Leigh Matthews has cleverly retired from the Lions coaching job with one year remaining on his contract. He knew his time was up and wanted to get out a year early, rather than a year late. John Howard should have been that smart. Lethal is a great coach and deserved to select the time of [...]
Scoreless quarter among Fitzroy firsts
Fitzroy and Collingwood played the only scoreless quarter in VFL history: the fourth in Round 13, 1901. In other Fitzroy firsts: In Round 7, 1903, Bill McSpeerin became the first of 110 players to play 100 games for Fitzroy. Fitzroy played Collingwood in the first VFL game in Sydney, winning 7.20.62 to 6.9.45 at Moore [...]
Rethink needed in country football
Aaron’s comment and a discussion I had today made me think about the state of country football. You read and hear about the success stories and sometimes about the total failures, but you don’t often learn about the clubs that are struggling. And there are many of them. I’m now in Mount Gambier, which has [...]
AFL Celtic idea abandoned
I thought it curious last Saturday The Age ran with a front-page lead story on the possibility of an Irish-theme team being established in Sydney. The story was also prominent on Fairfax websites. Today there is a story online, which is far more realistic, headlined West Sydney ground zero. It talks about building a broad-based [...]
