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The records continue to tumble in AFL Women's and Gigs has new AFL Operations Manager Simon Lethlean in his anagram sights already!
Gigs reports that, after three rounds of the season have been played, everything is lining up beautifully for the top AFLW sides—alphabetically at least.
Records aplenty tumbled in the second round of AFL Women's and Gigs is here to tell us all about it.
Gigs reveals the freaky facts about the opening round of AFLW and tells us why we are headed for a Giants v Cats thriller in the 2017 AFL Grand Final.
Gigs gets excited about the AFL Women's league, which gets underway next week, and reveals some fascinatingly obscure footy facts about the number 27.
Gigs celebrates Friday the 13th by looking at players who have debuted on the date and discusses the merits of the 13 players to have played exactly 152 V/AFL matches.
Gigs celebrates New Year's Eve and New's Year's Day in his typically quirky way, and uncovers the secret to a St Kilda flag.
Micro Noises is halfway to 300! Gigs celebrates by revealing all sorts of wonderful and wacky footy facts about the number 150.
Gigs cast his eye over the selections in the AFL's national draft and rejoices at the possibility of finally completing the 'Z' squad.
This week Gigs discusses Brownlow Medals retrospectively lost and gained, and AFL experience that will be lost and regained in the 2017 season.
The 2017 AFL fixture has been released. Time for Gigs to go over it with a fine-tooth comb.
No more on-field games until next year but Gigs has the lowdown on all the trade and draft games the AFL clubs have been playing off the field.
Gigs distils a Grand Final for the ages down to a few utterly unimportant stats and anagrams.
Gigs asks the big Grand Final questions and attempts to answer them as only he can - using postcodes and anagrams!
With a fresh pair of Grand Final combatants about to be decided, Gigs takes a look at which team has faced the most separate opponents.
Gigs provides further motivation to Luke Beveridge (as if he needs any) to beat Hawthorn in this week's Semi Final.
Gigs takes an in-depth look at the upcoming finals of the AFL, one of very few sporting competitions in which second comes ahead of first.
Gigs wonders if there's such a thing as a good bye as he says hello to the finals with stacks of silly stats and an array of anagrams.
Only one round to go and Gigs is sweating on the fact that season 2016 has had no draws. Mind you, unless you're a Hawthorn fan, that might be a good thing.
Well, what a weird weekend of footy round 21 gave us! Gigs gives us all the wonderfully wacky details.
This week Gigs looks at the Dogs' and Kangaroos' mirror-image match-ups and uncovers something uncanny about 138-point games.
Richmond had a terrible time of it in Canberra last Saturday, claiming many unwanted records but, as Gigs reveals, it wasn't all bad news for the Tigers.
Only four V/AFL footballers have made it to the 400-game mark. What is their secret? Gigs might just have the answer.
The 2016 AFL season has had 14 games decided by a goal or less. Gigs checks out how the landscape would have looked had those results gone the other way.
In Perth last weekend, the rainfall totals were high but the scoreboard totals were low, all of which has led Gigs to waffle on about the WAFL for a change.
Media Release: Eight new members have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
In response to a question from a fan, Andrew Gigacz looks at past V/AFL teams that have flown out of the blocks before falling short of finals.
On this day 22 years ago, Geelong thrashed St Kilda at Kardinia Park by 122 points. That margin remains the greatest in any of the 80 V/AFL matches played on April 21. — Andrew Gigacz
Today's Carlton vs GWS match will be the 17th meeting of the two sides for premiership points. Of the previous 16 matches, the Giants won 10 and the Blues six. — Andrew Gigacz
NTH 10.8 (68) | HAW 17.11 (113) Round 6
GOALS North Melbourne: Curtis, Larkey 3; Ford, Simpkin, Drury, Tucker Hawthorn: Moore 4; Ginnivan, Chol, Amon, Meek 2; Gunston, Weddle, Morrison, Macdonald, Maginness BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Sophie Welsh) North Melbourne: Sheezel, Xerri, Curtis, Dav ..
SYD 17.8 (110) | SUNS 8.9 (57) Round 6
GOALS Sydney: Amartey 4, Papley 3, Hayward 2, McDonald 2, Wicks 2, Heeney, Grundy, Jordon, McInerney, Warner Gold Coast: King 2, Anderson, Clohesy, Fiorini, Humphrey, Miller, Walter BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Martin Pegan) Sydney: Grundy, Heeney, ..
WCE 16.9 (105) | FREO 10.8 (68) Round 6
GOALS West Coast: Waterman 5; Reid 3; Darling 2; Chesser, Cripps, Long, Maric, Jack Williams, Yeo Fremantle: Jackson, Sturt, Treacy 2; Emmett, Johnson, Sharp, Walters BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Nathan Schmook) West Coast: Reid, Yeo, Waterman, ..
BRIS 4.13 (37) | GEEL 9.9 (63) Round 6
GOALS Brisbane: Zorko 2; McCarthy, Berry Geelong: O. Henry, Stengle 2; Bowes, O'Connor, Close, Parfitt BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Michael Whiting) Brisbane: Zorko, Berry, Answerth, Wilmot, Dunkley, Lester Geelong: Guthrie, Stengle, Holmes, Bruhn, Dun ..
CARL 17.15 (117) | GWS 15.8 (98) Round 6
GOALS Carlton: McKay, De Koning, Curnow 3; E. Hollands, Durdin 2; Owies, Kennedy, O. Hollands, Cottrell Greater Western Sydney: Riccardi, Kelly, Hogan 3; Bedford 2; Peatling, Daniels, Cadman, Buckley BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Sarah Black) Carlto ..
COLL 17.21 (123) | PORT 12.9 (81) Round 6
GOALS Collingwood: Lipinski 4; Mihocek 3; Hoskin-Elliott, Schulz, Cox 2; McInnes, McCreery, Elliott, Hill Port Adelaide: Georgiades 3; Powell-Pepper, Marshall 2; Mead, Horne-Francis, Butters, Burton, Bergman BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Josh Gabelic ..
ADEL 11.9 (75) | ESS 10.18 (78) Round 6
GOALS Adelaide: Dawson, Keays 2; Walker, Jones, Fogarty, Soligo, Rachele, McHenry, Rankine Essendon: Jones, Langford 2; Gresham, Parish, Hobbs, Stringer, Merrett, Martin BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Sophie Welsh) Adelaide: Dawson, Soligo, Hinge, O'B ..
STK 9.10 (64) | WBULL 19.10 (124) Round 6
GOALS St. Kilda: Membrey 3; Caminiti, Jones, Garcia, Wilson, Owens, Sharman Western Bulldogs: Naughton 6; Weightman, Bontempelli 3; Darcy, Dale, Treloar, West, English, Gallagher, Macrae BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Gemma Bastiani) St. Kilda: Windha ..
WCE 16.13 (109) | RICH 10.10 (70) Round 5
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