Saints Summary: Good Friday in name only

The Saints 52-point Good Friday defeat at the hands of the Kangaroos may have cost more than the chance to go 2-0. It may also have cost the club a chance to make a marque day their own.

Grand Final Heartbreak: Katie Brennan joins the ranks of the unfortunate

On Tuesday night Katie Brennan’s dreams of leading her Western Bulldog teammates out in the AFLW Grand Final were dashed after unsuccessfully challenging her one-week dangerous tackle suspension. Unlike male counterparts Trent Cotchin and Barry Hall in recent years and despite an impassioned plea from her player advocate Sam Norton, that “she shouldn’t miss a grand…

Cooney: Plugger wouldn’t get a kick

“He wouldn’t get a kick.” This is how Adam Cooney responded to the question of what would happen if Tony Lockett came into the game in 2018. It was as extraordinary as it was flippant and disrespectful, but the 2008 Brownlow Medalist is not alone in his dismissive feelings of legends past. Cooney’s reasoning as…

One Night in Cleveland

One night in Cleveland, we were all reminded again of the majesty of sport. This night, the seventh of an enthralling series of games simultaneously, ended Baseball’s longest ever championship drought, and added another devastating chapter to the newly minted longest standing wait