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The unlikeable All Australian team
September 14, 2009 – 12:20 am
The AFL All Australian team will be announced on Monday night. Given the debate that always surrounds the team, I think it is actually a statutory requirement to offer an opinion on where the selectors got it wrong.
In that spirit, I offer up my own version of the All Australian team. To make it [...]
Passion Play
September 3, 2009 – 1:24 pm
A while ago i wrote about a paper written by Matthew Klugman. Klugman has now written a book about aussie rules “barrackers” (as he calls them) called Passion Play. I am a friend of the author, and as such have been lucky enough to look at an advance copy of Passion Play.
I [...]
A week late
August 19, 2009 – 8:44 pm
Last week I was going to write about how special it would be if St Kilda went through the whole season without losing a game. I ran out of time, and then on the weekend they got beaten by Essendon.
If the Saints go on to win the premiership this year, they will be the [...]
To “spot him up”
June 29, 2009 – 4:13 pm
You hear the phrase “spotted him up” often, and variations on it, when watching AFL games. It is a phrase that in isolation would be very difficult to understand.
So, what does it mean?
It is an abbreviated way of saying that the player who has the ball has seen his teammate who [...]
AFL coaches 2010
June 25, 2009 – 2:57 pm
More AFL clubs might change coaches from the start of the ‘09 season to the start of the ‘10 season than we have seen in…well, longer than my memory. Already two changes have been made, and we are only half way through the season.
So, who will be coaching where in 2010? Here are the answers.
Adelaide: [...]
AFL tipping help
May 7, 2009 – 4:29 am
How do you decide which team to tip in any given game?
I am a terrible tipster. It is usually only a few weeks into the season when I realise my chances of winning any tipping competitions are already gone, and this season is no exception.
I make my selections based primarily on which team I think [...]
Tragedy
April 29, 2009 – 6:44 pm
What are some of the worst losses you have experienced as a sports fan?
For me, the ‘97 and ‘98 AFL preliminary finals that the Bulldogs lost rate very highly. The Socceroos World Cup qualifier loss on away goals in ‘97 is also right up there, as is the loss to Italy at the ‘06 World [...]
The “head space” of a “bird’s eye view”
March 29, 2009 – 10:50 pm
I have watched a lot of AFL this weekend. Amazingly though, I have struggled to find funny/inane/stupid comments to pick on commentators about. Luckily, Gerard Healy covered this evening’s Western Bulldogs vs. Fremantle game.
Healy first made me smile when he mentioned that a man sitting on a stool inches from grass level had [...]
I’m going out
March 18, 2009 – 1:52 am
As Sean of Elsternwick knows, being paid to talk and write about sport is not a strong indication that you are proficient at talking or writing.
Earlier, I was watching a match between India and New Zealand from the Women’s Cricket World Cup. A run out decision had been referred to the third umpire, and [...]
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