It’s a festival of footy as Anzac Round dawns, with matches to be played across a whopping five days in 2024’s most spread-out ‘weekend’ of action. That’s good news for some, bad news for others – like say, those poor souls whose job it is to write something on every day AFL footy is played […]
Dale Finucane will go down as one of the most honest, hard-working and inspirational players of his time. He’s what we want out of our footy players: on the field, unflinchingly tough, but off it, as polite and wholesome as they come. A country boy from Bega who got to the top on the back […]
New coach Michael Maguire is considering as many as 50 players for the State of Origin series opener with not even captain James Tedesco assured of keeping his spot. After two straight years of series defeats at the hands of Billy Slater’s rejuvenated Queenslanders and the exit of Brad Fittler as coach, the Blues are […]
Ahead of a monster round of football, headlined by Anzac Day between the Bombers and Pies, we look at some of the intriguing questions we have ahead of this week’s mouthwatering clashes. Richmond v Melbourne Can Vlaustin hold together this brittle backline? Nick Vlastuin has started 2024 on fire, averaging 9.2 intercept possessions over the […]
The paradox of parity is that even though we’re told we should want a wide open competition, the NRL seems to be more interesting when there’s a top dog to knock off. Or top cats as is the current case with the Panthers the undisputed kings of the rugby league jungle. Fans want parity in […]
