After a Champy-enforced rest, Swish Schwerdt is back for Round 9, but is starting to wonder if the coach is playing favourites.
AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Who booked my flight?
June 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
Crows fan Rajesh Singh had to catch an early flight back from his recent Melbourne weekend. No problem,it just meant leaving the North-Adelaide match 20 minutes into the last quarter. What could go wrong?
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Madam, I’m Adam
May 30, 2013 by 11 Comments
Adam Goodes rose above this one-sided romp like a colossus not once, but twice, on a night in which he unintentionally wrested the AFL reconciliation baton from another great indigenous player, Nicky Winmar, 20 years after he lifted his jumper to the Collingwood Social Club.
AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Brad Scott and the God of the Old Testament
May 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
What has Brad Scott done to have such wrath visited upon him?
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney (Haiku Bob): start of nothing
May 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob on Round 9.
AFL Round 9 – Richmond v Essendon: Is there no place for Daniel Connors in Richmond’s best?
May 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
The Tigers were over-coached and under-led against Essendon, writes Paul Daffey. Surely there’s a place for Daniel Connors, who carved it up for Aberfeldie earlier in the day.
AFL Round 9: The 2013 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup
May 30, 2013 by 10 Comments
Earl O’Neill asks which one is the real Ed? Does the real Ed even exist?
AFL Round 9: Winners and Losers
May 30, 2013 by 7 Comments
Is Winners and Losers this week just a thinly veiled way for an Adelaide fan to talk about Adelaide? Perhaps… (North fans probably shouldn’t read this.)
Tigers and Saints: Bottom of the pile
May 30, 2013 by 4 Comments
Sympathy will always be something I detest. I dread revealing I’m a St.Kilda supporter to new company for that very reason. It has nothing to do with shame and everything to do with the look of pity.
AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: The Heartbreaker – games lost by less than a goal
May 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
Cobba Stevens shows that North’s run of close defeats rivals Fitzroy in 1978 and their own record in 1926.
AFL Round 9 – St.Kilda v Western Bulldogs: Oh Sister, you are giving me heaps
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A history of winning has left Yvette Wroby more supposedly “gracious”. It is a falsity, she admits. She was only gracious because the Saints won all those games.
AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Footy is a joyless, stupid game
May 29, 2013 by 6 Comments
Squeezebox Wally is a North Melbourne fan and, like all North fans, knows all about false hope.
AFL Round 9 – Richmond v Essendon: The one where a wedding almost got in the way
May 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Weddings during footy season are bad enough, but a phone ban until the end of the reception? It makes no sense to Bombers fan Sam Duncan.
AFL Round 9 – Port Adelaide v Geelong: An unbeef-witted account from a spermologer
May 29, 2013 by 6 Comments
Julian Morison delves deep into the language to produce this account of Geelong’s victory. [Don’t worry, all is explained, and worth the explanation, too. Ed)
AFL Round 9 – St.Kilda v Western Bulldogs: Good for the soul
May 29, 2013 by 2 Comments
There is something brilliant about winning a match a) against the odds and b) when your team is ordinary and you don’t expect it, writes Simon McInerney. Losses grind away at the soul but a win like that on Saturday can restore your belief in your club and remind you why you fell in love with footy in the first place.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Starting the mower
May 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Sydney’s performance on Friday night seemed all too familiar to Don Meadows. Until then, the Swans’ season had been like the first mow of the new growing season. Lots of cough and splutter, the motor occasionally catching. On Friday, the Swans finally roared into life and mowed down the Magpies.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: The Egyptian Curse
May 29, 2013 by 5 Comments
Lou Richards may have buried the Colliwobbles at Victoria Park in 1990, but a new curse has been placed at the ground and, on Friday night’s performance, it looks like it has worked.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: A long way from Victoria Park
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Swans fan Keiran Croker wanders past Victoria Park – remembering the time he saw South Melbourne break a 20-year drought at the ground – on his way to the MCG. No matter the time or place, the sweet feeling of beating the Pies remains.
AFL Round 9 – Hawthorn v Gold Coast: Vibrant Matters
May 29, 2013 by 6 Comments
Hard to get excited about a game against the Gold Coast, writes Rick Kane, who takes the far more sensible option of escaping to the Yarra Valley. However, there’s no escaping Drew Morphett.
AFL Round 9 – Port Adelaide v Geelong: Sweet 16 years – a musical tribute to 1997
May 29, 2013 by 6 Comments
The last time Dan Crane saw Port beat Geelong at Footy Park in 1997, The Verve, blur and Daft Punk were in the charts. He takes us on a nostalgic journey through the hits of the era (and we’re not talking shirtfronts).
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