Line in the sand match of the 2009 season, with the two sides battling for eighth place on the ladder, a brawl was sparked by a remonstration from a head-high shirtfront from Essendon captain Matthew Lloyd on Hawthorn midfielder Brad Sewell at the start of the third quarter, which was to be the turning point in the match. Essendon won by 17 points after trailing by 22 points at the time of the Lloyd-Sewell incident. Line in the sand match The line in the sand match is the unofficial title given to the round 11, 2004 match between Australian Football League (AFL) clubs and ,
In Certain Circles alive" praising it as "a graceful reply to the questions of what really shapes us, and what might actually constitute a wasted life." The "Wall Street Journal" called the novel "a treasure from an unearthed time capsule" and praised Harrower as "one of the great Australian writers of the postwar era." In 2015 it won the Voss Literary Prize for best novel published in 2014. In Certain Circles In Certain Circles is an Australian novel by Elizabeth Harrower. Though the novel was written sometime in the late sixties and early seventies it was not published until 2014 when it became