Follow the signs to the exit, it's getting a bit crowded in the footy stadium world
Greg Baum In Melbourne, no bigwig – elected, appointed or self-invested – dares to be the one who says we've got enough footy stadiums already.
It's back, whatever it is
Greg Baum On day one last season, footy was back and it wasn't. There was a match, under a sponsor's auspices, with a crowd and a live broadcast, which made it seem like footy was back.
Why there is no problem with Essendon recruiting Ryan Crowley
Greg Baum Let us test the case against Essendon recruiting Ryan Crowley, for suspect arguments.
Essendon Court of Arbitration for Sport verdict: No winners – or are there?
Greg Baum So, after three tortuous years, who won and who lost? Right now, it is a tremendously lopsided ledger.
Don't take this the wrong way, Paddy, but boo!
Greg Baum Now that Paddy Dangerfield is officially a Geelong player, and once the sensory dislocation of seeing him in the Cats' colours has faded, can we get back to booing the way it was?
Hawthorn: too great for their own good?
Greg Baum When Hawthorn won the 2008 premiership, the crowd at Glenferrie Oval to celebrate the next day was around 15,000.
Retired Sydney star Adam Goodes' war dance preserved on canvas
Greg Baum Even when the Adam Goodes booing saga was at its most hysterical, driving him off the field for a week and crystallising his intention to retire, he did not hesitate in co-operating for an oil...
Hawthorn overflowing with premiership cups and cheer
Greg Baum At a certain point on Hawthorn's premiership lap of honour at the MCG on Saturday, some players gestured to the crowd with upswept arms, as if to ask for more noise.
The greatness of Hawthorn: born, achieved, thrust upon
Greg Baum How to measure the greatness of Hawthorn? With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, let us count the ways.
AFL grand final 2015: On parade, the colours of an empire
Greg Baum There were Hawthorn jumpers still so new they gleamed in the brilliant spring sunshine, and Hawthorn scarves so old the brown and gold had bled to make the colour of bad hair dye.
From red centre to epicentre: Jeremy McGovern's getting of football wisdom
Greg Baum The first of Jeremy McGovern's several football educations began at nine or 10 on a red dirt oval in a hamlet called Warburton, just south of the Gibson desert, 1600km from Perth and 600km from...
Playing when the price is too high
Greg Baum If one of Daniel Chick's aims was to get people talking, he succeeded.
After flying the Hawks' nest, Ellis is at home with the Eagles
Greg Baum While picking up his father at Perth airport before the West Coast-Hawthorn qualifying final, Xavier Ellis bumped into the mother and sister of Luke Hodge disembarking from the same flight, and so...
AFL finals 2015: For the Eagles, Sam Butler's still doing it
Greg Baum Sam Butler, the only survivor from West Coast's last premiership in 2006, was on the bench when the final siren went.
AFL finals 2015: Josh Kennedy gets to a grand final at last
Greg Baum West Coast forward Josh Kennedy hasn't even been to a grand final previously, let alone appeared in one.
AFL finals 2015: For already great Hawthorn, immortality beckons
Greg Baum Alastair Clarkson says Hawthorn can only be concerned with match-ups in the grand final, not how they match up against history.
AFL finals 2015: Roos bounced, Eagles coast into grand final
Greg Baum This is what happened before anyone scored: a dozen stoppages or more, three kicks out on the full, Nic Naitanui's clean miss.
AFL finals 2015: Violence reaches dangerous threshold
Greg Baum On Friday, at a football match, a man punched a woman in the face. There's something very awry here.
AFL finals 2015: Crowd violence mars Hawks' win over Dockers
Greg Baum Hawthorn's heroic victory over Fremantle in Friday night's preliminary final at Domain stadium was soured by a series of ugly incidents involving Fremantle supporters that are bound to have...
AFL finals 2015: When it counts, Hawthorn do it their way
Greg Baum This hammer-and-tongs preliminary final became a milestone for both clubs, though neither would admit it.
