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It seems a lot more common to have weekends where it feels like there's almost no footy in Melbourne. There's now four guaranteed matches outside of Victoria, generally with a match scheduled in Geelong, Tassie, Ballarat, or the Northern Territory. You add in the Thursday night game and...

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One thing I find pretty curious is the real lack of football clubs in 'well known' suburbs of Perth. Especially inner city or older suburbs. While these areas have WAFL clubs, I really can't think of that many amateur clubs currently calling these areas home. One thing I've found curious is the...

When I moved over to Mawbs, one thing I noticed was the heads-down mentality of everyone in the suburban street. You'd be walking home at 5pm or 10am Saturday and there were no 'hellos' from one person to another – the closest was big-noting women with puffy jackets and inbred dogs thinly...

This is always a funny little insight into personality types. Bigfooty is definitely a 'love it or leave it' type place. Criticism – unless hurled at the accepted four or five people – is generally seen as akin to trying to wanting to harm your own family. Supporters see it as the ultimate...

Sup bruthas Doing some freelance stuff at the moment. In the past it's been pretty low key and I haven't had to worry about it being too official. Anyway, doing some work for this new company. I invoice them, they pay me to my bank account. I have another job during the week which is mostly...

Someone today, who has previously told me stories about a certain high profile Freo recruit that have come true, has mentioned to me the AFL plans to fight fire with fire. They've sent out memos basically asking clubs opinions on their new attempt at derailing booing. 'Boo the boo.'...

Do you have a disproportionate knowledge of something small, specific, or niche? Not just a hobby – so not reading, watching the footy, learning guitar – but a borderline obsession for something quirky? Are you a weirdo? Trainspotters are the main ones and the genesis for the term. I don't...

I've recently been reading the good old AFS thread which reminded me of my glory days as a student in the bright lights, tight streets, and scungey sheets of Melbourne. I'm a huge clean freak. I sweep the floor two times a day, mop it every two or three, the bins and recycling after every meal...

I didn't know how to really title this, but there have been plenty of eras, or entire clubs, who conjure up connotations of other states. In some ways, this manifests from the old provincial footy days: South Australians heading over to Carlton in the late 1980s, especially from SANFL sides...

This started what, 15 years ago? And still exists, but as far as I can see it's... a photoshoot opportunity, but because half the captains don't rock up, it's not even used as a photo. The media? They ask boring questions that can be asked at any training session. The players? Clearly want to...

*in hell. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-injuries-reported-as-police-respond-to-critical-incident-live

is sick. It is boring seeing us in the same two jumpers every single match, and then getting a trainwreck on the one or two times we change to it (that first game at Optus one was like a kid's idea and dad, who's a screenwriter, has made one up for him). But I love how we maintain the same...

Does anyone else find this small sub-section of society, generally privileged, to be overrepresented, patronised, and helped out? Why in the * is the price of milk going up at Woolworths, as opposed to Woolworths giving them a better deal? Why is the average, s**t kicking consumer paying...

Gidday, so I've been using an old Macbook Pro for about eight years. It's a late 2010 model. Been through a little bit of high school, five years of uni, countless plane trips. As a result it's got a big crack on the screen, the screen axis is all floppy, but most notably the internals are...

Not many people are probably up but this is scary and has some insane potential to ruin a huge portion of a pretty big town. Basically, the dam in Townsville is flooded and the people at the high levels are now making some big decisions on what to do...

A lot of rhetoric re: Kane Cornes and Ollie Wines' family + Patrick Dangerfield. The general argument is players should be allowed to change clubs, have leisure time, and make a good percentage of AFL money as they are the product essentially v players get 75k minimum (rookies), connections...

Came across this case through a recent VICE article, funnily enough I'd never heard of it. Which is strange considering its the story of a 14-year old Anglo British kid who's booked a one-way ticket to London, from south Yorkshire, and has just... gone. Below is the main timeline (that's been...

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/flashback-1993-fremantle-announced-as-the-16th-afl-team-20181213-p50m2a.html Surprised this doesn't have a thread. This is the exact article printed on December 15, 1993 when Fremantle was officially the 16th team in the league. Who remembers these days...

For example, Australian and US military equipment is in pure condition underneath bunkers across Australia, mostly in coastal cities. They were there in case of attack and are still there – though blocked off with a few metres of concrete – but were left simply because it was cheaper to leave...

Very, very sad. There's no shame in certain stories resonating more, and this one does. Not much older than her and I've travelled solo almost every time I've been overseas. My girlfriend the same, my sister the same. They've been in her situation and had the excitement of a brand new country's...

I've always thought I was a decent host. As a kid it was the whole 'you want a drink, we only have water, but it's cold...' or 'want some chips?' As I got older I was always made sure the fridge was stocked, usually made sure to cook up a good tea, whatever. But at the flipside of this is that...

Now this is something that's interesting to me, more and more. I consider being house proud to encompass the obvious things like cleanliness, a swept floor, bed's made,f. hygiene, some care put into the front garden. But it's also things like how hospitable you are to visitors and how you eat...

With it being both the off-season and in-season for this board, I always like having more vague discussions and it's probably the time to now. With information and images trickling out it can sometimes pull a surprise or two out. Sometimes you even start to see patterns. How do we think footy...

Fmd this was great. The classic one was Toyota World Sport with Les or Tommo and the lead story was always about some bloke who played 53 games for Aston Villa in the 90s coming to play in the new A-League and then the third story would be who won the AFL Premiership. After that was the hour...

The fixture is probably a couple of months away but there's an interesting little run of available and likely dates for footy in 2019. From Good Friday Eve to Easter Monday is five days of matches. ANZAC Day falls on a Thursday meaning there'll be the now regular Tiges - Dees slot the night...

Oh my ******* god. Any other economy doesn't beg for money when s**t doesn't go their way. The Australian economy is becoming less and less profitable, with people struggling to get into industries, get a house, pay off mortgages, get full-time employment. Yet these people with hundreds...

There are players who get older and their best looks further away each game. There are guys who will never live up to an unexpectedly impressive first season or two. Or guys who plateau and never really capitalise on what they could sometimes show. But what player managed to bag a big contract...

Gaff is a dirty campaigner. One look at him and it's obvious he's a mouth breathing idiot. Slack jaw, eyes with nothing going on. And maybe the most overrated footballer going around... I reckon Nick Suban'd be the best midfielder in the Eagles mess of a middle. Now my issue... where was the real...

You excited? You curious? You scared shitless? At 15 I was. Was absolutely obsessed and petrified. Now I understand I am as pretty, tall, cool as I'll ever be. So embrace it. But is looking back on life a luxury? Do you want a huge bit of iron to hit you and kill you randomly? Do you want to...