Goodwin? Bad Losses
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Simon Goodwin has...
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THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Just another guy watching games and thinking things
THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Who am I?
I'm just another guy who thinks his takes on various sports and pop culture are worth listening to. Are they? Probably not, but I need somewhere to air them. Yet another Bill Simmons impression. Anyway. I have a law degree, work a corporate job and wish there was something else that I could be doing.
This is that something.
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Dustin Martin is Keeping Us Sane
It was a weird old year for Richmond supporters. We started off with real hope after signing Hopper and Taranto after a 2022 season where...
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Can Brisbane Win The Premiership?
After beating the Pies on Friday night, it’s worth asking whether Brisbane can finally win the premiership to cap what has been a great...
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The “You Wouldn’t Want to Play These Blokes” Rankings
With round 17 in the books, each team has only 7 games left to play. Do you know what that means? We’re getting to the time where one of...
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Tyson Fury v Francis Ngannou is a Disgrace
That’s a bad title. Only one of the subjects of the title has disgraced himself, again and again, over the last 18 months. Only one of...
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Tim Tszyu Is Getting Hosed
Tim Tszyu should be booked in for a shot at the undisputed 154-pound championship against the current (operative word) undisputed...
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Is the Gold Coast Suns a Good Job?
The club that has been defined by misplaced hope for its whole existence has, again, misplaced hope a few times this year– namely the...
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Who Makes the Finals From Here?
Well, that round of footy was forgettable. So, let’s treat it like The Godfather Part III and just ignore it. About two thirds of the way...
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Trent Cotchin's Perfect Contradiction
I wasn’t going to write this article. I figure this is Trent Cotchin’s last year, so I’d save my ode to him until after the season. Then...
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Liam Baker is The Past and The Future All At Once
Liam Baker is sort of a strange player. He is simultaneously perfectly suited to the modern game, but also a throwback footballer of the...
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How Good is Melbourne Really?
I’ve been watching The Idol recently. Not good. The big issue that The Idol has is that it doesn’t know what it is. Occasionally it’s...
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The Public Should Know What AFL Players Make
Reflexively, I disagree with Kane Cornes. I understand that he is trying to be an Aussie Skip Bayless so people disagreeing is kind of...
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Ange Postecoglou is going where no Australian has ever been. Celebrate him.
It seems to me a uniquely Australian affliction to tear down our greatest icons, especially when they make it overseas. We seem to do it...
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Richmond's Sliding Doors Moment
Not to steal from our man Purple, but I feel that the decisions that Richmond makes in the next two years are going to be looked back on...
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Every AFL Head Coach as a Succession Character
Succession is ending tomorrow. I have loved Succession. I also love footy. I wondered about combining them. Is this going to work? Not...
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Thank You, Dimma
The best scene in The Godfather, in my estimation, is the scene in the garden where Don Vito tells Michael that it will be Barzini who...
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Eternal Truths Remain True in Haney v Lomachenko
Own the lead foot outside position, and you will own the fight. That has been true in boxing since the dawn of the sport. This truth...
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Could Francis Ngannou be MMA's Michael Jordan?
In the wedding episode of Succession, Connor Roy says to his soon-to-be mother-in-law that Ebenezer Scrooge, beneath it all, was actually...
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Haney v Lomachenko Preview
After one of the grimmer weekends in recent boxing history – which feels a bit like saying “it was one of the more violent weekends in...
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Who Is Most Likely to Win The Premiership from Here
We are through just over 1/3 of the AFL season and there is a pretty clear division between the wheat and the chaff. We have a season...
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