Walking into Marvel Stadium on Sunday, I had flashbacks to Round 10, 2016 v Essendon.
Tag: North Melbourne
What To Watch For: Round 2, 2022
Round 1 v Hawthorn: Small picture, big picture
Just a little bit to cover off today...
2022 Team Tiers
Why sort teams into tiers and not a ladder like normal people? Well, two reasons...
North Melbourne’s 2022 checklist
Before the first bounce on Sunday it’s important to set a bar for what I’ll be expecting from 2022.
2021 Club By Club List Management Tools
For a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to create as many impartial, simple-to-understand tools when attempting to analyse an AFL list. Things that you can look at and instantly glean unbiased knowledge from.
Round 23 v Adelaide: The next steps as a year of discovery ends
In pre-season, it was termed as a year of discovery. Now we’re at the end of it – from an on-field perspective at least – what have North Melbourne come away with?
Round 22 v Sydney: A wooden spoon locked in, future pieces come together
So, North Melbourne have a wooden spoon for the first time since 1972. And everyone will react differently, but mine is a world apart from 2017 and 2020 where finishing bottom was a live possibility at the start of the last round.
Why Josh Kelly staying at GWS is good for North Melbourne
When Josh Kelly’s eight-year extension at GWS was announced on Tuesday evening, my instinctive reaction was ‘happy with that’. That was immediately followed by something along the lines of, ‘am I insane being happy with Josh Kelly not at North Melbourne?'
Round 18 v Essendon: Improving in the sun
A fortnight ago the match post was comparing this year’s games against the Bulldogs, and today’s will be much the same with Essendon with a near-exclusive focus on the first half.