Search results for query: *

Ken Hinkley the next Neil Balme? Yeah right, and I'm the next Elle McPherson

Translation: the General Manager can do what he likes and justify it (especially if it advantages a Victorian club).

Get rid of St Kilda, North, GWS and Gold Coast, I say. Make the AFL great again, an elite competition instead of this diluted one.

I think this is a flawed concept because (unlike a State of Origin team or All-Australian team) there isn't even a theoretical possibility of the team playing a game, since they were decades apart. It's the same as trying to work out whether this premiership team would have beaten that...

In rough order: Andrew McLeod Mark Ricciuto Tony Modra Ben Hart Simon Goodwin McLeod v Ricciuto has always been a toss-up. Modra may not have had the longevity and played some time at Fremantle, but he was an absolute freak in his prime, and our only Coleman Medallist. Hart and Goodwin were...

So second quarters are our speciality and third quarters are our weak spot. But we still win most third quarters!

The airline duopoly can get stuffed. If we make it, I'll drive. However, I have the luxury of being 'only' 8 hours' drive away from Melbourne, while driving is much harder for Queensland and WA fans.

I have a nagging suspicion we'll come up against a side like Fremantle or Geelong in finals thinking we've improved, and lose.

In my view, it doesn't count if you played less than a quarter of your games for the other club.

The constant flights to and from Perth seem to take a toll, especially with respect to recovery. I saw some statistic showing that the Dockers and Eagles have had hardly any 300-game players.

It's amazing how St Kilda always finds a new way to be unsuccessful. One of the foundation clubs of the league, won one flag by one point 59 years ago, Ross Lyon walked out on them and the club came crawling back to him when past his prime. The club has gotten almost nothing right for 150 years...

Fremantle's finest-ever player.

2017 was an important lesson for me - doesn't matter how confident you are, it's not over until it's over.

Experience has been overrated by Crows coaches. But Tex has experience, elite talent and his output still warrants a spot. I can't name a forward still playing who has played more games than Tex. Hopefully his experience will be a positive point of difference in finals.

Driving and listening to the ABC commentator say that no 18th-placed side has ever beaten a 1st-placed side - while the Crows trailed - had me sweating a bit.

With the upcoming retirement of Travis Boak and Tex still playing well, I looked up the oldest active players. Only four players born in the '80s are still playing: Scott Pendlebury, Travis Boak, Todd Goldstein and Dayne Zorko. Tex looks to be the ninth-oldest player in the AFL. Every footy...

It's just one of our bogey grounds, like Kardinia Park and the Tasmanian ones.

Hopefully this was our 'shit the bed in Round 23 2016' moment, except this time we won and got away with our ladder position intact. A much-needed wake-up call.

Every premiership side needs at least some luck. Put another way, you can't win a flag without the endorsement of the footy gods. It looks like the footy gods are starting to smile on us. The opportunity is there to be taken.

That's a big if

It's like those people who were born in the 1700s but lived to be photographed, or Jean Calment, who met Vincent van Gough but died in 1997.

Considering that his life has fallen apart recently, I wouldn't be surprised if it emerges that Pannell was involved in match-fixing in that game, something to do with a drug debt or gambling debt. We all knew on Bigfooty that it stank, and the cherry on top was the footage of Troy Pannell...

That was a ****ing shit day, and even worse in hindsight. It was a massive canary in the coal mine, showing our soft underbelly. We thought we had overcome that going into the grand final, but we hadn't. We had another shit game, on the day that mattered.

I agree - I'm sick of all these armchair analysts looking at the footage in slow motion and expecting players to make perfect decisions in less time than it takes the human brain to process the information. It's a contact sport. Yes we need to protect the head and modify technique accordingly...

I said it at the time and I'll say it again - if a goal umpiring decision is all it takes to cost you a finals appearance, you don't deserve to play finals.

How does this guy pull these facts out? AI?

CARN THE ****ING HAWKS. Massive favour to us.

Footy moves quickly, and winning a flag a few years ago won't save your job if you don't keep up with changes in tactics. Furthermore, the culture issues remind me of when we got rid of Don Pyke. He got us to a grand final, but allowed a bad culture to fester. The senior coach's position is...

If you think about it another way, that's 12 out of 25 premierships (or half of them) won by a dynasty team. Moreover, a new dynasty team emerged on average every 5 years or so. In my view, that means dynasty teams aren't that rare in the modern era. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to...

And to anyone thinking we're getting ahead of ourselves, we are fully aware the Crows aren't anywhere near a grand final yet. We're just preparing for the possibility and hopefully saving some money by doing so.