Opinion

Can Port Adelaide break an unlikely AFL premiership hoodoo?

Rohan Connolly
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:16am, first published September 9 2020 - 4:30pm
Port Adelaide has held the top spot on the AFL ladder every single week of season 2020. Photo: Mark Brake/Getty Images
Port Adelaide has held the top spot on the AFL ladder every single week of season 2020. Photo: Mark Brake/Getty Images

One of the oddities of recent AFL seasons has been that while teams need to keep winning regularly to reach a finals campaign in a position of strength, the numbers, if not logic, suggest it doesn't pay to win too frequently.

Rohan Connolly

Rohan Connolly is one of the most experienced and respected sporting journalists in the country, particularly passionate about football, and with a 40-year track record of observing it at close quarters in print, online, and on radio and TV.

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