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Andrew McGarry

AFL storylines for 2023 — can Geelong win again, the return of Lyon and Clarkson, will Gawn/Grundy work at Melbourne, and more

AFL Geelong Cats Ross Lyon Alastair Clarkson Brodie Grundy Cats Max Gawn Melbourne Nat Fyfe Freo
Patrick Dangerfield will lead the Cats, while Ross Lyon and Alastair Clarkson have new teams and Nick Daicos will be a key for the Pies. (Getty Images)

Finally, it's here — after the off-season and then a small entree of preseason games and match simulations, the main course of the 2023 AFL season is set to start. 

Seven months, 18 teams and 207 games (including finals) lie ahead of us, from the start with Richmond-Carlton on Thursday to the meeting of a mystery pair of teams at the same MCG on September 30 to decide who will follow Geelong as the champions of the AFL.

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