Rod Oaten heads off to Victoria Park. What was once an act of bravery is now more like a timeless picnic.
AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: An honourable loss
May 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If ever there was an honourable loss, this was it, writes Bombers fan Rod Oaten.
AFL Round 5 – Essendon v Collingwood: Keeping a lid on it
April 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
Bombers fan Rod Oaten is keeping a cast iron lid on things but their start to the season has him smiling.
AFL Round 3 – Fremantle v Essendon: The price you pay following the Dons
April 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Rod Oaten had to leave the room during the final quarter.
AFL Round 2 – Essendon v Melbourne: Avert your eyes
April 7, 2013 by 2 Comments
It’s bloody hard to know how to start a summary of this game. Being a one-eyed Don you always hope that you come away from a game with a win, and usually the bigger the win the better. But I don’t know, this game was not so much a win but a series of training [Read more]
A new sporting horizon
February 8, 2013 by 4 Comments
Rod Oaten believes the crisis at Essendon opens opportunities for those with unfulfilled dreams.
Grand final parties
October 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A tiny viewing room to replicate the outer, interstate beers and pies – Rod Oaten created grand final parties to remember.
AFL Grand Final: Breakfast in the park
September 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
The Carlton Four caught up with me the other morning on our regular walk/plod around Princes Park and invited me to their Annual Grand Final Bar B Q Breakfast. Now this is not your ordinary run of the mill breakfast in the park. A table was selected by Michael in the dark at quarter [Read more]
2012 VFL Finals – Borough v The Towners
September 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
Hey it doesn’t get much better than this, a fine Saturday afternoon and I’m at North Port Oval for a game of footy between two of the oldest football clubs in Australia, as they play for the right to be in next weeks grand final. Williamstown, established in 1864, known as the Towners or Willie, [Read more]
AFL Round 22 – Richmond v Essendon: Even the Tigers are better than us!
August 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I am at a loss trying to come to grips with the 2012 Essendon dieback. I watched most of the game against Richmond, sometimes it got too bad for me and I stopped watching. Let’s not forget how much we love to thump the Tigers, and how much we love to laugh at them when [Read more]
Eddie Betts’s shorts the highlight
August 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Rod Oaten As far as I’m concerned the highlight of the game was the size of Eddie Bett’s shorts. I used to blame the Brotherhood for not finding him a better size, but I recently read an article on John Nicholls and I reckon Eddie found a pair made for him all those years [Read more]
Bomber bandwagon falling apart
July 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
Not only have the wheels fallen off the Don’s Wagon, but so have the bumper bars, the mudguards, the rusted body work and the ignition system. All thats left is a broken cane bench seat that’s going no where . I reckon the rot set in a few weeks ago when they unveiled the paler [Read more]
A grey strip? Fair dinkum unbelievable
July 8, 2012 by 9 Comments
Fair dinkum, this alternative strip nonsense is just a bloody truckload of frog testicles as far as I’m concerned. All this rabbiting on about making it distinctive for the players just makes me laugh. I can remember back to the VFL days when we had twelve teams and twelve local grounds. Many of these ovals [Read more]
Special weekend when all your teams get up
June 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bit of a special weekend of footy for me, but without doubt the highlight was the win for community footy on Sunday, but more of that later. It’s not often that all your footy teams win on the weekend, but that’s what happened. Being a bit of a footy tragic, I have followed many teams [Read more]
No Dons but plenty of footy
June 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
No Dons this weekend, but that’s not to say there’s no footy. Far from it , it’s a weekend to celebrate grass roots footy and for me, to visit two of the best footy grounds in the Melbourne metropolitan area. I headed off on the bike for a pleasant ride across the Yarra to the [Read more]
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