In a year of setbacks and letdowns, a dazzling quartet of matches gave the code a welcome shot of adrenalin
Paradoxically finals footy can engender this restrained approach, the pressures associated with a fear of failure cultivating the want to “win ugly” instead of “lose pretty”. Not so in week one of the 2020 finals series. The competition’s best eight teams can take a bow for producing four contests that surpassed expectations. And then some. The lost aesthetic has been found. Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. It is alive and well.
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