FORGET the eat well, get fit, give up the ciggies New Year's resolutions, every AFL club has its own agenda in 2018. SYDNEY coach John Longmire has conceded his players were "buggered" for the AFLX grand final against Brisbane after having to back up for the decider 10 minutes after playing their final pool game. Rampe drills rare goal in fast start in chess. FOOTY is a high-pressure game, but some enter 2018 under more pressure than others. Sydney University Bombers. Rampe wary of wounded Pies as Swans kick off key five-week run. THE Western Bulldogs think Tom Liberatore is on track to return to his ferocious best with the midfielder among the stars to catch the eye at Whitten Oval over summer.
WESTERN Bulldogs president Peter Gordon has launched a scathing attack on the AFL over its decision to kick off AFLX in the middle of the second season of an under-promoted AFLW. WHAT to watch, what to look for — and what's at stake? Best Players:, P. Markou, D. Mealing-Holland, R. Lay, L. Taylor, C. Judge, L. Girgis. WE thought 2016 would be hard to top but 2017 hit it out of the park. The were some jaw-droppers. Here's a look at every team's potential SuperCoach king in 2018. Rampe drills rare goal in fast start kit. As we count down to the start of another huge leap for women's football, we take a quick glimpse of Round 1. Check out the 2018 SUPERCOACH ROOKIE BIBLE. Dane Rampe extends contract until end of 2022. Is he ready to reclaim his mantle as the club's top scorer? And the Bulldogs have confirmed the news isn't good. Jay Clark looks at the big storylines awaiting us in the new year.
Best Players:, D. Frawley, A. Everett, M. Maples, M. Powys, A. Hawtin. Essendon seek answers from AFL over lack of free kick against Rampe. HAWTHORN veteran Shaun Burgoyne is set to join a very exclusive club in 2018 while a host of other players will also etch their names in the record books this year. Who's injured at your club, who's flying and who is pushing to play in Round 1? Goal Kickers: E. Jones 4, K. Valentine 3, K. Sander, J. Tillack, J. Purcell. 1 pick Isabel Huntington, Monique Conti and Daria Bannister set to make an immediate impact — and they share a close bond. Best Players:, R. Theage.com.au: «Rampe drills rare goal in fast start» - Related news - .com. Lee, B. Clendenning, B. Pollock, N. Lloyd, T. Millsteed, S. Lloyd. Moorebank Magpies 2. Rampe's goal-post climb: AFL backs 'practical umpiring'. And she's shutting down the best of the women's league in her own annoying, but friendly way. Plenty of other clubs have long-term hoodoos they want to break. Goal Kickers: J. Byrnes, B. Mckenna, J. Erickson, C. Jourdain, M. Dedes.
Hall, T. Mitchell, S. Barnes. Goal Kickers: J. Harding 2, D. Backler, L. Simpson, H. McLean, A. Dawes. Deep, R. Bujcevski, J. Bartholomaeus. KATIE Brennan missed the majority of the first AFLW season with injury but now the Bulldogs star is fit and has the "fire in the belly" to make her presence felt in AFLW02, declaring last year's frustrations have made her a better player. AFL 2015 finals: Swans keen on fast start against Fremantle. THE Western Bulldogs beat the Brisbane Lions but lost rising star Izzy Huntington to a knee injury. UNSW/ES Stingrays 1. IT WAS a year of AFL Women's, Erin Phillips and Dustin Martin domination and Richmond's drought-breaking flag. LIBBY Birch made her AFLW debut as a netballer last year but now she's a footballer after taking her game to the next level. Rampe drills rare goal in fast start in football. SEE ALL THE AFLW TEAMS. And now one of football's great tales of persistence is about to get a new chapter, writes SAM EDMUND. WESTERN Bulldogs forward Jack Redpath simply loves "having a crack". DAISY Pearce, Erin Phillips, Katie Brennan, Mo Hope, Tayla Harris — all the big names are ready for the second AFLW season and have been named for the opening round. 'He's a different cat': The many shades of Dane Rampe.
