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Gordon P Smith

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I'm a Yank who stays up Friday and Saturday nights from March through September to get my fix o'footy.

Member Since:: February 2017
Based In:: Idaho, USA
Favourite Sports:: AFL,

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Two weeks left: Who's our player of the year? Who wins the Coleman?

2 days ago

We’re no more than ten days from the end of the home-and-away season, so even counting finals we’ve only 27 occasions to savour the joy of watching the greatest players perform the greatest sport on the planet.

Are we really back to this 17-game season again?

13 Aug 2018

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water.

Thoughts on a great round of AFL football

9 Aug 2018

The horror of Sunday’s games over the ineptitude of Carlton and Gold Coast, and in particular the maelstrom with Optus as its Oculus, has overshadowed the phenomenal first six games of Round 20.

Last weekend I witnessed something never before seen on an AFL pitch

7 Aug 2018

One of the great joys of watching sports, even if you’ve been watching for four, five, six decades like us older folks have been, is that it seems like every single day, you see something that you’ve simply never seen before.

How bad is too bad?

31 Jul 2018

Watching the Carlton-Gold Coast game Saturday, particularly the first half, was an exercise in patience – especially after watching the amazing Richmond victory over the Magpies earlier in the day.

The AFL August stats update

31 Jul 2018

There are four rounds to go, and while the top spot on the ladder seems destined to be coloured yellow and black and the bottom spot is predipped in blue, there are many questions left to be answered.

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Two weeks left: Who’s our player of the year? Who wins the Coleman?

If the Brownlow was strictly a "Most Valuable Player" award, I would back your opinion completely, although I'd also support a Max Gawn campaign this season, and a Lance Franklin campaign any season. But the game-by-game nature of the Brownlow lends itself to supporting a candidate like Mitchell, who in the majority of Hawthorn's games was the most significant player on the field. The Hawks have 13 wins (at the moment I write this), so if he got three votes eight times, it's easy to think 24 votes might win the medal right there. That doesn't mean he's the most valuable Hawk, let alone the most valuable league-wide. But unlike last year, that's a horse of a different color. ' The Brownlow rewards the players who get recognized like the column that got cut out of the table in my article - who stands out in how many games? Mitchell and Gawn have been recognized by 80% of our sources in ten games each this season, and those usually translate to two or three votes per game. (Fyfe, Dangerfield, Grundy, and Oliver are next with seven each.) That, too, is why I'm fairly certain it'll be one of those two men winning the Brownlow this season.

2 days ago

Last weekend I witnessed something never before seen on an AFL pitch

Sorry. It's the thesaurus lover in me. I got tired of "field", "oval", "grounds"... resorted to pitch. (And I'm not from Sydney - I'm from Idaho.)

8 Aug 2018

Gaff set for big ban, Eagles win derby

I wish anon’s comment wasn’t necessary, but his point is well taken. So far I haven’t seen that this makeup of the tribunal has been “starstruck” - five weeks for Cameron was probably about right, especially since Andrews came back in four. And Justif01’s connection to Bugg’s ban is superb: six weeks is probably right. Maybe just “the rest of the season”, to be safe. It was unquestionably more heinous than Cameron’s crime.

6 Aug 2018

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