Tag Archives: afl

Footy Is Back – Maths Ability Is Not

Great to see that football is back for 2011, though some at the AFL have clearly started the new season without their mathematical abilities in tact: Surely Collingwood’s score of 12 goals and 2 behinds totals 74 points, and not 37? And surely Port Adelaide’s score of 3 goals and 5 behinds equals 23 points, […]

The Mayor of Essendon Returns

In a fairly corny piece put together by Seven Nightly News in 1993, Mark Thompson was named “the new Mayor of Essendon” for a day, after captaining the Essendon Football Club to the 1993 AFL premiership. With the return of Thompson to Windy Hill in December as the senior assistant to new head coach James […]

Gold Coast Wiggle Racing?

Are newly appointed Gold Coast assistant coach Andy Lovell, the blue Wiggle Anthony Field, and Mark Webber related, or the same person? You be the judge – our lines are open!

AFL Grand Final: Another Newspaper Fail!

Spotted this one in the sport section of the print edition of today’s Age Newspaper in Melbourne: I’m pretty sure that’s Allan Jeans, not Barry Breen. At least they got close – of course Jeans was the coach of St Kilda in 1966 when they won their one and only premiership, made famous by the […]

AFL Gains 19th Team!

In breaking news, it appears that a 19th team will join the AFL, after the Gold Coast Suns join in 2011, and Greater Western Sydney join in 2012. As reported in today’s Herald Sun, it appears that the new team will be called “Essdeon”, which defeated St Kilda last night – (must have been a […]

Gary, Addy, Gary, Addy

Back in March, the Gold Coast Bulletin created a bit of a stir when they posted a photoshopped image of Gary Ablett Jnr in Gold Coast guernsey, as a bit of a dig at the contract negotiations between Ablett and Geelong, and the reported massive offer Gold Coast have made to Ablett. The Geelong Advertiser […]

Double Standard Saints

In what is likely – (unfortunately) – to turn into one of those messy “nobody wins” situation, two players from AFL club St Kilda have been accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a schoolgirl – who also claims she is pregnant as a result of the relationship(s). Pregnant Schoolgirl Claims She Had Sex […]

Kennett Has Convenient Memory

Well, Jeff Kennett is flapping his gums once again, and is displaying his carefully convenient memory – especially when it comes to the defection of former Hawthorn CEO Ian Robson to Essendon. Kennett Says Robson ‘Wasn’t Totally Focused on Doing His Job’ In today’s media, Kennett states that: Ian came to me at the beginning […]

James Hird Rises to the Challenge

History channel time again, and a flashback to AFL Round 3, 2004. After publicly slamming the performance of a particular umpire in the media the previous week, superstar James Hird was under the spotlight from all corners of the football world. But champions know how to respond, and in an astoundingly intense game of football, […]