In 2007, the League decided to take all the excitement, atmosphere and passion of September and suck the life out of it by giving the AFL finals series a lame-arse name… we were given “Septopia”. And didn’t Septopia catch on… Geelong appeared to reach this mythical state of footballing awesomeness a ...
YO ADRIAN!!! Now, as much as we here at Half Back Flanker love to pay out on those players that drive us nuts for whatever reason, we have to give credit where it is due. No matter how begrudgingly that credit is delivered. So it is with mixed emotions that we give sneaky St Kilda forward Stephen Mi ...
How many ‘eight point’ games have the miserable Fremantle Dockers played in over the years? One? Two, maybe? Is that being too generous? It’s a common footy cliche…the ol’ ‘eight point’ game! When two evenly matched teams with dreams of September face off in a match that boosts the winner’s finals a ...
Will Bazza get the chance to smack another footy player in the head ever again? The Big Bad Bustling Barry era is in danger of coming to a sad and sorry end. The new and improved Barry Hall that led Sydney to a memorable, drought-breaking flag in 2005 has had a shocking 2008 and his future in the ga ...
Cameron Ling winning the Brownlow Medal…how awesome would that be!!! The Brownlow Medal has come under scrutiny this week after Lance Franklin was ruled ineligible to win the award when found guilty of a rough conduct charge. But because he accepted the guilty plea, he received a reprimand rather th ...
Aradhna and I were often warned by Sydneysiders that moving to Melbourne meant being exposed to the cult of Aussie rules football (or, as Victorians call it, 'real footy'). We attended our first Melbourne footy match last night (photo above) and it, I have to admit, was a helluva of an initiation. A ...
