2008 Predicitons

Every year on the AFL Online forums a thread starts up about predicting the big events in the given year. I don’t think anyone takes it seriously but when you look back over it at the end of the year you tend to find there are always some big surprises that no one would have predicted, the ones that everyone managed to predict and then you get the ones which you might giggle about at the start of the year but when it turns out true you don’t know whether they’re a genius, lucky or so one eyed they picked their favorite player and hoped it would come true. [Read more]

Future Footy

Cast your mind forward to the year 2028. Will there be as many changes in the next twenty years as there has been in the past? The AFL will never be set in stone in terms of participants, locations and such as it is now a business and not ‘merely’ a sport. [Read more]

No Home ? No Deal !

Is it just me or is this guy hard to take seriously? I don’t mean that in a bad way it is just that I have been listening to him on radio for years and watching him on the Footy Show and he always comes across as the “The Funny Guy”. [Read more]

Bringing the Game Into Disrepute

In a week that has seen an innings and some victory for the Australian  Test team, the conclusion of the Melbourne Spring Carnival and a furore over A-League crowd violence it seems AFL is still king. The controversy of Cousins, the perils of Pratt and the juggernaut that is Chris Judd continue to eat up column inches in the AFL off season. Yet amid all this it is the plight of the Kangaroos that has me wondering
just who is bringing the game into disrepute? [Read more]

Grading the Trades

With the AFL trade week done and dusted it’s time to have a look at my initial thoughts on how the teams that made a deal fared. While some teams showed courage in making some moves other like Fremantle and
Essendon decided to stand pat. Initially I feel that St Kilda, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs were the big winners while Adelaide and Geelong come out on the other side of the ledger. [Read more]

Trade Winds: Part 1

For the past few season the trade period has produced fewer and fewer deals between AFL clubs. In my opinion it is due to several factors. Firstly clubs don’t want to look bad if they trade a player that then improves his on field performance, secondly clubs don’t seem to understand that to get something decent you need to give something decent in return. Finally, the flaws in the AFL draft, trade and free agency systems mean that some deals are destined to fail, see Stevens, Nick. [Read more]

What Grand Final week means to me

For any football fan, Grand Final week should be the pinnacle of supporting your club. When the Cats are on TV I ride every bump, curse every maggot and scream and yell and damage the furniture for two hours
while my beloved Cats do battle. Normally I am quite a mild individual but I turn, dare I say it..feral when my Cats lace up. However being a Cats fan, my only memories of Grand Final day are of extreme disappointment. [Read more]

Trade week looms as Judd-gement day for Vic clubs

To coin a phrase from one of footballs most outspoken identities, ‘What a big week it has been in football!’ Who would know in the space of a week, we have had a tied semi-final between West Coast and Collingwood, the retirement of a Hawthorn veteran in Ben Dixon, the appointment of Mark Harvey as Fremantle senior coach, the naming of the 2007 All-Australian Squad, the resurgence of Victoria’s hopes of bringing the flag back to it’s home state, as well as two preliminary finals to look forward to! However, all of these footy stories have been overshadowed by arguably the biggest name to leave a club ever. [Read more]

Injuries - A long term bonus

Sydney will play finals football this season but their hopes of securing their second premiership in three years are over. [Read more]

Dons Don’t Need Saving

I have been an Essendon supporter for nearly three decades now, and unlike most other footy fans I can honestly say that I have never harboured resentful opinions toward my club of choice. Not once. And that sentiment has not changed with the board’s decision to conclude Kevin Sheedy’s tenure after 27 years. I am an Essendon devotee and always will be. I will forever deserve to be called a true supporter of the club. To those self-righteous, pathetic individuals associated with a website I refuse to name, you know who I mean, I say get a grip, build a bridge and buy some mirrors - you all need to have a good hard look at yourselves. [Read more]

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