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SOPHIE GANNON: The Blues need to make some tough calls and offloading their biggest star to the Fremantle Dockers should be on the table as one of them.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The top order is a mess and there is one very simple fix if Steve Smith is willing to do the right thing.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: Daley could have rolled the dice instead of opting for an unchanged squad, while the Maroons have gone back to the future.

GEORGIE PARKER: It’s not even worth getting too fired up about, but yet again a champion of the game has shown just how of touch they really are.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: The Maroons were good in game two, but the flood of penalties they received played a bigger role than any player.

MICK MALTHOUSE: Lance Franklin was a great player, but he really has some nerve calling for Carlton to sack Michael Voss ‘ASAP’.

RICHO’S TOP: The Blues coach is under a lot of pressure so will a win tonight against Port silence the naysayers?

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The changes made have not gone far enough as the poor batting performance overnight has proven. The selectors have missed a golden opportunity to blood more of the next generation.

KIERSTEN DUKE: It’s not something often talked about when women compete, but now one club is taking a pro-active approach to supporting their NRLW team.

JACKSON BARRETT: Five months out from the first Ashes Test, there are just two players with undeniable claims to their spots in the starting XI.

GEORGIE PARKER: How teams source their players is always hotly debated, but this mechanism is working just fine so the AFL should not give in to the powerful voices in Melbourne.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: Facing a heartbreaking decision to quit the game early due to concussion is a decision I am glad I never had to make.

JUSTIN LANGER: I never knew this about ‘The Greatest’ until I discovered a great boxing program that is combating the effects of Parkinson’s Disease.

RICHO’S TOP 10: Benching the West Coast skipper - if he overcomes his injury - for the rest of the season makes zero sense, here’s why.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: I am proud Queenslander but this is how I think the Maroons coach should have reacted to being called a ‘grub’.