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STEVE Johnson hit Josh Kennedy so hard that the Sydney midfielder woke up wondering who he was and why he didn’t kick with a stutter step anymore. The match review … Continue reading The past 5 players to be suspended for a grand final
IT was like watching the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. As the ball smacked off Isaac Smith’s boot, Hawks fans laughed and embraced and marvelled at the beauty of life and … Continue reading The 4 teams that won the flag after losing their first final
I HATE Hawthorn. There, I said it. With a team full of thugs and snipers like Jordan Lewis and Sam Mitchell, and an angry little man with an angry little … Continue reading The 14 Geelong v Hawthorn games that created the modern rivalry
IT’S every footy fans favourite time of the year – the announcement of the pre-match entertainment. The AFL has already announced The Living End and Vance Joy will respectively … Continue reading The 5 international artists who might be the secret Grand Final performers
BECOMING coach of the club you were a star player at comes with risk. You risk your aura. When you left the club you were the hero, the man who … Continue reading The 10 club legends who failed when they became the coach
THERE’S nothing quite like it when the son of a gun debuts. It’s a fresh feeling of positivity with just a hint of the familiar.
REMEMBER those Select footy stickers you used to buy for 20c a pop in the mid-90s? A pack usually came with about eight stickers, and if you were lucky enough … Continue reading The 7 footy cards you didn’t know were valuable
FOMO. That’s what the kids call it. Fear Of Missing Out. It’s normally used in the context of not going to Splendour in the Grass when all your mates are, … Continue reading Shit-hot take: FOMO and why the Lions will always suck if the AFL doesn’t help
WITH the retirement of Andrew Walker this week – and the ongoing debate about whether his mark was better than Andrew Krakouer’s (it was) – it got us thinking about … Continue reading The 14 players who had a licence to fly
MILESTONE matches are footy fuelled entirely by emotion. The crowd is emotional. The players are emotional. I’m sure that deep down within their dark and twisted souls, the umpires are … Continue reading The 7 AFL champions who didn’t get the farewell they deserved
SHANE Woewodin won a Brownlow. Gary Ablett Sr didn’t. Scott Wynd won a Brownlow. Wayne Carey didn’t. Brad Hardie won a Brownlow. Leigh Matthews didn’t. And while the trio of … Continue reading The 11 Brownlow Medallists who never won a club best & fairest
GARRY “BUDDHA” HOCKING IF you wanted proof that religion is a bit of a crock, you only need look as far as the Cats in the early-90s. They had God. … Continue reading The origins of the AFL’s most famous nicknames: Part II