By Damian Watson Throughout my short life there is one question that has left me pondering about Port Adelaide. How can a suburb with a less than adequate reputation produce one of the most successful clubs in Australian Sport? This is by no means a scathing attack on this Adelaide suburb after all the club [Read more]
Port Adelaide v Carlton: Blues Claim Huge Scalp as I Claim a Frustrating Cold
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
The View From Shepparton: Round 8
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Geelong and Collingwood are light years ahead of the rest of the competition and next Friday night we will find out which team is the best at the moment. In respect of last Friday night’s game I really thought that Freo would get up. I felt that the Magpies would be useless away in that [Read more]
Fev-less Blues continue to prosper
May 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Round 8- Port v Carlton This was one of the games of the round. Carlton, a much-better side without Brendan Fevola, taking on Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, a team that is working and working their way up the ladder. Both teams have serious potential, but who is better? The match began with plenty of [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND VIII
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Pies sent The Barry Crockers an unequivocal message about playing at The Elite Level. Those Crazy Cats from Sleepy Hollow did the same for Vossy’s Lions. North drew deep on the Shinboner Spirit to hang on against The Fast Finishing Chardonnays and West [Read more]
AFL Round 8 – Fremantle v Collingwood: What if?
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by Andrea McNamara Haven’t felt this nervous before a game in ages, maybe since that final in 2007 against West Coast, the one that went into extra time. I was there, I flew over to see what could have been Bucks’ last game, if we’d lost. What a win at the House of Pain – [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s “Home and Away Games”: Round 1
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Geoff Sinclair I’m out of here. I slide across the seat, side-step the kid asleep in the pusher and skip down the steps a split second before the doors jam me rigid. I stand on the footpath and consider the situation. I don’t know what piece of Melbourne I am standing in, but I’m [Read more]
Roos limp home at the Dome
May 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
This was a big day for me. Attending the AFL for the first time this season. But first things first, I had a game to play against Katamatite, Sam Wright’s home town. Playing against his brothers, they stitched Waaia up by a very disappointing 109 points, with two players taken to hospital with badly broken [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Powder-puff guernseys spell trouble for Kangas
May 14, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Josh Barnstable If there’s any team I want North Melbourne to beat in any year, it’s Collingwood. Not since that wonderful year of 2008 have we beaten the Pies, while not that long ago, any losing streak against Collingwood is too long. With the Roos coming off wins against Hawthorn and Melbourne, I am [Read more]
The Pre Wrap – Round VIII
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by John Mosig What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Gambling is still in the headlines – this time it’s pokies: who has them & who pays what for them. Look call us Old School around here in Wrapland, but we can’t help feeling there’s a major degree of moral bankruptcy at the heart [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Melbourne v Footscray: Demons find hope between the raindrops
May 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Steve Healy It was a freezing night, the rain tumbled down for almost the entire match. The Demons were finally playing on Friday, against the Bulldogs who have under-performed for the start of the 2010 season. I had confidently tipped the Demons, due to our incredible form (especially at the MCG) and the fact [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – St Kilda v Carlton: From Twitter to Twigley
May 14, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Tony Reed Twitter Report – St Kilda v Carlton Mon 10/5/10 6.36 pm – just made train from work at Glenferrie 6.55 pm – arrived Gate 9 at Etihad. Where’s Barb and Charles? 7.00 pm – Charles arrives with tickets. Apparently am concession ticket holder tonight 7.10 pm – Omens good. 2 pies and [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: The pain of being bullied
May 14, 2010 by 5 Comments
Collingwood versus North Melbourne 7.10pm, Saturday, May 8 Melbourne Cricket Ground by Andrew Starkie Good teams bully North Melbourne. Intimidate and beat up on us. Chew us up; spit us out. Against a team with similar or less ability, we usually get the job done. Not so against the top teams. We’ve suffered demoralizing defeats [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – St Kilda v Carlton: The streak is over
May 14, 2010 by 2 Comments
by David Downer In the many contests (er, agon?) of both sport and life, the victor of particular match-ups can be assured well before the event. Harlem Globetrotters v Washington Generals. Federer v Hewitt. Marciano v everyone. Roadrunner v Wile E Coyote. Angelina v Jennifer. Scissors v Paper. Paper v Rock. Rock v Scissors. And [Read more]
Two out of three ain’t bad
May 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As the big bloke with the hankie once said, “two out three ain’t bad”. Three weeks ago, Carlton were staring at a 5 and 2 loss/win ration. Finals would have been the stuff of JRR Tolkien. However, after terrific victories over the last year’s grand finalists, the ledger is now 4/3 and September action looks [Read more]
Speed Kills 2: Blues Torch the Saints’ Citadel
May 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
Since Ross Lyon took over the Saints, I’ve started to wonder if he might be a fan of avant-garde music. I’m thinking specifically of those La Monte Young-inspired minimalist drones, where the climax is delayed, then delayed some more, and sometimes barely arrives at all. They’re exercises emphasising discipline and theory rather than a quick [Read more]
Voss Rolls the Dice …
May 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
Fremantle are storming through 2010, ending seasons every second week it seems. They came to the Gabba on Saturday night to break a 15 year hoodoo. They didn’t do it in style, but they did it. Inside 50 Freo were dreadful, but everywhere else they clobbered Brisbane. Michael Voss has drafted and traded for a [Read more]
haiku bob – round 7: flesh and shadows
May 12, 2010 by 5 Comments
moonlit night – a magpie strolls into the goal square space between stars – magpie defenders guarding it swirling breeze Didak through the flap of seagulls squeezed on the left checked on the right Harry Obama steers a course through the middle floodlit flesh and shadows climb over Jolly umps wave play on starlight Cloke [Read more]
The Wrap – Round 7: Fuschia Shock
May 12, 2010 by 3 Comments
by John Mosig What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Doggies got out of jail, and sadly, just when The Dees were set to do it for Jimmy. On Saturday The Leaveblowers’ Premiership Hangover continued as The Coasters notched their 2nd win for 2010. The Anchormen saw off a desperate [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – St Kilda v Carlton: WAKEY WAKEY
May 11, 2010 by 2 Comments
by Cheyenne Autumn It had to happen sooner or later and now the alarm is ringing it’s head off. Let’s hope Ross and the selectors aren’t on valium or they might sleep through it. The Art of Footy changes quickly, and already we see that there is no place for small defensive forwards without pace [Read more]
Gigs Stats Round 7: Introducing the Moronic Mnemonic
May 11, 2010 by 23 Comments
Stats Entertainment Round 7 by Andrew Gigacz SORRY ABOUT THAT, CHIEF Apologies to all for the lack of any stats entertainment in rounds 5 and 6. Apart from assisting a certain Canberra-based Swan with his budget problems, I got caught up working on the script of my new film about a throat and chest surgeon’s [Read more]
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