What a fascinating round of footy we've just witnessed.

Five games were decided by fewer than 10 points, and the other four were all by 40+ points. Crucially, it wasn't necessarily the games we expected to be close ones or blow outs.

Off field, the Elijah Hollands story will continue to be talked about this week. Genuinely concerning scenes and we can only hope that Elijah is alright, and that some honest answers come to light once the AFL and the Blues complete their inquiries.

Tomorrow night, Zak Butters and Nick Foot will be back up in front of the appeals board to sort out that bizarre case from last weekend. ABC Sport will be live blogging that one.

And then the footy returns on April 23 with a clash between the rampaging Swans and the injury-hit Bulldogs, as we head into the much-loved and respected Anzac round of footy.

Thanks again for joining us, look after your loved ones, and have a great week.

By Justin Chadwick (AAP)

Jye Amiss kicked a career-high five goals as Fremantle maintained their Western Derby dominance with a 56-point win over West Coast in Perth.

The Eagles took a surprise lead early in the second quarter of Sunday's match, but Fremantle steadied to seal the 14.13 (97) to 5.11 (41) win in front of 54,232 fans.

It marked Fremantle's ninth win from the past 10 derbies, but West Coast still hold a 33-29 lead in the overall tally.

The Dockers' fifth win on the trot kept them in second spot on the ladder with a 5-1 record, behind Sydney on percentage only.

All-Australian defender Jordan Clark won the Glendinning-Allan medal as best afield for his 27 disposals, one goal, 622m gained and 11 score involvements.

Murphy Reid (26 disposals, 10 score involvements) and Luke Jackson (29 hitouts, 16 disposals, one goals) also played important roles.

Amiss had kicked four goals on nine previous occasions, but he finally cracked through that barrier early in the final quarter when he nailed a 50m set shot.

The 22-year-old finished with a club-record nine marks inside 50m, beating Matthew Pavlich's tally of eight.

Amiss also notched13 disposals, one goal assist and 5.4 as West Coast struggled to cover all bases in a tall Fremantle forward line containing Amiss, Patrick Voss (three goals), Josh Treacy and Jackson.

Andrew Brayshaw copped an early knock and only finished with 15 disposals and three clearances, while former Collingwood ruckman Mason Cox tallied four disposals and 13 hit-outs in his Dockers debut,

Jake Waterman was lively for West Coast with 11 marks, but he was wasteful in front of goal with 1.4.

Harley Reid (20 disposals, three clearances) battled hard, while Reuben Ginbey did an excellent job in keeping Josh Treacy to one goal.

West Coast kicked a wayward 0.6 in the opening term to trail by 10 points at quarter time.

Jobe Shanahan's flying pack mark was the highlight of the term, while Eagles defender Tom McCarthy bravely got straight back to his feet after copping a brutal hip-and-shoulder from Treacy.

After seven consecutive behinds, West Coast finally scored their first goal when Elliot Yeo snapped truly early in the second term.

And when Josh Lindsay's snap took a leg break-style bounce to go in for a goal shortly after, West Coast hit the lead.

It didn't last long, with Fremantle's height in attack proving too hard to counter.

Amiss kicked two goals and Jackson added another, before Harley Reid gave away an unlucky 50m penalty for tackling Clark to the ground thinking the kick hadn't travelled 15m.

Voss taunted Reid after Clark kicked the goal, with Fremantle heading to half-time with a 22-point edge.

It was all one-way traffic in the second half as Fremantle cruised to victory.

Cox was quiet in his Dockers debut, but he did whack the ball forward 29.9m in one memorable moment in the second half.

Coach Steven King has delighted in the best win of his short tenure after Melbourne got "in the ring with the big boys" and knocked down reigning premiers Brisbane in a two-point thriller.

The wasteful Lions led by 17 late in the second term before the Demons kicked five consecutive goals in the third quarter to set up a show-stopping finish.

Melbourne took the lead in the fourth, then withstood a late Lions surge to claim a memorable 16.8 (104) to 15.12 (102) win at the MCG.

"If you want to step in the ring with the big boys, you've got to put score on the board," King said.

"I think even today, if we went defensive for a while, Brisbane's talent would have got us in the end.

"So we had to try and win the last quarter. We couldn't hold on."

Melbourne have beaten Carlton, St Kilda, Gold Coast and Brisbane.

When asked if Sunday's win was their best, King answered: "I think so".

"Six games in, when you looked at the draw and saw Brisbane on it, you'd hope you compete, and you'd love a win," he said.

The result condemned 300-game Lions champion Lachie Neale and 200-gamer Josh Dunkley to defeat in their milestone games.

Melbourne's Harrison Petty was helped off at the end of the third term when he appeared unsteady on his feet and complained of blurred vision in a worrying moment.

King said the club was still investigating but the case could be one of delayed onset concussion.

"We're obviously going to take it pretty seriously and we'll do the due diligence to make sure he's OK," King said.

With the reigning premiers charging home, the Dees held on in Jim's Game 🙌

Kysaiah Pickett could come under investigation after Brisbane's Noah Answerth was concussed when a fourth-quarter bump from the star Demon sent the Lion into Brody Mihocek's shoulder.

Brisbane also lost Jarrod Berry to a second-quarter calf injury and Bruce Reville (ankle) limped off in the fourth.

"We didn't have too many fit guys on the bench, but we found a way to nearly pinch it," coach Chris Fagan said.

"So I thought there was good character shown by the group."

Second-year Demon Harvey Langford (27 disposals, three goals) was wonderful along with Kade Chandler (17 disposals, three goals), who sank two huge final-quarter majors.

