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One week is barely over before the next begins, but it’s Anzac Day on Wednesday, which means my favourite football day of the year!! Here are my tips, and odds. (78% / $1.40) Bombers v Magpies ($2.80 / 22%) (81% / $1.55) Power v Saints ($2.30 / 19%) (10% / $4.50) Tigers v Eagles ($1.16 [...]

My tipping is discussed elsewhere, but here are the results: (23%) Tigers (14.16 100) Bulldogs (20.12 132) (77%) (68%) Magpies (9.12 66) Power (12.12 84) (32%) (75%) Saints (9.14 68) Bombers (15.9 99) (25%) (13%) Kangaroos (12.15 87) Lions (8.15 63) (87%) (60%) Crows (9.7 61) Swans (5.14 44) (40%) (25%) Hawks (10.16 76) Cats [...]

It’s been a long, long week, and caused me to write a long, long post. Now that the dust has settled and both Selwood and Headland have emerged from the tribunal, Andrew Demetriou says sex-based sledging has to stop. Several former players have since argued that on-field sledging about women is harmless and just a [...]

Idiotic boofheaded sexists like Willie Mason bring the entire game of NRL into disrepute, and make me wonder what about that game exacerbates such behaviour. But I had best remove the beam in mine own eye, and look dispassionately upon my code. During the West Coast Eagles derby with the Fremantle Dockers on the weekend [...]

This is a test, for myself as much as anyone. Here’s the reasoning behind this week’s tipping. Odds are now in, so let’s have a look at how I’m likely to fare. (Note, I am on 11 tips, punters are on 16, which is where most of the Sydney Morning Herald’s expert tippers are too [...]

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s losing to Carlton. As Real Footy puts it: It might sound a little trite to say there’s something about the sight of an Essendon jumper that brings the very best out of Carlton, but after one of the best wins in the Blues’ history yesterday, it’s simply [...]

This weekend I intend to watch at least one game. Or read some sports coverage. I’m really not doing so well with this armchair expert thing. I don’t think it counts if you spent the weekend at a Folk Festival and didn’t pay attention to sport at all, beyond scanning the back page of the [...]

ESSENDON WON …. THEY WON!! THEY BEAT THE CROWS – AT HOME OK, so we won our first game last year too, against the Swans, and were down the gurgler just two weeks later, but don’t you just love the first round of the season, when hope springs eternal (in autmn – er, should it [...]

Apropos of my previous post, I have gone and signed the boy up to soccer. He very sweetly said that he wanted to play close to home, and assured me that if he didn’t like soccer he would return to AFL [the one true code]. So, how could I resist that logic? Off I trundled, [...]

Dear Sideliners, sorry, I have not posted much at all lately. Been too busy to even think about sport. But now I have a problem, that only you can solve. Five loves AFL, more than can be said even in a lengthy blog post. Last year I forked out and signed my son up for [...]