Changes – sometimes good, sometimes bad, always inevitable.
Crio’s Q: Trigger Moments
July 18, 2010 by 56 Comments
Although Historians insist that matters are always more complicated, it is easier for us to declare a certain instance as the trigger for calamitous events – the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand as starting WW1 is a famous example. So, too, in sport. Warwick “The Wizz” Capper’s late goal at Princes Park put the full stop [Read more]
Saints Loss leads to heavenly love
July 18, 2010 by 19 Comments
“Girls, you do know that you can have your heart broken without being in love don’t you?”- asked my History teacher yesterday during period five. “Yep, Defiantly” I respond, nodding my head and thinking back to the Pies Vs Lions Grand final losses. In the past few years we and have not been able to [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games- Rd. 16
July 18, 2010 by 2 Comments
Round 16 Essendon versus West Coast Eagles Saturday, July 17th., Etihad Stadium (N) Tommy’s made a batch of cumquat marmalade, 14 recycled bottles’ worth, courtesy of the bounty from a tree on the lower terrace. (He’s a clever little vegemite.) It’s a lot easier to do a post mortem of the football when he eats [Read more]
Insipid Dons Leave Fans Riled
July 18, 2010 by 3 Comments
It’s been a puzzling few weeks for us Don supporters. Just a short time ago , well six weeks actually, we had strung a few wins on the run against some pretty good opposition sides and looked like we might even be pushing to stay in the top eight, then the wheels fell off. Listening [Read more]
Crows Charge Continues
July 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
While watching the Thursday night Footy Show, I told myself that I would decide on whether to go to school or not in the morning, depending on how I felt when I woke up. So when I wake up at 7:00 in the morning in a toasty bed with frost covering your windows, your first [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVI
July 16, 2010 by 4 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. What goes around, comes around. In a scene that would be familiar from his playing days at Tigerland when La Geisha was coaching, the Playing Group fronted the Essendon Coach with a few items that they felt was tearing at the fabric [Read more]
Dees prosper in the winter sun
July 15, 2010 by 3 Comments
I woke up to the sad realisation that I’m sure many other teenagers would share with me. It’s the last day of school holidays. But it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like an early spring day, feels like the weekend seven days on from the Grand Final. But thankfully there is some footy action [Read more]
Haiku Bob: round 15 – holes in the night
July 15, 2010 by 3 Comments
first quarter gloom Swan weaves light through the darkness the wind pierces my body another goal behind the cold – Ball lays another tackle to keep warm icy wind the pack splinters in Didaks’ wake Swan’s thirty-nine touches no two the same non-scoring end a gull turns its head on play by hand or foot [Read more]
Cats dealing with history
July 15, 2010 by 31 Comments
I am sitting at the desk of Manning Clark. It’s where he penned the six volume History of Australia, and many other books and papers, essay and newspaper articles. If I turn around I can almost reach the filing cabinets, which are full of letters from Patrick White and others for whom the life of the [Read more]
Great Scott! It’s the end for Choco!
July 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
Port Adelaide v Collingwood by Josh Barnstable “Allan Scott, you were wrong!” Those were the words that were scratched into Port Adelaide history by Mark Williams, now former coach of the Port Power after his 2004 victory over the Brisbane Lions in the Grand Final. Allan Scott, head of the main sponsor of Port Adelaide, [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games – Round 15
July 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND 15 Melbourne versus Essendon Sunday, July 11th. M.C.G. Arnold, the Human Question Mark, is back on Monday, bright and early. His beloved Saints have had a gritty, 35-point win over the Melbourne Demons. Is he happy about that? he asks me. I tell him he probably is, and he agrees. Is he also happy [Read more]
Half-time wake up call for Saints – and viewers
July 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Brisbane v St Kilda by Josh Barnstable Ever since Nick Riewoldt’s hamstring went twang, we awaited the game where the champ would make his return. Tonight at the Gabba was the night, but I can’t say I was enthusiastic about seeing the blonde boofhead making his return. His seven-goal decimation of North Melbourne in Round [Read more]
Some one call the health inspector as the kitchen stinks
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
I can smell what their cooking and it smells and tastes like a Tuesday night stew at Pentridge. Carlton have now successfully turned a promising start to the year into what can only be described as a dark and cold month from hell. After losing three of the last four the Blues now find themselves [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]
Tigers defy expectations
July 12, 2010 by 3 Comments
“Got your myki?” “Yes.” “Got your footy membership card thing?” “Ye-wait, no. Thanks Mum.” And so I was out the door and on the train to Eaglemont to meet my uncle and see Richmond. While the Tigers have been on this ‘four of five’ hot-streak, Richmond has beaten three pathetic teams and a top eight [Read more]
Swans lose in O’Keeffe’s 200th
July 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Swans returned to the MCG on Sunday to take on the Tigers, with Ryan O’Keeffe playing his 200th game for the Bloods. Last time we played Richmond here we got in by a lazy 10 goals in Mickey O’Loughlin’s 300th game. I am hoping for a similar result to last year however the Swans [Read more]
Floreat Pica Report- Round 15 v Port
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Kevin Ramsdale typical |tipik?l|adjective having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing : a typical day | a typical example of 1930s art deco | typical symptoms. See note at normal .• characteristic of a particular person or thing : he brushed the incident aside with typical good humor.• informal [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XV
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Woodsmen gate crashed Chokko’s farewell party, but not before The Tealers had drunk their fair share of the booze. The Tiges, Never Minding If They Were Behind, Risked Head & Shin, And Fought & Fought And Won to open the door to [Read more]
Cats fall over the line
July 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
Heroics from The Good Witch Bartel and The Munchkin Stokes get Cats to a memorable win, writes Sam Marcolin
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