R22 – St Kilda v Richmond – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·August 12, 2024There’s a certain air around games like these. Late in the season, dead rubbers between teams who were...AFL Season 2024·0 Comments·0
R17 – Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·July 7, 2024 Although this is all happening after the fact, it’s worth thinking about who these teams have been...AFL Season 2024·0 Comments·0
R7 – Sydney v Hawthorn – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·April 29, 2024How do you fix this? I don’t want to spend much time actually summarising the match, because I’m...AFL Season 2024·5 Comments·0
West Coast v Western Bulldogs – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·August 21, 2023Sometimes you’ve gotta sleep on a game and come back to it cold to reflect on exactly why...Uncategorized·1 Comment·0
The Non-West Coast Coleman Matt Parnell·July 24, 2023Trying this again after a small error with numbers last time… oops. 😀 The Coleman Medal’s top...AFL Season 2023·1 Comment·0
GWS v Gold Coast – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·July 24, 2023Beyond The Headlines It feels like this is a pretty straightforward game to review. GWS played largely the...AFL Season 2023·0 Comments·0
St Kilda v GWS – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·May 22, 2023The Saints had not been Road Warriors to this point of the 2023 season. Not due to dire...AFL Season 2023·6 Comments·0
Charlie Curnow’s 2022 Coleman and its confluence with McKay’s/McKay Matt Parnell·May 21, 202313 months ago, I went out on a limb and wrote The 2021-Version Of Harry McKay Won’t Kick...AFL Season 2023·0 Comments·0
GWS v Sydney – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·April 30, 2023 The final result on the scorecard isn’t representative of how this game played out. GWS won, ultimately...AFL Season 2023·3 Comments·0
Melbourne v Sydney – The Mongrel Review Matt Parnell·April 3, 2023This was a match that started as a wrestle, becoming a paddling and finishing as a procession that...AFL Season 2023·0 Comments·0
