Opinion
AFL 2024
Melbourne’s poor handling of Oliver has turned the trade window into a peep show
The Clayton Oliver situation is a debacle of the Demons’ making, but the real problem is the system itself.
- by Greg Baum
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Analysis
AFL grand final
Pastor of the players: The unforgettable embrace that marked Fagan’s legacy
Perhaps no other coach before Chris Fagan has listened to the MCG crowd chanting his name in the last quarter of a grand final.
- by Greg Baum
‘The first time I’d seen tatts’: Swans and Royboys of old return to fly the flag
As Sydney and the Brisbane Lions face off in the grand final, South Melbourne and Fitzroy will be out there with them, too.
- by Greg Baum
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Brownlow Medal
45 votes and 12 BOGs: Cripps shatters record in dominant Brownlow win
Defying predictions of a tight count, and counter-intuitively to a season in which so little separated so many – and so often – Carlton superstar Patrick Cripps strolled away with his second Brownlow Medal.
- by Greg Baum
‘It just went off’: The Swans keeping the faith in South Melbourne
Rob Pascoe has never lived in Sydney, but is so passionate about the Swans that his wife was induced early so that both could be at the 2006 grand final.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
AFL 2024
Hinkley, Ginnivan and the outrageous outrage
The Hinkley-Ginnivan imbroglio was unedifying, but the footy world has been a bit precious about the words that started it.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
AFL 2024
Hey Sydney, it’s OK little bro, we haven’t forgotten you
Rumblings out of Sydney about how Melbourne is shunning the Swans and Giants betray a paranoia that used to be a Melburnian affliction.
- by Greg Baum
Winless wooden spooners to grand finalists in one year: Ex-Bomber tips the tables
A former Essendon fan favourite is turning them inside out in the Mallee, and on Saturday will play in the Sunraysia league grand final just a year after the side went winless in a wooden spoon season.
- by Greg Baum
Analysis
AFL 2024
Hashtag Hokball: Behind the Hawthorn craze, and why it’s catching on
Sam Mitchell’s Hawks play fast, exciting footy, but that’s only part of the story. Behind them is a social media phenomenon largely driven by fans, but embraced by the players. We explain what it means.
- by Marnie Vinall, Peter Ryan, Greg Baum and Marc McGowan
Analysis
AFL 2024
Didn’t expect to see you again so soon: those damnable Hawks are back
Having ruled the competition for a decade, it’s a bit confronting to find Hawthorn back in the top six again already. But this is not a return, it’s a rebirth.
- by Greg Baum
‘Do these guys hate each other?’ Hawks skipper on the golden era, the handover and the revival
James Sicily opens up on his volatile former self, the ‘confusing’ Clarkson-Mitchell handover, and the Hawthorn ‘mosquitos’.
- by Greg Baum
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