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- Member Since:
- November 2009
- Based In:
- Melbourne
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Melbourne Storm
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- AFL, League, Rugby, Cricket,
Latest Articles
Who was the greatest: the 2001-03 Lions or the 2007-09 Cats?
3 days agoImmediately after Brisbane claimed their third consecutive premiership in 2003, Anthony Hudson proclaimed that they had become “the greatest side of the modern era”. Robert Walls, who had seen some mighty sides in his time, declared them to be “the best team that I’ve seen”. Only six years later, Geelong won their second premiership in [...]
Ignore the players on the bump issue
17 May 2013In most instances the opinions of the players are worthy of serious consideration. Tribunal testimonies are an obvious exception as are, strangely, issues concerning their own on-field safety. Players can be strange creatures. One apologises for breaking another one’s jaw while another congratulates a bloke for flattening him with a shirtfront: “Good hit last night. Old [...]
Jolly's cheap shots are poor form
12 May 2013I was reading Darren Jolly’s Age column on sledging this week when I came across a reference to his former Collingwood teammate Josh Fraser: “I’m sure if he’d had a better attitude, we could have had a good ruck combination and he would have continued at the Pies for a bit longer.” Jolly was referring [...]
Players the victim in Bombers' ASADA saga
9 May 2013It is unfair that the fate of the Essendon players – the real victims of the whole supplement saga – now reside in the hands of ASADA. The Switkowski report did not recommend the sacking or suspension of any of the Essendon staff responsible for the recruitment of sports scientist Stephen Dank and the monitoring [...]
Hoping the good looking Hawks stay that way
5 May 2013If AFL was about the spectacle, Hawthorn – the cool aesthetes of the competition – would be the reigning premiers. Is there a more disparate pair than Travis Cloke and Ryan Schoenmakers? When they lined up on each other in Round 3, if you hadn’t known better, you would have assumed Cloke – scowling and [...]
What's wrong with the Pies?
28 Apr 2013On ANZAC Day, James Hird was smiling and Nathan Buckley was frowning. The former is the subject of a drug investigation but the latter has real problems. Whether it’s injuries, weariness, a failure to evolve, or a combination of these, the Pies – a flag favourite, for many – seem to be in a bit [...]
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