SANFL – Finals: West Adelaide faces Norwood for Grand Final berth

West Adelaide came back from a 27 point half time deficit to defeat the Eagles and set up a second semi-final against reigning Premier Norwood.

The View from Shepparton

The Cowboys debacle sums up another inglorious year for the NRL, writes Peter Schumacher.

Crio’s Question: Change of plans

Sports schedules can play havoc with our lives. When have you had to put your life on hold, or in to overdrive, to satisfy a sporting need?

Ross Glendinning: Good as gold

Sasha Lennon spoke to Brownlow medallist Ross Glendinning and found a very humble champion.

The cobra and the condominium

Condominium living with two young boys is to be imprisoned within an endless St Kilda players’ function- minus the moments of deep introspection, and wholesome civic values. It’s occasionally beyond challenging. It’s at the heart of our predicament. To stay in Singapore or head home?

WAFL: Dream Grand Final awaits

Claremont is coming to grips wit the fact that, for the first time since 2010, they won’t be part of the grand final. East Perth will meet West Perth in a derby grand final the league was hoping for.

My most memorable individual quarters from a player

Jarrad McVeigh’s second quarter against Carlton in last Saturday’s elimination final was brilliant. His performance got me thinking about other brilliant individual quarter performances.

Half time in a Grand Final and we’re 31 points up….

Josh Barnstable won 15 games in eight seasons in his junior career. After giving up footy for 12 months he returned with a different club that found itself 31 points up in a Grand Final at half time. Then….

From The Guardian: When Harry Redknapp played the West Ham fan

Further to Greg Baum’s article in The Age yesterday, this is the story he mentioned from The Guardian. It really is a classic.

Joy of joys: writing during the finals

Everyone is welcome to write pieces about the finals – as always.

Theatregoers: your comprehensive guide to the Grand Final.

Peter Zitterschlager gives some advice.

Holy Grail: A tired bogan sporting anthem, or something more?

Channel 10 turned Hunters and Collector’s Holy Grail into a sporting anthem. Now, in the prism of a Hunters and Collectors reformation, Brutas Mudcake believes the time is right to re-evaluate the song.

Knackers play in finals. McCartney’s Bulldogs on track for finals

Neil Anderson is hoping to crack first place at the National Playwright Competition this year after being selected as a finalist. He thinks the Bulldogs are on track for success too, after hearing Brendan McCartney speak at the club’s presentation night.

AFL Finals Week 2 – Preview: Predictable? Or otherwise?

John Harms opts for predictable games this weekend. But he was 1 from 4 last week – saved from a duck egg by Carlton.

Wheels of fortune and other puns

Carlton made the finals at the expense of Essendon, and have progressed to the second week while Collingwood fell over in week 1. It’s been everything Barb Smith could have wished for.

AFL Finals Week 1 – Collingwood v Port Adelaide (Haiku Bob): when blossoms fall

Haiku Bob on the elimination final.

Favourite players please

A shout out to all readers – who was your favourite player growing up, and why?

Journalism, Gender, Feminist Theory and News Reporting on the AFL

This article reports on a review of selected theory and practice in sports journalism to determine if the prominence of female journalists reporting the news of the AFL could be attributed to a feminist response to the traditional domination of male values in the sports media complex.

Richmond’s army caught waiting

A couple of years ago a December ‘garage sale’ at Punt Rd caught the essence of the Richmond story. Steve Alomes was there, camera in hand.

AFL Finals Week 2 – Preview: Get Stuffed! Get stuffed!

Is it worse to bow out in week one of the finals or avoid the scrutiny and not make them at all?