AFL

AFL must bear growing pains

Tim Lane Football is spreading its wings and officials, players and fans must now commit to a bigger game.

Fate stepped in to distinguish between two prodigious talents

Tim Lane Two of the Apple Isle's finest had contrasting fortunes in the big time.

Panel doesn't deliver justice

Tim Lane A system in which 51% gives the same result as 99% lacks sense, common or otherwise.

Football

Cup on offer, it's still footy

Tim Lane The new incarnation of the NAB Cup may still give some indication of what's to come.

Smaller clubs on the mooove

Tim Lane It's not just cattle on King Island, where three footy teams are going hell for leather for supremacy.

Rules are on a slippery slide

Tim Lane Speculation on the slide rule is a dangerous game of making changes to the rules on the run.

On football's struggle street, burning hunger still gnaws

Tim Lane The big talking point has been the unusually open race for the flag.