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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]
So long, Footy Park: you raised the bar (for coldest seats at a sporting venue, at least).
August 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
Mike Sexton’s 730 (ABC TV) piece on the last days of Footy Park. [Have a look and then add your Footy Park memory and tribute – or otherwise – to the comments].
AFL Round 23 – Preview: Jockeying for positions and shouldering clear
August 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
Much can happen in this round of footy as teams battle for that eighth spot, Hawthorn and Sydney dance around, and Freo lurk in the shadows.
Round 23 Preview – The Tipsters’ Nightmare
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Could this be the season where one of the bottom half of the finalists rewrite the record books? Possibly even the ninth placed team?
Footy Club songs: The Geelong one is crap (A potentially career limiting article)
August 29, 2013 by 15 Comments
Sean Curtain says the Geelong song is bland, plain and uninteresting. (Who cares what he thinks, he barracks for Richmond – Ed.)
Crio’s Racing: The Memsie
August 29, 2013 by 22 Comments
Regardless of its rating, the Memsie is always a good race and the banner event on an important gateway to Spring.
Gigs Ladder Comp Round 21 Update – Can any good come from this?
August 29, 2013 by 2 Comments
Essendon ninth? Surely someone at AFL is in Gigs’s Ladder Ladder comp.
AFL Round 22 – Collingwood v West Coast (Haiku Bob): faces in the crowd
August 29, 2013 by 7 Comments
Haiku Bob on round 22.
Blokes who grew up on dairy farms Team of the Century – latest
August 29, 2013 by 11 Comments
The noms have come in and the self-appointed Match Committee has picked the latest team. [How did they leave out John Williams? – Ed] The debate continues as this may be getting closer.
Mercurial.
August 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Players that require a club’s extra attention off the field are either ‘mercurial’ and worth mollycoddling; or not. Richmond have two prime examples of wayward talents in Dustin Martin and Aaron Edwards.
AFL Round 22 – Adelaide v Melbourne: Crows depart with little pizzaz
August 29, 2013 by 3 Comments
It was Adelaide’s last game at Football Park. Alas, it wasn’t one to write home about, says Bob Utber.
AFL Round 22 – Brisbane v Western Bulldogs: A strange beast
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Footy really is a strange beast at times, writes Scott Frame.
The Carey Effect: How Bombers fans can reconcile with Hirdy
August 28, 2013 by 8 Comments
The best course of action for Essendon fans is to come to terms with the fact that their saviour, their warrior, their seargant-at-arms may just in fact be a bit of a knob. Bombers fans, hear Dan O’Sullivan out – after all, he once defended Carey.
Footy used to be fun
August 28, 2013 by 6 Comments
James Hird used to epitomise everything that was great about Aussie Rules to Sam Duncan. Now, he needs to hear some honesty from Hird and Essendon.
Lest We Forget!
August 28, 2013 by 15 Comments
If, as accused, Essendon have brought shame on football, they must lose the ANZAC Day match.
Ashes Diary 2013, entry no.6
August 28, 2013 by 13 Comments
I may be getting ahead of myself – and not for the first time – but The Oval may have thrown together a batting line-up Australia can work with this summer.
AFL Round 22 – Review: AAMI Stadium…an era’s end pt 1. The Oval beckons!
August 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Salute to AAMI Stadium – from that electric night when the Crows took on the Reigning Premier, Hawthorn and flogged them to last weekend for the Crows and this weekend for Port, the time has come for Adelaide Oval to take centre stage for footy in South Australia.
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