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...and I'm loving every second of it.
As it stands, two wins separate the teams in 4th and 14th.
The team at the top of the ladder has lost three of their last four games, by a combined margin of five points, and they're still two and a half games clear on top.
The Gabba crowd singing 'Country Roads' when Charlie Cameron put them in front put some English Premier League crowds to shame.
Last year's premiers just had their arses handed to them by the team that finished 16th and won seven games last year. That same 16th team has won 8 of their last 10, losing one of those losses in the last 10 seconds of the game, and sit a game outside the 8.
Six weeks ago, Adelaide's coach was on the chopping block. They've just knocked off a finals contender, on the road, without their stalwart key forward, and their seasons is, mathematically if not practically, still alive. The bloke who kicked the matchwinner even pulled out the James Hird hug-the-spectator celebration. Against Essendon. At Docklands. The balls of the young man, who has had confidence and form issues throughout the year, was something to behold.
Our beloved Bulldogs have just knocked off Geelong, at Kardinia Park, for the second year in a row. I'm struggling to think of the last team to do that (though I'm sure its more recent than I think it is). And it was emphatic. A demolition job.
We're a game outside the 8 after our coach was in strife two months ago. Rory Lobb, who apparently had a foot out the door six weeks ago as a fourth-string key forward, is all of a sudden, to quote this forum, 'the second coming of Glen Jakovich'.
And as a side-act, the off-field drama around the league seems just as compelling as the contests on the field.
I. LOVE. AUSTRALIAN. RULES. FOOTBALL.
As it stands, two wins separate the teams in 4th and 14th.
The team at the top of the ladder has lost three of their last four games, by a combined margin of five points, and they're still two and a half games clear on top.
The Gabba crowd singing 'Country Roads' when Charlie Cameron put them in front put some English Premier League crowds to shame.
Last year's premiers just had their arses handed to them by the team that finished 16th and won seven games last year. That same 16th team has won 8 of their last 10, losing one of those losses in the last 10 seconds of the game, and sit a game outside the 8.
Six weeks ago, Adelaide's coach was on the chopping block. They've just knocked off a finals contender, on the road, without their stalwart key forward, and their seasons is, mathematically if not practically, still alive. The bloke who kicked the matchwinner even pulled out the James Hird hug-the-spectator celebration. Against Essendon. At Docklands. The balls of the young man, who has had confidence and form issues throughout the year, was something to behold.
Our beloved Bulldogs have just knocked off Geelong, at Kardinia Park, for the second year in a row. I'm struggling to think of the last team to do that (though I'm sure its more recent than I think it is). And it was emphatic. A demolition job.
We're a game outside the 8 after our coach was in strife two months ago. Rory Lobb, who apparently had a foot out the door six weeks ago as a fourth-string key forward, is all of a sudden, to quote this forum, 'the second coming of Glen Jakovich'.
And as a side-act, the off-field drama around the league seems just as compelling as the contests on the field.
I. LOVE. AUSTRALIAN. RULES. FOOTBALL.
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