Same place, even better time

By Greg Baum
Updated April 5 2014 - 5:18pm, first published 12:40am

Different year, different teams, different occasion. There was a premiership flag at the MCG on Friday night, but it was 2013’s. But in the still of the MCG evening, the pennant hung limply, almost as if apologising for the intrusion. The ever-so-slightly fidgety disposition of the Hawthorn players as they lined up in the moment of its Melbourne unfurling said that that was last year's business, run and done. They were already well and truly on the 2014 case. As, soon, everyone would see.

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