Adelaide people dislike Melbourne too.

If you don't support Labor, you are a "right wing extremist", apparently.

AFLW is a dreadful spectacle. I can't watch it for more than a few minutes. What sort of people enjoy watching women flung to the ground and trampled on? And women's rugby league is even worse. AFLW will get promoted, however, as part of the AFL's "imperial mission".

Love your obsession with Football Anarchy! They are a tiny minority and not typical Australians. I'm a "boomer", have voted labor all my life- until the last election when I voted for an independent. Many other "boomers" I know are the same. Starmer's Labor have created chaos and division in the...

Too many South Melbourne fans on the forum... where are the fans of other clubs for balance?!

It was a good contest, but it felt like the ref was never in real control of the match. He wanted to "let it flow" but had no real idea of what was going on. A League refereeing seems to be changing- 10 years ago there would have been a free kick every couple of minutes and lots of yellows...

Of course it is a talking point. You can't separate football from culture, religion and politics.

Irvine had to turn himself into the ultimate hipster parody to fit in at St Pauli. Botic would have plenty of work to do to match that.

I thought it was a bit tedious the way he endlessly pushed "the Brazilian way". Not a realistic option in the Australian context.

Amazing that you had the time to make the effort to read the Crawford Report, Graz, what with your high profile job. You are probably the only person who has ever read it all. I liked the suggestion to retain state federations- the current feeling is to abolish them.

Interesting book, well researched. Ian's current "Soccer Anzacs" project continues the same theme- soccer's contribution to early Australian society should be recognized.

But a pity she is stark staring bonkers.

Any thoughts on Susssan Ley being tipped as a possible leader of the opposition?

Boomers - overwhelmingly conservative? Not wholly true, some I know are still left wing. Many boomers however, who were radical lefties when young are not quite that way inclined now. Particularly after seeing what a complete balls up of government labor has made, in both Australia and Britain...

Don't think too much about it mate - just enjoy the goals!

Real embarrassment for Sydney- they had to take their hopeless keeper off after he let in 3 goals, then his replacement Redmayne let in another two!

Never seen Sydney throw in the towel like that. No midfield, the goalie is hopeless, and a couple of defenders. All good for Adelaide though.

Adelaide defence as usual found a way to set the game up for an exciting finish, in Carl Veart's last home game.

I can remember his scoring with a backheel for the Olyroos - I think it was against Saudi Arabia. Yes, the penalty shootout miss against Uruguay was bad. And both he and Kewell had very poor games in Montevideo in 2002.

Have to feel sorry for Vartuli playing behind such a hopeless defence. Had to be the worst Adelaide performance for several years, and it is hard to believe that this side was lying second in the table earlier this season. Not sure if the Veart situation affected the performance, but they simply...