You know it’s been a while between posts when you realise you’ve forgotten both your admin user name and password. This website began with such promise. I had assembled a solid crew of eager writers, helmed by yours truly, all of whom had promised to submit countless articles on a regular basis to launch The…
Read More A Forced Post About Football Grand FinalsIf the Sydney Swans football club was a business, it would be ‘liquid’ as fuck. The team is simply overflowing with assets. Just take the midfield for example: names like Josh Kennedy, Daniel Hannebury and Kieren Jack lead the competition in basically every statistic imaginable – with young players like Tom Mitchell exploding onto the…
Read More The Sydney Swans Are Really, Really LiquidKeen readers of this website will know I occasionally enjoy throwing some business-speak into the odd article. The 1990s and 2000s saw the increasing commodisation of sport as a “product.” Global CEOs have turned their hand to sports administration and are constantly on the look out for emerging markets; for a “greater slice of the…
Read More So What’s The Deal With The Whole ‘Co-Captains’ Thing?A South Australian football coach has been lambasted for refusing to draw upon the spirit of the ANZACs in his pre-match team talk last weekend, The Public Apology can report. The SAFL coach, whom The Public Apology has chosen not to name, did not instruct his players to wear black armbands on the field in their round four…
Read More Coach Blasted for Eschewing ANZAC ‘Spirit’Contrary to popular belief, AFL umpires do not have naturally higher voices to their rugby league and rugby union counterparts, a new study has confirmed. A University of New South Wales research paper analysed the voice pitches of officials from Australia’s major football codes to determine whether AFL umpires’ squeaky, nasally grating voices are indeed reminiscent of…
Read More UNSW Study Finds AFL Umpires ‘Most Annoying’