Port coach Ken Hinkley has copped it for his team’s ‘terrorising’ tactics against Brisbane ball magnet Lachie Neale. But do it again against Richmond — just be better and more focused, Mark Robinson writes.
It is haunting and shameful. It makes you wince. It’s makes you sad and angry. And it hurts. Did this really happen? How could this happen? We aren’t the Lucky Country, we are a country with an undeniable undercurrent of racism, writes Mark Robinson.
The Gold Coast Suns are hellbent on improving their list and they have set their sights on Hawthorn great Shaun Burgoyne to play a Luke Hodge-type role in 2020, Mark Robinson writes.
Speculation that St Kilda had already chosen its man before it sacked Alan Richardson is just that, president Andrew Bassat says, with the Saints’ figurehead insisting no decision has been made on the club’s next coach.
FEW people would have predicted today’s guilty outcome but it’s something every Essendon player will have to live with for the rest of their lives.
JAKE Carlisle returned to work in the face of severe humiliation but before he could humiliate himself even more he was rushed away when questions from the media became more pointed.
WOULD the messiah effect work? The Nathan Buckley is seemingly taking hold at Collingwood after a successful trade period, writes Mark Robinson.
THE Hawks should name the players being investigated over sexual assault allegations to protect the players not being investigated, writes Mark Robinson.
IT’S yet to be decided if Jeremy Howe is a player still to fulfil his potential, an average player who can take a hanger, or a good player on his way to something even better.
THE man who Robert Walls said was an ordinary coach has vowed to try get his new team to play like Hawthorn.
THE Eagles were fumbly and way too nice. The Hawks were just awesome. And they had Brian.
IN 2013, the Hawks were out of control. Last year, it was crazy out-of-control. In 2015, it was a sense of job done, says Mark Robinson.
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