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- June 2011
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- Brisbane Lions
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Latest Articles
McGuire and Jurrah show AFL's conflict of interest
14 Mar 2012With more and more ex-AFL stars hitting our television screens, radio dials and newspapers, the lengths that some people in the football community will go to protect a mate seems to also grow. AFL footballers and journalists can apparently pick and choose what stories go to print, with consideration of friendships and allegiances placed before [...]
Possibilities are endless for final round of Shield
6 Mar 2012With the domestic one-day and Twenty20 titles done and dusted, the Bupa Sheffield Shield is beginning to heat up again. With one round of matches left any of four sides could feature in the final, let alone host it as well. Only South Australia and New South Wales are out of the finals race. The [...]
AFL pre-season competition needs wake-up call
3 Mar 2012Without accusing AFL fans of being obsessive, it is evident that everybody is sick of waiting for the pre-season to finish and for the home-and-away season to begin. Most clubs began their pre-season in late October to early November. Many got their first hit-out in the pre-season competition in mid-February, while others played intra-club games [...]
Second tier football, second rate support
2 Sep 2011With the developing growth of the AFL as a single entity, it seems that the competitions that breed this success have been lost in the picture. State league competitions have been suffering as a result of poor management and a helping hand from the AFL. But can something be done to rejuvenate the history and [...]
Summer of hope for Australian cricket
12 Aug 2011From its glory days back in the early part of the century, Australian cricket seems to have hit a crossroad. The Australian side is now the fifth ranked Test team in the world and faces a summer which could make things worse. On the one-day front, things are still quite good, and despite not giving [...]
Why does blame always fall on coaches?
5 Aug 2011Does responsibility always rest with those at the top of the tree? For Adelaide Crows and Melbourne Demons fans, apparently it does. Two coaches in two weeks and whispering of more to come, but is the sacking of AFL’s senior coaches the best medicine? 2011 is bound to go down in the record books for [...]
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