It has been four days of mayhem for CB. Starting on Thursday with the usual drive on the Calder Highway from Mildura. As one writer in The Age said, “don’t worry about the driver coming towards you, ...

Once again the time honoured go-to-event in the lead up to the AFL Grand Final was the Footy Almanac Grand Final Eve Lunch. It was another cracking day with a sold out audience privy to all things ...

ER watched the Grand Final at the Lomond Hotel with an enthusiastic crowd recalls the last few minutes of the game and the heriocs of Will Ashcroft.

Born in Sydney in 1914, Pop had grown up watching Bradman, ‘Tiger’ O’Reilly and his favourite player, Stan McCabe, at the SCG. He had memories of watching NSW and Australia there from a young age, and ...

Grand Final. Fremantle Dockers v Brisbane Lions. Saturday 26th September 2026. Melbourne Cricket Ground. Every year, I hope to get one ticket to an AFL Grand Final. But unless you ...

These were the words screamed out from Gerard Whately on SEN at the end of Saturday’s grand final. I haven’t been to a grand final since 2000, so when my old team mate from Coorparoo, Pagey, offered ...

Grand Final Fremantle v Brisbane Saturday 26 September MCG. Deep in the last. It’s been a cracker. The top bar at the Lomond Hotel, the Juan Carlos bar, today heaves with suppor ...

Cameron got the first, because, well, he’s Cameron. The Crosswell of his generation. Just knows finals. Becomes faster, taller, smarter, more deadly in them. Finds space while everybody else is acting ...

Undoubtedly, the South Sydney women’s team are club’s ‘team of the year’ for 2026. The team suffered a heart breaking ‘on the buzzer’ 18-20 loss to the Mounties (Mount Pritchard) in the Preliminary ...

The AFL asked the tribunal to treat the matter as though it had occurred in Round 1 and to put the approaching Grand Final “out of mind.” That is roughly equivalent to asking a jury to ignore the ...

For most parts of Saturday afternoon the 2026 Grand Final looked like it would belong to Fremantle despite scores being level at half time. For the last five minutes it belonged to people who had ...

A good part of that speech was devoted to the joy in playing with his brother Josh and he mentioned the Ashcroft brothers for Brisbane.  But what about the Kings, the Serongs, the McKays?  They are ...