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The 2025 Trade Value Column: Part 1

The 2025 Trade Value Column: Part 1

• GuyWhoLikesSport
I don’t know if you can tell based on the truly insufferable coverage, but the trade period is on! Even despite the fact that it’s virtually impossible to microwave a team by paying sticker price for players other clubs are willing to let walk, don’t let that stop the chat about whose fortunes Connor Budarick is going to singlehandedly change. "He's toured Arden Street and the Whitten Oval and it is down to those two clubs." @JoshGabelich breaks down where Connor Budarick could play in 2026 on the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Radio: https://t.co/CX6xu3ke56 pic.twitter.com/1qTyA5sPg6— AFL (@AFL) October 2, 2025…
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From The Couch: NRL Grand Final

From The Couch: NRL Grand Final

• Nick Tedeschi
The Greatest Grand Final Performance Ever: Reece Walsh’s performance in the Grand Final was the finest individual performance in Grand Final history, a match-winning showing that will live on through the ages. Whether it was with ball in hand or in defence, Walsh continued to impact the match from the opening minutes until the full-time siren. He finished with a try, three try assists and 14 tackle breaks but that hardly tells the full story. His try was Steve Jackson in style as he just powered through the Storm, his passing was as pin point as you could ever hope…
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The Good, Bad & Ugly of Rugby League Grand Final Entertainment

The Good, Bad & Ugly of Rugby League Grand Final Entertainment

• Dylan Leach
You can always recap the bravery of those who have won the Clive Churchill Medal, reflect on the brutal battles between the last two teams standing on Rugby League’s grandest of day and there’s always the discussion about what is the greatest Grand Final of all time. But we’re not doing that.  Instead, we’re proud to give you our in-depth analysis of just what has been the good, bad and ugly in pre-game entertainment at the Winfield Cup/ARL/NRL Grand Finals from over the years. We go deep into the archives to bring you this comprehensive list of what has constituted…
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The Random Resurgence of Atletico Madrid

The Random Resurgence of Atletico Madrid

• Chandler Milligan
You never really know what you’re getting with Atletico Madrid. Last week, I was sitting down to write an article scrutinising their poor start to the season and questioning whether there was any coming back. This week, I’m wondering if anybody can stop Julian Alvarez and co from winning everything. But without getting carried away, this complete turnaround has been entirely unexpected. Julián Alvarez. To the world 🔥 pic.twitter.com/azdRCtlwx5— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish) September 25, 2025 After finishing third last season in what seems to be familiar fashion, Atletico Madrid entered the newly revamped FIFA Club World Cup with strong…
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Dak Prescott is Underappreciated

Dak Prescott is Underappreciated

• GuyWhoLikesSport
I’ve been away so I am a bit late to the party on the recent Cowboys Netflix documentary. Last night, I got to the episode where Jerry Jones threw an ungodly (at the time) bag at Deion Sanders to pry him away from the 49ers. Stephen Jones, Jerry’s kid who has never made his own f**king pile, saw the number that his dad was about to hand over to Deion and threw his dad against the wall and threatened to hit him for daring to spend his own money. Said it many times and this piece tells it. Stephen Jones…
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From The Couch: NRL Preliminary Finals

From The Couch: NRL Preliminary Finals

• Nick Tedeschi
Rome Has Fallen: Penrith’s historic run that saw them win four straight premierships is over. After a trying season that started in Las Vegas, saw them without a home ground for the entire season, sit last at Round 13 before making a strong run to the finals and finding themselves as premiership favourites. Not to mention leading the Preliminary Final 14-0, before capitulating to end an era in a manner that must have been eerily similar to that day at the SCG 58 years back when Canterbury stunned St George to end their run of 11 straight titles. Penrith looked…
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Brisbane Went Backwards to Go Forwards

Brisbane Went Backwards to Go Forwards

• GuyWhoLikesSport
Chris Fagan and his Lions have essentially stuck to the same set of core beliefs around contest, ball control, transition, and front half footy for his entire reign. A man got to have a code, and their code is defined by those core four principles. It was the theme of my piece after the Lions won last year. But last year, what drove Brisbane was probably the biggest change in identity that the Lions have undertaken under Fagan. When Kidean Coleman went down injured last year, Fagan threw Dayne Zorko to half back. Zorko is astonishingly aggressive with ball in…
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Will Anyone Usurp Ligue 1 From PSG?

Will Anyone Usurp Ligue 1 From PSG?

• Chandler Milligan
While PSG remain generally unstoppable in the French top flight, every four or five years, somebody randomly steps up to prevent the Parisians from lifting a fifth consecutive title. In the 2012/13 season under Carlo Ancelotti, PSG won their first Ligue 1 title since 1994. The beginning of a dominant era that has seen them win 11 of the last 13 league campaigns in France, but they’ve never managed five in a row. Entering the 2016/17 season, PSG were on track to win an incredible fifth consecutive title. Instead, one of the greatest cult-classic, one-season-wonder, fan-favourite football teams of all-time…
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It Wasn't His Fault! The Best Peformers In A Losing AFL Grand Final

It Wasn't His Fault! The Best Peformers In A Losing AFL Grand Final

• Josh Bell
There is no bigger stage than the MCG for a Grand Final on the last Saturday in September and, if lucky enough to make it to that stage, a players’ reputation can be dramatically increased, or decreased, based on that one game. If you ask just about any AFL player, past and or present, they would name the Norm Smith Medal as the most prestigious honour in the game. It means they were the best performing player on the biggest stage that one can take part in. They were the biggest contributor to their teams success when it mattered the…
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GuyWhoLikesSport's 2025 AFL Grand Final Preview

GuyWhoLikesSport's 2025 AFL Grand Final Preview

• GuyWhoLikesSport
We are finally at the last Saturday in September, and the game is between the two sides with probably the highest upside in the competition. The Cats are probably the defining team of the first 25 years of the century, and are as close to the AFL can get to a Patriots-style dynasty. Business as usual for the Cats, but is it time for another premiership? 🏆 pic.twitter.com/d1de0hLU4B— AFL (@AFL) September 5, 2025 They have made wholesale list and game style changes over the quarter century, but they’ve barely been bad for a single season over the last 20 or…
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