AFL

Roosters in Sydney’s eastern suburbs are as sexy as the Swans will ever be: Why the Chooks versus Manly crowd and Swans not selling out SCG says everything about the Harbour City

23 September, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis On Friday night in Sydney’s Moore Park, the AFL and the NRL ran finals games side-by-side – one a preliminary final – the other a week two elimination final between Cronulla-Sutherland

Code wars, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis: The Swans have won the AFL minor premiership and Giants made the top four but nobody in Sydney has noticed

28 August, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis As the days heat up and the energy of spring dances in the Sydney air, so goes the annual bandwagon migration to the Sydney Cricket Ground of the north shore elite

‘If rugby league is a supermodel – the NFL is fashion week in New York, Paris, London and Milan all rolled into one’: Why gridiron will be the NRL’s next big threat

14 May, 2024 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Less than a month after announcing their historic development academy on the Gold Coast scheduled for September, on Anzac Day no less, the NFL has confirmed its first Australian via the

‘Forget parmi versus parma – what’s a ‘butcho’? A rugby league fan in Melbourne for NRL and AFL grand final weekend

3 October, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Many months ago your writer was told by his wife, an award-winning dog groomer, that we were headed to Victoria for a competition at the Melbourne Royal Show – little did

Melbourne media giant sparks rumour NRL have poached Crowded House from AFL for grand final entertainment

9 August, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Eddie McGuire has sparked rumours Crowded House has turned down the AFL to play at the NRL Grand Final instead. Speaking on his own podcast, McGuire revealed that ARLC chairman Peter V’landys personally called him

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan says ‘gather round’ is already better than NRL’s Magic Round as AFL prepare to play a match at 5000 capacity bush ground

13 April, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

BY STAFF WRITERS Mexican President AKA AFL supremo Gillon McLachlan has made a peculiar flex ahead of his sport’s first ever “gather round” down in Adelaide – telling media that this AFL round was “already

Arrival of FIFA World Cup and a Rugby Australia resurrection can be the wake up call the NRL desperately needs

1 February, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis High above the clouds, atop the tallest mountain in the brutal Australian sporting landscape, sit two giant codes. Bloating, spitting and snarling. With winter on the horizon, the mighty one they

‘I fear the AFL has massively underestimated the power of rugby league’: GWS Giants drowning in rugby league territory

14 May, 2022 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Aussie Rules and the AFL haven’t put a dent into rugby league’s window in Sydney’s thriving west according to a report from The Weekend Australian. Despite the AFL planting a new club into the region

‘Tough titties’: Part-time Storm fans want the NRL to move their preliminary final so they can watch the AFL – it ain’t going to happen

12 September, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The mighty Melburnians pride themselves on being the sporting capital of Australia. They are highly educated on all sports, so they say. Their reaction to the National Rugby League’s announcement of

The Gold War: Titans crowd doubled rival Suns on the weekend as AFL legends call for Suns to be banished from their competition

21 June, 2021 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis The cross-code war on the Gold Coast between the NRL’s Titans and AFL’s Suns has taken another twist with two legends of the AFL calling for the Suns to be replaced

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