RICHMOND coach Damien Hardwick was disappointed in his team’s performance on Friday night while Nathan Buckley spoke of his pride in his players after their preliminary final upset. RE-CAP ALL THE ACTION HERE
FORGET about rule changes, forget about where Tom Lynch and Steven May are going and forget about French au pairs because Collingwood has saved the AFL’s bacon again.
NATHAN Jones calls Angus Brayshaw his little brother and had to apply some big brother tough love earlier this year when Brayshaw was surprisingly overlooked for Round 1.
A SHATTERED Geelong coach Chris Scott has struggled to explain another poor finals performance after his side was overwhelmed by Melbourne’s pressure.
IT took a while for Melbourne to put Geelong away in an eventful elimination final and while it’s dangerous to look too far ahead, the Demons showed they could be the team best equipped to take Richmond on.
HE’S the big-time talent with a big bag of tricks and is about to play on the game’s biggest stage. Just hours before the biggest game of his life, Christian Petracca spoke to SCOTT GULLAN about his finals debut.
UPDATE: REPORTER Damian Barrett says he and The Footy Show host Eddie McGuire did exchange some terse words before last week’s show — but he says he’ll never say what it was about.
SALLY Pearson is back training three days a week, having fully recovered from the Achilles injury that saw her withdraw from the Commonwealth Games. But she won’t be racing again until next year.
HE’S the fastest man in history and leaves enormous shoes to fill, so just who is in line to take the mantle of world’s 100m king? We run the rule over the contenders to be Usain Bolt’s successor.
LIKE his team, there is a sense of timing about Gary Ablett, and two massive wins in consecutive wins have fuelled his belief that Geelong can win the premiership.
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