Amazing! The Sydney Uni old boys game looks exactly like the game from the Adelaide Oval and, in both cases, youth runs over the top of age and guile. [With apologies to PJ O’Rourke]
AFL Round 8 – Port Adelaide v Fremantle: Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut Beat Age and Guile
May 22, 2014 by 6 Comments
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Hawthorn: Don’t mind if we do
May 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A bottle of Church Block and a night in front of the footy is exactly what the AFL had in mind when it scheduled the Grand Final re-match.
AFL Round 8 – Brisbane v Essendon: So close yet so far
May 16, 2014 by 1 Comment
Peter Schumacher hopes for a Brisbane win, to prevent the gloating of other family members if nothing else.
AFL Round 9 – Preview: I didn’t like last Monday
May 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Greetings to all, Not much time between games this week to put a preview together, but certainly time to reflect on a great life in footy. A pall had already descended over Monday night’s game before the players put on that display with the announcement of Tom Hafey’s death. Special people transcend the game [Read more]
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May 15, 2014 by 16 Comments
Mathilde de Hautecloque at her very best. Classy writing. Just read it, and respond. [Well, you keep asking for fresh sportswriting – Ed]
AFL Round 8 – St Kilda v Carlton: Surrounded by the Blues and Funny Stories
May 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The verb “to Yvette” refers to the random and frequent engaging of strangers. Particularly on trains, or in cafes, or on the way to the footy. Yvette Wroby reveals her adventures on the way to Monday night’s game (her Saints lost but it barely matters).
AFL Round 8 – St Kilda v Carlton: The Saints and Monday night blues
May 14, 2014 by 2 Comments
It wasn’t the greatest game in the world (in fact there were moment when it was the worst), writes Braham Dabscheck, but there were some signs for Sainters.
AFL Round 8 – Fearless Review: Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums
May 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Fearless reviews the Mother’s Day round.
AFL Round 8: The 2014 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup
May 13, 2014 by 1 Comment
Earl O’Neill’s Round 8 saw two football worlds collide in a pall of orange flames and grey smoke in fast forward. The lightly toasted paps went down a treat. Plus Earl’s warm tribute to Tommy.
AFL Round 8: Confessions of a football addict
May 13, 2014 by 4 Comments
JTH tries to anticipate the way the AFL understand the world by contemplating their decision to develop Monday Night Football. (Our capital F)
AFL Round 8 – West Coast v Greater Western Sydney: Child’s Play
May 13, 2014 by 9 Comments
Peter Baulderstone finds himself enjoying the game more than he expected. Josh Kennedy gives him hope, and Blake awakens the inner 9yo in all of us.
AFL Round 8 – The Wrap: The Bump We Had to Have Round
May 12, 2014 by 1 Comment
Mr Wrap reckons that the Bloods and the Adelaide Longshoremen sent a message on the weekend. There is a spring in the Wrap step this week as the bye avoided further long suffering among TLSPRF.
AFL Round 8 – Monday Night Footy: What happens?
May 12, 2014 by 22 Comments
Explain what you think will happen tonight. Or (preferably) give us the scenario which will extract the best from The People’s Elbow.
AFL Round 8 – Brisbane v Essendon: The Bullfight
May 12, 2014 by 4 Comments
Our man in Madrid takes in the local sport while keeping up with his Dons from the other side of the world.
Round 8 – Sydney v Hawthorn: No magical evening for the Good Wife
May 11, 2014 by 6 Comments
Paul Campbell is a Hawks supporter experiencing the usual diffidence of watching the ex-wife, the good-wife and the new-wife all on the same stage at the same time. Time for some ‘conscious uncoupling’?
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Hawthorn
May 11, 2014 by 5 Comments
In a way, Sydney should have won by much more. In a way, Hawthorn should have won. It was that kind of a match.
AFL Round 8 – Melbourne v Western Bulldogs: Melbourne plays ‘catch-up’ footy against the Dogs
May 11, 2014 by 4 Comments
Stephen Whiteside has been watching footy for a long time, and has observed a pattern. Last night’s match conformed to that pattern.
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Hawthorn: Worth The Wait
May 10, 2014 by 5 Comments
Joe Moore has been waiting for a lot of things this season. Will the expensive recruits fit in? Is the Bloods culture a living thing? He found what he was waiting for against the winged Hawks.
AFL Round 8: The Pre-Wrap
May 9, 2014 by 3 Comments
The Wrap delivers the final word on that bump before illuminating the path ahead.
AFL Round 8 Preview: The Sage Speaks
May 9, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Sal sagely predicts the Round 8 results, the feature race results and the Friars’ position.
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