Balcony Banter – Rod Oaten: Remembering Dreamtime at the ‘G 2014

Read Rod Oaten’s account of Essendon’s great win over Richmond in the 2014 AFL Dreamtime match.

AFL Round 11 – Melbourne v Port Adelaide: A game for points, or the point of the game

Long-time Centralian and great character, Paul Fitzy Fitzsimons reflects on the significance of the Round 11 game at Traeger Park.

AFL Round 11 – Sydney v Geelong. Out: agapanthus (disorientated); In: Warrabirra.

Mathilde de Hautoclocque on the intersection of worlds: football and other. And what might have been.

Recognizing the Heart on the Sleeve

In the indigenous round of the AFL, the colours meant a lot, writes Longworth72.

Introducing…the Catastrophe Performance Index

Kerrie Soraghan is advocating the introduction of a ‘Catastrophe Performance Index’ – or CPI. This would replace our current batch of misleading stats and help shed shed light on her beloved Bulldogs’ recent performance against Freo. (Great insights into those troubling moments when supporters begin to turn on their own – Ed)

AFL Round 11: The 2014 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup

Wise from Earl. [Clear-thinking – Ed]

The Fearless Files – AFL Round 11: OK…Indigenous round and we’re back to nine games a week

Paul “Fearless” Thomson nominates the best jumpers for the Indigenous Round (and the worst teams on the field – ouch!)

Special Sub

Charlie Krebs reckons the Saints should have been allowed an extra substitute player when Maverick Weller was concussed by a reportable charge from an opponent. Justice or dangerous precedent?

AFL Round 11: Coleman’s Likes and Dislikes

Carl Coleman lives in Copenhagen. Footy moves him to an original quasi-poetic form of reflection. [Tell us more about your lot in life CC. Why Copenhagen? – Ed]

AFL Round 11 – Hawthorn v GWS: We Giants will fight until the end

GWS devotee Kath Presdee, and Young Master, take great heart in the Giants’ narrow loss to the Hawks.

AFL Round 11: Review

In yesterday’s review JTH looks at the big presence of Tex Walker, and argues you write Geelong off at your wallet’s peril.

AFL Round 11 – Adelaide v Gold Coast: Tex Rules

Malcolm Ashwood runs the Rulebook over the Crows defeat of the Suns. The return of Tex Walker has given the Crows a new potency.

AFL Round 11 – Haiku Bob – starting a fire

Haiku Bob celebrates the end of autumn and his Magpies artistry on Friday night.

AFL Round 11 – Brisbane v Carlton: I don’t have the blues any more

As Andrew Weiss thaws out in the cold and bleak Adelaide hills, his Brisbane Lions, battling through a dark and gloomy season, find some sun. “There is a season – turn, turn, turn…”

AFL Round 11 – West Coast v North Melbourne: Dumb as Dirt; Weak as Water

Peter Baulderstone writes from the Graylands psychiatric ward on the ‘performance’ of his Eagles against the Kangaroos.

AFL Round 11- Sydney v Geelong: Swans Storm To Premiership Favouritism

Rsingi tacks Thursday’s game at the SCG on to a business trip and watches Sydney give Geelong a fearful hiding. He is proclaiming a new premiership frontrunner (Note: contains no whingeing about Geelong’s two six day breaks – Ed).

The Round 11 Post Wrap: The Bloodbath Round

Its the Bloodbath Round for Mr Wrap as finals pretenders show their true colours, and Tigers, Blues and Eagles fans ‘fess up to the awful truth about their teams.

AFL Round 11 – Essendon v Richmond: Dreamtime at the G

The Bombers cruise to one of their easier Dreamtime victories as the Tigers stare down the barrel of being … gulp … worse than Melbourne circa 2013? Rod Oaten reports.

AFL Round 11 – Sydney v Geelong: Some questions answered

Whose idea was it to play at a ground that “reminds you of who you aren’t” during a Round that cares little for privilege? Ian Latham asked this question as he watched a Sydney performance so awesome that Geelong wasted time even playing.

Round 11 – Essendon v Richmond: Reinvigorated

From a hot medicinal spa in Budapest, Sam gets rid of the after-effects of the Alcoholympics while watching Essendon return life to their own season.