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- Member Since:
- March 2011
- Based In:
- Melbourne
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Richmond Tigers, St.George Illawarra, Gold Coast Blue Tongues
- Favourite Sports:
- AFL, League,
Latest Articles
This is why loyalty will never die in the AFL
2 Sep 2011In the modern world of AFL, players leaving clubs for contracts of greater financial value and plying their trade elsewhere has become a common trend. With the addition of the Gold Coast Suns this season and Greater Western Sydney in 2012, it is only going to become a more prominent concept. And we’ve already seen [...]
North Stars prepare for Goodall Cup tilt
1 Sep 2011Only days out from the biggest weekend of the Australian Ice Hockey League season, you could excuse teams like the Newcastle North Stars from preparing a little differently for their semi-final against the Ice Dogs on Saturday. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of the build-up to the finals weekend. The nerves [...]
Bears to play for Aussie Ice Hockey pride
21 Aug 2011Despite the fact they won’t be featuring in the Australian Ice Hockey League playoffs, the Sydney Bears still have plenty to play for in their last game of the season against cross-town rivals the Sydney Ice Dogs on Sunday afternoon. Like any sport where local rivals go head to head, there will be plenty of [...]
Tyrone Vickery is a very big prospect
21 Jun 2011Richmond’s Tyrone Vickery is one player contributing to the emergence of a modern day football trend. At 200cm, Vickery is a natural ruckman, but a lack of physical strength and the Tigers lacking a counterpart for Jack Riewoldt, he has been successfully thrown down forward this season. The difference between a player like Tyrone Vickery [...]
The AFL tribunal must go back to basics
14 May 2011The time has come for the AFL to implement a basic yet effective judiciary system for the sanctioning of player behaviour on the field. It has become obvious over the past few years that the more we complicate the system with demerit points, the type of contact (negligent or reckless) and other associated garbage, the [...]
Demons take a major step backwards
4 May 2011The excitement that a young side can provide for its fans is invaluable. I know it all too well – as a Tigers fan, there’s nothing that gets me more excited than seeing the likes of Cotchin, Deledio, Martin and Riewoldt link up to score a goal that puts Richmond in front late in the [...]
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