VAFA – Premier B: Fitzroy returns to the Junction

Phil Hill was there when Fitzroy returned to Junction Oval.

VAFA – Premier B: Radetzky and the Roys March over Ajax

How did Fitzroy run over Ajax? Phil Hill has a theory.

VAFA B Section – Parkdale v Fitzroy: Maintain Your B Grade.

Phil Hill looks over Fitzroy’s season in B Section and their win against the Vultures.

Ammos – VAFA B Section: Fitzroy v. St Kevins

Phil Hill has that feeling in his gut.

AFL Round 17 – Melbourne v Brisbane Lions: Brisbane Mid Strength v Melbourne Light

Going to the Footy in Melbourne involves certain rituals: putting on beanies, jumpers and scarves. It’s different in Darwin where the crowd wears thongs and t-shirts. You can tell the locals from the Mexicans quite easily. The locals have brown arms and the Mexicans are white.

VAFA Premier B – Old Trinity v Fitzroy: Light a candle Fitzroy against Trinity

Phil Hill returned from a US holiday to watch the Fitzroy forward line malfunction. He should have lit an extra candle in St Pats Cathedral while in New York.

VAFA Premier B – Werribee v Fitzroy: Way Out West

Phil Hill travels as far west as Werribee to watch his Roy Boys pull off their first win of the year.

VAFA: Fitzroy at Glenhuntley

Fitzroy fan Phill Hill is discontented. This B grade is our winter of discontent. Last year was a “glorious summer”.

VAFA – Fitzroy v Old Brighton: Fitzroitis breaks out

Fitzroyitis has broken out again.

Succulents, Bromeliads, Camellias and Old Trinty

Phil Hill delivers the exotics before heading to Brunswick St Oval for the Roys’ first home game of the B Section season.

VAFA – Fitzroy: I want another divorce!

I have said this before but I will say it again; a new season is like getting a new girl friend. I have already divorced Brisbane this season and it was with eager boyish enthusiasm that I travelled down Punt Road to Garry Smorgan Oval to watch the Roys take on AJAX in B Grade.

AFL Round 1 – Western Bulldogs v Brisbane: I’m Single Again

The romance of the 2013 season was lost in less than a quarter for Phil Hill.

“Out” or “Not Out”

Hamlet’s soliloquy on being dismissed.

Two out of three ain’t bad

Down to Sandi again for us “Boys from Old Fitzroy” and the morning off for derrinalphil; “bugger all” sleep on Friday night. Did any Fitzroy supporter have a good night’s sleep? It was a relief to get up at six, get the paper and have a cuppa. Young master derrinalphil also hit the kitchen early. [Read more]

Let it B Let it B

We are the boys from old Fitzroy. We wear the colours, maroon and blue. Happy days are here again, dah dah dah d dah, happy days are here again dah…. Let it B, Let it B “When I find myself in times of trouble, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate loses to me.” There were some [Read more]

VAFA: Parkdale are not Catholics

I have cancelled all my Saturday morning appointments for three weeks. Better to be prepared for any combination of results of our three semi-final sides than have to rearrange both patients and staff. So it was down to Sandringham to watch our beloved Roys. I missed the first ten minutes of the Thirds, but I [Read more]

Fitzroy Reds: What’s the score at Marcellin?

Margins, margins, margins; that was the topic that was on all lips out at the Brunswick Street Oval today. What’s the score at Marcellin; what’s the score at Marcellin; what’s the score at Marcellin; was the question posed ad nauseum. Now as a dentist I know something about margins. The margins of my crowns (these [Read more]

Local footy: Off on the Rabbito Express

Mrs Derrinalphil and I decided to make the big trip and go out to the Rupertswood game. The “trouble and strife” asked “how do we get there?” Not by the “Rabbito Express” unfortunately. Up until the late fifties a steam train would leave Spencer Street station very early on a Sunday morning and travel up [Read more]

Mud, Mud, Monash and Glorious Mud

Gee, it was wet down at the Brunswick Street Oval, oops I mean the W T Peterson Community Oval. Mud, mud everywhere prompting Luke Ablett, who didn’t play, to Tweet that the day reminded him of playing down at Drouin in the under twelves. It reminded me of working with cattle in the winter when [Read more]

Fitzroy Banyule

“Early to bed and early to rise” makes derrinalphil on time for his first patient on Saturday morning. It was a boring morning, with nothing interesting to do. “Check-ups” and scaling and cleaning; no implants, root fillings or extractions. Looked out the window at about nine o’clock and it was pouring down. I thought this [Read more]