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According to Hird last night, he's been permitted to play on his own terms for the last 5 years, unaccountable to his opponent. Is the consequence that whilst Essendon has been in decline over that period, Hird's personal football fortunes have grown ? If Craig, the ultimate team discipline...

The umpires are supposed to end the game. When those higher up in the food chain don't like the outcome, they interfere. St Kilda in 2006. The umpires and the video scrutineers are supposed to decide who will be reported. When those higher up in the food chain don't like the outcome...

Collingwood’s Brodie Holland came onto the set with a painted up, self promoting, professional dance instructor and subjected the viewer to several minutes of amateurish, look-at-me posturing. Later on, North’s Glen Archer came on and in a humble tone thanked all for being involved in the...

Stan Alves on 774 asks who head butted Robbins. A club official says he had a clear view of it and named the Essendon player, Robbins says "dunno what happened", Alves declined to go on with it. Robbins came off with a cut head and blood streaming down. Did anyone see anything or know anything ?

The head is sacrosanct, that’s why Murphy got his lucky break in the first quarter. I wonder if it was paid to set the pattern. Sheedy coached teams approach the boundaries of physicality closer than others – the tacklers arrive just a little too late, an extra player jumps onto the pack –...

An assertion that crops up on the main board from time to time is that Eddie McGuire saved our club. My recollection of the events of 2002, when the Collingwood president is supposed to have gone out, found a sponsor and handed it over to us, is that he made a plea to potential sponsors in the...