Remember those for whom the draft blows cold
Every teenage footballer dreams of being drafted to the AFL. But the toughest part remains getting an AFL game, and not every draftee does. Michelangelo Rucci reports.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Nov 23, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Every teenage footballer dreams of being drafted to the AFL. But the toughest part remains getting an AFL game, and not every draftee does. Michelangelo Rucci reports.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Nov 16, 2020 | Behind the News |
Jack Nicholson told us, as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, that we can’t handle the truth. Michelangelo Rucci wishes we would just be given the chance.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Nov 9, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
AFL free agency closed last Friday, but not the Pandora’s box opened wide by its compensation pick system. Michelangelo Rucci looks at the AFL formula’s secret herbs and spices.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Nov 3, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Australian football found its way to the finish line amid demanding challenges from the COVID pandemic. But what is real cost of season 2020, asks Michelangelo Rucci.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Oct 26, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale and his Port Adelaide counterpart Keith Thomas have focused on football with impressive results, says Michelangelo Rucci
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Oct 20, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
A decade ago, the AFL conceded on free agency. Michelangelo Rucci talks to the major players in the game on how this trigger for greater player movement has changed the AFL landscape.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Oct 19, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Football has made an art of consuming itself with passionate – but ultimately meaningless – arguments. Michelangelo Rucci revisits the moments in 2020 that kept the “old normal” in vogue.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Oct 12, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Finals, they say, are a different game of football. Which AFL club has stood up best in September (and October)? Michelangelo Rucci crunches the numbers.
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Oct 5, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
AFL football is like all other major sports with clubs, teams and fans carrying a sense of “entitlement”. Who are they asks Michelangelo Rucci
Read MorePosted by Michelangelo Rucci | Sep 28, 2020 | Behind the News, Football |
Grand finals can fulfill dreams or prove the stuff of nightmares when clubs over-react to losses. Michelangelo Rucci looks at some spectacular collapses from grand final pain.
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