In a game seemingly obsessed with making new rules, there is one old footy law that is never questioned.

Namely, that when an ageing, legendary player opts to top up his superannuation at a different club, he does so on the understanding that he will do nothing that might be included on his career show-reel.

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Who remembers Doug Hawkins at Fitzroy, or Dermott Brereton as a Magpie or Swan? Nobody, which is how it should be. Collingwood great Peter McKenna took a speccy in a Carlton jumper, the footage of which never looks right.

The National Gallery of Victoria’s big signing of 2018 is a retrospective show of MC Escher’s graphic optical trickery.

Last weekend Luke Hodge troubled football romantics by performing a starring role in his new club’s thumping win against his old side. Play well at Brisbane Hodgey, but remember the world will always see you as a Hawthorn great.