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Richmond brought crashing back down to earth, again
31 Mar 2012The hype surrounding Richmond’s pre-season form has been nothing short of farcical. Again, as with previous years, the media and key figures within the club itself have managed to brainwash the majority of the football public into believing that the Tigers are finally the real deal. All before a proper game had even been played. [...]
The annual AFL off-season wait is almost over
13 Feb 2012After every grand final, footy fans around the country grieve, aside from fans of the Premiers perhaps. They mourn the loss of footy for the six or so months to follow. The weather heats up, schools close, and of course we are glued to the screen watching the cricket until late January, around the same [...]
Sportsbet too quick out of the blocks
14 Aug 2011If you backed Chris Judd to win this year’s Brownlow medal with sportsbet.com.au, you have no doubt collected your winnings. For what it’s worth, congratulations. Sportsbet, one of Australia’s leading online bookmakers, decided this week that Juddy is such a certainty to win his third medal, that continuing to run a Brownlow market would be [...]
Time for Jeff Kennett to put a sock in it
9 Aug 2011Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett seems to have made rubbing people up the wrong way into an art form. The outspoken figure and authority on matters everything last week fired a shot at perceived Melbourne savior Garry Lyon. Not for the first time, Kennett has stuck his substantial nose in where it is neither wanted nor [...]
Melbourne needs to earn back respect
4 Aug 2011It’s happened again. Another AFL coach has been giving his marching orders on the back of an inept performance by his playing group. Melbourne’s sacking of Dean Bailey was simply a kneejerk reaction that was untimely, irresponsible and totally unnecessary. The Melbourne board, wanting to be seen as doing something, responded to their 186-point belting [...]
Tom Scully: Time to leave the kid alone
14 Jul 2011It seems that not a day can go by without an article being published debating the impending Tom Scully decision and frankly, I’ve had enough. There is little if any doubt that this will certainly be the biggest talking point once the footy off season commences – at least when Melbourne commences theirs. However, the [...]
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