Posted on 19 March 2013. Tags: AFL, Australian Football League, Brisbane Lions, Joel Selwood, Jonathan Brown, Kevin Sheedy, Nick Malceski, The Bold and the Beautiful
Nonsensible Kate’s fellow footy lovers would agree, it’s been a long and painful off season. The sound of thousands of Hawthorn hearts breaking as bionic man Nick Malceski slotted through the sealer in that epic grand final is now just a distant memory. To say the off season has been “hectic bro” since that game [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2013. Tags: AFL, Andrew Demetriou, Australian Football League, Brock McLean, Chris Connolly, Footy Classified, Melbourne, Melbourne Football Club
The ‘tanking’ issue for the AFL is like a hall of mirrors, argues The Armchair Selector, Jeremy Irvine. Where to start?! Sitting back looking at the morning after, the whole tanking business / saga / weird parallel universe still leaves me queasy. What is tanking? Who at the AFL knows? Did it occur? And where was Andrew [...]
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Posted in Aussie Rules
Posted on 18 December 2012. Tags: A-League, AFL, Australian Football League, Foxtel, Greater Western Sydney Football Club, GWS, Israel Folau, National Rugby League, NRL, Sydney, Wanderers, Western Sydney
The AFL is going to be facing a battle for air space in the Western Sydney market in the lead up to the 2013 season as the A-league’s latest franchise rapidly envelops the West of Sydney in the NRL off-season to quickly become the second biggest show in town. The inclusion of the Wanderers to [...]
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Posted in Aussie Rules, Soccer
Posted on 02 November 2012. Tags: AFL, Australian Football League, Barassi Line, Folau, Israel Folau, Kevin Sheedy, National Rugby League, rugby league
Irrespective of the coulda, shoulda, woulda – or shouldn’ta arguments bandied around since Israel Folau announced yesterday he was leaving GWS, the fact is the AFL got what they wanted: Publicity. In an environment in which they needed marque names for, let’s be brutally honest, a regional game played south of the so-called Barassi Line, [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2012. Tags: AFL, AFL Draft, Australian Football League, Etihad, Jim Stynes, Mike Pyke, November, TAC Cup
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Footy – UnclassifedThey run up and down the hard wood floor placed on top of the grass at Etihad stadium, all dressed in the same gear. The only distinguishing feature is the number blazon across their chest. Spread across the shadows of the stadium the [...]
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Posted on 23 October 2012. Tags: AFL, American, Australian Football League, Bombers, Christmas, Collingwood, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, New York Yankees, Third jersey, United States, Western Bulldogs
Uniforms are an interesting piece of sport, the fans love their own like their own child, opposition fans love to bag others, uniforms can unite or divide us the sports fan. Australia is a unique and beautiful country – and our AFL uniforms represent that uniqueness – how many Americans have you spoken to about [...]
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