Another in the Jeff Dowsing quiz series.
Milo Cricket: Is There Value Beyond The Kit?
Jeff Dowsing, father of two, questions the merit of Milo Cricket and other children’s sporting programs. Plastic stump bases as a fielding cradle? What happened to net practice??
Answers to the Aus v NZ 3rd Test Quiz
Wondering what to do with the spare couple of days now that the Pink Ball Test is over? Here’s Jeff Dowsing’s quiz answers.
Era, era on the wall; 2011 –
The final installment of what has been a fantastic series on the history and evolution of the VFL/AFL. Jeff Dowsing looks at the challenges now facing the game and concludes that less is more (you’ll get no arguments there Jeff)
Era, era on the wall; 2000-2010
Ahh the noughties. The game as we knew changed significantly as footy got as roof over its’ head and the era where totally professional football created some unwanted distractions for those easily led astray. Dynasties were created while other clubs went far and wide looking for salvation. Clubs or Regimes? Corporates or Fans? Jeff Dowsing gives us his review of footy in a new millennium in what has been a fantastic series.
Answers to the Aus v NZ 2nd Test Quiz
The WACA Test was a puzzling affair. But Jeff Dowsing has found all the answers.
Era, era on the wall; 1987-1999
Jeff Dowsing continues his series on the eras of VFL/AFL footy with a look a 1987-99.
Almanac Poetry: Time, the toughest opponent of all
Time and football. Verse from the pen of Jeff Dowsing.
Era, era on the wall, which was the greatest of them all?
Wondering how to get your footy fix until next April? In the first of a nine-part series, Jeff Dowsing has scoured the history books looking at Footy ‘then’ to understand footy ‘now’. While this series has a distinctly VFL focus, the question remains: has much really changed in footy?
An arrow for Caro
Jeff Dowsing takes a moment to point Caro back towards the bigger issues in the AFL…
Carlton Drought; a brew for the ages
As we prepare to get the 2015 finals series off to a fly tonight at Subi, Jeff Dowsing takes a look at the AFL’s wheel of fortune. It might turn slowly, but when it does, it turns with some pretty hefty force – viz: Carlton, Essendon, Brisbane, Melbourne and Collingwood (in the wake of 1990). [Shouldn’t have too much trouble getting on the course on GF Day if the need should arise old mate! – Ed]
Welcome to football’s industrial age
Does money buy happiness? Is the game better for the wads of broadcasting cash being thrown around? Jeff Dowsing looks at the transition of the AFL from a sport to an ‘industry’.
Round 10 – Melbourne v Collingwood: Nac Feed’s 19 things you won’t believe actually happened on Bizarro Cloke Day
Jeff Dowsing and his 19 things that incredibly happened in the match between Collingwood v Melbourne. (Clue: one has something to do with Travis Cloke)
Round 9 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Pies redesign their brain to avert pain in the rain
As Pies supporter Jeff Dowsing watches his Pies pull of a remarkable comeback against the Roos he draws comparison with the TV show ‘Redesign my Brain.’
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