‘But It’s Chris Judd’ Is Not A Tribunal Defence - Heffernan’s Spray

Carlton are exhausting all avenues to get Chris Judd off … but the AFL isn’t going to let him off because he is ‘Chris Judd’

I Don’t Want To Watch Soccer - Heffernan’s Spray

Playing for free kicks is becoming more prevalent in AFL football - let’s stop it before we become just like the roundball code of diving and stretchers…

AFL Goes In To Bat For ‘Hair Colour-Challenged’ Participants

The AFL has today released a new policy in a bid to reduce the on-field attention received by the players in the league with what they call, ‘unfortunately shaded hairstyles’. We have the full press release below.

All AFL Players will undergo formal training each season about the long term effects of jokes about the [...]

Monday Night Madness - Heffernan’s Spray

Round 7 saw the AFL tinker with a timeslot they have played around with for a few years - Monday Night Football. It’s a huge hit in the US where NFL have worked it for 38 years, and more recently the AFL’s major competitor - the NRL - have made Monday nights a regular [...]

Who Runs The League - The AFL or Collingwood? Heffernan’s Spray

One of the more controversial points of recent years - the ‘clash strip’ debate - once again reared it’s ugly head on the weekend with the Kangaroos donning Hernan Crespo’s old jersey for their clash with the Pies at Telstra Dome. So why do the Kangaroos have to wear a clash strip for their [...]

Kennett Says It Better Than Anyone – Heffernan’s Spray

To be honest, with the standard of umpiring this year, they’ve got off pretty lightly not featuring in this column until Round 6. The main reason for that is the umpires are always an easy target to take a pot shot at. The other is that I’ve been wrestling with who is really [...]

Stupid Usually Equals Costly - Heffernan’s Spray

With the explosion in statistics and fantasy games in the AFL in recent years, along with the traditional weekly and yearly predictions for betting and tipping competitions, there’s one important thing that many are forgetting.
Football is played by humans, not robots.
And just like any of us - even more so - these humans [...]

Beware Footballers Who Can Read - Heffernan’s Spray

We’re only two rounds in to another AFL season, and already we’ve seen a number of upsets and inexplicable performances. Try explaining these four particular results:

Richmond getting absolutely totally pantsed by the Blues in Round 1
Collingwood losing in Round 1 to the Crows
Adelaide losing at home in Round 2 to the Saints
Port Adelaide copping [...]

Richmond - Never Be Fooled, They Are No Good - Heffernan’s Spray

For all the hype of Round 1, footy season is back, welcome back Benny Cousins, Cousins versus Judd, whatever else you want to add, many people (myself being no. 1) have managed to gloss over one important fact…
Richmond are simply no good.
It’s only taken one half of football for the truth to come hammering home [...]

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. [...]

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