The View” has been delivered late this week as the events organiser and myself have made a sudden decision to relocate within Shepparton. We found this retirement village with facilities that one could only dream of, for example a library, a table tennis table (very important)! a bar, gym, 15 metre lap pool,a gold star [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Rd 5
April 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Depending on where you are coming from, it is easy to be gloomy about Round 5, but I reckon that this round was exhilarating. Besides, I spoke to the great man, Gary Ablett, that’s more than most of you, dear readers, have achieved. The events organiser and I were in Adelaide over the long weekend, [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Rd 4
April 18, 2011 by 3 Comments
Friday night. In the unreal world of our household decide that a combination of the delayed telecast plus the certainty of a one sided match means that I spend the evening with my daughter and her triplet girls aged 12 watching the first half of a new Blu-ray recording of Les Miserable’s. Son in law [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Rd 3
April 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
It is easy to descend into gloom as a gap appears between the top and bottom teams even this early into the season, but perhaps instead one should celebrate the fact that the top teams are playing really good footy and it is up to other teams to lift their game. I really enjoyed the [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Rd. 2
April 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I have a range of emotions regarding the Queensland sides. I feel dire despair that they are going to do the code more harm than good up in Queensland this year unless they become more competitive. On the other hand the old “Bears” were hopeless for years as they were getting established. Unfortunately, even since [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Round 1
March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
The View can await from its slumbers. Or nightmares as far as the cricket team is concerned. On the latter, despite all of the breast beating surely it is as simple as this. The team has slipped but this was as inevitable as day follows night. So at end of the day Tait, Lee, Johnson, [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Final Grand Final Edition
October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
For Sale. One redundant St Kilda Football Club flag, brought in the heat of the moment 10 days ago to counter balance a neighbour who had for some reason or other purchased the Collingwood Football flag. And there it had been, protruding out of his mailbox, in all of its ghastly glory. I spent $20 [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Grand Final Pt 1
September 27, 2010 by 2 Comments
The human mind is fallible of course for example, I reckon that this has been the coldest spring in a decade, but it probably hasn’t been. The Grand Final is the social event of the year in our household. Largely because of this I recently purchased a 63 inch 3D TV. Pity that the arrival [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Preliminary Final Round
September 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Headline in the Oz’s sporting section of Friday September 17, “We can beat anyone: Malthouse”. And there was bloody Joffa near the end of the match flaunting his gold jacket. How I hate that scene. I wish that he would push off into another universe. The reality though is that he could have put on [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – second week of major round
September 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Peter Schumacher Even though I had fervently hoped that the interstate sides would get up I have to admit that in the first game at least justice was done. Geelong were simply far too good. I actually watched the first half on repeat early Saturday and gave up viewing at half time, the match [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Finals Week 1
September 7, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Peter Schumacher So glad the that the interstate sides got up, keeps the finals more interesting. Could not contain my delight at Fremantle demolishing Hawthorn. Just a reminder again as to how hard it it is to travel interstate and play well. Given though that the Hawks came from nowhere after the first 6 [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 22
September 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Peter Schumacher Don’t like the notion that some teams might have been playing dead in this round, notably St Kilda and Geelong. If that proves to be true, (and outside observers like myself would never know) then I hope that they both go out in straight sets. Meanwhile in the real or unreal world, [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 21
August 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Peter Schumacher Liam Jurrah, that mark is what sets our game apart from all of the rest, long live AFL. By the way, nothing too much wrong with Goddard’s mark either. I happened to view a DVD of the 2001 Grand Final which Brisbane won against Essendon. This year my extended family and I [Read more]
The View from Shepparton Round 20
August 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Peter Schumacher Help, I am in a footy wilderness in South East Queensland surrounded by football atheists and infidels who do not follow the game. Worse, they do not support the game and are largely indifferent to the game, indeed they are largely indifferent to any sporting competition at all believing it to be [Read more]
The View from Sheppaton- Round 19
August 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
More accurately this could be styled as “The View from Moree and Beenleigh en route to the Gold Coast” Samantha Lane on the ABC footy program titled “The Inquisition” (I think) which runs on Sunday afternoons mentioned recently that in the previous week on the Friday night she had found herself in overnight accommodation at [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 18
August 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The question is, will the Bulldogs move forward after their win against North Melbourne or it all come to a ghastly end if not on 21 August then some time in September? Will the Bulldogs fortunes be in sync with those of their number one ticket holder? I think that it is fair to say [Read more]
The view from Shepparton: Round 17
July 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I wonder what will happen one day when Buddy kicks five goals but gives away two consecutive 50 metre penalties with the opposition kicking the winning goal as a result in this year’s grand final. And this will all have happened after coach Clarkson has tried to tell him nicely to stop being a goat [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 16
July 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Peter Schumacher Have been so traumatised by the ascent of Collingwood to the top the ladder that I have been unable to to sit down and think about footy at all. The only consolation I have is that every Magpie follower in the land will go through unbearable and long periods of insecurity as [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Round 15
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
The story of the week has to be the sacking or departure by mutual agreement of Mark Williams from Port Adelaide. I for one have argued for a while now that South Australian footy needs new blood but nevertheless I have the feeling that the those responsible at that club must have seen the demise [Read more]
The View From Shepparton Round 14
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
First up, I scored 8 out of 8 in one tipping comp. Pretty good eh? Pretty Unique? I thought so until it emerged on ABC radio’s (Jon Faine 10-10:30 or thereabouts ) that half of the existing footy firmament had attained this score by virtue of picking all of the home sides. Bad luck for [Read more]
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