AFL Draw & Fixtures 2012

Players that blatantly stage for free kicks should be, at the very least, rubbed out for a week. Essendon’s Leroy Jetta this week became the first AFL player to be charged with staging after all-too-easily going to ground in the second quarter of his club’s game with Richmond. But while Jetta will miss this week’s [...]

When I write about sport, I usually don’t enjoy writing in such a negative manner. But sometimes, a negative opinion is necessary. I’ll only construe a negative opinion when I believe there is a significant problem in a respective topic. And that topic right now is the Melbourne Football Club. Hell, I’m glad I live [...]

As we sit here eight rounds into the AFL season, we get the news that AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou will be jetting off to the London Olympics to learn from the world’s greatest sporting event. Which leads to the thought, what else can the domestic powerhouse that is AFL learn from codes around the country [...]

Football Australia, in their National Competition Review, have suggested that they will be moving away from the salary cap towards a points based system. Released on 21 May, FFA’s National Competition Review makes several suggestions as to possible competition changes. On page 28, it states “A key outcome of the NCR was the introduction of [...]

Hype is a strange thing in professional sport. Some teams can ride the wave of expectation to greater heights, whereas others just seem to drown in it. Such is the case of two teams at the moment, who will go up against each other next week in the AFL – Carlton and Melbourne. While Melbourne [...]

With all the talk about Sydney crowds, and their constant disappointment and embarrassment to the rugby-league community, we need to examine a powerful team that underperformed in every metric off the field despite their constant success. I speak of the Brisbane Broncos. Only recently have the Brisbane Broncos garnered 25,000 members. This is pathetic when [...]