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    MVP Round 13 Votes v GCS

    5. Naitanui 4. Kennedy 3. Hurn 2. Wellingham 1. McGovern HM: Mackenzie, Ellis, Lycett
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    MVP Round 15 Votes vs Adelaide

    5. McKenzie 4. Kennedy 3. Masten 2. Dalziell 1. Naitanui
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    MVP Player Votes - Round 5 v Port Adelaide

    ugh..., but 5. Luke Shuey 4. Mitch Brown 3. Sam Butler 2. Josh Kennedy 1. Scott Selwood
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    Test Cricket Draft

    IMRAN KHAN PICK FOUR Yes, it's another all-rounder! Best to snap up the good ones while they're still...er...hot. Anyhoo...the Pakistani sex-beast Imran Khan: 88 Tests, batting average of 37.69, 362 wickets at 22.81. But do statistics tell the whole story of his greatness? Able to hold down...
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    Club Songs

    And I mean North Melbourne's belted out with the pre-chorus "hearts to hearts" bit, not the crappy banjo version.
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    Club Songs

    Richmond, Sydney, North Melbourne, GWS (!, but I think they did it well) in any order.
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    Youngest Player to represent Fitzroy

    Andrew Kuka, round 10, 1967, aged 16 years and 46 days. A schoolkid from Gippsland who only played one game, according to this thread.
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    Yeah, I'm really just ranting. I probably shouldn't care :).
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    I would really say any year from 1996 to 2003, when the league moved from really just being a showcase for a sport to an actual business. The sheer amount of changes in <playing style, broadcasting, rules, media, atmosphere> in the 21st century compared to the 20th century really defines an...
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    Agreed (and they both already do exist). But why the pretentious Australian Football Hall of Fame then?
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    Okay, I think a differentiation needs to be made between AFL the league, which is a continuation of the Victorian Football League, and AFL the governing body, which is a (supposedly) independent commission replacing the former Australian National Football Council. Very different roles bound to...
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    Of the 187 players in the Hall of Fame, 86 (46.0%) played in the VFL during the 1960s through to the 1980s. Of the 22 "Legends", 13 (59.1%) did the same. Of the 21 players in the AFL Team of the Century, 13 (61.9%) played during that era. There is clearly a disproportionate acknowledgement of...
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    The problem being that the AFL runs the Australian Football Hall of Fame, not the Victoria-and-a-few-token-selections-from-other-states Hall of Fame. If the AFL's going to claim to represent the entire history of Australian football, they need to act like it.
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    Not sure if serious about "second tier", but the AFL [the governing body] unfortunately has responsibility for the entire history of Australian football, not just the AFL [the league], which (perhaps surprisingly to certain people) incorporates more than just the colour television era.
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    Rant RE: VFL/AFL

    One of the things I really hate about the AFL (both the league and the governing body; probably most major football media in general, too) is it basically constricts the entire history of Australian football into that "golden era" of 1970s and 1980s VFL football, ignoring basically every other...
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