Max Gawn (seven clearances, 23 hitouts, 21 disposals) worked over Sam Draper (23 hitouts).

Lions co-captain Harris Andrews (22 disposals, 12 marks) was masterful, though opponent Jacob van Rooyen (three goals) jagged two crucial final-quarter goals.

Neale (31 disposals, 10 clearances), Darcy Wilmot (27) and Reville were busy.

In his 50th game, Logan Morris dobbed three goals along with Charlie Cameron.

Lions ruckman Darcy Fort (illness) was a late withdrawal, with Zane Zakostelsky recalled.

Scores were level at quarter-time but Brisbane seized control in the second term.

The Demons were celebrating 'Jim's Game', commemorating late Irish club legend Jim Stynes, and had a violinist and Irish dance troupe performing a jig after every Melbourne goal.

That violin kicked into overdrive as Melbourne kicked five goals on the spin in the third term and led by six points at three-quarter time.

Hugh McCluggage edged Brisbane in front briefly but van Rooyen took a huge mark over Andrews to restore Melbourne's lead before Chandler sent the MCG into ecstasy.

The Lions mounted a late comeback and Rayner (2.3) missed a late chance to put Brisbane back in front before Melbourne held on.

"In the end, you can put it down to accuracy in a close finish like that," Fagan said.

Brisbane next host Adelaide at the Gabba on Sunday while Melbourne play Richmond at the MCG on Friday night.

By Shayne Hope (AAP)

Cam Zurhaar shone in a new role across half-back as North Melbourne franked their best start to an AFL season in a decade with a 75-point thumping of injury-hit bottom side Richmond.

With Paul Curtis kicking a career-high six goals, the Kangaroos logged their greatest winning margin under coach Alastair Clarkson in the 20.10 (130) to 7.13 (55) victory at Docklands on Sunday.

It lifts them to a 4-2 record and their strongest return through six games since a 9-0 opening to 2016, when they last played finals.

Richmond lost acting captain Tim Taranto (concussion), Sam Banks (collarbone) and Maurice Rioli (hamstring) by halftime, and are 0-6 in their worst start since 2010.

It could have been a different story, with the woefully inaccurate Tigers trailing by 39 points at the main break despite having more scoring shots to that point.

"There's not a hell of a lot of mercy in this game — you've just got to do what you've got to do to win games of footy," Clarkson said.

"We were a little bit fortunate we got the Tigers on the hop in terms of their injuries, but we still needed to go out and perform the way that we wanted to."

Young star Harry Sheezel tallied 39 disposals, seven clearances and one goal in an influential display for North, with Luke Davies-Uniacke (26 possesions), Colby McKercher (26) and George Wardlaw (25) also important.

Usually a threat in attack, the explosive Zurhaar (23 disposals) was redeployed in defence and had a game-high 644m gained.

The Kangaroos had no shortage of options in the front half as Curtis, Cooper Trembath (three), Nick Larkey (two) and Zane Duursma (two) kicked multiple majors.

"Zurhaar behind the ball was really important for us," Clarkson said.

"Not that he's experienced in defence, but he's experienced in playing AFL footy, and I thought he acquitted himself really well in that role.

"It helps our back end enormously in terms of both our defence and our attack."

Young gun Sam Lalor stepped up for Richmond in the absence of Taranto and rested star Jacob Hopper, tallying 22 disposals and one goal.

Seth Campbell and Jack Ross (26 touches) added two majors each, but the undermanned Tigers were unable to fight back after blowing too many scoring opportunities early in the contest.

"When it starts ticking over you could sense the pressure was building on whoever was taking the next shot," Richmond coach Adem Yze said.

"At halftime it's 2.12 to 10.3 and they were making everything count and we weren't, and it can start to affect the morale of the group.

"When you paint the picture at halftime and (you are winning) all the main KPIs that you want to be in front of, the hardest thing is telling the story when the scoreboard's telling you something different — especially when it's a young group."

A disappointing conclusion to an excellent weekend of football.

Fremantle just way too clean with the footy and managed to keep their structure throughout, forcing the Eagles wide on the rare occasions West Coast did go on the attack.

Jordan Clark, Murphy Reid and Jye Amiss will all be in the discussion for the Glendinning-Allan Medal, but I'd have Clark just nudging Reid with his attack off halfback crucial, finishing with 27 touches and a goal.

Reid (26 disposals and three goals assists) and Amiss (five goals from 13 disposals) can walk away from today with their heads held high.

For the Eagles, not much their way. Tom McCarthy (27 disposals) was good, but there were too many kicks that missed the mark, too many dropped grabs, and too many missed shots early to make any sort of run at this one.

Murphy Reid is involved again on the wing and the Dockers work their way down the field.

Caleb Serong gets on the end of it and waltzes in for the easy goal.

I'd be interested to see the heat map of shots on goal today, because it feels like Freo has had its shots from mostly in front compared to how far the Eagles have been pushed wide.

A good defensive system from the Dockers.

A lunging, stretching mark from the former Tiger and he drills the set shot.

That's his second for the day.

It's a procession now.

The Eagles defence does well to kill the ball in the air but it lands directly into the hands of Shai Bolton, who kicks a perfect roving goal.

We're out to 57 points.

It's another feed from Murphy Reid and he has two assists in the past two plays.

He handballs to Patrick Voss in the goalsquare, who kicks the easy major.

There's not a lot of life in the stadium now.

Murphy Reid sprints through the middle of the ground with a couple of bounces, then directs Jye Amiss on where the forward needs to go.

It's an uncontested hit up mark, and Amiss kicks the pill beautifully.

That's a career-high five for Amiss.