In AFL nothing is certain, except Tassie should have a team
In AFL nothing is certain, except Tasmania should have a team - and powerful voices are finally speaking out.
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Tim Lane
AFL is standing under a high ball on Watson decision
The AFL Commission meets in nine days and foremost on the agenda will be the matter of the 2012 Brownlow Medal. For reasons that are well known: the popular central figure in the drama, his great football family, and the unfortunate and unprecedented circumstances in which he finds himself, the decision facing the commission is uncomfortable.
Asking the hard questions of the Western Bulldogs' win for the ages
How ironic that the team the AFL once wished away has delivered the game its best story in all the years since.
The Bulldogs, a gloriously unexpected triumph
There's never been a premiership like this.
AFL turns back the clock and squanders a chance to build the game
A crowd of 87,823 on Friday night – for a couple of late-starters to the competition who once played perennial catch-up – was a stunning result. Almost as stunning as the one posted on the MCG scoreboard by night's end.
The AFL's interstate numbers don't add up
In six years of the AFL's latest expansion endeavour, there has not been a better time than now to evaluate its progress. For the performance levels of the two non-traditional football states, which successively were given second AFL clubs in 2011 and 2012, have lately been as opposite as could be imagined.
Sporting records that stand the tired test
Some records remain unrivalled to the point at which it feels like they're forever.
Tackling the most difficult rule
The pro-tackler mentality has been fostered by coaches and slavishly adhered to by those who manage rule-making.
Costly venture tears at football's fabric
Oh for those gloriously uncomplicated days when football was simply about striving each week for the joy of victory and ultimately for the thrill of winning a Flag.
The club: it's a play ... right?
Hawthorn fans no doubt breathed a sigh of relief when Alastair Clarkson confirmed on Thursday he's 'going to be a Hawker' for some time yet. Of course it doesn't rule out the possibility, though, that at least one other club has been circling.
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