Expect Seaby, Staker, Graham, Rosa and a few others on the trade table. Question is would your club want any of them? Staker to Sydney?

Hawks while they would be happy to be in the top 3 with only two losses, they would not be happy with several injuries concerns with Crawford, Dew and Lewis and not to mention Buddy who is looking likely he will lose the plot sooner than later.

Carlton defeated Richmond by 30 points

Richmond drew a line in the sand for this game and then forgot to step over the line and fell asleep and allowed Carlton to out run them in the second half. What makes this win even more magnificent for Carlton was that Judd did not play and they still managed to win. They are fit and full of confidence and they remain a smoky for the top eight with Kangaroos and Brisbane playing shaky football.

Every football fan’s thoughts are with Graham Polak at the moment, who is from the same town as I originally came from, while he recovers from his coma.

St Kilda defeated Kangaroos by 25 points

West Coast was the first team to be docked by the new interchange rule however St Kilda had the first ‘correct’ interchange offense on the weekend and it almost could have been the biggest news of the weekend when the goal put Kangaroos back in front. However what is not normally associated with St Kilda they showed grit and determination and managed to win the game.

Bulldogs defeated Port Adelaide by 54 points

Aker pulled the handstand out again after being told to keep it to himself. Bulldogs are officially on the top of the ladder for 7 days until next weekend when Geelong play. At the moment everything is going the Bulldogs way and lets hope for their sake that the fingers of Griffen and Welsh will recover after a week off. What is even better for the Bulldogs is that their skipper Johnson is hitting some form after a poor start of the year.

The one highlight for Port Adelaide was Rodan’s rushed point of the year when he snapped beautifully a kick through the goals from the pocket. However after starting to celebrate, he realised that he was in the back pocket and not the forward pocket

Melbourne defeated Brisbane by 1point

Brisbane has kissed their top 6 chances goodbye after a poor run of form with a poor game against Bulldogs a few weeks ago and a poor loss against cellar dwellers Melbourne who are now challenging West Coast for the number one draft pick in the National Draft.

Brisbane while has the best key position player in Jonathon Brown is a lot like Buddy Franklin in the fact that they miss easy shots for goal. Gary Ablett, Dunstell, Lockett and Carey etc did not miss and for Brown and Buddy to be mentioned in the same breathe, they need to kick goals and not points.

Essendon defeated Fremantle by 4 points

Again the same thing applied to Pavlich, while he kicked 6 goals including 3 in the last quarter, it should have been 4 with his miss when the scores were drawn. Essendon and Fremantle both played brave with key injuries to several players (Hayden, Fletcher, Crowley etc) but Essendons pace of Jedda, Lovett etc was the difference along with the fact that Essendon are only carrying Pevrill while Fremantle were carrying several players in Dunn, Carr and Bell on the weekend.