What possesses a player to throw himself headfirst into an oncoming pack when the game is already lost? Can players like Daniel Cross help themselves?
The Sky’s Limited
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the week the sky stopped falling. Losses were piling up for both the Saints and Tigers but a win always holds the sky in place.
AFL Round 7: The View from Shepparton
May 15, 2013 by 3 Comments
After listening to classical music (played on the pipe organ, no less), Peter Schumacher is in a feisty mood and Monday night football, Kevin Sheedy and AFL greed are in his sights. (If he’s the Almanac version of Alex, someone should warn the good people of Shepparton.)
AFL Round 7 – Fremantle v Collingwood: Another night of pain at Subiaco
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Collingwood fans watched another game where heart and grit was enough to get over the line – unfortunately in this case it was Fremantle that had those qualities on display.
AFL Round 7- Hawthorn v Sydney: Pleasure and pain
May 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
This game was not one to enrich a rivalry, but only time will tell whether it highlighted a Hawthorn maturing above the necks or Sydney as a team showing the first signs of rheumatoid arthritis.
AFL Round 7 – Brisbane v West Coast: The rain in ‘Bane falls gently on the slain
May 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
On an unusually damp Brisbane May day, Glenda Ellis is chauffeured to the Gabba for a contest that’s on until the final ten minutes.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Revenge
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Young Cody Lane develops a serious sense of satisfaction as his Hawks do the job against the premiers.
AFL Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne: Magical Son of the West
May 14, 2013 by 5 Comments
If the Dogs had recruited Majak they would have won this game. It also would have produced a banner headline in the Footscray Mail: Victory as Magic Door opens for Doggies.
AFL Round 7 – Fremantle v Collingwood: Pies hit by Dockside tsunami
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Dockers’ patched-up junior team cast a spell that not even a misty eyed veteran optimist of 17 years of Freo pain could believe what his eyes were witnessing. Jim Smith wept tears of joy as they ripped the heart from the surging Pies.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Mountain-sized challenged for the Swans
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Cobba Stevens can’t imagine a year that would be better than 2012. The only disadvantage to being so high, is the drop beneath.
AFL Round 7: Nicky Winmar a revolutionary figure?
May 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
Paul Thomson wonders if Nicky Winmar likes the term ‘revolutionary’?
AFL Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne: Tempo
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As May marks a change in tempo in the footy, our Canadian correspondent, Rob Chanter, says patterns in the football season will soon become evident.
AFL Round 7 – Adelaide v GWS: Dangerfield and the Rickenbacker guitar
May 14, 2013 by 11 Comments
Patrick Dangerfield is the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles.
Reliving the pain
May 14, 2013 by 6 Comments
Matt Watson has never watched a replay of a game North Melbourne has lost. He doesn’t have the emotional stability to do it. So what happens when a mate brings a copy of the 1978 Grand Final against Hawthorn?
Drugs in sport: Spare a thought for the players
May 14, 2013 by 4 Comments
The scandal playing out at Essendon is a classic example of the current pressures placed on AFL players, writes Brandon Erceg.
WAFL topples VFL
May 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
AFL scheduling meant the State of Origin clash was always going to struggle to attract a crowd, which was a pity because a great game deserved more.
AFL Round 7 – GWS Giants v Adelaide: Mother’s Day and footy do not mix
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Loyal Giants fan Steve Duffy was witness to a mother’s day massacre.
AFL Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne: Time-on
May 13, 2013 by 3 Comments
The final margin – a 54 point win to North – doesn’t tell the story of this match. It was an interesting game, one I’ll reflect on often as the season grows older.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Down but not out
May 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
Tom Bally ventures south from Sydney for a Mummiless Mother’s Day weekend.
AFL Round 7 -Port Adelaide v Richmond: A grand day out
May 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
Stainless sees his first-ever Richmond interstate game and it’s worth the trip to Adelaide.
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