Essendon Wall to Wall is part of a series which will probably grow to include most, if not all, of the AFL teams. It is 100 minutes of highlights of our code: the heroes, the screamer marks, the 'enforcers' (as the game's tough men used to be called) and the greatest games.

Naturally, most of these will prove of interest only to fans of the highlighted club.

But this disc is for everyone. It covers, after all, the greatest team in the history of our game. This is the team which has produced the greatest players our football fields have ever seen (Editor's note: Some slight personal bias on behalf of the author just may have crept into this review...)

Gentleman Jack Clarke. John Birt. Timmy Watson. Terry Daniher. Mark Harvey. The Gentle Giant, Geoff Leek. Meek and mild but so skillful Billy Duckworth. James Hird. Michael Long. Has any other club produced players like these? Not even the most one-eyed Collingwood or Hawthorn fan would dare suggest otherwise.

The kaleidoscope of marks, thumps, punch-outs and punch-ups is marked by footage from several remarkable premierships, notably 1962, 1984 and 1990. The skill is awesome. You can sense that even the opposition team fans are secretly relishing the amazing display the Essendon Football Club is able to give us.

The only flaw is who is left out. We see only two images of John Coleman - and the most famous full-forward in the history of the game is seen only in his later career, as coach. And Dick Reynolds? Not a sight. These giants of the game deserved coverage, even if through still-photo footage.

But despite that, this is a DVD for all to enjoy. Wives, give it to your husbands. Husbands, give it to your wives.

The picture quality is all over the place, as you'd expect from a documentary drawn from television archival footage which is up to more than 40 years old.

Black and white to colour, flecks, scratches, it's all here, but just seems part of the atmosphere. Here's dulcet-toned Lou Richards, alternating with the raucous Tony Charlton; commentators of all styles and periods - screaming maniacs and cultured gentlemen. Sentences are chopped off in mid-flight in bouts of frenzied playing or editing - sound levels are all over the place.

These crudities don't matter; the game's the thing. The only DVD of our game which surpasses this is the complete account of the great comeback Grand Final of 1984, which saw an inspired Essendon, trailing �til several minutes into the final quarter, take the flag after wiping Hawthorn off the field.

Please note that I am not necessarily an Essendon fan. I am, after all, a professional journalist. I do know how to write objective copy, without letting personal likes or dislikes interfere with sober, rational judgements...