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It was an entertaining round of footy with plenty of surprises, upsets and milestones.
It was an entertaining round of footy with plenty of surprises, upsets and milestones.
The final part of the Round 5 review covers the two Sunday games and the traditional Easter Monday game between Hawthorn and Geelong.
I said in my last article that the biggest upset of the round was Port Adelaide beating West Coast Eagles.
For nearly all of his eight-year career at West Coast, the 203-centimetre South Australian Scott Lycett was overshadowed.
Port Adelaide defeated West Coast 13.17 (95) to 8.5 (53) on Good Friday at Optus Stadium, and here are my key takeaways for Port Adelaide.
It was 1981. Malcolm Fraser held the highest office in the land, a loaf of bread cost just 54 cents, and Darcy Moore’s old man was running around in the black-and-white stripes.
If I were to ask you to describe Lachie Neale, you would probably tell me something like “He’s a ball magnet, who was very underrated at Fremantle because he was in Nat Fyfe’s shadow”.
Friday night’s Good Friday affair between Essendon and North Melbourne showed that North Melbourne, at 1-4 to start the 2019 season, are not very good at football.
The Round 5 extravaganza goes on for some time yet, but there is so much happening in this festival of football that I need all of my 500 words to describe what’s happened so far.
The Round 5 extravaganza goes on for some time yet, but there is so much happening in this festival of football that I need all of my 500 words to describe what’s happened so far.
The Round 5 extravaganza goes on for some time yet, but there is so much happening in this festival of football that I need all of my 500 words to describe what’s happened so far.
The Tullamarine freeway was at its exciting best on Good Friday with the Bombers running out handsome 58-point winners over a listless North Melbourne.
The Tullamarine freeway was at its exciting best on Good Friday with the Bombers running out handsome 58-point winners over a listless North Melbourne.
The Tullamarine freeway was at its exciting best on Good Friday with the Bombers running out handsome 58-point winners over a listless North Melbourne.
The second Good Friday game between the West Coast Eagles and Port Adelaide will feature the evergreen Eagles captain Shannon Hurn.
When we use the phrase ‘Following Football’ to describe our meta scoreboard for teams and players, here’s what we mean.
It might be a bold statement after just four rounds of the season, but I’m sticking by it.
A month into the home-and-away season and the ladder is not pretty reading, but it’s a familiar sight for Carlton fans.
What a smorgasbord of football is ahead of us over the next two rounds, with games played on ten of the next 11 days as Round 5 and 6 collide.
After four rounds of the AFL season, trends begin to emerge and we can start to see a pattern as to what works and what doesn’t.
The Gungahlin Golden Sun Moths footy club have ended their short-lived association with controversial local Vietnamese eatery, Pho Shizzle.
Sitting on the couch last Saturday watching the Adelaide Oval spectacle, it was an environment fuelled with gusto and frustration.
Sitting on the couch last Saturday watching the Adelaide Oval spectacle, it was an environment fuelled with gusto and frustration.
Sitting on the couch last Saturday watching the Adelaide Oval spectacle, it was an environment fuelled with gusto and frustration.
It was an entertaining round of footy with plenty of surprises, upsets and milestones.