If you’ve had the acute misfortune of following the North Melbourne football club for the past decade, then Saturday’s victory over Carlton was a long time coming. True, the Kangaroos have beaten Richmond and West Coast in the past month, but those are the only teams below them on the ladder. They were overdue a proper […]
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They don’t make footballers like Robert Walls any more. Walls, who died on Thursday at the age of 74, was just 16 years and 275 days old when he made his VFL playing debut for Carlton against Hawthorn in round two of the 1967 season. These days, players have to turn 18 in their draft year,
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Michael Voss was in a deep hole. It was 2011 and the Brisbane Lions, the team he had captained to three premierships, had lost the first seven games of the season. He was coaching the club, and pressure was mounting ahead of a game against fellow strugglers, North Melbourne, then coached by former teammate Brad
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