Danny Frawley made his senior debut for Bungaree as a skinny 16-year-old, the start of a football career that would make him a St Kilda great. In his hometown, he’ll always be a favourite son, as Mark Robinson found out.
Long before Visy’s $1 million sweetener lured Chris Judd to Carlton, Kevin Sheedy hatched a plan to top up James Hird and Matthew Lloyd with work on the Essendon website — but that didn’t fly with the AFL. SACKED PODCAST
Jobe Watson is still a Brownlow medallist, if you ask Kevin Sheedy. The coaching legend says there is still a lot of facts to come out about the Essendon supplements saga. SACKED PODCAST
AFL coaches have enough to worry about without finding five tonnes of chicken poo dumped outside club headquarters. But Danny Frawley’s response helped turn the Tigers’ season, and reveals a lot about the man himself.
COLLINGWOOD’S graph wasn’t supposed to be drilling in this direction, and there are queries about the coach’s ability to get the best out of this group. REPLAY ROBBO’S LIVE CHAT
PATRICK Dangerfield had just made the tough decision to leave Adelaide and wanted to come clean, but realised that wouldn’t have been the right thing to do.
CALLAN Ward might be fearless on the footy field but there is one thing that scares the Giants co-captain to the core.
EDDIE McGuire will choke on his Rice Bubbles when he reads this, but a $500,000 player retention allowance must be reinstated for footy’s four northern state clubs, writes Jonathan Brown.
AN ADDICTION to recruiting hand-me-down talent has turned Richmond into the home of the list-clogger, writes David King. Will anyone take responsibility?
VOTE: RICHMOND needs to be bold with its trading and that means putting Brett Deledio on the trade table if its wants to acquire more first-round draft picks, writes Mark Robinson.
ROBBO admits he had forgotten how smart Dale Thomas is and who does he say is the most underrated captain in the comp? The best and worst of Round 6. REPLAY ROBBO’S LIVE CHAT
THE more you see Carlton play and the more you hear Brendon Bolton speak, the more you realise how much Mick Malthouse ripped apart the famous club.
THE No. 1 priority of list management is to know where you’re team is placed. Fremantle knows it’s rebuild time, but where is Richmond?
CHAMPION netballer Bianca Chatfield knows what it’s like to feel the relentless pressure of top-level sport. And how to beat it. Travis Cloke, take note.
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