The sizzle feels like it’s been around forever, but now we’re finally getting the steak. What did you all make of the product delivered? And what to make of the whole Cousins drama? What does it tell us about the modern football scene? Fire away folks.
Floreat Pica: Reality check
August 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Mick Ramsdale Time : Thursday 08.49am, ( 19/08/2010 ) . Situation: Pies are 6 points clear on top of the ladder. A call from Floreat Pica HQ. I Click on SEND and I’m the report writer for the Crows Clash. Winning has become a habit lately, and the margins have been comfortable. Going backwards [Read more]
FLOREAT PICA Match Report: Round 20- Essendon v Collingwood
August 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
legend (le¦gend) Pronunciation:/?l?d?(?)nd/ noun 1 a traditional story 2 an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field: the man was a living legend 3 an inscription, especially on a coin or medal a caption: Go ahead make my day [predic.] very well known: his speed and ferocity in attack were legend
Yass Roos Under 10- 14/8/10
August 15, 2010 by 3 Comments
The Under 10s Yass Roos courageously took to the field against tough opposition on a cold and bleak morning in Canberra, cheered on by their faithful supporters. Gage Stinson was great with his communication, calling for the ball and chasing extremely hard. Jordon Hudson continuously got the ball out of the ruck, dodging and weaving to [Read more]
YASS UNDER 10s MATCH REPORT – 7TH AUGUST 2010
August 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Once the fog lifted, players and punters were afforded a beautiful day when the Yass Under 10s Junior Roos took on Ainslie Red in an awesome game of football. Ryan Payne and Jordan Hudson opened up the game with some beautiful clearing kicks, whilst George Elliot and Kobi-Dean Price took some spectacular marks which resulted [Read more]
The status of AFL umpiring
August 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Domenic Favata The nationwide reputation of our great game is under threat. Not due to financial insecurity, poor performances or sponsorship difficulties, but to the alarming rate of the downfall in standard of AFL umpiring. It is not the umpires themselves most of the time, the Laws of the Game committee and head of [Read more]
FPS Report- Round 19 Collingwood v Geelong.
August 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Timothy O’Leary Unity 1. the state of being one; oneness. 2. a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one. Preface The game began for me, unexpectedly, at 4.00 PM on the Saturday afternoon as I entered the Bikram Yoga Studio in Fitzroy. This is yoga is done in a room at [Read more]
Shannon Leatch a Future Star?
August 8, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Martin Marpol It was by a chance throw away comment during a lunch in February, that the name Shannon Leatch entered my mind. However, this name would very soon be at the forefront of much of my thoughts as I began to watch what I believe could, if given the chance, be a future [Read more]
Northern hemisphere internationals under the summer sun
August 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It was a big weekend in Aussie rules internationals played under sunny skies while Melbourne froze. The 2010 European Championship in Australian Football opened on Sunday with the first round of pool matches at Stefan Boldklub in Copenhagen, Denmark. Under clear skies and the summer sun the teams assembled in front of a crowd of [Read more]
Aker: Individual Good vs Common Good
August 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
From the response to Josh’s piece, it seems too much Aker is barely enough (for the next 10 minutes anyway). This piece from Andrew Hamilton of Eureka Street draws parallels between Aker’s sacking and the election campaign; a case of individual and collective goods in tension with each other. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=22523
The Scourge of ICPS
July 29, 2010 by 4 Comments
Eric Ellis, Bangkok I NOW KNOW that I first developed symptoms during the 1994 World Cup, waiting for a plane at Chengdu airport in central China. What I didn’t know is that I was catching ICPS, International Couch Potato Syndrome, an exotic lurgy that has infected so many road warriors – usually blokes – in [Read more]
Floreat Pica Report- Collingwood Vs Richmond – Round 17 2010
July 26, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Paul Fahey Scene from The Castle (1997) Darryl Kerrigan: Dale dug a hole. Tell ’em Dale. Dale Kerrigan: I dug a hole. When a top team plays a bottom team in any sport I reckon it’s a bit like digging a hole – it just has to get done! Sometimes you dig it deep, [Read more]
Italian Team of the Century- Frank Curcio
July 23, 2010 by 11 Comments
If you wish to see the whole Italian Team of the Century, it’s available at: http://www.italianteamofthecentury.com.au/final-team.php By Tony De Bolfo In an interview with a Melbourne sports journalist in 1995, the late Richmond ruckman Jack Dyer, known both infamously and endearingly as “Captain Blood”, declared Frank Curcio one of his greatest on-field adversaries.[1] “He was [Read more]
Why ‘Gaz’ will be the ‘God-sun’
July 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The long lasting debate about whether Gary Ablett will head north to the Gold Coast rages on and will continue to rage on until the day he signs a contract, to which team is still unknown. We all know Gary Ablett is one of the best players of the modern era, there is no doubting [Read more]
A Collingwood High Road?
July 19, 2010 by 5 Comments
By Suzy Lewis Collingwood versus St Kilda – Saturday 17 July 2010 “…In retrospect we sort of seemed to have it for most of the second half, but you never know, do you, what can happen. It’s just been part of my football upbringing, I don’t expect anything until it’s there and in reality and [Read more]
Floreat Pica Report- Round 15 v Port
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Kevin Ramsdale typical |tipik?l|adjective having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing : a typical day | a typical example of 1930s art deco | typical symptoms. See note at normal .• characteristic of a particular person or thing : he brushed the incident aside with typical good humor.• informal [Read more]
The Real Costs and Benefits of Mega Sports Events
July 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The pattern is the same the world over. A bid is announced for a major sporting event. Politicians and businessmen roll out figures and rationalisations as to why we’ll all benefit from investment of the public purse in the acquisition of said event. If the bid should prove successful, then heaven and earth is moved to ensure things run [Read more]
Floreat Pica Society- West Coast Game
July 5, 2010 by 1 Comment
By John Ramsdale I hate this ground-see Bulldogs report, 6/6/2010. On paper this looked like a straightforward game and we should have approached it with great confidence. Tim had marked this down as a win in his half –year summary. However, based on previous experience going into games that were classified as certain wins there [Read more]
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]
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]
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