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History of the VFL/AFL pre-season competition
5 Feb 2013In a couple of weeks the AFL pre-season competition begins. I thought it would be good to take a look back at how the pre-season developed into today’s NAB Cup. The Victorian Football League pre-season competition can trace its roots back to the 1956 Night Premiership. With the VFL running a four-team finals format at [...]
A look back at State footy in the 60s
4 Feb 2013We’d seen off the Korean War and ‘Nam was yet to come, and in between we had our footy. Having had a look at the 70s, I thought that I’d keep going back in time to the lesser known era of the 1960s. The ’60s may have been the last great era of national footy [...]
A look at state football in the 70s
2 Feb 2013There’s always some conjecture concerning the relative quality of the state leagues and players that changed leagues in the 70s and 80s when the VFL/SANFL/WAFL competitions enjoyed something of a monopoly in their respective states. What I’d like to do in this piece is look at some of the events surrounding the changes which affected [...]
The 2013 Foxtel Cup preview
4 Dec 2012The AFL has announced a raft of changes to the 2013 edition of the Foxtel Cup. The number of teams has been reduced to ten (down from sixteen), with less qualifiers per competition making the cut. This means that instead of four matches required to win the competition it will take three. Qualifiers will be [...]
International football: Carlton vs England, 1888
24 Nov 2012I was doing some research for another project when I happened across the Argus report of a game between England and Carlton dated June 18th, 1888. The report is fascinating for a number of reasons so I thought I’d go through it. The match report tells us this was the debut of the Englishmen under [...]
The AFL and restraint of trade
30 Oct 2012Every so often the question of the ability of the AFL to withstand restraint of trade cases in court pops up for discussion, most recently with regards to the possible – if unlikely – deregistration of Kurt Tippett at Adelaide. To date, the most commonly cited example of restraint of trade in Australian sport is [...]
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