I Don’t Care

By Andrew Else A text message from a friend before the game read: “Today is the first day of our new football lives”. I’d heard them all throughout the off-season: Bomber did the dirty; Hirdy is just the coffee boy; Goodwin is your best midfielder; David’s Dad wouldn’t have done such a thing; My response is simple: [Read more]

Family spills the beans

It’s not often that the Swans play in Melbourne. And I always try to make an effort to see my boys live every possible time when they are in Melbourne. But sometimes it just doesn’t work like that. Sometimes I have footy to play. Other times I have work. And sometimes it happens to be [Read more]

Haiku Bob- the twirling sherrin

footy season begins all the teams freshly tattooed first game of the year – Ball tackles without hesitation umpire’s whistle – side by side fingers point together crisp autumn shadows – they answer each one of our goals feeling closer to home – Cloke shanks one sun slips through clouds Pendlebury finds himself on the [Read more]

A Bad Start and a Good Start

Before the first bounce of the footy at the Collingwood/Port Adelaide game, the teams lined up and loudspeaker played the National Anthem. “WTF “ I thought to myself. If I had looked at the Footy Recod I would have realised that “Gertie by the Sea” was being played at the start of all Round One [Read more]

The View From Shepparton: Round 1

The View can await from its slumbers. Or nightmares as far as the cricket team is concerned. On the latter, despite all of the breast beating surely it is as simple as this. The team has slipped but this was as inevitable as day follows night. So at end of the day Tait, Lee, Johnson, [Read more]

THE WRAP – ROUND I

WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie.  The round started with The Bluebaggers come from behind win against the dogged but ragged Tigers on the Thursday night.  Friday night’s clash between two September contenders droned on until the time keeper could stand it no longer and rang the bell with [Read more]

Harms on Round 1

Thursday evening. I am thankful for football. Football takes Anna and me to the North Fitzroy Arms where we join the footy tipping comp, and catch up with the grey-haired wits who gather there. Anna has a lemonade-Coke (as we call it on our household). We head home. An hour off the opening bounce. Fish [Read more]

Better your own socks…

I have no better description of Geelong’s win over the stodgy Saints than to say it was a bit like smelling your own socks; not a particularly pleasant experience but better than the alternative which would be smelling someone else’s. The game had a peculiar feeling about it right from the start. The crowd was [Read more]

Round 1 Geelong v St-Kilda: Winning Ugly

Tennis journeyman Brad Gilbert penned a ripping book called Winning Ugly. His tome details all manner of methods used to conquer more talented opponents. He concentrates on the mental rather than the physical. He details myriad ways to finagle. Gilbert didn’t have the panache of a McEnroe (although after beating him in three sets at [Read more]

A grand Friday night of Cats and Caviar

THE bride aside, the two greatest joys in life are watching the equine athlete in battle and investing on the outcome (the punt), along with watching the mighty Cats in full flight. As the Geelong faithful enveloped the stands at the G on Friday night and belted out We Are Geelong The Greatest Team Of [Read more]

CATS SHAKE OFF SAINTS TO WIN BY ONE POINT AT MCG

26 March 2011 By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery AFL ROUND 1 GEELONG CATS V ST KILDA SAINTS GEELONG overcame a twenty-one point deficit late in the third quarter to defeat the Saints by just one point at the MCG tonight in front of a disappointing crowd of 42,869, thanks to a goal from ‘super sub’ Darren [Read more]

Camerooned

  My friend, Michael, is soon to rejoin the Aussie foreign legion. It consists of expats spread throughout the earth who need to rely on the internet to keep up with the footy scores. The connection is none-too-reliable in the far north of Cameroon in Africa. Michael barracks for Carlton and is working with his [Read more]

FPS: Pies open campaign without pain

Pies open campaign without pain   Round One (now known by the AFL as “Opening Round”) is a time characterised by hope, expectation and over-interpretation of results.  Supporters head off expectantly to see their club’s new chums and gauge their team’s prospects for the coming season. Round One, 2011 was unique for me in that [Read more]

Cats home in a Friday night scrap

  “Today I don’t feel like anything I just wanna lay in my bed” Those lyrics taken from The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars was the perfect way to start the day for me. Hearing the song as my radio alarm switched on at 7:05am, I agreed with the chorus as the lure of spending [Read more]

THE PRE WRAP – ROUND I

FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie.  Footballs perennial losers are in the news still – Old Chicken Lips and The Fev.  But Our Great Game isn’t about scandal.  Unless of course it’s about  the shameful way Matty Knights was treated out at Whingy Hill.  In a presentation to [Read more]

Daff’s Plea

You may not have noticed Paul Daffy’s letter to the Tigers over at AFL.com. Decide for yourself whether they heard it. http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/109872/default.aspx

The Hawks Reviewed, Analysed, Grilled and Put on the Rack

Late last year Hawthorn looked like it was ripping itself a new one. For two years the Hawks had struggled to even seem like the team that won (not stole) the 2008 Premiership. At times they played like a premiership team. Interestingly, every time they played the Cats they brought their Vegas game. But by [Read more]

Tigers Answer Daffey’s Plea

Double maths, first thing in the morning, is never easy. Especially when you’re in Year 11 and the first bounce of the 2011 AFL Footy Season is still 10 hours away. But, I managed to struggle through it (as always), but didn’t escape the wrath of the fiery maths teacher (as always). My mood was [Read more]

The Wrap: Round 1 Pipe Opener

THE ROUND I PIPE OPENER For the Philosophical Marngrook Follower So it’s the Blues v The Tigers to set the season going again Wrappers.  O’Brien’s have loaded up the pie warmers at The G and have promised the $10 pots of light ale will be icy cold for the Punters.  The last two Pipe Openers [Read more]

Round One Blog

With the first bounce just hours away, hopes, dreams and delusions are still alive. Will the Magpies enjoy a cakewalk? Can the Saints and Cats hold on? Who will be this season’s bolter? Tell us what you’re thinking Knackers. Does hope spring eternal? Or has resignation claimed you already? Fire away!