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CAROLINE WILSON
Cousins makes Tigers
Sunday, February 15, 2009It was never going to be just about the football. From the moment Ben Cousins moved to Melbourne shortly before Christmas and was spotted in Chapel Street buying a juice, the panicked sightings and subsequent reports to Tigerland began.
MARTIN FLANAGAN
Melbourne's Warlpiri warrior
Tuesday, February 3, 2009His tribal lands in Central Australia are a world away from the MCG and English is not his first language. Martin Flanagan charts the journey of Demons recruit Liam Jurrah.
Regular Experts
ROBERT WALLS
Complacent Cats blow chance of greatness
Hawthorn was well drilled to adapt to any situation, while Geelong suffered from having things its own way for too long.
ROHAN CONNOLLY
Vote-winning start to a career in yellow and black
Ben Cousins may now be able to focus on footy, Rohan Connolly writes.
MICHAEL VOSS
Just be ready to rumble
Cats to win grand final by five goals with Brad Ottens the best on ground.
JAKE NIALL
Collingwood get a kick out of handy new gameplan
More often than not, pre-season form proves to be fool's gold.
RICHARD HINDS
Ablett casts off illness to get back on track
ON A Thursday morning in early November, four days after he had returned from a holiday in Vietnam, Luke Ablett began to experience the symptoms. "I just woke up feeling a bit cold, a bit feverish," says the Swans midfielder. "Like a really bad flu."
TIM LANE
Cousins' shamefully harsh sentence
The game's treatment of the former Eagle is lacking in compassion.
MARTIN BLAKE
Wings clipped but Swans find enough ticker to fly
FOUR points went on offer yesterday, and while Sydney claimed the prize ahead of Carlton, it amounted to a win-win situation for both teams.
GREG BAUM
'Wanted' champion may be filed away in the too-hard basket
Ben Cousins has ended up in the too-hard basket, though in a twist that has characterised the whole of this protracted saga, Richmond has not turned its back completely.
NATHAN BUCKLEY
Dreaming the grand dream
Today you'll play your first AFL grand final. It's time to rise and shine.
SAMANTHA LANE
The man deciding Barry Hall's fate
Before his latest mind explosion, Sydney spearhead Barry Hall was familiar with psychologist Grant Brecht, even if the football world was not.
MICHAEL GLEESON
Who gets hit by a tram, Mr Polak?
Even Graham Polak can't believe what happened to him on the fateful night.
PAUL DAFFEY
September starts at a simmer then the heat goes up
It’s in finals matches where rivalries are established and accentuated.
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