Round 4 – Essendon v Geelong: 9 Darts in Belfast

Peter Flynn posts from Belfast, watching Geelong and attending a Premier League Darts night with the Old Muckers, clearly darts was the winner. He was part of something very special.

NAB Challenge | West Coast v Essendon: Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again

Even NAB Challenge games can evoke memory and the importance of memory in following footy. Kasey Symons is “thoroughly look forward to being completely surprised by it all over again in 2016 because my, my, just how much I’ve missed it.”

Book Review: The Straight Dope by Chip Le Grand

John Butler provides an thought provoking review of Chip Le Grand’s book, a must read.

Mentoring Jake Melksham

Dam is reconsidering Jake Melksham’s year ahead following the small Swiss kerfuffle during the week. Suggestions welcome

Round 20 – Essendon v Adelaide: A Bradman win at Etihad by the Crows

Blacks, Greys and the Bombers are blue. Rulebook covers the Crows’ biggest ever win in Melbourne and imparts a couple of blows to the AFL and everyone’s favourite coach while he’s at it.

Round 16 – North Melbourne v Essendon: ‘Baby Bombers’ competitive but North just too classy

Nick Weidmann reports in as the Baby Bombers V.2 fail to live up to the first iteration.

Round 14 – Essendon v St Kilda: Saints win credibility

Andy Tuano eventually gets into Etihad to see his Saints present their big boy credentials. A fine Farren Ray moment to be found. Phil Walsh not far from thoughts.

Round 9 – Richmond v Essendon: Dreamtime Nightmare

Dustin Fletcher doesn’t quite get his dream 400th as Caspar McLeod reports in on the third most important occasion of the footy calendar

ASADA v Essendon: through the haze and fog, now what?

With the dust settling from Tuesday’s AFL tribunal decision for 34 past and current Essendon players, Associate Professor Daryl Adair from UTS examines what can be learned from the saga and recommends processes that need to be implemented to ensure that statuary bodies can better investigate possible uses of PEDs in Australian sport

Ready Reckoner: Where Do the Western Bulldogs Fit Amongst Recent AFL ‘Scandals’?

Avoid knee-jerk reactions and mis-directed, energy sapping, screaming-banshee hysteria on social media or in refined company with Dave Brown’s handy guide to the appropriate level of outrage you should invoke when it comes to AFL ‘scandals’.

Celebrating Essendon’s Back to Back Flags

Ahead of their 30th Anniversary and reunion celebrations later this year, Wesley Hull recalls a time of great joy for many Essendon fans: the back-to-back years of 1984 and 1985. [I still tear up in joy watching Leon Baker’s blind turn goal in the last quarter that starts the comeback avalanche! – Ed]

Can Essendon Field a Pre-season Team?

John Tait runs the slide rule over Caro’s ‘could haves’ and calculations. Did the Bombers have a ready-made cunning plan?

The Finals: Perfect Prelims – A Walk Down Memory Lane

The 2014 Preliminary Finals are drawing ever-closer. And to get us all in the mood, Steve Baker recalls some of the classic Prelims: Stynes going over the mark in ’87, Fraser Brown’s tackle in ’99, Plugger’s after the siren gem in ’96 and the death of the ‘Kennett Curse’.