by John Warhurst 2.10pm, Saturday, 10 May Etihad Stadium, Melbourne It is always easy to get a seat when one of the non-Victorian teams play in Melbourne; especially when one of the weaker Victorian clubs is involved. Only 18,394 turned up at Etihad Stadium to watch the Roos play West Coast. Neither club had had a [Read more]
AFL Round 3 – North Melbourne v West Coast: Naitanui and Harvey make the day
April 19, 2010 by 2 Comments
AFL Round 4 – Adelaide v Carlton: Ticking boxes
April 19, 2010 by 2 Comments
Round 4, AAMI Stadium, Adelaide v Carlton, 17 April 2010 by Bernard Whimpress ‘Jesus ticks all the boxes.’ The message from the newish medium – illuminated rotating and revolving AAMI Stadium fence signage – occurred half way through the game and put me in mind of the story told of the early 1970s sign outside [Read more]
Eagles open their account, and save on phone bills.
April 18, 2010 by 2 Comments
Last time West Coast and Essendon were gearing up to run out on Subiaco Oval, I, along with millions of other people around Australia, was giddy with joy as the 2010 NAB Cup was commencing. Now, with all of that silly stuff behind us and three rounds of the real action completed, these two sides [Read more]
Crows circling the gurgler
April 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It’s a question that I have been wondering since the start of the season. Why was this match being broadcast on Channel 10? Surely North Melbourne v Sydney should have been on free-to-air television, but the Carlton supporters at 10 (Robert Walls, Tim Lane, Sam Lane, Andrew Maher) must have requested this match. After a [Read more]
Carlton unravel the zone, while Adelaide just unravels.
April 18, 2010 by 2 Comments
The modern AFL environment seems perpetually hyped, with blowtorches primed for target on a weekly basis. Even by these standards, Round 4 seems pretty early for a make-or-break game. But it couldn’t be denied that the competing sides in this match were badly in need of a win, with pressure mounting on both camps.
Blues Conquer the Underachieving Crows in a Vital Victory
April 18, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Damian Watson Over the past seven days the football press have dubbed this match as a “D-day” for both of these proud and talented clubs in 2010. The Crows who at one stage throughout the summer were predicted to be Top 4 finalists this season have somewhat been disappointing in the eyes of the [Read more]
AFL: The Answer Lies With Sly
April 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Daniel O’Sullivan If the first five minutes of last Friday night’s game didn’t set the pulses racing it is clear evidence that you were either stone-cold dead or simply just stoned. And if it was the latter, you’ve probably spent the last week at IMAX 3-D screenings of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ so you can [Read more]
JOHN HARMS: Daff’s thoroughly modern buck’s night
April 15, 2010 by 25 Comments
A buck’s day can be a very good thing. A very good thing. I’ve been to a few – all pretty tame affairs, by yobbo Australian standards. Thankfully. (Like the night I had a rest from the card table to find many of the other lads watching Sound of Music on TV.) My own started [Read more]
AFL Round 3: Nice weekend, shame about the footy
April 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Dan Crane It had been an action-packed weekend before I woke up on Sunday the 11th of April. My best mate Tim had flown over from Adelaide on Friday afternoon and he, my wife and I had then spent that evening drinking beautiful beer at the Little Creatures dinner hall on Brunswick Street. Tim [Read more]
Round 3 – The View from Shepparton: Too many minors a key issue for Collingwood
April 12, 2010 by 5 Comments
by Peter Schumacher As I wind up my gramophone, I am sure that I must be the only footy fan preparing to put down thoughts accompanied by Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 in glorious SACD sound. True, I am not in the right room, but still, sounds pretty damned good through [Read more]
AFL Round 3 – St Kilda v Collingwood: Humble pie not on Mick’s menu
April 12, 2010 by 6 Comments
Welcome to Café Mick (“Nothin could be finer than to be in Micky’s Diner”), where every unhealthy white-man dish can be procured – except Humble Pie. Even after being humiliated by the injury-ravaged Sainters, head chef Mick Malthouse (King of the Pampered Pies) used the excuse of bad luck in shooting for goal for losing [Read more]
AFL Round 1: Ah, Cats, it’s good to have you back
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Paul and I meet Dave and Heather, fresh from their engagement party the week before, just outside the Bunton Room. It’s about 80% full and we’ve got 10 minutes to fight our way through the crowd, get served, knock over a pot and then get a good vantage point before the season officially begins for [Read more]
AFL Round 3 – Sydney v Richmond: Radical Surgery
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by John Green How safe is it to go on a long trip after undergoing radical surgery? Richmond took to the surgeon’s knife with wild abandon at the end of 2009 and excised an astonishing total of 13 players from its senior list. For some, like the redoubtable Matthew Richardson, their bodies could no longer [Read more]
Dons score again over old foe.
April 11, 2010 by 1 Comment
I wasn’t feeling too optimistic about Essendon’s chances against Carlton on Saturday night, I had just returned from an entree at Princes Park where I saw Essendon seconds (Bendigo Bombers) get a thumping from Preston, now called Northern Bullants and when I checked the Amateurs results,I found out MHSOB got a great grandmother of a [Read more]
FPS Report: Round 3 match report and Danny Roach
April 11, 2010 by 2 Comments
Greeting Gents Floreat Pica Society continued a long Collingwood tradition by blooding youth in a big game. !6 year-old Richard Cornell wrote the match report while his 11 year-old brother Nicholas awarded the Danny Roach votes -see both below. I wonder what these young blokes are like at kicking goals?
Bombers Prevail In a Bruising Encounter Over the Error-Riddled Blues
April 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
By Damian Watson I am in the midst of another lazy Saturday Afternoon and while recovering from laser surgery on my teeth I make the observation that footy certainly has the ability to both cure and compound on the resulting pain.
Numbers don’t add up for the Tiges
April 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The pub was about 1km outside the ACT border as the crow flies. Which they hadn’t done earlier in the day, as their more aquatically-inclined cousins reigned supreme at AAMI Stadium. Back in my home state, the man-made birds at Essendon had also fallen. Two other “flying” mascots of the AFL were both represented in [Read more]
Saints win bruising encounter.
April 10, 2010 by 6 Comments
Round 2: St Kilda v Collingwood It was a boring day. Sleeping in until 10, I faced a long wait until 8:30 for the footy to start on the TV (should be 7:30, I’m looking at you Better Homes and Gardens!). I got through the day by reading the Herald Sun and I started to [Read more]
Late starts all round as Cats eventually triumph
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Geelong VS Essendon Melbourne Cricket Ground 7:40 26th March By Steven Ingham There is nothing quite like the feeling you get through your spine when the umpire holds the ball up and the siren to start proceedings on your team’s season sounds. Unfortunately for me, I enjoyed this on the radio while stuck in traffic, [Read more]
So many questions in Freo first up win.
April 10, 2010 by 1 Comment
Fremantle VS Adelaide Subiaco Oval 5:10 28th March By Steven Ingham As a football – but not Freo – lover, the Dockers polarise me. When they made a prelim a few years ago and my own team’s season finished by about Round 10, I was well and truly on the bandwagon. Their fall from grace [Read more]
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