Peter Baulderstone eyes off team politics. If political parties were footy teams who do you reckon they’d be?
AFL Round 19 – Collingwood v Essendon: Pies versus Pincushions
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Ramon Dobb is pretty rapt in the win, although a bit distracted by a certain topic.
The joy of not knowing
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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.)
AFL Round 19 – Hawthorn v Richmond: The day the storm arrived…
August 5, 2013 by 7 Comments
This game was not meant to be anything more than a brave defeat for the Tigers, but they beat the Hawks at their own game, writes ecstatic Richmond fan Callum O’Connor.
Michael Clarke: The averages are average
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Michael Clarke is Australia’s luckiest captain since Graham Yallop. In any other era, it is doubtful he would be Australia’s captain.
Crio’s Question: Long sleeves
August 5, 2013 by 18 Comments
The long sleeve guernsey seems to be consigned to history. What long sleeve-wearing players and designs would you curate for the MCG Museum’s display?
AFL Round 19 – Carlton v Fremantle: The Freo journey continues for this Victorian
August 5, 2013 by 3 Comments
Many deride Fremantle and the Ross Lyon style of play. Di Waddingham didn’t see an awful game on Saturday night, she saw a magnificent win over Carlton. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
AFL Round 19 – Carlton v Fremantle: The Blues were done over, Dad
August 4, 2013 by 3 Comments
After an emotional week, when she said goodbye to her dad, Barb Smith settles in to watch her Blues. She likes Freo, just not when they play this well against her team.
AFL Round 19 – Hawthorn v Richmond: See ya in September!
August 4, 2013 by 3 Comments
Some days it all turns out the way you hope it will, writes Richmond fan John Green. (God bless all the Tigers fans – Ed.)
AFL Round19 – Brisbane v St.Kilda: Missed by that much
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Edward Platt, the Chief from Get Smart, would have made a perfect St. Kilda supporter. He knew all about the futility of placing high expectations on the perpetually incompetent, writes Tom Greenaway.
AFL Round 19 – GWS Giants v Melbourne: There’s a big BIG sound!
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One win and the Giants fans have declared: We don’t need Buddy! Imagine the declaration after two.
Ammos – VAFA B Section: Fitzroy v. St Kevins
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Phil Hill has that feeling in his gut.
Third Test – Day 3: Is it possible to like KP?
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John Harms spends the night on the couch to see the Australians fight it out, and does not change his view of Kevin Pietersen.
Where Are The Forces of Good?
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The Fremantle Boa Constrictor may well win a premiership with this joyless, clinical suffocation of its prey – but is it worth the price?
Third Test – Day 2: Video Killed the Walkabout Star
August 3, 2013 by 5 Comments
Andrew Else reveals Warner’s thought process (ie. none) before going for the DRS during a glorious day’s play by Australia against the Poms.
Gigs Ladder Comp Round 18 Update – Parallel universes
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Wondering how things might look in the Ladder comp if Essendon is stripped of their points and relegated to 18th on the ladder? Wonder no more – Gigs is on to it.
Third Test – Day 1: It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish
August 2, 2013 by 6 Comments
Sean Curtain observes a rare phenomenon: the Australian bowlers spending an entire day in the sheds.
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]
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