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Saturday, December 07

Touch Of The Fumbles: Two out of three ain't bad... right?

Let’s be honest, if you could distil the essence of a good weekend of AFL football in 2019, it would contain three basic ingredients: Adelaide winning, Port losing and Carlton consolidating their tenure at the bottom of the ladder.

Touch Of The Fumbles: First World Problems

Sure, the Crows look a shadow of their former selves and played so poorly we can’t even really revel much in Port’s shock loss or Carlton’s last-gasp bid to give us pick one in the draft… but our Fumbles correspondent is still scratching for positives.

Daniel Talia prepares to have his hair playfully ruffled by a gleeful Cale Hooker. Photo: Julian Smith / AAP

Touch Of The Fumbles: Like the Tigers of Old

Normal service has been resumed. The AFL is back, and so is our myopic, moping Touch Of The Fumbles correspondent. Port’s new recruits powered them to a big win while the Crows blew a handy lead to give up four points on the road. It could be a long year…

Broad banned for three games over AFL's topless photo scandal

Richmond have suspended defender Nathan Broad for three matches after identifying him as the Tigers player who distributed a photo of a topless woman without her permission following the 2017 Grand Final.

Richmond flag was "gut-wrenching" for former Tiger

Former Richmond superstar Brett Deledio was unable to bring himself to watch the Tigers’ remarkable AFL premiership triumph over Adelaide, fearful of how it would mentally affect him.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Mr Brightside

When you have started to believe that, as The Killers would put it, destiny is calling you, ‘tis a sad thing indeed to suddenly realise at the end that you have been all along nothing more than a supporting character in someone else’s fairytale.