Four tight finishes in a round of exciting footy.
JTH reviews.
About John Harms
JTH is a writer, publisher, speaker, historian. He is publisher and contributing editor of The Footy Almanac and footyalmanac.com.au. He has written columns and features for numerous publications. His books include Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter, Loose Men Everywhere, Play On, The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story and Life As I Know It (with Michelle Payne). He appears (appeared?) on ABCTV's Offsiders. He can be contacted [email protected] He is married to The Handicapper and has three school-age kids - Theo, Anna, Evie. He might not be the worst putter in the world but he's in the worst four. His ambition was to lunch for Australia but it clashed with his other ambition - to shoot his age.
John,
The demands of brevity mean that you have possibly denied the Bulldogs some of the merit of their performance. They had come from an early deficit of three goals, to be on top, more than two goals in front close to three-quarter time, when they were hauled in. Then their last quarter surge seemed to see them home, 20 points up, and a gettable miss which should have made the margin 25. Collingwood reeled them in again to just a single point, before Tutt’s goal in the final minute secured the win.
When you effectively have to win the contest three times, that’s a sterling effort – especially by a team that has been notoriously flaky.
Dear Mr Harms – re Eagles – F U.
Carn footy
After some bitter experience with undocumented instructions for the exigencies of eternity, I’ve kept my family up-to-date with my current thinking for a headstone. Well you can’t be too careful.
Anyway, after a couple of years of “Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime” (which, I confess, may have people checking back every Easter Sunday to see if my stone had been rolled away), you have inspired a change, Mr Harms.
1954 – 2XXX
For who can abide the Eagles?
Thanks Harms. I expected better from you, but see what you started. The peasants are revolting again.