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1980: Richmond - The Team of the 80s, says Mike Sheahan 1990: Collingwood - The Team of the 90s, says Mike Sheahan 1981: Barassi's Five Year Plan will land Melbourne a flag by 1985, says Mike Sheahan 1986: Geoffrey Edelston - The best thing to ever happen to football in Sydney, says...

Or, to put in another way, the positions of those teams on the ladder at the time Geelong played them (makes it even more impressive): Round 17 beat Collingwood (fifth at the time) by eight points at Waverley Round 18 beat North Melbourne (second at the time) by 94 points at MCG Round 19 beat...

Hyprocritical? Funny you should mention that. Here is what Andrew Demetriou had to say about "sharing" versus "self-interest" in 2005: “we are more inclined to self-interest than sharing… Can we continue to believe we are a just and sharing and inclusive society?… I want a government that...

Only two words can describe it - Un Believable.

He also left Brisbane to "play in premierships" at Collingwood. Then turned down offers from Port Adelaide when they came in. Counting North (x2), Brisbane (x3) and Port (x1) that's 6 flags he could have played in.

He won't be the next Tony Shaw. Shaw actually ended up coaching for 4 years. More like the next Tim Watson. His demeanour in the box when his team is getting thrashed is remarkably similar to TW circa 1999 (though Watson never got the chance to applaud a goal by Buddy, a la Buckley in Round...

For walking into Lethal's fist?

You're all overlooking the most obvious one of all. Eden Gardens, Calcutta. MCG sized playing surface, with no pesky running track to get in the way. MCG capacity stands. 100,000 feral pyromaniac supporters. You could play footy there next week - all you'd need is the goal posts.

1950s: "Melbourne will always be a super power because it gets a favourable draw each year" (all those home games at the MCG) "Kids will stop playing footy because they'll all want to be Olympic athletes" ('56 only) 1960s: "North Melbourne are a failed experiment, should have stayed in the...

Have only ever seen them once, at a Final last year. Walked straight past one of them who didn't bother to pursue the matter, though he then bailed up the bloke behind me and asked to see his card and ID, even though he had entered on a GUEST PASS. This required some explaining to our...

Today marks the anniversary of a major historic milestone. Friday 22 March 1991 was Round 1 of the AFL season, when the Crows played their first premiership season match, Friday night footy at Footy Park against Hawthorn. Some highlights of that historic night: A brave army of SA expats...

Who says they're "Out of Fashion"? Got given one for Christmas the year before last: MATTHEW 30 SCARLETT

As good as 1989 was for Geelong, how abysmally bad was 1990? Some have argued that 1989 generated a sense of complacency and false sense of superiority and (notwishstanding injuries) these chickens came home to roost in 1990. Discuss.

A golden moment. Some classic TV commentary that day when Mods kicked the ton and the crowd ran on. Ian Robertson: "Gosh, it's lucky this didn't happen at Football Park. Could you imagine that - 45,000 of THOSE fans!" Peter McKenna: "Aw geez, I think it's a shame it didn't happen there."

The AFL’s push for a Western Sydney franchise today received a significant boost with the league announcing the first major sponsor for the proposed team. In a press conference at Bankstown Town Hall, the AFL announced that it has secured a 5-year sponsorship deal with a company described as...

Has everyone else seen the lame Centre Square ads on TV this week? The people on the ads say a lot about Centre Square’s target market – a couple of over-dressed and over-groomed Chapel Street yuppie types, and an obviously wealthy middle aged couple, all of whom, of course, look totally out of...

Was also at that game - my favourite Waverley memory of all. 77,000 fans squeezed in, all the aisles were full b/c people spread out over the bench seats taking one and a half spots instead of one. Sat up the back under the roof next to the standing room that used to be in front of the main...

You don't need this week's crowd figure to convince anyone that the whole West Sydney idea is a steaming hot pile of dung. And you don't need a crystal ball to figure out the sort of crowds this new franchise (let's face it - it's unworthy of being called a club) would pull. So far, after 6...

Heaps of empties in the top of the MCC. You could have let off a neutron bomb up there and not harmed anyone: Bloody members.

Just let the Auskick families sit in the MCC Members - always plenty of empty seats there...

- Is that you Gillon McLachlan ?

Upgrading Footy Park? - It's all lipstick on a pig. And why does the government want to build a tram line rather than a train line to the ground. A couple of trams to Footy Park won’t satisfy demand. Imagine trying to empty the similar-sized Telstra Dome into a few trams if there wasn’t a train...

Can't believe you overlooked 90% of their 1990 side...

Quite right. However, smart move by the A League last week to pull back from introducing its two new teams when they at last realised they were unviable and likely to be financial disasters. I wonder if Comrade Dimetriou and co. will be that level-headed and realistic when they finally do the...

ANZ Stadium as the home ground? I can see it now - AFL games at Homebush resembling a typical NRL game at Homebush - ie. 70,000+ empty seats at every game. What about this comment by Holmes: "His grand ambition is that in 25 years, 1% of western Sydney's two million or so people will buy...

Whatever happened to Terry Wallet's Soviet-style 'Five Year Plan'. When he was appointed in 2005 he was promising all kinds of visionary plans and high achievement for the next 5 years. This year should have been Year 4 of 'The Plan'. Can someone ask Wallet if things are going according to...

Agreed - a magnificent line-up. This is the same line-up that Mike Sheahan described two weeks ago as "a medicore, if honest group" that was carried by Carey to 2 flags and 7 top 4 finishes.

So Goldspink is retiring - Does this mean that Essendon will be allowed to promote someone from its rookie list to replace him? Any truth to the rumour that his number is to be retired and hung on the wall at Windy Hill next to John Coleman's?

Every Grand final is full of thousands of apathetic corporate spivs who contribute nothing whatsoever to the atmosphere. At last year's GF I sat in a bay full of Geelong supporters. The bay next to us was full of corporates. How could we tell they were corporates? All the usual signs -...

Carey had better not try the old 'Hide in the garbage dumped from the back of a Star Destroyer' trick.