season summary
hawks and dons dominate with the dons leading on 18 wins to 17. blues pies and a late resurgent lions round out the 5 with the roos falling from 1st to 11th only above saints on perecntage to avoid last.
finals summary
the lions run ended against the pies who also beat blues but it was clearly hawks v dons grand coming (dons won prelim by 133 a record for a final) and dons win their 13th in a classic from 23 down at 3/4 time by 4 goals.
interesting fitzroy
10th with 6 games to go won 6 striaght but lost the elim final.
hawthorn summary
always top two 17 wins just didn’t get the job done on the day.
premiers essendon
18 wins had a bit of luck but still got there.