AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Who booked my flight?

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 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Brad Scott and the God of the Old Testament

What has Brad Scott done to have such wrath visited upon him?

AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: The Heartbreaker – games lost by less than a goal

Cobba Stevens shows that North’s run of close defeats rivals Fitzroy in 1978 and their own record in 1926.

AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Footy is a joyless, stupid game

Squeezebox Wally is a North Melbourne fan and, like all North fans, knows all about false hope.

AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Un-ruffleable hair

Sometimes nothing appropriate can be said. Or done.

Mental disintegration (or How to blow an unloseable lead)

There is a fine line between giving up and giving in. North Melbourne seems to have found it. It is the line that separates good sides from chokers.

AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Smokie’s Elbow (with apologies to Litza)

Smokie, three parts of the way through a bottle of Pepperjack, let’s go a guttural North Melbourne cry, while simultaneously raising the elbow in the finest tradition of Litza (footnotes and all). [Up there with Litza – Ed. And please note Smokie will appear at the footy night at the Willy Lit Festival this Wednesday May 29. Details in the Calendar above.]

AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: I barrack for Adelaide – sort of

Sturt fan Barry Nicholls finds it hard to connect with the Crows. Wins like that against North Melbourne help.