If AFL players talked like Serena Williams...

[Xie Shan]

Craig Bolton's column in the SMH yesterday:

Journalist 1: So Craig, how about Hawthorn. Are they really the best team?

Me: The best? Oh no. I think we're the best - I mean, even if we finished last three years in a row, I still would think the Swans are the best ?

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[573v30]

A champ, B2 is.

[Dalai Lama]

nuts n' bolton

Nuts'n has a way with words

[ShockOfHair]

Well done, B2. It's rare to read Australian sports stars speak in well-formed sentences.

Vastly superior effort to his old teammate Aker, whose weekly column, apart from casually slandering players as drug cheats, reads like it was phoned in.

Robert Murphy's weekly column for realfooty is probably the only worthwhile thing written during the season by a professional AFL footballer. There's 700 of them but they're almost never heard.

Would be good if Fairfax gave Bolton a writing gig during the season.