AFL Round 6 – Adelaide v Hawthorn: Cloudy with a chance of Hawks

Mark Seja believes the Crows have settled into the “comfort zone” of the coach/player relationship.

AFL Round 6 – Richmond v Geelong: Get Kelly in the middle

David Treloar had a sense of trepidation entering this match against the Tigers. Old habits die hard. (Warning: David’s roll call of former Geelong greats could leave Cats fans a little misty eyed.)

AFL Round 6 – Gold Coast v Fremantle: Saturday night’s for fighting, bad decisions, skill errors and 10km on Sundays

Once upon a time Fremantle were once known as a team of turnover merchants thanks to their high risk possession style in the early Gerard Neesham era. It seems that mantle has been passed on to the Suns.

AFL Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: Arrested Dee-velopment

Here’s a fun fact – since beating Port Adelaide in July 2011, Melbourne has won only one of its 30 games against non-expansion sides.

Crio’s Question: Big J.Brown – say it ain’t so

J.Brown spruiking KPI targets for an accounting firm? Can anyone recall another sports product placement as improbable?

AFL Round 6 – North Melbourne v Port Power: When Stu met Chelsea

Stu Warren comes face to face with the diva of decision making; the Aphrodite of adjudication – Chelsea Roffey.

AFL Round 6 – Essendon v GWS Giants: Mind games, magic tricks, martian moves

Caught between two teams, Pamela Sherpa barracked for the Giants in the first half. Inspired choice that.

AFL Round 6 – Collingwood v St.Kilda: Expectation is a funny thing

St.Kilda made the Grand Final in 1997 when they were 1-4 after five rounds. Unfortunately, a lot has changed in 16 years, writes Kelsey Smith.

The Frog and The Footy

Mickey Randall yearns for a dear old Adelaide red wine winter.

AFL Round 6 – The View from Shepparton: Look a bit deeper, Vossy

Voss said: “ Our first quarters are letting us down tremendously” Err, well yes that is true but I think that we need a somewhat deeper analysis than that.

WAFL – Round 8: Slick, Dick show in Falcon Shark shootout

IT was the kind of game coaches hate and spectators love at East Fremantle Oval. The Sharks and Falcons kicked 45.11 between them confusing all sorts of arguments about negative footy and how modern players can’t kick for goal.

AFL Round 6: Winners and Losers

The first rule of Round Six is don’t talk about Round Six. Not because we don’t want anyone to know about it, but because you didn’t even need to witness it to know what happened for 90 per cent of it.

AFL Round 6 – West Coast v Western Bulldogs: Nobody, Nothing and NicNait

The contest reminded Peter Baulderstone of a Bill Collins race call from the 1970’s when two gallopers called Nobody and Nothing were both running around in Melbourne.

AFL Round 6 – Adelaide v Hawthorn: Sunday Mail Back Page

Hot off the press!

AFL Round 6 – Richmond v Geelong: Second v First

When you have genuine feelings for your second favourite team, how does it feel when they come up against your favourite?

AFL Round 6 – Essendon v GWS Giants: Bring Back Kyle Reimers

With the Bombers down at half=time, the Essendon faithful asked: Who would be our Reimers today? Which fringe player would break out and deliver the expected win?

EPL: Barnsley by the skin of their teeth

It’s been a nerve wracking, nail biting month for Barnsley supporters as they battle to stay in the Championship division of UK football.

AFL Round 6 – Richmond v Geelong: The cave of no return

With a nod to the D-Generation’s Satanic Sketches, Saturday night was the cave of no return for the Tigers.

VAFA: Fitzroy at Glenhuntley

Fitzroy fan Phill Hill is discontented. This B grade is our winter of discontent. Last year was a “glorious summer”.

We didn’t start the ire

Jeff Dowsing’s little ditty on the state of footy (with apologies to Billy Joel).