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How good is footy? Welcome to season 2024 everyone. The launch of the new season means one thing…power rankings. Thanks to the marketing chicanery…
Round 17 was the second round after the completion of that weird 'bye month' and I didn't do power rankings last week because to…
A round full of upsets made for a tipsters nightmare this week with Collingwood and Essendon the only favourites running out comfortable victors against…
It was the first of two annual Sir Doug Nicholls' rounds this year where all 18 AFL clubs come together to acknowledge the wonderful…
This Mother's Day weekend was dominated by some absolutely sublime football from a rampaging Collingwood outfit, more questions are asked of a struggling Carlton…
Two months down, four to go the eight is continuing to take shape as the pretenders are separated from the contenders. This round had…
This round was dominated by two beltings, and two matches ending by the slimmest of margins.
This round provided innumerable highlights for all fans of all clubs.
We are now a month into season and the wintery weather has begun to set into Melbourne town as sides were forced to contend…
This is the first round in which every club has a body of work with which to assess them. So what conclusions can be…
Welcome back to my weekly column, the Power Rankings. In all honest this was an extremely difficult week to write, teams that were good…
After the first round of the AFL, there are a few surprises.
I know, I know it’s February. But I’m bored and footy deprived. So let’s do a coaching pressure gauge, which is, let’s face it,…
Providing power rankings for the AFL player movement period is difficult - it is a reach to write off clubs that did poorly when…
The Bombers failed to land the outspoken Alastair Clarkson and it speaks volumes to the malaise that Essendon have found themselves in for over…
The machinations surrounding the contract status of Alastair Clarkson have been thrown for a loop this week as the Bombers have finally thrown their…
Welcome back to my weekly column where I rank your side relative to every other side on the basis of their performance that week.…
The ladder appears to be sorting itself out as the front pack coalesces around the dominant Melbourne and Brisbane sides, while the lower reaches…
Welcome back to my weekly column on the power rankings of each side. In this piece I will go through every side and rank…
This week we had a resurgent North Melbourne fall agonisingly short against flag fancy Sydney, the Bulldogs couldn’t hit the side of a barn…
I dunno about that when he can be beaten by Mason Redman who is 21 centimetres shorter than Darcy he needs some work
Footy Fix: The Saints were ten times as rubbish as the Dogs were last week - and it's worth working out why
I would use the guillotine as a metaphor. If Bevo was sitting in the bascule with his head in the lunette after last night Ross has replaced him. Yeah a week is a long time in footy but last nights match revealed some fundamental flaws in the Saints gamestyle, and that is the exceptionally low ceiling of the saints as a whole, the bombers are inconsistent but they have a high ceiling like that Greek soccer coach in the meme. Ross’ skill has always been getting the absolute most out of his worst players.
Footy Fix: The Saints were ten times as rubbish as the Dogs were last week - and it's worth working out why
Yeah they managed to get out of it when the Blues got wrecked for their brown paper bags
Luke Beveridge is on borrowed time - he's an inconsistent coach who gets inconsistent results
Yeah they don’t have the brother that’s good at coaching though. Mark McVeigh is the superior coach because of his experience at the Giants and the ACT/NSW side last year
Luke Beveridge is on borrowed time - he's an inconsistent coach who gets inconsistent results
The thing that was most impressive about Sheedy was he was able to take four extremely different lists to winning grand finals. Yes he should have won more flags particularly after 2000 where they were historically good. But the fact that they were able to win the flag multiple times throughout the eighties and nineties but also the coaching landscape was very different back then.
I think Bevos biggest problem is a man management one. He doesn’t know how to develop and get the best out of the players on his list. I think you can look at how they’ve managed Jedd Busslinger he should have come in already and he hasn’t.
Luke Beveridge is on borrowed time - he's an inconsistent coach who gets inconsistent results
The thing is they don’t need to go with Kirk, Dean cox is extremely highly rated as an assistant.
Luke Beveridge is on borrowed time - he's an inconsistent coach who gets inconsistent results
Dw Josh Eyre is superior more an athlete than a footballer.