Goal Kickers: G. Robbie 3, B. Pollock 2, B. Sewell 2, N. Lloyd, G. Willis, A. Harmer, T. Millsteed. Best Players:, L. Gleeson, M. Cope-Summerfield, C. Stritch, A. Yanitsas, N. Dowsett, J. Reid. AFLX is days away and the home-and-away season is fast approaching. Swans, AFL at loggerheads over Rampe saga. CAPTAINS have given their predictions ahead of the second AFL Women's season, but last year's biggest star has been surprisingly snubbed. See how well you remember 2017 in our season review quiz. AFL 2016: Sydney Swans defender Dane Rampe relishing leadership challenge. Rampe happy to lay low for 150th milestone after month of madness. THE Western Bulldogs and Carlton will promote inclusion and show support for the LGBTI community later this AFLW season. THE Western Bulldogs' hangover saw a number of SuperCoach favourites struggle in 2017. Rampe fined for 'little girl' umpire sledge, climbing on goal post. Goal Kickers: M. Powys 5, B. Hawtin 4, Z. Fyffe 4, S. Krochmal 3, J. Lewington 2, C. Browne 2, M. Krochmal, L. Maples, D. Frawley. THE AFL's new concept, AFLX, is set to excite next month by showcasing the game's hottest young stars.
Every cheapie you need to know about. BRISBANE has won the third AFLX title after overcoming Sydney in today's Grand Final, but the Bulldogs have been forced to explain how they lost their two matches by a combined 117 points. THE AFL has released the full fixture for the upcoming AFLX exhibitions with Port Adelaide and Geelong set to play the inaugural match of the new concept next month. Best Players:, T. Widmer, E. Kiel, H. Annear, J. McAnespie, A. Robbie\. The last time Melbourne beat North Melbourne was in 2006. But Erin Phillips is no certainty to play her first game of the season. ADELAIDE star Erin Phillips has made a triumphant return by leading the Crows to their first win of the season with four goals against the Bulldogs, who are sweating on the fitness of captain Katie Brennan after she was injured late in the last term. Here's why we should be getting excited about the pre-season game. And one star says it will be a giant leap forward. HE'S the unluckiest footballer in the AFL and yet to make his senior debut after four years, but we want Nathan Freeman in our SuperCoach team. LITTLE Gaz, the evolution of Charlie, clean air for Bucks, a return to tribunal Tuesday and Libba pulling his finger out — JON RALPH with the 50 things we can't wait to see in 2018. However, we're backing them in for a revival in 2018. A DOWN year for Collingwood superstar Scott Pendlebury forced him to surrender his SuperCoach crown to Taylor Adams. Best Players:, E. Mccrossin, A. Bidou, S. Farrar, A. Dixon, N. Bell, L. Sullivan.
Fast start crucial for Sydney Swans in AFL grand final against Western Bulldogs Sydney Morning Herald. Plus, the three players to watch from each club. Best Players:, E. Vehlow, A. Maher, B. Bray, K. Love, A. Parkes. UPDATE: ANOTHER AFLW player has had her season cruelled by an ACL injury as a concerned AFL hopes a new prevention program can reduce the number of serious knee injuries to its women's stars. IN the final instalment of our SuperCoach price and position reveals we look at every player from the Tigers, Saints, Swans, Eagles and Dogs. SAM EDMUND names who's in the hot seat at your club. Goal Kickers: H. Cogle 2. A FULL season from Katie Brennan will make a difference for the Western Bulldogs, who have bolstered their squad with three picks in the top 11 at last year's draft. COLLINGWOOD premiership player Travis Cloke is returning to footy after putting pen to paper on a deal with a local club, where he'll play alongside brother Cameron — for free. Who spooks your team? SYDNEY has poached Western Bulldogs' premiership architect Simon Dalrymple to add to their recruiting team, the same man responsible for bringing the likes of Marcus Bontempelli and rookie gem Jason Johannisen to the club. KATIE Brennan's season could be over with the Western Bulldogs captain ruled out indefinitely after scans revealed ligament damage in her ankle. Will this be the year?
