Who has the best moves in the AFL? Further, whose moves will have the biggest effect on this year’s finals series? In our special feature article The Final Say, we start with our cover man, Hawthorn’s Cyril Rioli, and go from there.

Looking across the NRL realm, we investigate the fullbacks who’ll likely have the biggest impact on the 2016 finals. No longer mere custodians, No.1s such as North Queensland’s Lachlan Coote are often the integral figures on the rugby league field. Don’t miss The Chosen Ones.

Rugby union more your flavour? We have you covered there, too. The path to a gold jumper doesn’t often involve a detour to Japan and a brush with natural disaster. But as you’ll discover in The Rock, for Wallaby stalwart Scott Fardy, it did.

In our annual look at the craziness that is the NFL’s offseason, we discover than even post-Jarryd Hayne, there is a stack of Aussie talent about to hit the gridiron in 2016-17. There’s also still a strong supply of loopy players, coaches and officials whose antics will keep the news cycle roaring for the season ahead.

Finally, for the round-ball football disciples, our Anatomy Of A Champ subject this month is Paul Pogba. He’s the bloke who Manchester United paid the biggest-ever transfer fee for his services …

We also go behind the scenes at a Fox Sports rugby league show broadcast, relive Mick Cronin’s last game for the Eels and get Mark Harvey to tell us again how a two-week break effected Essendon’s title chances back in 1990.

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