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.... which makes it a better book.

In the SAFA (now SANFL), there was a Fred Curnow who played in a premiership for Port Adelaide (1910), Sturt (1915) and North Adelaide (1920). I'm not 100% it is the same person but am assuming it is.

In 1960, North Adelaide and Norwood played 4 times with the highest winning margin being 6 points. Game 1: Norwood won by 5 points: 11-11 to 9-18. Game 2: North Adelaide won by 3 points: 11-19 to 12-10 Game 3: Norwood won by 6 points: 11-11 to 10-11 Game 4: (Grand Final): North Adelaide...

But Neil Sutherland played FOR Geelong, not against them. I remember Neil, came over to SA in 1964 and played for South Adelaide for awhile.

How did Neil Kerley's Wandrin' Star go? :)

The one that always makes me laugh is player effectiveness. You can sit there and watch a player make every mistake in the book, and then up comes an effective percentage of 83%!!!! Every stat are rubbery except for the only ones that count ... goals and behinds. All stats do is give people...

The free kick I think of most often, probably because I've seen a reply of the match several times, was the free against Buddy Franklin in the 3rd quarter of the 2008 Grand final. The ball was kicked to Buddy who had his eye on the ball attempting to mark it, when Scarlett running towards the...

Inside 50s mean SFA, rebound 50s mean even less. Pure twadle.

Dr Roy Park is the object of one of the funniest cricket stories I've heard. He made the Test team after some good scores for Victoria, but only played 1 Test, batting once, and made a 1st ball duck. The story is his wife was sitting in the stand knitting. When Roy was walking to the wicket...

Why would anyone really care? If you're watching the game, you know who is getting the ball out of the miiddle. I seriously wonder about people who need a pile of meaningless stats to enjoy the game.

Correct. That's something that appears top escape the stats-mad contemporary football supporter. It doesn't matter how many kicks you get, all that matters is how many times you place it to your team's advantage, and how many times the ball sails through the white uprights. All the rest is crap.