After the sudden resignation of the president of Collingwood Football Club, Eddie McGuire, David points out the club’s flaws when it comes to governance and leadership. [Medium].
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With AFL preseason right around the corner, David writes for The Roar, discussing what is necessary for a player to become an AFL league sportsperson. He shares that talent and practice are crucial but also there’ s a third important factor in becoming a player whose career doesn’t end before it begins.
As a diehard footy fan, David reminisces in an interview the year when the AFL Finals fell the same day as Yom Kippur. [Plus61J Media, The Age].
The end of the chagim usually means one thing – a slide into that inexorable gap between the football season and the cricket season, known affectionately as the spring racing carnival. For those who are counting the sleeps until round 1, 2013, there is the trade period, punctuated this year by the introduction of free agency, and the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (MHC) AFL post grand-final corporate lunch, featuring guest speaker Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the AFL. Demetriou’s job ranks quite…
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook: “The sounds of the Shofar can only mean one thing – the countdown is on to the impending footy finals. Go [nickname of AFL team that I can’t bear to put in writing]!” The relationship between AFL finals and the holiest days of the Jewish calendar – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – is paradoxical, incongruous, and uniquely Melbourne. Maybe people have mixed feelings about…
The annual news cycle for the The Age AFL news probably looks something like this: Period Story Pre-season big player moves, who will and won’t do well this year Round 2-4 who might actually do well this year Round 5-9 coach sacking speculation Round 10-14 coach replacement & re-signing speculation Round 15-16 Caroline Wilson concocts a story about nothing Round 17-18 annual tanking controversy Round 19-22 focus on finals And so, again, we find ourselves…
The Ben Cousins story has done for sports columns what Princess Diana’s death did for trashy women’s magazines. The only difference is that the Cousins saga doesn’t have the same degree of finality to it. Let’s hope they have plenty of positive things to write about him, as he begins his career as a Richmond Tiger. It’s been great to see the energy that this has brought to the Tiger fans. As usual, the e-mails…
