Opinion

Pies Withdraw from Cousins Chase - & Avoid Heading the 9 Top Off-Field Tag-Teams in AFL History!

With the summer’s biggest story heating up, the life and times of Ben Cousins, Collingwood has taken itself out of what appeared like a two horse race:
COLLINGWOOD has withdrawn from the race to recruit Ben Cousins, leaving St Kilda as the hot favourite to secure him if the AFL clears him to resume his career.
Cousins’ […]


Brownlow Medal Night 2008 - Die Hard Footy Diary

Another year, another Brownlow Medal night done and dusted. This year, it was the sauced dome of Adam Cooney from the Doggies who took home the Chas in a typical night of Brownlow fashion, theatre, and blunders.
With the night kicking off with Kate Cebrano doing her best Robbie Williams impression (don’t ask), I bring […]


Heffernan’s Spray - Finals Footy Is Not The Time To Disappear

Nothing could be worse for a footballer than to be remembered as one who went messing when the game was on the line. James Hird’s article in today’s Herald Sun is an excellent example of a star player’s desire to step up when it counts - I urge you to take a read. […]


AFL To Try And Stop 100 Goal Ground Invasion - Good Luck!

With Buddy Franklin and Brendan Fevola nearing the 100 goal mark for the season there has been a lot of talk with regard to fans running on the ground when the 100th goal is kicked. This has been tradition throughout VFL/AFL history and is usually incident free. The AFL have come out and said that […]


Match Review Panel Findings for Round 18 - Big Penalties for Browne, Milburn (Footage)

Fair to say the findings from the Match Review Panel for Round 18 will be hotly debated over the next couple of days. Let’s take a look at them.
Steven Browne, Carlton, has been charged with a Level Four engaging in rough conduct offence against Jason Porplyzia, Adelaide, during the second quarter of the Round […]


Brendan Fevola – The AFL’s Two Face?

It is only fitting. Fev and Carlton have ended probably the season’s biggest saga signing a 3 year contract almost concurrent to the record breaking success of the Dark Knight, and one of the best portrayals of a comic book character ever; Two Face (I know Heath was unreal as the Joker, but he […]


Lynden Dunn Reported Twice for ‘Striking’ Boomer Harvey

First of all - Scott McLaren - what were you thinking?
Before I go any further - check out the footage below for the two incidents and the commotion that ensued…


Round 16 Chat - Joel Bowden, Crows, Saints, Top Four and the 3 C’s

SB says:
Welcome lads, bit of a controversial Round 16 you’d have to say.
JP says:
Hey boys.
JP says:
Ready for your weekly toweling?
TH says:
Glad to be back to bring up how wrong you blokes were on the Crows last week.
SB says:
Yeah I possibly got that one wrong, a rare occurrence.
JP says:
Like Ike rarely beat Tina.


The Rushed Behind Debate aka Keep Mike Sheehan Off The Rules Committee

Rarely does a week go by in AFL football without a piece of controversy that sets opinions on fire. This week, it was Richmond’s Joel Bowden’s tactics of rushing a couple of behinds from the kick-in to eat up time in the latter stages of the Tigers’ 4 point victory over the Bombers.
So Joel […]


Barry Hall Set for a Quick Return from Suspension

Well it looks as if Barry Hall might return from his inhouse suspension sooner than expected, as soon as this week even:
EXILED Sydney full-forward Barry Hall may return to the side as soon as this week following injuries to key players in the spirited win over Carlton yesterday.

Roos said it was still early to make […]