Stop the presses, the league has a radical new rule. And no, old mate Eddie McGuire isn't behind this one.
As of Thursday afternoon, every league club now has the ability to clone and select any one player currently on their list.
Obviously, we are yanking your chains, pulling your legs and having you on, but with a fortnight to go before finals, the prospect got us thinking: for those still in the race for the flag, if they could 'Dolly the Sheep' somebody in their locker room, just who would it be?
Naturally, for some premiership contenders, the answer is glaringly obvious. But for several of their contemporaries, a conclusion lies closer to the weeds.
From the bookies' favourite to the rank outsiders, here, in reverse ladder order, are the nine players the nine teams in mathematical contention for the 2023 flag would love two of.
Charlie Curnow's steadying mark behind the ball last Saturday afternoon saw the Coleman medallist's name thrown into the mix. However, we've locked in the Blues' most dependable defender instead.
Having lost just 11 per cent of his one-on-one contests across the course of the season's first 23 rounds, Weitering sticks to his man like Tarzan's grip. And with the Blues set to do battle against some of the game's best key forwards next month, who better to sure up things behind the ball than the bloke originally selected 11 picks ahead of Curnow?
After all, forwards may sell memberships but defenders win premierships.
