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North Melbourne: It's Time.

27 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Before landing the role as Tony Stark in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr. was talented but troubled, facing rehab and legal issues. He reminded us of his brilliance with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, then became Iron Man. I hear he has an island now. It’s time for Alastair Clarkson to have his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang season. He needs to remind us he can still do it. Alastair Clarkson is setting the bar high at Arden Street aiming for multiple premierships. The Roos boss sat down with @Rebecca7Maddern. https://t.co/5zYfOfGqUb @7AFL #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/cKMyMe4Bvq— 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) February 18, 2025…

Ross Lyon is Ready to Change

24 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Before this year, you understood life’s three certainties: death, taxes, and boring Ross Lyon football. What if one of those doesn’t apply anymore? Would that destabilise you, like you’re NATO after a Trump press conference? Would it render your whole life a lie? Don’t rule it out. St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has spoken passionately about his club’s bid to establish themselves as a power club in Victoria, rather than sell home games interstate.✍️ @ClarkyHeraldSun READ 👉 https://t.co/7gNkrFBfH1 pic.twitter.com/bK22ezQpvG— SuperFooty (AFL) (@superfooty) February 21, 2025 While you’re thinking about it how you might react to one of the most certain…

What if Melbourne is Good?

21 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Conventional wisdom can go too far and be far wrong. From Galileo to Ben Affleck, history loves a comeback. In the early 2000s, Affleck was written off for flops like Gigli and tabloid drama with J.Lo. He stepped behind the camera for Gone Baby Gone, then made his full return as a leading man in The Town. Could this season be Melbourne’s The Town? Even though Simon Goodwin is inflexible, this is still a talented team who haven’t lost what made them good previously. Like Affleck, they also added some pieces in their fallow period that they can use to…

Once Upon a Time In Geelong

19 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

When Quentin Tarantino pitched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Brad Pitt, I wonder if he told him he wouldn’t be the main character. He must have—just not in those words. Tarantino likely said, “Brad, you’ll be on the poster, but you won’t be the lead. You’ll make the biggest impact, though.” Pitt, a character actor in a leading man’s body, thrived in that role. I bet Chris Scott had a similar chat with Patty Dangerfield heading into 2024—and he’s doing it again in 2025. "You'd want to run down the race following this bloke because of how brutally…

New Swans Coach, Same Sydney Problems

17 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

On the iconic series MadMen, Don Draper was married to Betty—on the surface, they looked like the perfect couple. But Don was never satisfied, always searching for something (or someone) new to fix his deeper issues. The link/pop culture reference I’m making is that the Sydney Swans have a new coach. "I reckon I might have Kizza covered. I can’t beat Don. We played a bit of golf together."Dean Cox on that Chad Warner round of golf in Perth, plus a lot more in a wide-ranging chat with the new Swans coach.FULL Q&A WITH DEAN COX 👉 https://t.co/D67lBajLTc#AFL pic.twitter.com/hZZdXRw3Pd— Lachlan…

Spotlight on Hawthorn

13 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Imagine a week after Robby Robinson takes that final call in Spotlight, Ben Bradlee waltzes into his office and asks “what’s next?” Robby could be forgiven for thinking he’s just led the team that uncovered the Catholic Church moving priests around like they’re killer whales at Seaworld, and deserves some respite. Sam Mitchell faces the same question as Robby: How do you follow up a masterpiece? Despite losing the semi-final, it’s not overkill to call the end of Hawthorn’s 2024 season a masterpiece. Over the last 10 weeks of the regular season, the Hawks went 8-2, losing only to Geelong…

Two and a Half Lions

12 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Remember Two and a Half Men after Charlie Sheen left? Me neither. The show kept its infrastructure—Alan, the kid, the stalker, and the interchangeable girlfriends—but without Sheen, it fell flat. Ashton Kutcher was a like-for-like replacement, but it just didn’t work. Brisbane faces a similar dilemma with Joe Daniher’s retirement in 2025, but they’re taking a different approach. You figure Brisbane will continue to prioritise the things that they have prioritised the entire way through Fagan’s tenure. Their game will probably continue to be built around the contest, an area of the ground that they figure to be even better…

Hurts' So Good

7 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

The story of this Super Bowl has already been written. Like last year, the team coming out of the NFC has better players and the team coming out of the AFC has Patrick Mahomes More than that, they’re the same teams as two years ago. Mahomes vs. Hurts. Less than 2 weeks away from Round 2 😤📺: #SBLIX – Sunday 2/9 6:30pm ET on FOX📱: Stream on #NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/DnR24SMY9x— NFL (@NFL) January 27, 2025 In a sense, there isn’t much to say. Many of the principals from two years ago are the same, other than a significant youth movement on…

Brad Scott might just rebuild the Bombers

3 Feb 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

When Brad Scott took the Essendon job before the 2023 season, he said “If the club had said to me, ‘We think we can turn this around really quickly’ – and, you know, I said to them, ‘If that’s your view, I’m not the guy for you. You’re better off going and getting someone else who thinks that’s what they want to take over.’” Translation: I’m tearing the joint down and building the Brad Scott Bombers. Off the field, he’s done that. He has driven higher professional standards, raised training expectations, and has effectively built a new footy department to…

Freo’s Basic Instinct

30 Jan 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

I’ve never identified with Michael Douglas. My dad wasn’t Spartacus, for starters. But looking at Fremantle’s list, I finally understood why his character in Basic Instinct couldn’t resist Catherine Tramell. She was the Michael Jordan of being hot, sure. But she was also a walking red flag—writing books about murders that kept happening in real life, tying people up, and making it obvious she was bad news. Yet, despite knowing she was trouble, he still dived in headfirst. Now, I get it. Catherine Tramell’s basic instinct was to kill. Fremantle’s is to kill dreams. And yet, like Nick I can’t…