Have you ever thought about the profile of the Footy Fan? The Wrapster has. Take those Sleepy Hollow Faithful – please! (Boom Tish.)
WAFL Round 20: Tigers win again but Royals show something
August 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Royals show form but Claremont has all the answers as Les Everett wraps up another good week for the WAFL.
The Decider
August 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
Peter Baulderstone eyes off team politics. If political parties were footy teams who do you reckon they’d be?
The joy of not knowing
August 5, 2013 by 11 Comments
Against all advice, John Kingsmill has looked into the future and predicted the season’s final standings and this year’s premier. (Warning: This could prove uncomfortable reading for many fans.)
Ammos – VAFA B Section: Fitzroy v. St Kevins
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Phil Hill has that feeling in his gut.
Where Are The Forces of Good?
August 4, 2013 by 10 Comments
The Fremantle Boa Constrictor may well win a premiership with this joyless, clinical suffocation of its prey – but is it worth the price?
AFL Round 19 – The Pre-Wrap: The Farewell Shoeless Jim Round (and the drawing up of our own drug code)
August 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
More musings from the Wrap-cave including some of the clearest analysis of recent happenings you will read.
Ceteris paribus (All things being equal…)
August 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
On their ‘equalisation investigation’ jaunt, Sam Steele suggests the AFL should have dropped in on the Ford Motor Company for lessons on how to deal with Melbourne. Is there room for sentiment in a competition that now proclaims itself “an industry”?
Opening sentence: the work of Mark Doyle
August 2, 2013 by 34 Comments
Les Everett becomes a student of Mark Doyle and identifies Mark’s place in the scheme of Almanac things. [You haven’t arrived until you’ve been Doyled? – Ed]
[Mark Doyle is good for football. He is also real. – JTH]
The 49th Parallel Cup
August 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
Troy Thompson previews the 49th Parallel Cup. [Check out the details of the on-line streaming of these matches explained further in Troy’s comment at the bottom – Ed]
The Essendon Issue: We have shamefully neglected the players in all this.
August 1, 2013 by 26 Comments
Sean Curtain says it is shameful that Essendon cannot answer the questions of its own players on what they had injected.
Eastlake Football Club book launch
August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Eastlake Football Club is holding a book launch over lunch on Friday, August 9.
The Game of Life
July 31, 2013 by 4 Comments
The young bloke’s got more on his mind than the ‘survival of the fittest’ game of bush footy. And more than one team needs him.
The F Word – The race to the top 8
July 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cobba Stevens reckons it’s mathematically possible for Gold Coast to make the finals. Now we’ve all paused to contemplate and dismiss this possibility…where will your team end up heading into September? Statistics tell all. Also, Cobba wraps up the stats on another sad week for Melbourne, and checks out the history of first vs second.
From little things, big things grow
July 30, 2013 by 15 Comments
Paul Daffey’s engaging yarn on former St.Kilda wingman Tom McNeil, who fought to establish a players’ union in the 1950s.
To the father and the son
July 30, 2013 by 15 Comments
Which Ablett is better? Like all hypothetical questions, this one should be difficult to answer but Matt Watson says it isn’t.
Footy on Foxtel
July 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
Robin has been disappointed by Foxtel’s selection of camera angles this year and asks why is there such a disparity in visual quality between it and Channel Seven.
AFL Round 18: The View from Shepparton
July 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
Peter Schumacher had a crack at rugby union a few weeks ago – now he’s on the Brumbies bandwagon, and why not after their win.
I love footy
July 29, 2013 by 7 Comments
Matt Zurbo has written and illustrated a children’s book about footy. It’s a beauty.
A Big Day Out
July 29, 2013 by 3 Comments
Devils and Wallabies, live from the corporate box, Cats and Saints through scratchy reception from 774. It doesn’t get much better for Phantom from his remote Tassie outpost.
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