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If the world were a good and just place, Jack Martin would be wearing navy blue. But it’s not and he isn’t. It was…
I hope Carlton picks up a handful of the delisted free agents. It might fly in the face of a sound list management strategy,…
There’s something special about this time of year. The winter chill has been replaced by warmth and greenery and hay-fever, the tabloids are full…
All my wisdom teeth are out. Warm blood oozed and my cheeks exploded, and mood swings are to be expected following the operation. It…
Gosh, who knows where to start with the weekend that was. Extraordinary crowds, eardrum-bursting fast cars and the wondrously large Himalayan mountains are hosting…
Patrick Cummins is the relevant substitute for Mitchell Starc. Sure, the appropriate indicators tell a different story. He has the durability of a cruddy…
The Decision Review System is not preventing the howler. There are several structural flaws. These structural flaws are: a) As Steve Smith demonstrated, it…
Tom Rockliff was discarded like sour chunky yoghurt. Dayne Beams – who looks, moves and plays like a modern day captain – was named…
Scrambled eggs are made and ruined by heat and time. Like most things in life, if you leave them to cook on the pan…
Australia's sensual sugary dizzying high. From catastrophe to victory. A possibly Pyrrhic victory. A our-middle-order-is-still-? victory. A Maddinson-will-play-in-the-next-test-and-Ferguson-won't-for-reasons-I-can't-quite-understand victory. A infinite-unanswered-questions victory. But a…
Saturday was glorious. The result defied logic and history and time and space and speed and depth and the very framework of our society.…
Sometimes we forget that, at heart, Aussie rules football is incomprehensibly silly. It exists for two reasons. Firstly, it gives the customer service people…
I need to preface this article with the following statement: I am not a pacifist. To prove it, here are a list of things…
Dinosaurs once ruled the Earth. Then, due to the great flood of the 1960s, they no longer did. Which brings me to my point.…
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Perth a long-limbed man in a navy blue jumper will leap out onto the football field for his…
Zach Tuohy looks, and is, fiercely competitive. Sweat pours from his beard down to his body. His eyes dart left and right, scoping out…
In a contested situation, he reminds me of the guy who pretends to help clean up at the end of the party, moving just…
How does that change the merit of the argument?
Gold Coast must ruin everything and pick up Jack Martin
Not making this argument, but just to scope it out further – would it be different to Essendon keeping Joe Daniher, Sydney Tom Papley, Geelong Tim Kelly in 2018 etc. I’m aware that the contractual situation is different, but would it create a similarly toxic environment?
Gold Coast must ruin everything and pick up Jack Martin
The power of spite (and holding back your direct competition)
Gold Coast must ruin everything and pick up Jack Martin
One year late, but the last sentence of this comment is gross.
Patrick Cummins – the replacement we deserve
I’ve missed a lot of players here (and I’m not sure if I properly answered your question! The coulda-been-champion team definitely includes Cory McGrath.)
Delisted: A case for the unwanted
Hmm, off the top of my head (be gentle, I’ve taken a lot of Codral)
B: Plowman Jones Simpson
CHB: Docherty Weitering Garlett
M: O’Brien Cripps Petrevski-Seton
CHF: Townsend C Curnow Fasolo
F: Pickett McKay McGovern
R: Kreuzer Dow Kennedy
INT: E Curnow Fisher Marchbank Williamson
E: Newman, Thomas, Lang, Barlow, Silvagni, 12 other delistees and one draft pick.
Delisted: A case for the unwanted
Thanks! I have something between the cold and the flu at the moment, so it was written in a bit of a weird haze.
Delisted: A case for the unwanted
My argument would be – while they (players and other team staff perhaps to a lesser extent at the moment, but administrators, list managers, AFL.com.au writers et al) are drawing a wage from the AFL, which is in the business of entertaining spectators, they are constantly fulfilling a duty to contribute to our entertainment.
If the trade period is not entertaining, then the AFL is – abstractly, and with everyone holding a different degree of responsibility – failing in their role.
A shorter, wiser trade period
I’m becoming more persuaded by your argument (I’m not familiar with the ongoings of MLB, so I don’t know if mid season trade period functions happily)
Do you think players would be able to coexist during the season (or, would they be less able to coexist) if they knew – with some degree of certainty – that their teammate could be their opposition next week?
Would there be more hesitation in discussing strategy, positioning (etc etc) with the knowledge that this would become enemy info?
[Also – I’d really love that bracketed sentence in the article to come out. No idea how to contact the editors besides email and the contact form]
A shorter, wiser trade period
The whole premise of this and their profession is to entertain. The whole thing falls under itself if they fail to do so
A shorter, wiser trade period
I’m all for a mid season draft of state league players to fill in gaps and bolster depth and so on. And I love the unmitigated chaos that a trade period which enters the regular season would bring, but the heightened speculation and uncertainty can only destabilise everyone & everything involved.
Would be fun though.
A shorter, wiser trade period
Thanks for the kind words.
I absolutely subscribe to your argument. I think it has taken away a bit of the theatre and – as a fan – when the action happens next Friday, I’m a bit fatigued by the whole ordeal.
But, in this period of football nothingness, extending the chatter for as long as possible can only be advantageous to the industry.
A shorter, wiser trade period
Editor(s): can you change the one sentence to (see Adam Saad choosing Essendon over Carlton)
Thanks!
A shorter, wiser trade period
Fortunately, there’s always money in the banana stand.
Football as modern art, featuring Sam Powell-Pepper and Rory Sloane
“Sounds like a stoner’s response to seeing The Matrix for the first time – “Cool. Deep.”
:/
(stares into the void for a bit)
The Liebke Ratings: India vs Australia fourth Test
“I see Brett Lee as my idol but I see Glenn McGrath as my teacher.”
I love this line. Great job!
The life of a young Test cricket fan
I’m not necessarily advocating for Bird to be Starc’s replacement.I just think he’s been deprived of any continuity at an international level, for reasons that seem to be superficial.
Also, I think Bird and Hazlewood make for an excellent combination, but maybe that’s another article.
Patrick Cummins – the replacement we deserve
Only the last part of this article eventuated (to be confirmed)
Gold Coast must ruin everything and pick up Jack Martin