AFL Beat 2025 – Round 19 Recap!

This week, the Finals picture got a little more muddied. Port and Sydney are within striking distance as the teams in the bottom of the Eight keep losing. Let’s get to it!

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The AFL Ladder

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The AFL Round 19 Results

The AFL Round 19 Highlights

AFL Round 20 Schedule

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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results

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Notes and Comments

Western and Gold Coast both lost, allowing Port Adelaide, Sydney, and Carlton to have a glimmer of hope. Carlton is a total longshot but weirder things have happened.

The question now is which of Western or Gold Coast drops out of the Eight? Heck, it could be both! I think all the teams at 48 points are safely in Finals.

There are only five games left and it seems like the Essendon-Gold Coast game that hasn’t been made up yet will be crucial in determining the final Eight. I think they will play it during the bye week that takes place between the last Round and the start of Finals. Should Gold Coast win and get in, they will have one week less rest than everyone else.

The big surprise this week was Collingwood falling to Fremantle in Perth. Does that mean they’re vulnerable or was it an aberration?

Next week, you have essentially Rivalry Week. I am not sure if the AFL did that on purpose, but the Sydney Derby (GWS v Sydney), the Perth Derby (Fremantle v West Coast), the Q-clash (Brisbane v Gold Coast), and The Showdown (Adelaide v Port Adelaide) are all taking place next week. Add to that Richmond-Collingwood and Hawthorn-Carlton and you’ve got a lot teams that don’t like each other playing in the same week.

The Tipping Pool is heating up! It’s still an open competition and a lot of people can win. For this week, Sharky hands on to the top spot!

If you are a member of an AFL club or you got a Watch AFL membership, you should be able to watch every AFL and AFLW game, including replays. Game times vary between Australian afternoon and evening, which actually makes it easier for us in North America to watch as the games can be seeing in the evenings on Pacific Time and early mornings on Eastern time.

If you haven’t become a member of a club or signed up for the Watch AFL app, you can still watch the AFL and AFLW games in the USA on either FS1 or FS2 and in Canada on TSN. Showtimes can be found here on the Australian Football Association of North America website. But I do recommend that you join a club. It’s fun and they send you free shit.

See you next week!