Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy reveals his 35 biggest stories of the 2023 AFL season
Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy has named his 35 biggest stories of the 2023 AFL season to this point.
From the shock mid-season retirement of Damien Hardwick to the start of the Tasmanian aspect and Carlton’s up and down season, listed here are Healy’s biggest stories as revealed on SEN Sportsday.
1 – The shock retirement of Damien Hardwick after three flags at Richmond
2 – The purpose umpire debacle in Adelaide which robbed the Crows of finals
3 – The start of the Tasmanian AFL aspect
4 – The collapse of the Hawthorn investigation by the AFL with such little end result
5 – The momentary retirement of Alastair Clarkson and the return of Brett Ratten
6 – The leaking about the inevitable sacking of Stuart Dew
7 – West Coast’s horror season
8 – The appointment of Andrew Dillon as the AFL’s CEO
9 – Carlton’s fall and rise once more
10 – The Ken Hinkley untenable declare and Port’s 13-game win streak
11 – The failure of the Canines to play finals and the stress on their soccer division
12 – The appointment of Damien Hardwick as Gold Coast coach
13 – Lance Franklin’s retirement
14 – The shape of second-year phenom Nick Daicos
15 – The inaugural Collect Spherical
16 – The ever-changing story surrounding Brodie Grundy at Melbourne
17 – The crack down on harmful tackles
18 – Adam Kingsley’s rookie teaching season with GWS
19 – The Aliir Aliir concussion incident at Port Adelaide
20 – Laura Kane’s appointment as the AFL’s normal supervisor of soccer
21 – West Coast beating the Canines in the upset of the century
22 – Hawthorn’s aggressive season and the emergence of Sam Mitchell as a coach
23 – The shape of veteran Taylor Walker
24 – The return of huge baggage of objectives together with 10 for Curnow and Walker and 9 for Larkey
25 – The affect of Ross Lyon in his first season again at St Kilda
26 – Essendon’s finish of season collapse
27 – The lights going out at the Gabba between Brisbane and Melbourne
28 – The affect of this 12 months’s Rising Star crop
29 – The protracted and bitter ongoing CBA negotiation
30 – The season-long debate on who the finest participant in the recreation is
31 – Clayton Oliver’s hamstring harm
32 – Jack Ziebell being coward punched on the evening of his retirement
33 – The interchange fiasco at Marvel which value North Melbourne and ended up handing Sydney a finals end
34 – The evenness of the competitors
35 – The continued prolific battles between Kane Cornes and North Melbourne and Tarryn Thomas, West Coast, Richmond and extra!
