Demonised

Two questions - 'Why do they?' and 'Why don't they?' - both have the same answer: money.

Clarkson worries me. He's a good gameday coach.

Never understood why our clash jumper isn't simply a reverse - red body with navy yoke.

And sunscreen.

'Mistah Kurtz, he dead."

There's more and better help on this site than from Ticketek. Kudos to you all.

Yep $3.15 here too, general admission.

The cult of recency. Best player in the last ten years? Arguably. Twenty? Possibly. One hundred and twenty? Doubtful.

Just Buddy's 'natural arc'.

The club gets pilloried for poor player development but when it takes its time with a young player it also gets criticised ...

He was one of those sports people who, like Walter Lindrum, had the rules of the game changed to limit his effectiveness.

Our first draft pick. He's already a champion in my eyes, whoever he is.

I'm 50/50 about this topic.

He's really got the yips. He's Ian Baker-Fritsch.

Ever? Don't know about that. University in 1909 was notoriously fragile.

Those guys must have had so many learnings to do after a display like that.

What is this rubbish? A full forward leading into space and his team mates honouring the lead with precise delivery? Bah, it'll never catch on.

All the dark years have had an effect on Nathan. Too often, his first reaction is to go backwards with the handball instead of forward. He can unlearn this, but it's deeply ingrained.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket/387484/

I can see the rest of the season unfolding like this: we'll rally sooner or later, go on a mild winning streak, get our hopes up, then the team will falter and just miss finals or stumble in on bad form and go out in straight sets.

The thing about being a longtime MFC supporter is that you can always look at a dismal performance like last night and say to yourself, 'Meh. I've seen worse.'

I found the copy I bought for 40c at a second hand bookshop. Previous owner, young David Roberts of MItcham. It was first published in 1967, and I've scanned some of the classic Rigby illustrations. Different times ...

I had a copy of the original edition of 'The Wild Men of Football' by Jack Dyer, early 1970s. No idea who the ghost writer was, but I read it until it fell apart. Great chapters on the likes of Mopsy Fraser, John Peck, Teddy Whitten but the best chapter of them all was on John Coleman. Extraordinary.

I laughed and laughed over that book. I still have a copy somewhere. Classic bush footy tale.

Great article. Thoughtful, articulate, well reasoned.