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About Tim Lane
About Tim Lane
Tim Lane is one of the most admired and respected sports commentators in Australia. A former veteran with the ABC, Lane is now a key component of Channel 10's AFL coverage and his much-awaited columns appear every Saturday in The Age. Lane grew up in Tasmania and is a strong supporter of having an AFL presence in the Apple Isle.
Cousins' shamefully harsh sentence
The game's treatment of the former Eagle is lacking in compassion.
Future looks grim for this pair of miscreants
No pair of miscreants could be more dissimilar, yet the headlines each has created are linked by a common thread.
Beware, a monster is at large
The two-headed monster that was the AFL's drugs policy is growing. It suddenly has a third head and another mutated appendage. As well as a performance-enhancing drugs policy and an illicit drugs policy, there's now a Ben Cousins policy.
Geelong's fall all the more mighty for its rise
It was an extraordinary grand final at the end of what, it has to be said, was an otherwise ordinary finals series.
Geelong left to solve 'G mystery
How does a team win so many games, then lose the one that counts? How does it eclipse so many modern-day scoring records, only for its attacking structure to melt down on the biggest occasion?
Tribunal's double standards
AFL Tribunal 'comedy festival' no joke
Counting the cost of AFL expansion
The triumph of the traditional is complete. For the first time in eight years, the grand final is to be all-Victorian.
Predictability is a dirty word to fans
As the AFL moves ever deeper into corporate speak, it appears to have lost sight of the wood for the trees.
Reversal of fortune sees Saints fall behind
A September match between Geelong and St Kilda has been an event waiting to happen since the pair burst from the Victorian pack at the start of 2004.
Franklin's nine will give Hawks another goalkicking monster
Lance Franklin is leading Hawthorn's tradition of fostering outstanding individual talent.
AFL must tackle Milburn ruling
There is no longer a place for slam tackles in the game, and the rules must be changed to reflect this.
Magpies get it right at last
Collingwood got it right. The club had to make a strong stand, because it hasn't done that in the past.
Growth of game is stalling in Sydney
The proposed 18th AFL team will face an uphill battle in Sydney's already overcrowded sporting market.
Put insidious tactic behind us
The AFL must respond to the creeping influence of delaying strategies that spoil the contest.
Growing the code creates a bind for AFL
Keeping a level playing field while expanding the competition is a tough balancing act for the AFL.
Question of fairness lost in AFL grab for northern cash
The AFL should weigh up more than just economics when making decisions on the competition's future clubs.
Even in battle, players must aim higher
Although the specifics of the exchange between Will Minson and Kane Cornes in last weekend's match in Darwin haven't been revealed, enough is known of the incident to make it instructive.
Legend No.8: Ian Stewart
There have been few footballers more decorated, brilliant, courageous, complete, or complex than Ian Stewart.
Birds of a feather flock together, 50 years on
Of the many events that will be staged and celebrated in this milestone year for football, few will be better than a dinner at the MCG last Monday.
AFL compromised in case of Cousins v Pratt
That football has one set of standards for players and another for rich, powerful officials has been indelibly underlined by the events of Friday.
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