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The 2011 Collingwood team was a beauty, but so was the 2011 Geelong team. The difference was that the Cats were all aligned, with every duck in its allotted place. Collingwood, on the other hand, were internally bereft with Malthouse and Buckley seriously butting heads and players taking...

Attending regular sporting events isn’t part of the Sydney culture. They go to big spectacular happenings, rather than home and away football matches ( in any code). They fill the stadium for SOO but virtually never get more that 25K for even a high level regular season NRL game. But I was at...

FWIW Hayden Young is a future All-Australian.

I’m verrrrry old. We all know that every GF win is precious, and we all prefer the ones that occurred while we were in our prime. The joy of 2023 following another near miss in 2022, the indescribable relief of 1990 following 32 years of stuff-ups and near misses are great days in my football...

Has it occurred to anyone that, with mid-season trading, we could have one or more players in a Grand Final who would collect a medal no matter who won?

Isn’t your greatest need a Joey Kennedy replacement? I constantly read about the Swans getting smashed in the clearances. Is there a Giant you could pinch? They seem to have a stack.

In American Football, Tom Brady has always been the best or second best player. But, if he’s not selected at quarterback, he misses out. They don’t put him in as nose tackle just because “Tom Brady is certainly Zbetter than ———“ I have made this case before, players MUST be selected in their...

Yep. Of course that “cold” killed more than two million people …….. and counting.

Just saw it on TV. One player was coming off (75th) and another one cramped and scurried off (76). A second player on the bench scurried on - didn’t want to leave the side short. No AFL official was ever in position to rescue the Roos from their own incompetence.

What? They had premierships taken off them. The 1995 Blues didn’t.

Hey back off everyone. You’ve all had a lot of fun at our xpense over the decades making fun of our record in Grand Finals. So how about you all rack off, and let us decide among ourselves which of our 28 losing Grand Finals was our most noble. Fair’s fair.

Collingwood 1966_1970 specifically 1970. Best team in it by several goals. Had been building beautifully over the previous five or six seasons. Ready to go and dominated the blues in the first half, famously leading by 44 at the break. Injuries to Tuddenham and McKenna, made a difference...

Hmmm. You may well be right, but …. 1. Every list manager has his price. The things a club can do with the number 1 pick these days make it much more useful than ever before. 2. I reckon your recent reluctance to finish last was personal - Clarko didn’t want his record blemished. 3...

Hawks seem determined to have first pick from a hot list of kids.

The Beau special against Carlton. Worth watching again to note how Pendles manipulates the two Blues players to release Beau and give him sufficient time and space to kick that spectacular goal. We’ll miss that when he retires. More than we know.

Barry Rist

I would imagine that every Victorian club has a player in their top team who was originally recruited by a Northern AFL team. You can’t have this discussion without including the problems that non traditional AFL teams have in retaining recruits. That’s why the Northern Academies were set up...

Footy fans tend to have Dory-type memories, but I’m surprised at how many responses assume that the season began on Friday night. Both the grand finalists prevailed in incredibly tight finals against Collingwood, and had relatively easy wins in their other game. If anything, the Cats could...

I captained Kimbarra to the House Football premiership at (then) Mitcham High School. The kid who captained Kimbarra before me played in the 1967 & 1969 VFL Premiership teams. I rose to no such heights. But I did kick the winning goal for Ferntree Gully against Lilydale one day.

The Gold Coast King. Fills a desperate need and exactly the right age profile.

Yep. Some of the commentary here (and elsewhere) demonstrates the preference of hope over experience. None of our recruits got a Risng Star nomination last year. They need to improve for the Pies to contend in the near to medium future.

As soon as a small forward kicks more than 95 goals in a season they go straight past Peter Daicos. Until then ....

Pies. Noble. Mihocek Madgen Quaynor. Moore. Maynard Phillips. Pendles. J. Daicos Sidebottom. Ceglar. Stephenson Elliot? Cox. Henry Grundy. Degoey. N.Daicos. 1. Not sure about Elliott. He was on some GWS list, but I don’t think he was ever employed by them. Pick any...

I got something on my Facebook feed to the effect that members could access the game on a closed loop.

The go-home factor/retention is where the current system is loaded against the Northern states. I know that all clubs have lost players who miss their mum, but it clearly is much more prevalent in a state where the clubs might go five years without drafting a player from that state. I can’t be...

1. Peter More could probably play as a modern tall winger. Super athletic, fast and tall. Big Lenny was a pure ruckman - albeit he started at CHF in thE 1970 Granny 2. Peter McKenna was a bit stiff. As a full forward he was opposed to Gordon Coventry - key member of the 4 Premierships in...

Interesting exercise Our top eleven - down to Crisp - are terrific; the next eight - down to Noble - are fine AFL standard players, but after that it does drop off. Grundy Moore De Goey Pendlebury Howe Adams Meynard Sidebottom Treloar Crisp Elliott Daicos Cox Stephenson Quaynor Roughead...

You forgot to mention that one plays as third forward (On the third tall defender) while the other plays as the KEY forward on the first tall defender (as well as the intercept defender). PS. Oscar Allen looks the goods.

In 1898, the interstate games would have been a real problem.

Morwood comfortably then Harry comfortably then Crosisca then Johnson. Heater is the only one close to Morwood.