Goal Kickers: A. Pappas 2, A. Bah, C. Kolster, R. Jones, R. Waters. WESTERN Bulldogs will unleash their new breed against Fremantle in their season opener, with No. AFL clubs can be likened to Australian Open superstars such as Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal. St George Dragons 1. Rampe to learn fate for goal post climb. Goal Kickers: H. Bown 3, J. Boyd 2, D. Vincent 2, A. MacPherson, J. Walsh, L. Freemantle. Best Players:, K. Costello, H. McLean, R. Williams, L. Hedge, A. Martin, R. Taucher. THE AFL has clubs knocking on its door wanting to take AFLX around the globe as league chief Gillon McLachlan hinted that teams that play in the concept could be franchised like cricket's Big Bash League.
Best Players:, J. Reinhard, J. Deep, T. Chichester, L. Towell, J. Bartholomaeus, J. Wachman. Sydney Swans add Heath Grundy, Dan Hannebery and Dane Rampe to leadership group Sydney Morning Herald. Fear not, we are here to help. Best Players:, N. McGann, M. Macdonald, J. Byrnes, A. Bantoft, T. Meredith, B. Mckenna. Best Players:, S. Kaukiono, J. Lew, K. Winkley, R. Stack, B. Michalk, F. Tong.
But which team is most like Aussie firebrand Nick Kyrgios? SQUADS might consist of a lot of faces yet to be regularly seen on an AFL ground but the league says it's happy enough with the likely line-ups ahead of its bold new venture.
You might also likeSee More. There is a contradiction of sorts to what Detroit preaches and what she wants to become and Thompson has to allow Detroit to skirt this line without allowing the character to become ironic and therefore someone to be laughed at. Picking out clothes in the morning! ) And for a while, Cassius does just that. News & Interviews for Sorry to Bother You. Riley, a musician and artist best known as a member of political hip-hop group The Coup, has written and directed a work that's deliciously bonkers, and yet so relevant in the issues it seeks to tackle: politics, race, economic disparity, and gender dynamics. Anything is possible, and what we're seeing now is an administration that can be quite spineless and if people don't really fight, fight hard and fight in ways that matter—not just on social media—it's dangerous. What did you learn from working with him? Detriot, a socially conscious artist played by Tessa Thompson, is perhaps the loudest voice. The result is a warped, war-torn vision of America that's nevertheless painfully recognizable as our invidious present reality. It's a world that's Black Mirror meets magical realism: It takes real, troubling issues and pushes them to their most absurd extremes. "Even 'hung like a horse. Thompson of Sorry to Bother You NYT Crossword Clue Answers are listed below and every time we find a new solution for this clue, we add it on the answers list down below. With a background in cultural anthropology, tapping into Detroit's humanitarian ethos wasn't nearly as challenging for Thompson as pulling off the character's socially inclined performance art.
During a discussion moderated by Kahliff Adams (of the Spawn on Me(Opens in a new tab) podcast), Riley explained how he wanted to show part of the human experience that media rarely represents authentically. There's a lot going on in Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley's wildly creative sci-fi comedy about a black telemarketer who discovers the key to success is using a "white voice"—and there's not much one can discuss without spoiling the movie. That works for her. " His longtime girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson), an aspiring visual artist and actual sign-spinner, still plays up his high school achievements for morale's sake. The intrusive nature of telemarketing is telegraphed by having Cassius literally crash into people's houses, desk and all, interrupting everything from dinner to sex. Thompson lights up the screen as Detroit. The movie is one that asks a lot of questions. Whereas Cassius isn't sure if he should stand on the side of social justice, his free-spirited, sign-twirling and radical artist girlfriend Detroit, played by Tessa Thompson, is obviously on the side of the people. In cases where two or more answers are displayed, the last one is the most recent. One of the other things the movie does so beautifully is talk about the power of grassroots organization, the power of young people.
