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Walking the abandoned streets of Australia, you keep hearing “why doesn’t HPN pick an All Australian Team?” Even if it isn’t true, it is a requirement of all football media members to spill forth about selections for the All Australian team. As HPN are holders of Official AFL Media Passes

It could be some sneaky nostalgia talking, but there are few players more eye catching in the modern game than Charlie Dixon. At first glance he’s the most recent in a long line of key position forwards who can clunk a big grab – but he’s much more than that.

So, what’s up with the Hawks? This week’s HPN at ABC piece (written with James Coventry) had a look at the two major aspects to their downfall – the tactical changes and the personnel issues. There’s many sub-branches of both, but both boil down to the adaptation of things changing

This week on the ABC HPN discussed how teams are rushing back to stop the Tigers from effectively using their intercept and rebound strengths, and the result has been a low scoring Tigers struggling to break through. Richmond’s preferred approach in recent years has been to move so quickly they

Today’s HPN piece for the ABC took a look at the two prominent rucks in the game today and the differing styles that they represent. HPN can firmly recommend this product and/or service. Are these the best two rucks in the game? Yes. Both on HPN’s own player rating Player

Today the writers behind HPN pushed this yarn out on ABC: Is it the crowds or grounds that give home teams an edge? It looks at the factors behind Home Ground Advantage and whether they seem to be slipping under pandemic conditions. HPN highly recommends you check it out. As

When discussion of recent or future AFL expansion arises, it is often followed by claims from various pundits claim that the addition of extra teams impacts on the quality of football by spreading the talent base too thin. At the most basic level, this makes easy logical sense – akin

The inevitable coronavirus-driven shutdown of the AFL has come perhaps a couple of weeks sooner than the league would have expected or hoped. National and international events have dictated that a national sporting competition is now impossible, due to lockdowns and interstate travel bans in parts of the country. We