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Sportswriter based in Melbourne. Covering where AFL and pop-culture collide. Twitter + Instagram: @sakatarama
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On Tuesday, it was revealed that Dale Thomas and his management agreed to remove the trigger clause in his contract. The disintegration of the…
Turns out Toby Greene is evil. I'm pretty sure about that. I've seen him punch a small man in slow-motion 25 times. And that's…
Jack Watts is handsome, 6'5" and aggressively white. By conservative estimates, Watts earns probably four times what I do, despite the fact we're both…
It was Round 2, 2013, Western Bulldogs versus Fremantle. Bulldogs player Liam Picken slid into goal umpire Courtney Lai early in the third quarter,…
Samo Petrevski-Seton could have handballed with his left. I know this because I've seen the replay two dozen times. Instead, surrounded by three closing…
Whole rounds of football are great. Individual games of football, exciting, sure. But art, true art, is found in the moments of football. Read…
Brendon Bolton had a problem. Carlton's young list was still a cryptic blend of elite talent and the Thursday roster at Coles. No one…
Sam Powell-Pepper is 19 years old. He is 187cm and 97kg. Sam thinks about physically hurting other people. He frequently does, too. He super…
Football can be about win/loss. It can be about ‘goals' or ‘points' or ‘winning'. Nah. Don't let that be us. We can't be about…
Welcome to 'Kick to Kick', where two writers have it out over football's most contentious topics. This week, we're going back to 2008. West…
Last winter, I went to New York on holiday. I researched a bunch of bars and restaurants on Instagram. I went to them. I…
I tell people I’m a Carlton person. This is like telling people I’m dying. It’s a conversation killer. “My dad was a Carlton supporter”,…
“You are going to be amazing today,” Gillon McLachlan says to himself in the mirror. The CEO of the Australian Football League, Gillon is…
The bloke who cuts my hair also cuts Patrick Cripps' hair. Cripps had just come in for a trim two days before. My barber…
Marty. I really really like Jack Watts as a footballer. He’s not an amazing player per se, sure. But I find his narrative human and extremely relatable. I’m more Watts than Fyfe. Most of us are.
If I had my time again, I probably would have gone with “I Really Like Jack Watts. Although I Don’t Understand Why”
The arguments for and against Jack Watts
I genuinely think the Dees chose Watts because they thought he was better.
It’s the media/reporting on ethnic/aboriginal players that’s problematic. We have an issue with codified language (e.g. excitement machine etc)
The arguments for and against Jack Watts