Round 2 – Port Adelaide v Sydney: A slow and painful death

The Swans give Port the anaconda treatment writes Chris Michaels.

Round 1 – Sydney v Essendon: Unknown knowns and known unknowns

Ian Latham saw the Swans ultimately take this game, but that doesn’t mean he knows how or why it happened. Redemption? Culture? Who really knows?

Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life: A Winning Attitude is Habit-Forming

Should we be worried True Believers? Cam Hooke searches for some reassurance following the Pies lacklustre display against the Bulldogs on Saturday evening.

Calling the Callers: Hawks Christmas revue.

As a Christmas treat to Almanackers, Paul Campbell undertakes to review the various broadcasts of the 2014 AFL Grand Final…in songs and vignettes!

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

Tom Bally’s Sydney season was bookended by stunning, inexplicable losses. Replay watching is not on his mind anytime soon. He’ll be back, but he may not be the same.

AFL Grand Final – Sydney v Hawthorn: One day in September

The sun shone brightly on Grand Final day, writes Cookie.

Back-to-back – under controversial circumstances

If the Swans salute on Saturday, Buddy will be just the third player on AFL/VFL history to go back-to-back with different clubs. Matt Watson provides us with some insight into the previous two.

Buddy v Royce

This is an intriguing experiment. Old Dog, thinking creatively, again.

Grand Final Week

JTH on some of the festivities from the prelims to the Brownlow to the Grand Final

AFL Round 22 – Western Bulldogs v Sydney: Concessions

Tom Riordan had food for thought watching the best team in the comp take apart his Dogs. Unexpectedly good seats, too.

AFL Round 21 – Sydney v St Kilda: Half Time Hero

As well as watching Buddy and the Swans take care of the Saints, Joe Moore was at the SCG to farewell a cult hero.

AFL Round 18 – Hawthorn v. Sydney: Exile on Franklin Street

Hawks fan Paul Campbell reflects on a thrilling contest against arch nemesis Swans, and the ‘Darktown Strutters Ball’ enjoyed by the returning Buddy.

When Harry met Jacquie: Talking footy while purchasing a bull at the sales in Glen Innes

Nank, in the market for a decent bull, heads to the tablelands of New England where he talks footy and settles on the possibility of a Swans-Cats Grand Final. [The bulls are well-named up there – Ed]

AFL Round 17: Sydney v Carlton – Fighting uphill

The earth moves, in a geological, shale-showering kind of way, for Swans scribe Keiran Deck.

AFL Round 14 – Richmond v Sydney: All About Buddy

Following Richmond v Sydney, John Green weighs up the contenders and asks: is Lance Franklin the most famous Buddy of all? [How many Buddies can you name?]

AFL Round 13 – Sydney v Port Adelaide: Staggering to the Line

Once a Bloods man always a Bloods man. Don Meadows takes the tram to the Rising Sun in South Melbourne to take in the gripping top of the table clash between his Lakesiders and the Adelaide wharfies.

AFL Round 13 – Sydney v Port Adelaide: It’s Not About the Footy (Ari’s debut)

The Moores come from all points of the compass to meet at the SCG, as is the annual tradition. Ari makes his debut, Buddy goes off, and the weekend ends with a happy surprise. [Great family and footy yarn – Ed]

AFL Round 13 – Review: We’ve got the close ones

Four tight finishes in a round of exciting footy. JTH enjoys the idea of the pillars of society dropping their guard in the evening cold in the MCC Members, and reckons Port have nothing to fear.

AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Hawthorn: Don’t mind if we do

A bottle of Church Block and a night in front of the footy is exactly what the AFL had in mind when it scheduled the Grand Final re-match.

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