Port Adelaide’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy In season 2009, Port Adelaide’s theme song should’ve changed to: We’ve got the power to win, the power to lose, the power to win, the power to lose… Because that’s what they showed us, they have a huge win one week, and then get smashed by a [Read more]
AFL Club Awards: A year to forget for the Hawks
October 29, 2009 by 70 Comments
Hawthorn’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy Well, well, well. What can I say about this mob? Their season started with a shocking loss to Geelong, although only by eight points it was 23 to 34 scoring shots, and the Hawks trailed by 37 at three quarter time. The Hawks fell the height of Taipei [Read more]
The cream of the Cats
October 27, 2009 by 322 Comments
Geelong’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy The Carji Greeves medal took place earlier this month, and what a surprise the result was. Gary Ablett and Corey Enright were tied winners, even though Ablett was easily the best player in 2009. Footy is a strange game. But let’s speak more about the actual team, who [Read more]
Watson and Fletcher the standouts in Bombers’ strange season
October 26, 2009 by 231 Comments
Essendon’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy Essendon’s 2009 season was a strange one. Has a team ever made the finals, without anyone really feeling like they had made the finals? Well that was the case; they came into the Elimination Final against Adelaide without a ruckman, and without Lloyd who was suspended for hitting [Read more]
Pies on the rise. But can they take that extra step?
October 25, 2009 by 432 Comments
Collingwood’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy It was an exciting season for the black-and-white. In Round 8, Collingwood looked banished from the finalists club. They were 3-5, and had come off a 51-point embarrassment against arch-rival Carlton. They went on to win the next 12 out of 13 games, before losing by four goals [Read more]
Prognosis is good for Stynes and the Demons
October 24, 2009 by 150 Comments
Melbourne’s Best and Fairest By Steve Healy Twelve days had passed since Fremantle had their best and fairest night. The Melbourne football club had left Australia waiting. On Thursday night, red and blue blood flooded Crown casino, as did a bald, recovering Jim Stynes. Jim received an almighty applause as he strolled on to the [Read more]
Fantasy Fixture 2010: Steve whets his appetite for next season
September 29, 2009 by 263 Comments
We have come to the end of the footy season, which means that all minds turn to the release of the upcoming fixture. I have made my own fixture, while keeping in mind of the rules that the AFL uses (no teams play each other twice within seven rounds, one game at Subiaco per week, [Read more]
AFL Grand Final: Well done, Geelong
September 27, 2009 by 7 Comments
It’s the night before the Grand final. I need to get to sleep, but I’m still tossing and turning on my bed. I’ve set my alarm for 8am, but since my alarm clock has been knocked many times with the batteries flying everywhere, I could wake up at half-time tomorrow. I wake up to a [Read more]
General Footy Writing: I love the Brownlow Medal
September 23, 2009 by 5 Comments
It’s one of my favourite nights of the year, the speculation, the over-achievers, the under-achievers, and the night where heroes are made. It’s Brownlow medal night. I can remember every Brownlow medal from 2000 onwards, mainly because Wowoedin won that year. That was the good old days when my whole family loved footy. At the [Read more]
AFL Prelim Finals: Pies are simply not good enough
September 23, 2009 by 100 Comments
It’s 6pm. I’m sitting in my room and the rain starts to belt down on to the roof, making that familiar and comforting sound. I’m watching a replay of Carlton v Adelaide in my room, just for the sake of watching a high-scoring game. I realise it’s an hour and a half before the bounce, [Read more]
AFL Prelim Finals: Saints desperate flurry breaks every red, blue and white heart
September 20, 2009 by 2 Comments
It’s that time of year. The end of the third term: the garbage trucks invade the streets and take rubbish from people’s nature strips. It’s September. I can’t wait for the game to begin. I come home from Founder’s Day with a smile on my face, and do whatever I can to pass time. The [Read more]
AFL Semi-Finals: Anthony the unlikely hero in hot Pies victory
September 14, 2009 by 30 Comments
After a day of being bored and getting boiled up by the 30 degree heat, I couldn’t wait for the footy to start. It made me realise how much I miss Saturday afternoon footy, although I initially tried to compensate by watching the VFL.
AFL Finals — Week 1: Saints have Pies’ measure
September 7, 2009 by Leave a Comment
It’s Sunday afternoon, and it’s slightly overcast. I’m home alone (which is good, because I won’t have to turn the sound way up and I’ll be able to hear the commentary) and the Saints are playing the Pies in a blockbuster Qualifying final at the ‘G. There are no changes to either team. I watch [Read more]
AFL Finals — Week 1: Comeback kings on top after one of the great finals finishes
September 7, 2009 by 1 Comment
Brisbane v Carlton. What a game it should be. Nothing separates these two sides betting-wise. It should be a great game. I’ve tipped Brisbane, by six points, but when I hear that Drummond and MacDonald are out my mind changes a bit. Hawksley and Hooper are coming in to replace them.
AFL Finals — Week 1: Cats steady to keep Dogs at bay
September 6, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I woke up on Saturday morning, eagerly awaiting the game between the Cats and the Dogs, for the second time in two weeks. At one o’clock I turned it on the VFL, Casey Scorpions v Collingwood. The Scorpions came out and got thumped; they were down 0-21 when I turned it off to watch a [Read more]
AFL Finals — Week 1: Crows crush Bombers and I pocket small sum
September 5, 2009 by 2 Comments
Yes! The finals have arrived. After a long week at school (that old cliché) I am jumping around my house in celebration. The finals, for me, means momentarily forgetting about your team and concentrating on the best eight teams of the comp.
AFL Round 22: Dees see out legends with plucky performance
August 31, 2009 by 66 Comments
Walking into the MCG is harder than normal today, knowing that a few club champions’ careers are at an end. I sit in my usual reserved seat, with the usual 50-year old man sitting in front of me, who I notice isn’t wearing a hat for the first home game this year.
AFL Round 22: Roos win match that is much better than it looked on paper
August 31, 2009 by 5 Comments
This game on paper looks terrible. But there’s more meaning behind it when two Port players, who’ve been there since it all started, are hanging up their boots. Brendon Lade and Peter Burgoyne will finish with 474 games and 374 goals between them. In Round 1, 1997, both of them kicked a goal each in [Read more]
AFL Round 22: Eagles end season with a walk in the park
August 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The last round of the season has come upon us, which is always sad for supporters, especially the ones who barrack for bottom eight sides. This game is one that means nothing: 12th v 15th.
AFL Round 21: Hawks keep finals hopes alive with win over Tigers
August 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
It’s Saturday night. The game’s only on Ten. There are no changes to either team. Graham Polak runs out for the Tigers in the protective head gear. Max Bailey runs out, for the first time in three years and two knee reconstructions. Riley Milne is debuting for the Hawks. There were plenty of stories in [Read more]
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