Trust. A very important thing in life, and also a very important thing in football. I’ve trusted a lot of people, and trusted North Melbourne a bit too much sometimes, and its been thrown back in my face. This week, many of my friends and I faced a difficult task of trusting a wayward mate, [Read more]
North Melbourne season review
September 8, 2010 by 8 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Season highlights: The highlight of the 2010 season for North Melbourne was the period in the middle of the season where they won three games in a row against Brisbane, Carlton and Port Adelaide, all at Etihad Stadium. The win against Brisbane was a heart stopper, with the Lions fighting back from [Read more]
Veterans go out on a high
August 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
“Corey Jones can he win it, or at least make it a tie. JONES! JONES’ GOAL!!” That was the proudest, most exciting moment in the AFL career of Corey Jones, a stalwart of the North Melbourne footy club. A great goalkicker for the club, he ran out onto the MCG for just his second game [Read more]
Dogs get the job done
August 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This was it. This was my time to shine. After 17 long weeks of training in the radio world, I was finally thrust into the deep end. Sure, I had a lot of responsibility. But for the six hours I was required in the studio, I was mainly sitting back, doing nothing. Yet, with a [Read more]
A Finals prelude to Warm the Soul
August 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Another week down, another Friday, another game of Footy. I remember back to Round 1, when the season opened on a Thursday night with Richmond and Carlton under lights at the MCG, now after such a short time, it’s the opening game of the last round of the home and away season between two finals [Read more]
Roos win one for Boomer
August 23, 2010 by 3 Comments
I remember the last time these two played teams played earlier in the year. North, coming off a horror 104 point loss to St Kilda and with skipper Brent Harvey’s confidence extremely low after his worst ever game, responded in perfect fashion against the Eagles at Etihad Stadium, with Harvey blitzing the young West Coast [Read more]
Cats Crash Blues Party
August 22, 2010 by 2 Comments
Looking around, I started to get the shakes real bad. My legs were trembling, the wind was swaying me around, I held onto the hands of the two students helping me with my balance. The teacher quietly said to me “It’s alright, are you ok?” I replied with a simple “F*** it’s windy up here…” [Read more]
Hawks Answer the Pres
August 15, 2010 by 5 Comments
September had come early. Halfway through August, Hawthorn and Melbourne were playing off for potentially the last spot in the top eight. It was an Elimination Final in Round 20. A Hawthorn loss, a moderately heavy loss, would see Melbourne steal their position in the top eight, while the Hawks would fall out and more [Read more]
A second term to remember
August 15, 2010 by 12 Comments
Finally, the football season was over. After 18 long rounds, Waaia’s season finished with a 25 goal thumping at the hands of Shepp East, undefeated and sitting on top of the ladder. It wasn’t the first time a team wearing black with a red sash was brutally thumped this weekend. Waaia didn’t collect the wooden [Read more]
Bombers well and truly belted
August 14, 2010 by 2 Comments
I wasn’t sure whether to go to school or not. Friday the 13th, who knows what could happen in the schoolyard on this black, spooky date. Something did happen, but not to me. Four year 12 students lost all the hair on their head’s in our yearly ‘Shave for a Cure’ fundraiser, while the teachers [Read more]
Heading in the right direction
August 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Josh Barnstable When these two sides met late in the season in 2009, there was much speculation about which team would lose, not win. Melbourne needed to lose, that’s right, lose, to gain the priority pick. They did lose, thanks to a kick after the siren from Jordy McMahon (who?) and Melbourne, from that [Read more]
Shopping spree for me, Goal spree for the Blues
August 8, 2010 by 4 Comments
With $110 in my wallet, I made my way from the schoolyard to the car, where Mum and Dad picked me up and we were off to Shepparton. I planned on spending some, if not all of my money that I received from relatives for my upcoming birthday. I was feeling good; school was out, [Read more]
Swans ignore the script
August 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Waking up, I looked out the window and saw white. That was enough to put me off playing footy for the morning, as well as the pain in my side from lingering pleurisy. But, Dad told me to get dressed and said that I was playing. No point arguing with the old man. The game [Read more]
Did the Aker sackers make the right decision?
August 4, 2010 by 17 Comments
by Josh Barnstable If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you wouldn’t have heard what has happened in the world of AFL. On May 20, Western Bulldogs star Jason Akermanis wrote an outlandish article in the Herald Sun about homosexual footballers coming out of the closet. Akermanis claimed that two [Read more]
Roos confirm doubts
August 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
I wasn’t feeling good about this game during the week. North Melbourne weren’t a chance to end a three-game losing streak against the ‘Scray. Talking with the local butcher, who goes for the Bulldogs, he asks if I want to make a wager on the game, like we always do when these two teams play. [Read more]
Cats Overpower Swans
August 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
The prospect of being home alone appealed to me. Listening to music loudly, playing my favourite radio station instead of 95.3 that Dad insists on listening to and watching a bit of TV. With Mum away in Adelaide and Dad at the footy in Waaia (I’m a week away from playing again), I would be [Read more]
Bombers maintain grip over the Saints
July 31, 2010 by 5 Comments
Essendon v St Kilda As my alarm went off at the usual time of 7:07am, I groaned at the thought of another cold morning at school. But then I remembered. I wasn’t going to school; I was going to the Almanac lunch, so I sprung out of bed and had a spring in my step. [Read more]
Barney’s Crystal Ball
July 28, 2010 by 9 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Well it’s that time of the year again. Five weeks to go, and the top eight is all sewn up? Wrong. Even Melbourne in 11th position are still an outside chance of making the finals as we head into Round 18, especially if they keep playing like they did against the Swans. [Read more]
Dees Romp Home Against the Swans
July 25, 2010 by 2 Comments
Enjoying probably the last sleep in for quite a while, I woke up to the realisation that the previous night’s events weren’t a nightmare. Essendon really did beat North Melbourne by three points, and it was the topic of the Sunday Footy Show. If Daniel Wells had of played, I dare say North would have [Read more]
A Game of Two Halves and Divided Attentions
July 25, 2010 by 2 Comments
This was the game we really needed to win. Round 17, just outside the top eight on percentage (quite a bit) and a win over Essendon would see North Melbourne climb into the eight. Providing that Carlton lost to the Eagles over in the west. For some reason, the AFL fixtured this game to be [Read more]
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