While days at the beach, ice creams and AFLW football are currently ruling the roost, the 2022 AFL season is fast approaching.
And with the first set of pre-season practice matches set to take place in a month's time, the sole goal of the many names currently sweating it out at clubland has just entered their horizon.
Although only eight teams will eventually play finals before a single side claims the cup in September, there are a plethora of headlines that are set to be raised across the course of the marathon campaign.
As the recommencement of the season's roller coaster is yet to begin after coming to halt in Perth last year, it may seem both presumptuous and foolhardy to try and write our leads so far in advance.
However, it hasn't stopped us from giving it our best shot.
So, before the Sherrin hits the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground to set the latest AFL schedule in motion, we gazed into our crystal ball to provide you with the 10 headlines you are sure to read before the season's final siren.
3. Late-season Power outages still on agendaÂ
After dropping a second successive home preliminary final last year, 2008 Brownlow medallist Adam Cooney pulled no punches in his assessment of Port Adelaide.
While the former Bulldog and Bombers' tag of 'chokers' will have riled those in and around Alberton, the limp performance pulled out by Ken Hinkley's formerly bright sparks will have insenced them even more.
Across the course of their past pair of seasons, 'The Pear' have produced an average of 76-points each week while conceeding just 59.5.
However, when it is their encounters at the year's penultimate hurdle that are placed under the microscope, these means either dip to 42.5 on the board or jump to 81 against.
This monumental shift can only mean two things; either their roster is still yet to peak or an array of Port players suffer from crippling cases of performance anxiety.
Although the Power could well surge this September and find a friend for their premiership cup won in 2004, given many of have recently been bitten twice by their ineptness, you can understand why we are also thrice shy in backing them.
