Jonathan Horn
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Chris Fagan leaves Brisbane with nothing more to prove after building one of the great AFL teams - AOL (opens the original)
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Coaching can take grown men to dark places. Justin Longmuir was in that place late on Saturday afternoon after the AFL grand final. During the presentation, he began to topple over, like someone suffering abdominal pain or warming up for a pilates class. In reality, it was probably a body going into shock. We shouldn’t use words like “grief” when we talk about losing a game of football. What happened to Fremantle and Longmuir was akin to someone running over the family pet. Longmuir, a farmer, w
Brisbane’s AFL dynasty is built on sheer talent, a loyal coach and their love of a dire situation - AOL (opens the original)
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There is no precedent for what happened at the MCG on Saturday. There have been devastating finals losses before – the Bulldogs losing the 1997 preliminary final to Adelaide and St Kilda losing the 2009 grand final to Geelong immediately spring to mind. A senior St Kilda staffer described the rooms after that game as resembling “a casualty ward following a mass disaster”. Thankfully, we don’t talk about sport like that any more. The modern athlete and the modern sporting club is better able to p
Brisbane Lions chase historic three-peat having remained AFL’s great constant - AOL (opens the original)
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“Give me 80,000 people at the MCG and I was Hercules,” Brent Crosswell once said. “Give me a grey day at the Western Oval and I wasn’t worth a cracker.” Crosswell, who probably would have won two Norm Smith medals if there was such a thing back then, would have been right at home in this Brisbane Lions team. They need a big occasion. They need the game to have weight. When it’s a sleepy shift in western Sydney or Tasmania, they drift. They drive their coach spare. When it’s all chips in, they ar
From the Pocket: Justin Longmuir is an awkward outlier among AFL’s combative coaches - AOL (opens the original)
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Justin Longmuir stood on the margins of the mayhem in Fremantle’s rooms last Friday night. His Dockers had mown down a willing but truncated Sydney side and Longmuir stood slouched, relieved, knackered. Some people walk into a room and automatically command it. Footy is full of people like that. Some are teachers. Some are generals who never found a war. Some, as Neale Daniher always said, are actors – projecting hope to the players and stability to the critics. Most of them are a bit mad. Longm
Sydney’s most improbable AFL finals run may continue but culture questions are here to stay - AOL (opens the original)
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Four weeks ago, the Sydney Swans were preparing to play North Melbourne in the final round of the home and away season. By that point of the week, five of their players had been suspended for the rest of the year for a breach of club standards. We’d been bombarded with think pieces. We’d been lectured to by personal injury lawyers. Sydney’s chief executive Matthew Pavlich, who’d previously been reading the sports news on Perth television and reporting on dressage from the Paris Olympics, was cen
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