Ambient awareness is a concept that gurus of social networking platforms throw around these days. This is the sensation of “intimacy” with someone else by following their thoughts as expressed through their tweets and status updates.  But enough about my love-life.Yes, this was the off-season for really getting inside the heads, hearts and pockets of the AFL players. Never have we had as much access to the unfiltered thoughts of our heroes and role models through Twitter.Publicists and...

How Collingwood won: Collingwood played a brand of football that was mesmerizing and mind-boggling. There were floating zones, there were set plays at stoppages, there were players running in all directions, there were countless interchanges, it was mayhem. I was wondering if this was the Phil Jackson Triangle Offense that had won 11 titles for the Chicago Bulls and the LA Lakers. It was not pure footy at all, in fact it was like watching that David Lynch flick Mullholland Drive where the...

Well whack a duffel coat on me, buy me a pack of old school footy cards with a brittle stick of Stimerol gum in it give me a bowl haircut and call me a ruckle. Always great to see a 1989 GF rematch –  it really gets the blood pumping and makes me nostalgic for more simple times when Australia held the Ashes and ostietis pubis did not exist. Anyways, with my favourite 1989 smash-hit pumping in the background, let’s move on with this week’s pulse of the AFL. You know...

Comment of the day: Nick Maxwell for speaking his mind. Yes he was petulant and misguided, but wasn't that better to hear than the "autocue" Riewoldt talk about Round 27?Moment of the match: Brendan Goddard's tea-bagger mark of the millenium. Harry O'Brien prefers Tetleys or Lipton?All is forgiven: Daisy Thomas. Wow.   Isn't it ironic… don't you think?: We give India a fair bit of stick for their Commonwealth Games preparation, but on the biggest day in football, we cannot get our...