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In Today’s AGE article Clarkson likened Hawthorns current position to 2010 when we lost 6 of the first 7 games but went on to be Preliminary Finalsts one year later. This staggeringly laughable evaluation of the strength of our current list compared to then is indicative of the fantasy land...

I get the feeling that Pup is in for a big year. Appears to have streamlined his body a bit which is probably means longer minutes in the midfield. As an experienced player he should have dominated yesterday’s scratchie and he did. We are going to need blokes Ike him, Macca, Breust, JOM...

Logistically it makes sense to stage the GF on the Eastern seaboard. Fourteen of the eighteen clubs reside there. However the decision really should be determined by which State will allow a full crowd. In a season where the fixture is being programmed on a week to week basis it is impossible to...

That’s a good thing though. SEN have far too much talkback as it is. Talkback is just a cheap and nasty way to fill in airtime between advertisements. The overwhelmingly misinformed and/or hilariously bias views of callers offer little or no worthwhile insight or entertainment. There would be...

The Hawthorn/Essendon rivalry is a bit too fabricated ( Dermie, I’m talking to you ) for my liking. There WAS a fierce rivalry back in the eighties, but that was over thirty years ago when the two clubs ruled the VFL roost. Before that decade there was no Hawks/Bombers animosity and after it...

The first thing that came to my mind when I heard this latest McLeod perceived slight. A sensitive soul.

Bit tough. Tuck did a bit more than play a lot of games. After being the best Ruck Rover in the VFL in the mid to late 70”s he switched to key position roles as CHF and CHB before finishing out the last stanza of his career as a swingman defender. He continued these roles at an elite level...

Having AFL footy back and running, even with hubs and crowd lockouts is massively preferable to no footy. I find the indifference towards having footy in 2020 from Connolly and Fine completely baffling.

Hardly a communist but even if he was, that shouldn’t be a issue with Trump. After all President Trump has been lavish in his praise for several communist tyrants such as Xi, Putin and Kim Jong-un.

The EPL season is 38 games long with every team playing each other twice, once at home and once away. There can not be any argument that the team with the most points at seasons end has been the best and deserves to be champion. A 17 game AFL season under normal circumstances ( without hubs...

Wow! Deflategate before there was a “gate”. I had no idea that Patriots legendary quarterback Tom Brady was descended from WA. His great grandfather had to be involved in this surely.

See my above post regarding another bloke that broke Magpie hearts in the ultimate game.

Spot on! If the the only VFL games you watched in the late 70’s were the Grand Finals you could have been excused for thinking that Phil Baker was the biggest star in the competition. In 1977 he single handedly deprived the Pies of a premiership with 6 goals out of North’s total of 9 to snatch a...

Thanks, saved me from pointing the same thing out. That poster appears to dislike just about everything about the AFL so a blind spot for ( very ) recent history is hardly surprising.

No the dumpster incident occurred before their falling out. Hutchinson had no issue employing the disgraced Howard not long after the Seven network threw him on his arse. Hardly surprising when you look at Hutchys sketchy journalistic career. Maybe they struck up a friendship while hiding...

Could you explain the hardness scale please? If Australia is no longer one of the top dogs could you give me the current top Five? Thanks.

His inability to kick 100 in non finals teams had a bit to do with injury. In 95 Hawthorn finished second last and Dunstall managed 66 in 17 games. In 98 Hawthorn were pretty ordinary and Dunstall kicked 54 in 13 games. In 97 he wanted to retire after his ACL in the 96 Elimination but was...

Only one Band but all popular artists Dylan Highway 61 revisited Blonde on Blonde Infidels Shot of love Bringing it all back home Desire Nashville skyline Before the flood Slow train coming Empire burlesque Springsteen Darkness on the edge of town Born to run Nebraska Devils and dust...

Condolences to Jacks family for their loss. An absolute gent and a credit to Australian men of his generation.

There is an element of racism in this country, that is undeniable. Populist dog whistlers like Pauline Hanson depend on it to remain relevant and popular with her supporters. Thankfully this sorry lot are in the minority and given their age demographic, on the decline. I believe the majority of...

Christ, 3AW are really reaching the bottom of the barrel now.

Adelaide: Ricciuto Brisbane: Brown Carlton: Bosustow Collingwood: Buckley Essendon: S Madden Fremantle: Fyfe Fitzroy: Quinlan Geelong: G Hocking Gold Coast: Ablett GWS: Ward Hawthorn: L Mathews Melbourne: Neitz North: Blight Port: S Burgoyne Richmond: M Richardson Sydney: Kelly Western...

Oh they would know. Maybe it’s a dastardly Hutchinson plan to have everyone use the app!

Cornes place in the media landscape will forever be a mystery to me. He simply has no talent for the caper, is not very bright and appears to regard preparation as a waste of his time. Many sportsmen who give every indication of being a nimrod during their playing career surprise you with their...

Thank Christ! I thought my dig radio was up the creek.

Only better if you happen to reside in the host city. If the competing GF clubs were say, GWS and Brisbane, and the game was in Perth that particular year the travelling fans are still going to be hit with daylight robbery charges for flights and accomodation. I think a lot of proponents of...

Given the fact that the financial bonanza that the Grand Final provides directly benefits the 18 clubs the very idea of reducing capacity ( and revenue) is absurd. The shortfall in ticket sale ( competing club members) and corporate income would have to be made up by charging Super Bowl like...

“They saw Frost as a massive coup” is an interesting observation. To be honest I’m not even sure he is a walk up start in the team. The defence was pretty damn good last year and given his former club finished 8 rungs below his new one there is an argument that he, like many Melbourne players...

Strangely, given there were only about 40,000 in the ground, one of the loudest crowd roars I can remember was the reaction to Buddy Franklins last minute game winning goal in the 2007 Elimination final. I was standing behind the goals and it actually felt like the walls were shaking.

Of course it does. In 2019 Richmond however didn’t need any favours. They were clearly the best team in the comp and would have won the Premiership if they had played on the road for four straight weeks, including the Grand Final. In round 23 West Coast only needed to beat the ninth placed...