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From the Foxsports link provided earlier in the thread, some NRL fans have had some very interesting things to say about the TV rights deal.

Didn't 7 have the AFL rights before they got the V8s from 10? I remember a lot of people were concerned that the V8s would get shafted because they thought 7 would give priority to AFL on a Sunday. Agree with this point. 7's coverage is worse than it was in the 1990s and much worse than 9 or...

I have looked at her formspring thingy and when asked whether it is Collingwood who are the team who she has video of she replied "I wish." which would indicate that it is some other team.

This was written before or after her relationship with Hartigan began? I think this year so far she has written only one article that has not bashed the AFL in some way, whether it be about how GWS will be a failure, the St Kilda scandal or how AFL is ruining all the other sports. She may have...

This is all over the Peter Costello article and how a number of players, including Joel Selwood, Nick Maxwell, Dale Thomas, Harry O etc criticized him for his comments on Twitter. Caroline Wilson has taken exception to this criticism, replying with a number of tweets of her own. I would have...

Former Essendon preniership captain Jack Clarke is the brother of Olympic legend and Gold Coast mayor Ron Clarke.

Geelong was undefeated for 27 games in a row but won 23 games in a row. They drew a game early on during the streak.

Actually the real difference is that Milne was accused of rape whereas Beams and McCarthy have not been. My take on this is that it seems that the Collingwood players were witnesses to a rape, but that is just speculation.

Re: Collingwood Vs St Kilda - The "New" Greatest Rivalry Rivalries are built over years through great matches and incidents etc, but you can only list 4 such things between Collingwood & St Kilda. Of those incidents I think the Greening one is the one that Collingwood supporters still are angry...

Re: Collingwood Vs St Kilda - The "New" Greatest Rivalry Not wanting to start any arguments but it’s only really Saints supporters that think there’s a rivalry between Collingwood and St Kilda. I doubt there are any Collingwood supporters who thinks about the Saints in the same way as they...

Winty also forgot to mention what happened to Geelong when they had their winning streak in 1952/53.

And just imagine that if Collingwood did not win the GF in 1958 Melbourne would have won 6 premierships in a row.

Here's a letter to The Sun's Fifty Fifty column from June 1953. Coleman kicked 97 goals that season and at that stage (round 6), already had 40.

Finally for tonight here is some of Sam Wells work. Wells began drawing his cartoons at the Herald in the 1920s until 1950 when he was forced to retire due to his age. He then went to the Age where he produced sporting related cartoons up until his death in 1967. For Saints fans this is how...

Here's some WEG posts. William Ellis Green took over as sports cartoonist from Sam Wells for the Herald in 1950s when Wells was forced into retirement. He produced footy related cartoons until 1952 when I think he started to do more editorial work. Hence he did not produce a cartoon for the 1953...

Here are three different ways in which Collingwood's captain of the early 50s, Lou Richards was portrayed. Also notice Fred Flannigan, Phonse Kyne and an early style WEG cat. Firstly from the Herald after the 1952 Grand Final. Even then Lou was noted for having a big mouth. Jim Edema did a...

Not sure if this is the right place to post these or even if anyone really is interested, but I have been looking through some old (1950s) newspapers and collected a few images of cartoons/caricatures of the footballers of the day. Firstly from 1953 from The Sun's Jim Edema is the great EJ...

Bruno Italiano was drafted by Collingwood in the early 1990s. Sounds more like the name of a pro-wrestler than an AFL footballer. Other great Collingwood names are Rupert Bertheris, Saverio Rocca, Alphonsius (Phonse) Kyne, Thorold Merrett and Tarkyn Lockyer.

What is it with Collingwood supporters marrying Carlton supporters? I'm married to a Carlton supporter (although I think she only barracks for them to annoy me) and so is my brother. My sister was married to a Richmond supporter but they are now divorced. Maybe it's true that opposites attract...

My Dad says that the most inspiring person he ever met was Phonse Kyne. Not long after my Dad’s father died his uncle, former Hawthorn ruckman Bert Mills, took him and his brother to watch the footy. It was around 1956 and my Dad was 9 or 10 at the time. After the game Bert took the boys into...

My aunt's brother in law Doug Cox played for St Kilda and Essendon in the 80s. He is most famous for playing for St Kilda despite being in Richmond's zone and playing for the Saints without a clearance. He played in the Bomber's reserves premiership in 83 or 84 before going to South Australia...

For some reason my Dad hated Brent Croswell. I’m not sure why but I remember going to a Collingwood vs Melbourne game as a 6 or 7 years old and every time Croswell went near the ball my Dad would hurl some of the worst verbal abuse that I ever heard. Worse still is that the Pies thrashed the...

Hinch is at it again, he seems very obsessed by all this. I think he is really just going out of his way to be controversial in order to get hits on his website. This all seems to have nothing to do with St Kilda or the St Kilda schoolgirl and everything to do with Hinch adding to his own...

Hinch has got some more to say on the matter, except this time it's about the relationship that Vic Police have with AFL clubs. http://hinch.net/hinch-says-2010/December/30-12-10.html

Also Hinch has said that he is not getting his information from Kim but from another source. Take that for what it's worth.

I see there's been a lot fo arguing about why Gilbert wasn't charged with rape. Kim answers the question herself on her Formspring account,

Rebecca Wilson has weighed into the St Kilda Schoolgirl saga. She's very critical of the AFL and St Kilda. Of course none of this sort of stuff ever happens in the NRL. I'm sure if there was ever a scandal with the NRL Wilson would be the first to condemn.

Growing up in Noble Park I used to see lots of footy players. - David Neitz was OK when I met him one time. He was a bit immature but he was only 10 or 11 at the time. I was 12. - Darren Millane. He was my hero until I actually met him at a function at the Noble Park footy club. He was meant to...

I was reading an Argus article by Hugh Buggy from 1953 where he called Collingwood's Bill Twomey the dashing D'artangan of the VFL, which I thought was very colourful. You also get a sense of the wider picture of things and a lot of things get put into perspective. For example Harvey Stevens...

Wow. Where to start... In regards to Rock Hudson being gay etc, I think that the only reason the wider public knew he was gay was because he died from AIDS. He did not choose to come out of the closet because back then he felt it would harm his career, especially as most of his roles he was...