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Johncock: where there’s smoke, you’re fired

24. July 2008

No one is quite saying it out in public, but the euphemism of lack of “preparation” that the Adelaide Crows are using to explain the club suspension of their star defender Graham “Stiffy” Johncock may have a hidden explanation: the players have gotten sick of his chain smoking. Have the players laid down the law [...]

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Good old North Melbourne always chooses rock

28. June 2008

As an AFL fan, how can we reconcile the fact that North Melbourne put away Hawthorn a week ago as only one of two teams to do so this season, have been the only team to defeat the Western Bulldogs, beat the Pies, ran Geelong to a kick, drew with Sydney in a game they [...]

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Kevin Sheedy is Australia’s most beautiful mind

24. June 2008

It has finally happened, the Martians have been bested. The Moonee Valley Leader, that august record of philosophical excellence, reports that Kevin Sheedy is Australia’s Thinker of the year, as awarded tonight by the New York School of Thinking. Is that a tautology? Sheeds belongs up there with the great minds of Australian science, such [...]

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