Blogs & Pods

Date: August 8, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

If Fremantle’s Nathan Fyfe finishes atop the Brownlow Medal count on 22 September it will be a bitter sweet moment. He will have finished ahead of his peers as the best player for the 2014 season in the eyes of the umpires, however he won’t be eligible to collect the sport’s most coveted individual honour […]

Date: August 1, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

To date, without doubt, Hawthorn has been the AFL’s most impressive performer this year. Prior to the season getting underway the general consensus from the experts around the country was that Fremantle and Sydney were the likely grand finalists. Hawthorn was on the third line of betting with many. One of the big question marks […]

Date: July 25, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

In the last two decades Australian Test cricket has been blessed with strong on-field leadership. Each time a longstanding captain has departed the scene another long term, readymade replacement has taken up the running. The next passing of the baton will likely be different. When Allan Border’s 93-match tenure at the helm ended in March […]

Date: July 18, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

While most Australian sports fans are wrapped up in the traditional winter codes, some of our cricketers are playing for Australia A against India A. One of those is Phillip Hughes. In the second unofficial Test that concluded at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane yesterday he made an unbeaten 100 in the second innings. […]

Date: July 11, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Another week has passed in the Essendon drug scandal with the waters more muddied than when it started. Throughout this saga the Bombers’ administration has painstakingly denied that its players have taken any banned substances whilst on the same hand it states that it cannot definitively say what it was that the player group was […]

Date: June 20, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Those bemoaning the 16 months it took ASADA to investigate and subsequently issue show cause notices to players at the Essendon Football Club need to spend some time looking at other high-profile overseas doping cases before getting too up in arms. In the past 15-odd years we have seen a dramatic change with respect to […]

Date: June 14, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The slogan for Essendon’s 2013 campaign was “Whatever it Takes”. It is now the club’s mantra as it attempts to clear its and its name in regard to ASADA’s allegation that 34 of its players were administered a banned substance in 2012. Essendon president Paul Little stated this afternoon that the club has launched a […]

Date: June 13, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Sometimes it takes a child to restore your faith in things. In the past 24 hours I have had that very thing happen with respect to the world of elite sport. While the sporting headlines of late have been filled with FIFA’s corruption, the standard of umpiring in the AFL and match-fixing in cricket, my […]

Date: June 7, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Is the current brand of AFL football a bad advertisement for our indigenous code? Former West Coast Eagles premiership coach John Worsfold tends to believe it is hence his suggestion to trial a radical new law. Many bemoan the congested style of play that is now part and parcel of every coach’s game plan with […]

Date: May 30, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

This weekend’s fixtures in the AFL will be played under the banner of the ‘Indigenous Round’. It is a time to celebrate the incredible impact that indigenous Australians have had on our national game – both past and present. So, with that in mind, I have chosen my top-five indigenous players of all-time. It is […]