Former AFL umpire Adam McDonald now umpires in South-East Asia, and has been involved with the Bali Geckos, Malaysian Warriors and the Vietnam Swans.
AFL Round 10 – North Melbourne v St. Kilda: The very best things
June 3, 2013 by 3 Comments
The Saints were out of the game at the end of the first quarter. So there was no expectation or suspense. It just was, writes Yvette Wroby. (Being Yvette, there were plenty of positives to take out of the night.)
AFL Round 10 – Melbourne v Hawthorn: Neelding change – urgently
June 3, 2013 by 4 Comments
Exactly one year ago to the day, Melbourne pulled off a stirring victory against Essendon. It’s been a long, long year, writes Dees fan Michael Thompson.
AFL Round 10 – Sydney v Essendon: Delivering the Goodes
June 3, 2013 by 3 Comments
A nervous Tom Bally forecast a close game with The Enemy on a ground increasingly unsuited to Sydney’s style of play. He now predicts a coaching career isn’t on the cards for him anytime soon.
AFL Round 10 – Adelaide v Fremantle: Kensington Road runs straight for a while before turning
June 2, 2013 by 1 Comment
This game wasn’t about “the four points” for Fremantle fans like Neil Belford, it was about revenge, cold and simple.
AFL Round 10 – Sydney v Essendon: Sydney strong, Goodes good.
June 2, 2013 by 1 Comment
The upsetting week in footy prompts Rod Oaten to remember one of the VFL’s earliest Aboriginal players as he watches the Swans do battle with his Dons in rainy Tinsel Town.
AFL Round 10 – Carlton v GWS Giants: Bring on the thrashing
June 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Damian Watson was asked whether he didn’t have anything better to do when entering Etihad to watch the Blues and Giants. He figures he endured enough 100+ point drubbings throughout his team’s ‘salary-cap punishment years’ to enjoy basking in a one-sided victory.
Easy targets
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Peter Davis was struck once while umpiring. It was in a game of under 14s.
AFL Round 9 – North Melbourne v Adelaide: Who booked my flight?
June 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
Crows fan Rajesh Singh had to catch an early flight back from his recent Melbourne weekend. No problem,it just meant leaving the North-Adelaide match 20 minutes into the last quarter. What could go wrong?
Mitch Morton and the worriers
June 2, 2013 by 13 Comments
Craig Dodson may well have instigated a rich outpouring of personal angst here in this interesting discussion of sport and anxiety.
Almanac Rugby League – Homecoming
June 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
After 15 years away, a weary traveller returns excitedly to Cronulla for the Sharks match against Souths. And it proves to be a good night to come home.
DA Puzzle of the Round (10)
May 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Another mind-melter from the best in the business, David Astle.
How to Watch Footy (part 11): Seconds, guests and postcodes
May 31, 2013 by 3 Comments
The new Bendigo Gold club, replacing the Bendigo Bombers, is struggling, as is Vin Maskell, charged with the responsibility of manning an electronic scoreboard with a life of its own.
A grey backdrop to the colour picture
May 31, 2013 by 4 Comments
Jeff Dowsing asks whether the images of Winmar lifting his jumper has made lasting headway into the headspace of the average Australian. Have we learnt anything in the 20 years since?
AFL Round 10 Preview: Wilburrrrr
May 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sal Ciardulli took a look this week at which clubs (not including the new teams) are playing the most kids with 50 games or less. After Melbourne and the Dogs comes…Hawthorn. Worryingly for Richmond fans, they are fielding less new players than all but Sydney.
Hypocritical racism
May 31, 2013 by 4 Comments
Matt Watson recalls his first introduction to racism when, as an 11-year-old kid, he watched North fans abuse Rioli and Richmond fans abuse the Krakouer brothers. It made no sense to him. It still doesn’t.
Gigs Ladder Comp Round 9 – Theo gets the heave ho
May 31, 2013 by 4 Comments
The mighty have fallen. How? Well it’s probably a bit to do with West Coast, who jumped from 11th to 6th with their win over GWS. That ladder shuffle has led to a ladder ladder shuffle, with Theo slipping from top to 10th and Michael Ba the new outright leader, on 40 points.
AFL Round 7 – Port Adelaide v Richmond:Family, footy and a rule
May 30, 2013 by 2 Comments
MikeD, pressured by his seven year old daughter, picks the wrong game.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Madam, I’m Adam
May 30, 2013 by 11 Comments
Adam Goodes rose above this one-sided romp like a colossus not once, but twice, on a night in which he unintentionally wrested the AFL reconciliation baton from another great indigenous player, Nicky Winmar, 20 years after he lifted his jumper to the Collingwood Social Club.
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