AFL News: Pies flag hero announces concussion-forced retirement, Larkey confident North can turn season around
Clarko will quit around the middle of next year I reckon. There is a lot more pain due for this club and their first step to getting over it is getting over their messiah complex
AFL News: Pies flag hero announces concussion-forced retirement, Larkey confident North can turn season around
1.Norf are my favourites for pick one, they never should have traded Ben McKay, if anything it was wilful on their part and therefore they should be denied pick one and the assistance package. 2. I was very sad to hear of Nathan Murphy, I hope he is able to get the care that he needs as he needs to prioritise his health at this time.
AFL News: Pies flag hero announces concussion-forced retirement, Larkey confident North can turn season around
So much for protecting the head
AFL News: Why Cameron escaped ban for dumping tackle, Blues star hit for six, Dees re-sign fan favourite
Honestly? The issue rests with both fans and social media outlets themselves. They do an absolutely horrendous job of moderating the worst behaviour on their platforms
Social media trolling of our sportspeople has its newest victim - but Sonja Hood won't be the last unless we take a stand
Yeah getting good smalls is really tough they know a lot of skills that aren’t easy to teach. That’s why Jake Kelly is still a walk up starter at the bombers
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
Honestly it would be a mistake for the eagles to offer the kind of money required to extract English from the western bulldogs. You’re right that the list does have holes but I think they’ve been exacerbated by Bevo rather than fixed. As soon as they offered Liam Jones a three year deal when he was already over thirty was the wrong call if he wasn’t the last piece they needed. I am wondering what on earth they’re trying to do with Jedd Busslinger, or Arthur jones who have both misfired a lot. It reeks of draft busts
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
Honestly only winning one flag with the list that he has had is under performing
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
He’s always made baffling selection choices it’s just now it’s coming back
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
Like I don’t like people that use injuries as an excuse, but they can be an explanation for poor form and the bombers have low key had a soft tissue injury crisis that does need to be investigated particularly in the backline and with our most defensively accountable players like Setterfield. The other thing I noticed yesterday was we were having multiple players take kick outs and they all have some subtle variations on their kicking form as well
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
Yup the four year deal he signed earlier is warranted because he is the most defensively sound midfielder the bombers have.
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
Yeah that’s fair he’s very athletic, he was able to outpace smaller opponents really well. I think he should watch people of a similar size like Mac Andrew and Nik cox and pick up their behaviours
'Stuck in quicksand': The Bulldogs are lost in mid-table mediocrity again - and something's got to give soon
I paid particular attention to him last night and he is very much a third tall you can’t ask him to play directly on an opponent
'Stuck in quicksand': The Bulldogs are lost in mid-table mediocrity again - and something's got to give soon
He’s on the money
'Stuck in quicksand': The Bulldogs are lost in mid-table mediocrity again - and something's got to give soon
It’s discipline they gave away three fifty metre penalties last night and that is something they can control.
'Stuck in quicksand': The Bulldogs are lost in mid-table mediocrity again - and something's got to give soon
Obviously I wish all the best to Libba, hopefully it’s not anything too serious
UPDATED: Dogs place Liberatore in concussion protocols after scary collapse, but maintain no symptoms
For once the bulldogs game was fairly umpired. I think this is more a game that is attributable to the mismanagement of Luke Beveridge. If they don’t make the Eight this year the pressure will ramp right up
Footy Fix: How the Bombers brained the Bulldogs - and Bevo - with their most brutal nine minutes in a decade
I think the fact of the matter is Clarkson got lucky and is a protected species. He did deserve a suspension for his comments, particularly as a coach you should never be interacting with opposition players in anyway.
'Totally unacceptable': AFL bans Port star for 'unprompted and highly offensive' homophobic slur
Yeah it was a strange coaching decision by Brad Scott, but I get that the harm that would have been done by playing Nik Cox on him would have been far worse. Personally I think Zach Reid is the best opponent on the Essendon list but he can’t get on the park
Footy Fix: The Saints were ten times as rubbish as the Dogs were last week - and it's worth working out why