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Tigers see off plucky Demons
Greg Baum For Melbourne, the season has been reduced to mitigation of its margins of defeats.
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Demons fail to reach their goals
Greg Baum Melbourne played like men possessed, Carlton like a self-possessed team.
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Last-quarter blitz gives Demons breathing space
Greg Baum Never in its 153-year history can Melbourne Football Club have reached a lower ebb than at three-quarter time at the MCG on Sunday.
Haunted Demons fans are ready to give up the ghost
Greg Baum In its support profile, Melbourne Football Club often is portrayed as a split personality.
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Kennett not man of the moment for Dees
Greg Baum Melbourne's road back to self-respect will be long and slow, but there is one affirmative act that it can perform immediately, and that is to distance itself, politely but emphatically, from Jeff...
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One-way traffic after early fling
Greg Baum This was one quarter of match, three quarters of match practice. The first quarter was Melbourne's nod to the occasion, the biggest day of its football year.
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Hawk win goes to script
Greg Baum It is one thing for a game to become a mismatch on the day. It is another for it to be a mismatch before it begins.
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Dees lack method in their madness
Greg Baum Melbourne announced only what is patently obvious anyway, that it is in an unholy mess.
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Silent majority vilified to life
Greg Baum What Eddie McGuire said was in fact a classic example of casual racism.
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Leaders must act or risk whole fragile alliance falling apart
Greg Baum An amateur football club I know has the same theme song as St Kilda.
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Gloating not in the game plan
Greg Baum The central issue for Essendon is who knew what and when - governance.
Fans find a silver lining
Greg Baum Melbourne goes down by 94 points to West Coast, but it's not all bad.
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Blowing the whistle on panic
Greg Baum The Australian sporting landscape - dramatised and catastrophised looks a bleak place.
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Coaching's kooky monsters
Greg Baum 'We're weirdos, coaches,' said Clarkson, addressing a roomful of peers and proteges.
Celebrating football's broadest church
Greg Baum GWS on course to be first club to finish season with more leaders than premiership points.
'His life was a miracle. He should never have been an AFL footballer, but he became a legend.'
Greg Baum Typically, Irish saints left their shores to spread Christianity throughout Europe.
Dogs unleash winning form at long last
Greg Baum For the Western Bulldogs, the result of this slog of a match mattered.
Anguish of the shouldabeens
Greg Baum There is no premiership so coveted as the one that can never be won.
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Dawning of a brand new day
Greg Baum Essendon and Richmond, the traditional owners of this most joyous of AFL theme matches, have had their recent dark days - Richmond's in particular are the stuff of mythology - but this night met as...
Melbourne drowning, not waving
Greg Baum After a dour struggle, inevitably it was the Blues who prevailed.
