The start of a new year always prompts reflections and meditations on the past 12 months, and if there's any sport in Australia that needs to do some soul-searching as it kicks off one of the most important years in its life, it's football.
Having ended 2022 on an impossibly sour note, the game now finds itself needing to make some decisions about where it wants to go as 2023 begins.
Here's a look back at the year that was, and the year that could be.
