Jack Anderson: 'The G-man' sprints into AFL territory, where Irish are thriving

When you look at all these Irishmen in the AFL you cannot help, in the week that the senior inter-county championship begins, but think of the talent drain from home to here.

THRIVING: Conor Nash of the Hawthorn Hawks. Pic: by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)

My kids used to love the BBC series Horrible Histories and that series loved the Tudors, especially Henry VIII. 

Henry famously suffered from gout and when I got the same affliction (I know, I know) one of the kids said that short fat gingers who like to give orders must be prone to it. Teenage kids are not good for your self-esteem.