The Optimistic Mongrel 2025 – Part One HB Meyers·December 18, 2024Depending on where you look, the AFL preseason can be a bad news factory. Injuries, dramas… it can...AFL Season 2025·0 Comments·0
A Lesson In Humility? HB Meyers·October 6, 2024We’ve probably all been guilty of thinking we’re more important than we are at some stage in life....AFL Drafts and TradesAFL Season 2025·7 Comments·0
Mongrel Quickie – The Catch-Up HB Meyers·September 19, 2024 Some of these things trickle across my desk… or the kitchen table, where I’m working today, and...AFL Season 2024·0 Comments·0
The Hardline – The Stringer/Essendon Stand-Off HB Meyers·September 3, 2024Essendon cannot take a trick, at the moment. They have been whacked by their fans and the wider...AFL Season 2024AFL Season 2025·3 Comments·0
R24 – Brisbane v Essendon – Optimist/Pessimist Review HB Meyers·August 25, 2024A home final on the line, Joe Daniher’s 200th game, and Dyson Heppell’s belated last game. The stage...AFL Season 2024·0 Comments·0
R23 – Sydney v Essendon – The Big Questions HB Meyers·August 17, 2024As the teams trudged off the ground at halftime, you could have looked at this game either of...AFL Season 2024·4 Comments·0
Jump Before You’re Pushed HB Meyers·August 16, 2024I have to admit, I had a tinge of sadness about me when I learnt that Kevin Sheedy...AFL Season 2024·1 Comment·0
R22 – Gold Coast v Essendon – The Stuff Nicholas Sluggett·August 11, 2024 Intro: The Bombers’ season was hanging by a thread. They gave themselves one more gasp of air...AFL Season 2024·1 Comment·0
It’s The Training Loads… And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves HB Meyers·August 8, 2024It’ll all be okay…. Everything is fine… That’s what they tell themselves as the house burns down around...AFL Season 2024·1 Comment·0
R21 – Essendon v Fremantle – The Big Questions HB Meyers·August 4, 2024A furious ten minute burst in the final quarter saw Essendon breathe life into their 2024 season, as...AFL Season 2024·0 Comments·0