FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Maggot Central unleashes The Geesch. In what would have to have been the most Kafkaesque performance ever seen on an oval field with an oval ball, the reaction to the opprobrium of their previous efforts beggared description. Admittedly, the reaction should have [Read more]
Archives for July 2010
Jabiru impressions of a stormy night
July 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On Friday night I drove in 33 degree heat from Darwin to Jabiru. A roadhouse burger in one hand I jabbed at my crackling radio, willing it to give me some sounds of home… As night fell I found Gerard and Drew on 774 and then (when that dropped out) the genuine ‘insights’ of Rocking [Read more]
Almanac racing…MV mid-winter with the Winning Post on my mind
July 2, 2010 by 25 Comments
“I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall…” * You know its mid-winter when you donate more to MyChemist than to TAB’s MyAccount! The new “synthetic” track at Geelong is already on high rotation as dank conditions shroud Australia’s south-east. There’s little [Read more]
Can we really manage our way to footy justice?
July 1, 2010 by 26 Comments
I’ve been intrigued by the breadth of emotion following the clash of the Steves, Johnson and Baker, in last Friday night’s match at the MCG, and by subsequent events. Most particularly, I’ve been considering the effect of AFL football management style on the conduct of the game. Debate has raged over issues such as the [Read more]
Local Footy: Old Carey at head of amazing logjam
July 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
VAFA PREMIER B Old Carey 7 4 135.55 28 St Kevin’s 7 4 115.67 28 Old Haileybury 7 4 115.24 28 Old Ivanhoe 7 4 113.93 28 Oakleigh 7 4 110.65 28 St Bernard’s 7 4 107.61 28 Uni Blacks 6 5 113.73 24 Hampton Rovers 5 6 100.27 20 Old Essendon 1 10 68.38 [Read more]
That Blasted Holy Grail still in sight
July 1, 2010 by 15 Comments
When Mark Seymour scripted Holy Grail back in 1992 – just as the Cats lost the second of their four grand finals in that era (ooh, early knife there), I doubt whether he and his merry minstrels envisaged their royalty cheques skewing significantly every September over a decade later. Thanks to Channel Ten’s incessant dead-horse [Read more]
Floreat Pica Society: Round 13 v Sydney
July 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Tony Scully There are two things that make me nervous, One is when the word ‘Bunny’ is bandied about, the other is when the word McBurney is running about. Thus I went into Saturday night with fear and loathing. How can a side keep the sort of dominance, over another, going (home or away), [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XIV lite
July 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Just to prove that a week’s a long time in Footy, Footscray have a new full forward and Jana Drama, in a publicity coup reportedly underwritten by the Appalling Football League to the tune of $1.8m over two years, has been signed [Read more]
The Other Side of Soccer
July 1, 2010 by 3 Comments
I thought I’d post this piece (that I wrote in May) to give something of an antidote to the 634 problems that I’ve identified with the World Cup. The Game They Play in Tassie Chris Hudson’s A Century of Soccer, 1898-1998 is a comprehensive history of the game in Tasmania. There aren’t too many like [Read more]
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