Robbo’s Top 50: Vote for your No.1
MARK Robinson named Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn as his No.1 player of 2018. Do you agree? Vote for your top 50 in the interactive and have your say. VOTE ON EVERY PLAYER
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Top 50: Who has knocked Dusty off the top?
DEFENDERS have flourished this season – so too have ruckmen. Is that a sign that footy is in good nick or not asks Mark Robinson as he names his top players for 2018. Who made the cut? Who missed out?
Robbo: which Bombers can seal Shiel deal?
ESSENDON has pulled off a stunning coup and didn’t have to sell the farm to entice Dylan Shiel. MARK ROBINSON writes the midfielder will give the Bombers a new look — but who will make way for his arrival?
Robbo: Mayhem before Sheed’s magic moment
THE two minutes which won the game for West Coast prompted high praise but the five seconds which helped lose the game for Collingwood will prompt cries of injustice, writes Mark Robinson.
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The Tackle: Demons in hell
HAS Scott Pendlebury played a better or more dominant game for Collingwood? And are the Demons back in hell under Paul Roos?
Bloods possessed, but not with the ball
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Hird agrees to truce, not surrender
JAMES Hird was never going to be sacked by Essendon because those who matter understand the pain he is suffering.
Robbo: Stop bashing Tania
THE players’ situation aside, the lampooning of Tania Hird is perhaps the sorriest human failing in this whole Essendon episode.
The Tackle: Gloss taken off opener
THE split round and the Roos in the gun, big tick for the Eagles and Jack Watts and a reminder life is bigger than the game.
Hird outcry is old news
COMMENT: THERE has been a hysterical reaction to Tania Hird’s appearance on the ABC. It was ill-timed, even selfish, but it wasn’t “explosive” as everyone claims.
Expect less, Magpies
FOOTBALL and expectations can be a killer combination, and poor old Collingwood are simply going backwards at the moment.
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