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PRETTY confident of your tips this week? Been studying the pre-season comp and watching the new recruits? Got the Suns to beat Essendon as your lock of the week? Yeah, … Continue reading The 5 Round 1 results that the bookies didn’t see coming
IT’S the age old question: What came first, the mullet or the 80s? Men have gone mad searching for the answer but one thing is for sure – the mullet … Continue reading The 13 mullets that transcended the game of football
IVOR WARNE-SMITH THE Melbourne utility didn’t do things in halves. He did them in doubles. Rocking a double-barrel surname before all the cool kids were doing it, Warne-Smith won two Brownlow Medals, … Continue reading The 4 players who had a master’s degree in badassery
TOO slow, too fat, untalented – they’re taunts I’m sure we all hear from siblings at each and every family gathering I attend. But they’ve also been used as fuel to spark … Continue reading The 6 Brownlow Medallists who were told they’d never make it
Geelong Pivotonians THE good people of Geelong had two questions in 1878: What was wrong with Argyle Paddock and what the hell is a Pivotonian? Around the same time that … Continue reading The 5 footy nicknames that just didn’t stick
HAWTHORN The God: Alastair Clarkson. A tiny god with a degree in wrathematics, the Clarko’s guidance has taken the Hawks from two-bit cult to world conquering religion.
ADELAIDE The God: Tony Modra. A true miracle worker, Godra is a chilled-out deity that encourages hard work on Saturdays, before catching some mad waves the rest of the week.
“OUR banners fly on high, from dawn to dark, down at Argyle Paddock.” It doesn’t have the same ring to it. Probably because the song was penned specifically for Kardinia … Continue reading The 7 footy grounds you’ve probably never heard of
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