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.
AFL Round 23 – West Coast v Adelaide: The Crows wonder ‘what if?’
September 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
What did the Adelaide and West Coast clash mean? A chance for Eagles’ fans to farewell some of its retiring greats, for Crows supporters to see what might have been, and for Barry Nicholls to tell the kids about the events of sixteen years ago.
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.
AFL Round 23 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Drifting
September 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
Round 23 and the impact of a Polish wedding make Star Wars and a Collingwood game more ethereal than usual.
What to do about Round 23?
September 1, 2013 by 9 Comments
Something needs to be done about “dead-rubber” AFL games in the final round of the season. I saw the most uncompetitive performance from a side in recent memory with Fremantle’s performance against St Kilda on Saturday. With all due respect to the Saints, we were watching a game where only one team cared about winning [Read more]
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)?
England v Australia – 1st Twenty20 International: T20 cricket at its best
September 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
With this game of very little context starting at 3.30 AM Victorian time I had very little incentive to watch. So I didn’t. However I recorded the game for the sole purpose of watching Fawad Ahmed bowling his first overs in Australian colours. But after waking up on Friday morning and reading the scorecard and [Read more]
AFL Round 23 – Santa Kilda v Fremantle: From Santa Monica with love
August 31, 2013 by 2 Comments
Yvette shares the love of the St Kilda carnival match from her hotel room in the States.
AFL Round 22 – St.Kilda v Gold Coast: The end of the end is only the beginning for the Saints.
August 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
For all the brilliance of Montagna and Riewoldt, this match came to be about Stephen Milne.
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.
Nice sticker, I mean innings, Aaron
August 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
Drew hates the huge VB logo plastered across the chest of our cricketers. Do you?
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]
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
August 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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.)
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