There is a clear solution to the Port-Collingwood prison bar row A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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As a Collingwood supporter I’d like to see Port wearing their traditional prison bar footy jumper. Not just for heritage round but for every round – and for ever more.
Why shouldn’t every round be a heritage round? How can, and why should, any club disregard or disrespect their heritage?
Disrespecting doesn’t mean we don’t have the gonads to confront, challenge and change aspects of our heritage that need it.
After a third of the season, each AFL team reviewed A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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A third of the home-and-away season is in the books, and it’s time to take the temperature of the competition.
Football lore suggests that not much changes in the make-up of the top eight from this point on apart from swapping of positions within, and it’s an easy case to make this time too.
Melbourne Demons
The Demons are flying along at 8-0 but are reaching the point where they are due a loss. It could happen against any team without creating undue concern, and arguably the sooner the better.
Safe predictions for AFL Round 9 A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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I’ve decided that it’s too risky to make predictions only about the margin of victory for a particular team, possibly the most veiled of all outcomes to forecast.
So in the interest of increasing my odds of success for each game, I will also be presenting ‘safe predictions’ for the games as well.
Mind you, the forecasts we’ve been making have been fairly safe already. With seven more correct last weekend we’ve now picked 47 winners out of 72 for the year, and the ELO-Following Football rating system is a more impressive 51 of 72 on its own after I made some rather unsafe overrides of the system early in the season.
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It has been an extremely long fourteen months of nothing to do. Those who used to say, There s nothing to do around here , found out how prophetic that statement was, once the entire country was in the grips of the COVID pandemic, but in the last couple weeks following Governor Edwards loosening of the restrictions, we have been pleasantly surprised to see a number of events arising from the ashes.
There have been announcements of concerts, the reincarnation of Mudbug Madness, high school graduations, and now, we get word of the Red Bud Stampede this weekend at the Vivian City Arena at 455 North Rives Street in Vivian, Louisiana!
An open letter to Eddie McGuire A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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Dear Eddie,
You came to Collingwood when the club was on its knees – just ten years after their historical drought-breaking 1990 flag, the club was now a wooden spooner, struggling financially, and rudderless.
You poached premiership coach Mick Malthouse from his West Coast contract, and rebuilt Collingwood into an off-field powerhouse. Share
You had to oversee the heartbreak of the 2002–03 grand final losses but, amazingly, after just two years out of the finals, the club was already trending back upwards. Despite losing a swath of experienced champions over 2007–09, Collingwood made the preliminary final in 2009, and won the flag in 2010.