An up-Hill battle to re-unite brothers at one club?
Alastair Clarkson says what Alastair Clarkson wants to say. At the weekend he wanted to say something about Bradley Hill.
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Alastair Clarkson says what Alastair Clarkson wants to say. At the weekend he wanted to say something about Bradley Hill.
Hawthorn calls them the "chaos player", other clubs have different names for them: "maverick", which is a bit Top Gun, "rogue".
Key AFL players are meeting with commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick on Friday afternoon to personally push for a set percentage of game revenue.
The Michael Firrito rushed behind free kick was a tough call according to AFL football boss Mark Evans but clubs will be contacted by the AFL
Hawthorn is planning for all of their veterans to play on next year and has commenced contract negotiations to keep them.
Football works on hyperbole. If it didn't, radio commentators would be out of work, TVs would turn to black and newspapers ... well let's not go into that, we have issues enough.
This was like two seasons wrapped up emblematically in one frustrating game. Richmond began the year without Brett Deledio and lost games, they finished this game with the talismanic player injured again.
Busking with his guitar, teaching himself to paint, taking ballet lessons to hold his tearing body together, meet Ben Sinclair the new side of quiet Collingwood.
Travis Cloke has been fined $1500 for wearing an unapproved glove in the game against GWS at the weekend.
Travis Cloke played his best game in years on Saturday while wearing a glove he should not have been wearing.
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