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Blow for Fyfe's Brownlow hopes
Fremantle star Nathan Fyfe is in danger of missing Friday night's grand final rematch against Hawthorn after he was offered a two-match suspension for rough conduct, while Jarrad Waite was booked for staging. READ MORE

Crows must stop being selfish
Adelaide veteran Brent Reilly says the Crows must become better team players as they deal with a winless start to the AFL season.
The Crows were thumped by 55 points against Port Adelaide on Saturday and face another winless side Sydney this weekend.
"We just need to start playing for one another," Reilly said on Monday.
"We need to start backing each other in ... supporting each other, blocking, helping each other out - running to areas where you might not get the ball but someone else might get free.
"That is the selfless running, the selfless player, that we need to start doing for another."

Key Bomber hurts hammy
Essendon's Courtenay Dempsey is set for more time on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring injury in the VFL on Saturday.
The defender will have scans on Monday to determine the severity of the injury and could miss more weeks after an already interrupted pre-season.
Dempsey is normally an automatic selection in the Bombers' AFL team.


Courtenay Dempsey faces more time on the sidelines. Photo: Getty

No shame in North's ugly win
The first half of North Melbourne's win over the Western Bulldogs won't make any highlight reels, but coach Brad Scott was nonetheless satisfied.
It was a pristine autumn day in Melbourne but the Kangas and Dogs could only manage four goals between them in the first half under the Etihad Stadium roof.
"What was lacking today was pretty easily fixable, but at the core it was pretty good," Scott said of Sunday's win.
"Regardless of how the game looked, I was pretty proud of our boys today."

Eagles have not proven anything yet
West Coast coach Adam Simpson says his team is yet to be tested fully this season after starting with two easy wins.
Simpson does not want his Eagles to get ahead of themselves after beating the Western Bulldogs by 65 points and then walloping Melbourne at the MCG on Sunday.
"We're obviously happy with the scoreboard result, but we're still not quite where we want to be with what we've been working on over summer," Simpson said.
"I don't want to sound disrespectful to Melbourne or the Bulldogs, but there are still things that we review that aren't where we want to be.
"Maybe that's just striving for perfection, but it's not like we can't play any better.
"We haven't really been thrown in the deep end or tested yet - I'm sure that's coming."

Roos flabbergasted by Dees loss
Melbourne coach Paul Roos has put his players on notice, saying he's compiling a dossier on each member of his squad after witnessing the Demons slump to a 93-point thrashing by West Coast on Sunday. The loss was the worst in Roos' career – his previous highest was 73 points – and the former Sydney coach couldn't believe the number of fundamental errors made. "If you get hold of the ball and you fumble it all the time, if you can't make tackles, they're the most basic things in footy. Today we were just really poor at it," Roos told reporters. READ MORE


Jack Watts and the Demons were a dejected bunch after Sunday's hammering. Photo: Getty (Michael Dodge)

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