I loved that part of it. And the final act of the movie introduces the most WTF elements of all. In regards to her makeup, that means hot pink brow highlighter and golden lipstick, to name a few of her standout moments. "Sorry to Bother You" addresses plenty of topics that don't get their day often enough, but it also attempts to say so much that it might ultimately be too much. Art has the ability to start a cultural conversation and inside of the space of cultural conversation, you can really activate people and hopefully activate them to organize. Boots wrote all of that. They had to be placed just so, and they were used very specifically. When Cassius is using his "white voice, " Stanfield's voice is dubbed over with comedian David Cross'. "He's an equisapien, but he's leading the fight.
Riley, frontman of the long-running, politically-agitating hip-hop collective The Coup (which provided music for the movie, along with the indie outfit tUnE-yArDs), has assembled a dossier of real-world worries and frustrations, from the insidious reach of the prison-industrial complex to the toothless peacemaking of Kendall Jenner's catastrophically misjudged Pepsi ad, and then inflated them to larger-than-life proportions with mad-hatter merriment. Having learned and grown, Cassuis returns to his roots to live happily with Tessa Thompson's Detroit. The most hair-raising comedy of the year, or else the most side-splitting horror movie. To say that Sorry To Bother You is 100% enjoyable is a lie. She's no marginal fiancée trope in service to Cassius' plot, and for that matter, neither is Squeeze, the rare Asian-American character who gets elevated to potential love interest status. You're really actively trying to find what it is. But I really like that, I like finding something in a part. It is beyond evident that the guy has an objective and something to say that he wants to communicate in an effective and aesthetically pleasing way, but when you get down to it and clear away all of these facets that give off this impression of being just batshit crazy what is it that Riley really wants to spark a conversation around?
And I've always wanted to make a film that hung out in this space of magical realism. What drew you to the role of Detroit? Sorry to Bother You is one of the wildest rides in theaters this summer. He's a free human and really free as an actor, really impulsive and available to himself and very childlike. Even down to those graphic tees, "The Future is Female Ejaculation, " all that, those were shirts that I bought from this really rad place called Other Wild—this queer feminist books, crafts store. She is just trying to figure out the intersection of the art that she makes and activism and that's something that really resonates with me. He has this ability to just be like, "I don't know it all. " This movie is godamn wild, and it takes several turns (especially in it's final act) that you're either going to go with or going to be incredibly turned off by. His performance artist fiancée Detroit (Tessa Thompson) is glad that he's employed — a job that comes with the perk of working with his best friend Salvador (Jermaine Fowler), and new pal Squeeze (Steve Yeun), an aspiring labor organizer who wants to unionize RegalView. First Equisapien, Demarius. Equisapien-Cassuis gets the last word by barging into his former boss' lavish mansion with a posse of fellow horse-humans seeking revenge. And because she is this really fly performance artist, visual artist, Boots really just wanted to push the parameters of what you've seen on film in terms of the look and the aesthetic. "For me, Detroit is a true activist of her own making, " Deirdra Govan, Sorry to Bother You's costume designer, explains. But that doesn't mean it's the end.
And now it's like how do I organize? The more honest thing is we don't always have the answers and when you admit that, then you're really available to the exploration. They were created specifically, and they were all scripted exactly. Sorry To Bother You hits theaters July 6. "I don't think you can be in this world and come out unscathed.
I really wanted to work with Lakeith. Riley chose horses because of the cultural connotations, using the animals association with labor, domestication, and racism as a motif. Those are the times that we live in. Dec 15, 2018Although the sharp sense of humor is only one step away from being laugh-out-loud hilarious, this is a smart absurdist satire on conformism and modern alienation that couldn't feel more realistic even as it confidently moves towards surrealism in ways that are quite unexpected. Be warned, Fowler oozes a presence that will make him a huge comedy star one of these days. How was it working with Lakeith? The film disorients viewers with a multitude of false endings.
It's a very artistic approach to makeup that I've always found very inspiring. WorryFree, the corporate answer to modern problems (stress! Quite honestly, there are so many things I never thought could happen that are currently happening. What are some experiences you've personally had in terms of organizing and protesting? Jan 19, 2019Such a great level of surrealism.