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.

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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.