It's alright shooting a coach, with plenty calling for Mark Neeld's head at Melbourne, but you have to have a decent replacement ready if you do so.Usually the coach-shooting season starts at about Round 15 or 16 as the media seem to have a quota to...
May 13, 3:05 pmMark Neeld must not have been able to believe his luck when he was appointed Melbourne coach.I don't think there was an exhaustive process before he won the nod, from what I've heard they did not seek the absolute best coach in the land.It is actual...
May 6, 12:21 pmFor the last three years I've been watching Majak Daw's progression.He's played against Port Melbourne where I'm an assistant coach and I've seen him grow up.He looked like he took a step forward in the first VFL game of the year when he was a domin...
April 29, 12:29 pmMany years ago I played against Jonathan Brown's father, Brian, and I also played against his uncle, Billy Picken.I admire Jonathan Brown more than any other present-day player because he was like a gun fighter, he played it tough, fair and fearless...
April 22, 1:23 pmClubs don't let much out in football these days, which means footy journos have to work that much harder to find a story.The clubs have their own websites and their own magazines while you can also get online any time you like to get injury updates....
April 15, 3:42 pmEtihad Stadium is a few years old now, but when it was finished it was state of the art and the idea was to close the roof to play indoor football.The balls could travel further, people were closer to the action and it was the way football was headi...
April 8, 1:13 pmI played eight years at Melbourne and I coached them after I retired for nothing for three years.I got rid of Sir Billy Snedden from the presidency, so I've paid my dues.I played more than 150 games for the club and even though I don't barrack for t...
April 2, 12:22 pmWhy do the AFL fixture people hate the city of Melbourne?What's wrong with us?We didn't get to watch live football at the weekend, which was a bloody disgrace.And then if we wanted to watch the game we were subjected to the Channel Seven commentator...
March 25, 2:00 pmAbout 24,000 people turned up to watch Carlton, the red-hot favourites, get beaten in the NAB Cup Grand Final by the Brisbane Lions on Friday night.The AFL probably lost money on it but the Lions really played a great style of footy, especially in t...
March 18, 12:54 pmA few people take the NAB Cup seriously.Obviously Mick Malthouse does and the Carlton Football Club do.And of course Michael Voss would like to win it to take the pressure off him, he and the Brisbane Lions take it seriously too.Brisbane wanted to h...
March 11, 12:33 pmThe AFL have simply got to take a look at their NAB Cup.Someone has got to tell them it is summer and to play football in temperatures 30 degrees or higher and with humidity in the 80s it can flatten players for a long time.The round robin format do...
March 4, 11:55 amIt looks like everybody's hunting for Andrew Demetriou's head.He didn't front the press over the tanking issue at Melbourne last week, the Essendon supplements debacle has happened on his watch and all the purists in football are condemning player d...
February 25, 11:48 amThank God football's back!We've even had Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley having a crack at the umpires over Travis Cloke, insisting he didn't get enough help from the whistle-blowers on Friday, even if he did receive a free kick in the dying second...
February 18, 11:43 amIt was called the blackest day in Australian sport and commentators who have never been near a football club in their life are calling for a huge purge.According to those taking pot shots everybody at Essendon is tainted, and even the janitor has bu...
February 11, 12:04 pmA witch-hunt must start at the AFL.Last week the finger was pointed at six Collingwood players for self-reporting their own drug use.This was a breach of everything the AFL believes in with their drug policy.How did it get out?The reporter who broke...
February 4, 12:36 pmJames Hird was a classic example of a great club leaderFootball has changed.Many, many years ago one of the great roles of the football club was chairman of the selectors.He used to be an honoured player who used to be champion of the club, a wise o...
January 28, 3:19 pmA lot of people at Melbourne are getting very anxious with the report into the 2009 tanking saga to be handed down at the end of January.At least three club officials, past and present, have admitted to league investigators that the importance of lo...
January 21, 4:54 pmTwo AFL clubs have taken recruiting gambles that will shape their respective 2013 seasons in a massive way.Melbourne forked out big dollars and high picks in exchange for Chris Dawes while the Magpies have taken a punt on the enigmatic Quinton Lynch...
January 14, 2:09 pmIt's the first week of January and about 12 sides reckon they can win the premiership.The Swans believe they can go back to back because Pike will improve, they hope Mumford will have an injury free year and other teams won't be able to stop Lewis J...
January 7, 2:37 pmHeight is everything!We can all run fast, we can all get the ball and kick it but there's one ingredient that wins premierships - height.Even in the last premiership, when Shane Mumford went down it was Mike Pyke who saved the day.Pyke wasn't suppos...
December 17, 1:04 pm| Rank | Team | Won | Lost | Points |
| 1 | Hawthorn | 7 | 1 | 28 |
| 2 | Geelong Cats | 7 | 1 | 28 |
| 3 | Essendon | 6 | 2 | 24 |
| 4 | Sydney Swans | 5 | 2 | 22 |
| 5 | Fremantle | 5 | 2 | 22 |
| 6 | Port Adelaide | 5 | 3 | 20 |
| 7 | Richmond | 5 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Collingwood | 5 | 3 | 20 |
| 9 | Adelaide Crows | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 10 | Carlton | 4 | 4 | 16 |
