Almanac Footy: Eight Into One Won’t Go (unless you are PJ Flynn)!
Citrus Bob was also at the Footy Almanac season launch during his visit
Spent last week in Melbourne doing various sporting things and one of them was to take in four football matches in the AFL. Three at the G and one at Docklands.
At the end of the epic I came to the conclusion that ‘eight into one won’t go but one into eight is certainty’.
Mind you the season is only two weeks old but I reckon that you can already say bye, bye birdie to a number of those I viewed.
Of the eight teams that I witnessed and watched there was only one certainty and that was Hawthorn. Mitchell’s mayhem is causing exactly that across the length and breadth of the competition this year.
The Kamikaze Kids are running wild and leaving everyone else in their wake. They certainly showed Carlton a clean pair of heels when they were needed. How can Carlton truly believe they have a finals team when they only have three or four David Parkin ‘A’ graders in their lineup?
The Adelaide Advertiser’s first team the Crows did look okay in their demolition of Essendon but the Bombers looked pretty decrepit but that discrepancy between the ‘have’s’ and ‘have nots’ was clearly in focus on the wide expanses of the G. Sorry Col et al it will again be a long season for your team. ‘The Same Olds’ are just that.
The Ade will be going bonkers over this win and will probably re-employ a few journos to keep up the interest.
Carringbush and Footscray (how I love that name!) battled hard and there was not much difference between the two teams although that is not to say they were good and worthy finalists. One of them probably will but which one is anybodies guess. Emily Bronte’s man probably holds the key to the boys from the salty river.
Why anyone would tip the Pivotonians against St Kilda at Docklands is not in tune with today’s footy. The team that once wore the colours of Germany have had the wood over Pivots for years no matter where they are on the ladder. Somehow Ross the Lyon knows how to get the best out of his charges in this game. The cats played like kittens and everyone will beat them unless they do something about the rucking situation. Where was the boy from the Murray Riverland? Looking after all the mobile phones by my observations before the game. Neither side will make the top four.
Nostradamus Citrus’s predictions after careful observation and consideration:-
Hawthorn top 4
Carlton 10th
Adelaide 7th
Essendon 14th
Collingwood 6th
Footscray 10th
St Kilda 9th
Geelong 8th
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About Bob Utber
At 84 years of age Citrus Bob is doing what he has always done since growing up on a small farm at Lang Lang. Talking, watching and writing sport and in recent years writing books. He lives in Mildura with his very considerate wife (Jenny) and a groodle named 'Chloe on Flinders' and can be found at Deakin 27 every day.
On the other games:
Brisbane – talented – party tricks or footy? – old Fages has work cut out – Joe missed to straighten them
WC Eagles – promising – 17th – we are on the rise – a team with no rucks & few talls – stop complaining CB.
Sydney Swans – just going – no key forwards – Grundy was once. a ruckman – on the slide.
Freo Dockers – clone Jackson? – Bolton superannuated – Brayshaw plods – Darcy & Young required
North Melbourne – talent maturing – old Clarko has scared them straight – Jack D heart transplant
Melbourne – demons by name – demons by nature – are ‘personal issues’ a contractual requirement?
Port Adelaide – flat track bullies – flatter to deceive
Richmond – got off the mark first ball – then ran themselves out – Yze changing nappies
GC Suns – GWS Giants – bye bye – how do you get a week off before you’ve started – ACTU jealous
GC Suns – looked the real deal in Rd 1 – so would have Melbourne Vixens – Dimma scared them straight?
GWS Giants – Premiers – best key talls both ends – lots of run – if Briggs stands up
“A ruckman. A ruckman. My kingdom for a ruckman.” (Richard III – 3/4 time coaches speech)
Good work PB – but I notice you have not given them a placing by the August 31st?
Thank heavens for Bill Shakespeare – I used that same quote for the Pivotonians last week. You are behind the eight ball if you don’t get first use of the *”Gallagher”.
It looks like a long year for quite a few clubs.
* In the early 1920’s some clubs preferred to use the Mildura made Gallagher balls than the Sherrin according to the Sunraysia Daily.
PB by-the-by the Sunraysia Daily still retains its masthead name despite now 3 days a week. Can you figure that one out for me?
It’s a fatal mistake too many have made, hitching their fortunes to the likes of Emily Bronte’s inside scrapper Heathcliff. Talented no doubt, mesmerising, a focal point of channeled desire, but totally amoral and capricious. Not to be trusted.
Unlike Jane Curly Austen’s dashing power forward Darcy, a man of dignity, a man to straighten up an entire club.