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At HPN, we don’t have a great acceptance of conventional football beliefs that aren’t backed by hard evidence. Cliches are often repeated by the football commentariat without much thought to where they originated, or whether they originated in fact. And if we had a dollar for every time we’d heard

Highlight of the day Diving – Women’s 10m platform The 10m platform is legitimately insane. If you miss you mark from 10 metres up…you’re going to have a bad time. Also FLIPS AND TRICKS AND STUFF. JUST ENDLESS FLIPS!!! Current world champion Kim Kuk-hyang, the first North Korean champion in

Highlight of the day Athletics – Women’s long jump We’re on record as pro-long jump in terms of the spectacles and narratives it produces, the drama of foul jumps, the tension of close measurements, and the like. The biggest point of interest here is that it’s the only competition that

We’ve now got a fairly clear picture of where teams sit in their season performances to date. Four clubs sit at the top, rated above 110%, with a gap back to Hawthorn (shaky early, maybe still shaky) and the fading Bulldogs. Down the other end Essendon are making a late

Highlight of the Day Cycling – Women’s Omnium Laura Trott will be going for her second straight gold in the Omni, but faces a tough challenge in the ever-unpredictable event. One bad event can sink a campaign, or one opportune breakaway in the  points race (one of the best Olympic

Highlight of the day Athletics – Women’s 3000m steeplechase The steeplechase consists of 28 barrier jumps and 7 water jumps and originated in Ireland. It is usually dominated by Kenyan runners and a Kenyan is likely to win this one too. However the question is whether she will be wearing the

Highlight of the Day Diving – Women’s 3m springboard At HPN we rate backflips and twists pretty highly. It doesn’t get much more backflippy and twisty than the 3m springboard. There’s sports that we could reasonably compete in, and there’s things like the springboard in which we’d be lucky to

Highlight of the Day Cycling – Women’s Keirin “HOW DARE YOU PUT SOMETHING AHEAD OF THE WOMEN’S 100M SPRINT?” we hear you say, accusingly. Don’t worry – that event is pretty cool too, but it’s no keirin. The keirin is chaos – pure and simple. It’s the summer Olympics version

Highlight of the Day Athletics – Women’s Shot Put Not many double Olympic gold medallists are less famous than one of their non-Olympian siblings, which is an absolute travesty in the case of Valarie Adams. Whilst her NBA-playing brother Stephen is building up an enviable early resume, Valarie might be

With the form of several clubs in recent weeks leading another round of coach sacking talk, we thought we’d take a bit of a look this week at what happens to clubs who sack coaches mid-season. There’s been 20 coaches sacked due to performance since 2000. Below is the count for each club.