No strangers themselves to sensation, the St Kilda players found sensation overtaking them, like it or not, before they’d even pulled on a boot to meet Fremantle in Round 23, writes Brian Matthews.
AFL Round 23 – St.Kilda v Fremantle: Once again, Saints look to next year
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AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: Class of 2013
September 18, 2013 by 5 Comments
Class of 2013, please be seated. Mr Judd, Henderson, Jamison, Walker, Murphy, Simpson and Robinson may leave the room. Last week I was ambivalent about the class’ attendance in the end of year celebrations. This week, I’m just very, well, as you can see I have my angry face on. Students, if the lucky dip [Read more]
The club fan buries its de-listed
September 18, 2013 by 6 Comments
The fate of the de-listed played (with a nod to Henry Lawson).
The Story of Peter Reville – The Champion of the Brown Coal Mine
September 18, 2013 by 8 Comments
The story of former Brown Coal Mine and South Melbourne premiership player Peter Reville, who was suspended for 20 weeks after snapping in the 1934 Grand Final.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: If the road is easy, you’re going the wrong way
September 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
Saturday night and as the temperature dips I’m swept up in a sea of people pouring into Olympic Park. The hopeful, the confident, the desperate and the drunk, all wanting a win. This is most definitely The Last Chance. In just over two hours some of us will be singing, the rest shambling out looking [Read more]
AFL Finals Week 2 – Geelong v Port Adelaide: Payback can wait
September 17, 2013 by 6 Comments
Port’s massive Grand Final loss to Geelong in 2007 pushed it to the brink. It didn’t exact revenge on Friday night but they’re on the right track, writes Dan Hansen.
Quintessential country football
September 17, 2013 by 9 Comments
Peter Argent captures the action from South Australia’s North Eastern Football League.
Take me out to the ball park
September 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby travelled to Fenway Park as part of her USA adventure to watch the Red Sox and the Yankees.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: End of the line
September 17, 2013 by 7 Comments
It was a helluva ride this year but being out of the finals has its upside, writes Barb Smith, who now vows to concentrate on other parts of her life.
Wallabies grind out first win for McKenzie
September 16, 2013 by 2 Comments
Ewen McKenzie finally broke his duck as Wallabies coach on a wild night in Perth less suited to international athletes than to, well, ducks. The weather, and the pressure of consecutive defeats, meant this was not a pretty win, but it was the win Australia just had to have. Argentina were superior at the scrum, [Read more]
SANFL – Finals: West Adelaide faces Norwood for Grand Final berth
September 16, 2013 by 12 Comments
West Adelaide came back from a 27 point half time deficit to defeat the Eagles and set up a second semi-final against reigning Premier Norwood.
The View from Shepparton
September 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Cowboys debacle sums up another inglorious year for the NRL, writes Peter Schumacher.
Crio’s Question: Change of plans
September 16, 2013 by 2 Comments
Sports schedules can play havoc with our lives. When have you had to put your life on hold, or in to overdrive, to satisfy a sporting need?
Ross Glendinning: Good as gold
September 16, 2013 by 7 Comments
Sasha Lennon spoke to Brownlow medallist Ross Glendinning and found a very humble champion.
The cobra and the condominium
September 16, 2013 by 11 Comments
Condominium living with two young boys is to be imprisoned within an endless St Kilda players’ function- minus the moments of deep introspection, and wholesome civic values. It’s occasionally beyond challenging. It’s at the heart of our predicament. To stay in Singapore or head home?
WAFL: Dream Grand Final awaits
September 16, 2013 by 6 Comments
Claremont is coming to grips wit the fact that, for the first time since 2010, they won’t be part of the grand final. East Perth will meet West Perth in a derby grand final the league was hoping for.
My most memorable individual quarters from a player
September 16, 2013 by 8 Comments
Jarrad McVeigh’s second quarter against Carlton in last Saturday’s elimination final was brilliant. His performance got me thinking about other brilliant individual quarter performances.
Half time in a Grand Final and we’re 31 points up….
September 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
Josh Barnstable won 15 games in eight seasons in his junior career. After giving up footy for 12 months he returned with a different club that found itself 31 points up in a Grand Final at half time. Then….
From The Guardian: When Harry Redknapp played the West Ham fan
September 15, 2013 by 8 Comments
Further to Greg Baum’s article in The Age yesterday, this is the story he mentioned from The Guardian. It really is a classic.
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