The Sir Doug Nicholls Round is here! With it will come all sorts of Indigenous pride, great jumpers, and a round that wastes no time getting interesting, with short-rest Carlton and Sydney starting things off. Can the Swans take advantage of Harry McKay's absence, or will the midfields cancel each other out? The next day you've got Geelong having more to prove at home than visiting Port, as hard as that may be to believe with how the Power opened the campaign, as well as the Bulldogs and Suns squaring off in a fixture that has suddenly become ridiculously compelling. North with a replenished ruck and renamed Narrm square off at the Docklands before Adelaide — with Riley Thilthorpe in tow! — host St Kilda, and Dreamtime returns to the 'G with Richmond and Essendon, though without a couple players we would've loved to see in action. Sunday sees the most up-in-the-air game of the round as Mark McVeigh begins his GIANTS caretaker stint against the Eagles. Hawthorn hosts Brisbane in Launceston, and the round closer pits the Dockers against the Pies as both hope to rebound from humiliating Round 9 defeats.
