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Fanatical football romanticist with a murderous loathing of undeservedly unpredictable bounces. Not a fan of Sharrod Wellingham's hair nor the sleeve tattoo. Do like Sean Dempster's humble simplicity.
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Not many will join me in feeling any kind of sympathy for Ross Lyon - he's not the kind of fellow who seems to…
So according to most pundits, Buddy Franklin is the new Peter Hudson, Kurt Tippett is pretty much Tony Lockett, Sydney is a runaway grand…
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I know your kind well enough. You're the one sitting there shaking your head because your afternoon has been interrupted by another parcel of…
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Paul Little blames the Hird Camp. Tania Hird blames Andrew Demetriou. James Hird blames everyone but himself. Ian Hanke blames whoever isn't paying him.…
It's that time of the year when we are bombarded with the last-minute pitch by AFL clubs keen to separate us from our hard-earned…
Almost every year there’s a finals bolter. Remember North Melbourne’s ten-rung rise between 2006 and 2007? Or the Saint's climb from fortunate, long-distant fourth…
At the Gold Coast Suns' preseason clash against the Bombers I witnessed the first of the AFL's expansion clubs grabbing their inherited empire with…
What we see and hear about behaviour in and at sporting event rarely adds up to anything other than a pile of over-heated perceptions.…
Let cricket commentary speak its own language, and let commentators speak for themselves. Channel Nine's approach to the Test matches has become more than…
‘Dougie’s Chewin’ Gum While Brearley Sucks his Plums.’ This playfully crass bit of wordplay was scrawled on a bed sheet and held aloft at…
The story goes that Brendon Goddard cried when back in 2002 he heard he was off to St Kilda. Apparently, too, his mother rang…
I had my Saints slotted for about 7 wins this year. They lost their fair share of close games. The Saints also showed – a bit like Gold Coast a few years back – young sides with a sprinkling of aged talent simply don’t have the capacity to run out four quarters. Usually they mucked in, though and, man, did they circulate some younglings through their year. Frankly, given all but a decade of finals and a couple of close flag tilts, the Saints probably couldn’t give a rats about win/loss this year. They’ll simply be more concerned with getting miles into young midfield legs (very much the Pelchen way – work a pool of mids). They’ll draft defenders this year. Next year will be a similar tale and they’ll look for forward KP talent to cover as much as they can the demise of Riewoldt. Thereafter they’ll begin the climb again. A two year bottom out after such a long run of relative success would be a massive coup. That their year was light for ladder success but heavy on consistent competitive effort would be construed as an early rebuild win.
Brisbane continue to be the greatest disappointment for mine. They have been in nowheresville for far too long.
North are a Top 4 side. That they were ultimately 10th-ish is as weird as it is unbelievable. Huge underachievers.
This year's top three AFL disappointments
Hi Lee.
The reference is to the likes of Peake, McQualter, Eddy etc. The filler-innerer brigade.
Noble, but not in the same class as their Freo ‘equivalents’.
M
Why has everyone forgotten about the Dockers?