10 random thoughts from a West Coast fan

Round 1 of the 2016 AFL Season, Kasey Symons a West Coast fan has 10 things on her mind

Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2016-Round 1 v Sydney Preview

Cam Hooke with everything Magpie fans need to know ahead of the Round 1 clash with the Swans at the SCG.

Five players that made AFL the game it is today

Alex Darling does an excellent profile on 5 players who excelled at, and influenced the modern game.

Losing isn’t everything for flag-hungry Eagles

Alex Darling goes back through West Coast’s history to explain why he thinks the Eagles will be flying high in 2016.

Contrary about the Cats

Paul Spinks is optimistic about his Geelong Cats and season 2016

Leigh Montagna: Blossoming Legend

Yoshi’s tribute to Leigh Montagna is a blossoming appreciation

The Wrap: Where Will They Be in 5 Months Time?

The drought has broken. The cod are biting. The Knackery Nostradamus, Mr Wrap, has sent us his Season 2016 predictions from a campsite on the Darling River.

WAFL Round 1 – Unexpected results by Les Everett

Round 1 WAFL results and review by Les

The Pursuit of Happiness

Stainless poses the philosophical perspective and balance of life and footy. [Welcome back Stainless – ed]

25 Years of Crowfania

Swish recounts a quarter century of Crow memories.

A trip to the family day

The Dodson family and the Swans; a pretty good combo.

How to choose a footy tribe

Like a search for the meaning of life, Yvette Hollings seeks out why we chose our tribes, our footy tribe.

Season 2016 AFL Predictions (Like There Aren’t Enough Already)

Neckthestatsguy has looked into the crystal ball and crunched some numbers . The 2016 footy season predictions

North Preview – Beginning, Middle and End

Rob runs a line through North’s prospects in 2016.

The Retirements Appeals Tribunal (RAT’s applicants required)

da McDonnell on the perils of the sporting comeback. The Retirements Appeals Tribunal is after new members. Applications taken here.

NAB Challenge – Melbourne v St Kilda: Learning and Rotating

Yoshi gives us his take on the Saints pre-season loss to the ‘evil’ Demons. While encouraged by the performance of the Saint’s ‘Jacks’.

North Can Make the GF This Year*

North Man Andrew Starkie has high hopes for the Kangaroos in 2016. Can they make the big dance? Do Brad Scott’s boys have the killer instinct required? All these questions, and more, answered by Starkie the Shinboner.

Australian Rules Basketball

Australian Football has impacted this Cleveland native influencing his perspective of Australian Basketballers in the US.

42 Footy Memories in 42 years as a fan

The title says it all. Phil Dimitriadis on his lifetime of footy fandom. How many others share his love of 1982?

Footy’s first free kick: How and why we got a game of our own

[FREE access to journal article now linked – Ed]. Historian and writer Roy Hay has a piece in the current issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. Here he introduces the longer article: “The game (footy) is deeply ingrained in local consciousness and has been since the mid-nineteenth century. Have you ever wondered how it all began and why?”