Flirting with form, particularly so close to finals, is fraught with danger. Ross Lyon should know this more than most, he did it in 2009 with St.Kilda too.
Gender and reporting in the AFL
September 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
Sasha Lennon looks at the complex issue of gender and footy reporting in the AFL.
Season Review – Essendon: Taking our medicine
September 4, 2013 by 1 Comment
Rod Oaten says, as a Dons man, he has to take his medicine. (That’s funny from you Rod – Ed. And PS: Kerry says hello)
A Good Idea
September 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
Ged McMahon is one Essendon fan who isn’t missing September action – he’s playing in it. In the VAFA. It’s 9.15am on a Sunday morning, there’s a genuine crowd, and he’s running around like a kid lost in a shopping centre. Was stepping out of his comfort zone really a good idea?
Ghosts of Seasons Past
September 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
Just when you thought Kosi could become no more lovable than he already was, he comes across all honest and self-aware.
The Huddle (where footy’s soul lives)
September 4, 2013 by 12 Comments
Instinctively, we’re drawn towards the centre circle, pock-marked with studs. I love the centre of footy or cricket grounds for their vastness, quiet, freedom and possibility. I love wide wings and deep pockets that allow our player to roam, sweep and show their skills.
More Memories of Kardinia Park: Too cold for footy
September 3, 2013 by 24 Comments
While Les is on a role, we reprise his story about another visit to Kardinia Park to see his Dockers play, on a day when the weather was inclement to say the least.
Memories of Kardinia
September 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Fremantle have a bit of history at Kardinia Park. Les Everett was there for the last game of 1999, and finds it more of a trek than he bargained for.
Father’s Day
September 3, 2013 by 4 Comments
Another kind of season passed; a moving meditation from Peter Baulderstone.
WAFL: Sharks beat top team and it’s mothballs
September 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Les Everett considers retiring on the back of some favourable results in the WAFL.
My extra, personal and vindictive motivation for a Tigers win (warning: may contain nudity and adult themes)
September 2, 2013 by 10 Comments
There are so many reasons to be cheering the Tigers on this weekend. Sean Curtain’s boasts the great Australian pastime of seeing someone you really care about make a complete public galah of himself. Go Tiges!
I have a dream
September 2, 2013 by 8 Comments
Never mind the 2013 finals, Neil Anderson has a vision of the future guaranteed to go straight to the heart of all you Bulldogs supporters. Share his dream.
Is there Life on Mars?
September 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
Peter Baulderstone brings us the David Bowie guide to AFL 2013 and the forthcoming Dockers-Cats game.
AFL Round 23 – The Wrap: Journey’s end for some; the start for others
September 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
The Wrapcave is alive with the sounds of Round 23 as he mournfully puts to bed the under-achievers, the old and weary, and honesty in football admin. He is looking forward to September, anointing the Mayblooms as TTTBFTF.
Northern Lights – a documentary worth catching
September 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
For the next ten days, a great Australian footy film is available on the SBS website. Northern Lights is a documentary covering the exciting roller-coaster 2011 season of NT Thunder, no ordinary team – they play in the north eastern states league clocking up more than 100,000 kilometres travelling interstate, pitting remote indigenous players against professional players from national AFL teams. Go into the heart of remote Aboriginal communities and schools where football is not just something to do, it is a crucial part of community life.
Cats to host first final in Geelong – surely they’ve earned the right?
September 1, 2013 by 51 Comments
Haven’t Geelong earned the right to host a final (organised at the last minute)?
The Red Setter
August 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
Andrew Embley is Peter Baulderstone’s favourite Eagle of the past decade. He feels a sense of loss today.
2013 Grand Final Entertainment
August 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
Mail on the 2013 Grand Final entertainment.
The Pre Wrap – Round XXIII
August 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
The Wrapster looks at how the last home and away round of 2013 may unfold.
War and peace – Essendon vs the AFL
August 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
(note to editor – War and Peace was written by Leo Tolstoy in the 1800s. If Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in 2013, this would be his story…) The AFL was thrust into war in February, 2013. As Colonel James Hird oversaw Essendon’s preseason training and plotted his conquest of the premiership, the AFL was beginning [Read more]
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