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After winning their second premiership in three years, Geelong entered the 2010 decade as the team to beat.
After a failed bid to have the North Melbourne Kangaroos relocated from Arden Street in Melbourne to the Gold Coast in Queensland, the AFL granted a provisional licence to a bid team known as GC17 in 2009.
Essendon have had middling success for years now, having made the finals two of the past three seasons, but trading in a very proactive and aggressive way that is associated with a club inside their premiership window.
After a horrid 2009 season that resulted in a bottom-three finish, Fremantle bounced back with a strong start to the 2010 decade, advancing to the semi-finals before a heavy defeat from Geelong.
Even though each of the NAB League sides have had their representative teams selected by me in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, I thought it would be useful to keep exploring the Victorian talent pathways by selecting representative sides for the country and metro regions.
Talented young footballers around Australia will find out what club they’ll be at next season when their names get called out in the AFL Draft this evening.
If the world were a good and just place, Jack Martin would be wearing navy blue. But it’s not and he isn’t.
After Part 1 and Part 2, in Part 3 of this series, we look at the squads representing the other four country NAB League programs.
Sport analysts and commentators have long revered the players of old.
Sport analysts and commentators have long revered the players of old.
Sport analysts and commentators have long revered the players of old.
Whatever could go wrong for Melbourne in 2019 seemed to do so, with the club finishing in 17th position with a return of only five wins for the year.
Whatever could go wrong for Melbourne in 2019 seemed to do so, with the club finishing in 17th position with a return of only five wins for the year.
Whatever could go wrong for Melbourne in 2019 seemed to do so, with the club finishing in 17th position with a return of only five wins for the year.
Following on from an embarrassing 16-goal exit from the 2009 finals series at the hands of the Adelaide Crows, Essendon entered the new decade in semi-promising fashion, winning five of their opening ten matches in 2010.
Geelong and Hawthorn have developed a great rivalry over the years, so I’ve theorised the best Hawks-Cats combined team from the players of the last 12 months.
With the 2019 AFL draft fast approaching, local clubs and young talent become the faces of the code across the country.
Following a disappointing finals series after a top-four finish in 2009, Collingwood entered the 2010 decade as one of the teams to beat, boasting high-profile recruits Darren Jolly and Luke Ball.
With the 2019 AFL draft fast approaching, local clubs and young talents become the faces of the code across the country.
The fighting styles, physiques and sportsmanship of both Barry Hall and Paul Gallen – by default – represented their respective football codes, with the fight itself being promoted as the Code War.
Less than two weeks out from the AFL draft and the journos and couch experts are slicing, dicing and dissecting the talent pool on show for 2019.
It’s the time of year when anticipation for the AFL draft is at fever pitch. Journalists, fans and clubs are all desperate to find out the order in which the names will be read out later this month.
The women’s league is still very much a work in progress, which is simultaneously the most fun and the most frustrating thing about following it.
The women’s league is still very much a work in progress, which is simultaneously the most fun and the most frustrating thing about following it.
The women’s league is still very much a work in progress, which is simultaneously the most fun and the most frustrating thing about following it.
Every year we see the same headlines pop up.
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Well Ange, I call you that as I can’t believe a woman would sink to be present on this site. The foreign intruders sho…(more)