***completed on the Sunday of round 1***
Premier: West Coast.
Runner-up: Sydney.
Wooden spoon: Essendon.
Moving up: Footscray, Geelong.
Set to fall: Hawthorn.
Brownlow Medal: Dangerfield.
Coleman Medal: Kennedy.
NAB AFL Rising Star: Heeney
Recruit of the year:Dangerfield.
Surprise All Australian:Stringer.
Headline you'll see: Bombers get smashed.
Headline you won't see: Bombers win
Coach under the pump: Hardwick & Buckley & B Scott
Ladder.
1. WEST COAST.
2. Sydney.
3. Geelong.
4. Footscray.
5. Fremantle.
6. North Melbourne.
7. Richmond.
8. Port Adelaide.
9. Hawthorn.
10. Adelaide.
11. GWS
12. Gold Coast.
13. Melbourne.
14. Collingwood.
15. St.Kilda.
16. Brisbane.
17. Carlton.
18. Essendon.