By Andrea Macnamara Friday night, match preparation for Saturday: comfort food, a bottle of red and Hawks vs Blues on the telly. Whichever way the game falls, I can’t be disappointed. If the Hawks get beaten then they’re not as good as we fear they are. And if the Blues get beaten, say no more. [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – The Revolution can wait: radical Brisbane and rugby league
July 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
Queensland remains a wonderful place, full of obvious contradictions; the sort of contradictions which are hidden away in other places, the ones that work hard to present an air of sophistication and urbanity. Queensland’s down-on-the-farm, rent-a-holiday-unit-to-a-southerner conservatism prevails. But from colonial times Queensland has given rise to a small, energetic group of progressives; intellectuals and [Read more]
Handling the Giants
June 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Tony Scully Pies V Wedgies MCG Sat 23rd June 2012 At the Risk of not keeping the lid on it,this game had all the portents of being two of the three most likely combatants in October. That having been said my pre-game thoughts went to: 1/ Will our backline be [Read more]
The Summer I Know
June 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Anna Shiel The long awaited season had come into reach. From the lazy holiday sleep-in, the family awake from their sweltered snooze. You throw on some shorts and a loose singlet to head towards the local corner shop. You stroll to the corner shop, well known to your childhood, with the paint dated, defeated [Read more]
The summer I’d been waiting for…
June 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Eliza Karlson My earphones are in and my iPod is on full blast. The air-conditioner is on high and as I look out the window I can see the mountains forming and can feel the road slowly winding along. The car is packed so full that I can’t see anyone else, as my view [Read more]
When the Pies met the Hawks
June 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Jessica Landy I am leaving for America in two days and it’s probably the most important AFL game of the year. If Collingwood wins we are in the grand final for the second consecutive year. Collingwood haven’t defended a premiership since 1936. My dad had almost just broken my heart. He had forgotten that [Read more]
Of Bogans and Burqas
June 26, 2012 by 15 Comments
By Phil Dimitriadis The AFL celebrates multicultural round this week. Its catchcry is: “Many cultures, one game”. Possibly, but there is more to promoting cross-cultural understanding than just vacuous slogans and panegyric rhetoric. People from diverse cultural backgrounds are still seen as a novelty and until this changes Australian football will not realistically reflect the [Read more]
Endless Summer
June 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Caitlyn Kennedy I love summer. I love the feeling of being hot, I love lying on warm concrete, I love diving into cool water, I love the different fruits of the summer, the late nights and the long days on the beach. I love how summer is completely carefree, no rules, no regulations, just [Read more]
My First Footy Match
June 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Constance Iliadis After numerous years of watching the odd footy game on TV and watching my dad and sisters go berserk over what I thought was a bunch of silly men chasing around a leather ball full of air and occasionally kicking it through some poles, they invited me to the footy. I have [Read more]
So where should I go this week?
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Joey Agerholm As a kid I expected to grow up and play sport for a living, now I’d be happy enough just being able to watch it full time. This morning I lay on the couch and imagined myself as a fairly successful sportswriter who gets to pick and choose events to visit and [Read more]
The Taste of Summer
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Anna Wilton Here I am, sitting alone on the floor, gradually moving across the small space to follow my fan, as it shoots its breeze across the dark room. I had turned off the lights because for some reason I felt that was going to make me that little bit cooler. All year [Read more]
My First Footy Memory
June 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Yihsan Richardson Freezing. Absolutely freezing. Walking to the MCG as a young child is like walking through a jungle. Trees are substituted for people, all different ages and sizes. Holding Dad’s hand as we walk through the gates of the MCG felt like we had entered a whole new dimension. The sound, the smell [Read more]
The Inescapable Game
June 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Madeleine Kerr I don’t really follow footy. Strange, I know. I’ve never been to a footy game either. Again, strange, I know. But footy is still a part of my life, albeit a rather small part. I see the excitement it causes my friends, my family, my cousins, my classmates, even my teachers. Footy [Read more]
Summer
June 23, 2012 by 1 Comment
by Madi Pane To me summer is all about family, Christmas and of course everything revolves around when the cricket is on. Over December and January we always go down to our beach house in Rye and my older cousins come up and stay with us for a while. Every summer brings in [Read more]
Summertime
June 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Jennifer Douglas Today was like any other summer day. I sat, perched on the Jones’s flag pole as I watched the people walk in and out of their little corner shop. One by one carrying bags of battered fish and chips, the grease making the paper transparent. I watched and waited, following them with [Read more]
A Different Tone of Blue
June 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Emily Leydin My two favourite teams were going up against each other, the Kangas and the Cats. In the days leading up to the big game, I had been trying to work out which jumper I would wear. My Geelong jumper, with the navy blue horizontal stripes with number 35 amidst the players’ [Read more]
Breaking Dad’s tag
June 21, 2012 by 12 Comments
By Charley Gayfer I put on my black and white leggings, my black and white scarf, and my beanie, my black and white ribbons and my Collingwood Jersey; the black and white stripes will never get old. My jersey still didn’t have a number. It was probably the tenth time Dad had asked me who [Read more]
Bus drivers and Generals can’t prevent Superdog thrashing
June 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
GAWLER V RIVERLAND SUPERDOGS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFL MASTERS – ROUND SIX SUNDAY 17TH OF JUNE 2012, TANUNDA By Nick Kossatch The topsy-turvy season continues for AFL Masters side Riverland Superdogs after it was thrashed to the tune of 90 points against a rampant Gawler team at Tanunda Oval on Sunday. The visitors boasted four debutants; [Read more]
Carlton aren’t so bad after all
June 20, 2012 by 8 Comments
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