It’s a good thing tomorrow is my birthday and that I know we’re doing something nice to celebrate. I can hardly bear to look back and try and understand yesterday at the G. Collingwood were magnificent, clinical, confident, fast and deserved premiers. I SMS’d and congratulated my walking friend Kate and my cousins on their [Read more]
That was just a tragedy
October 3, 2010 by 3 Comments
“That was just a tragedy”. Last year at this time I wrote about my then 6 year old son and his apparent adoption of St Kilda. Having watched Nick Riewoldt dominate the season, in the Grand Final, and for the first time in his young footy supporter’s life, he managed to sustain his support for [Read more]
Resounding end to an eerie week
October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Collingwood v St Kilda Grand Final Replay It’s been an eerie week. Ever since that final siren sounded last Saturday, plans were thrown in the air, weddings were postponed, holidays were cancelled, and more money was spent on a Grand Final ticket. It was the first Grand Final draw I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and [Read more]
And now… The Happy Ending!
October 3, 2010 by 19 Comments
I guess I must be older than I feel because I have lived through three drawn Grand Finals and their replays. I don’t remember anything about the first. I was less than eighteen months old and besides my team wasn’t playing. I was thirty years old when the next drawn Grand Final occurred and I [Read more]
Collingwood: The Most Effective Spread Since Vegemite
October 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
Collingwood have claimed the elusive Premiership pennant for the first time in two decades with a comfortable 56 point victory as the spread of pressure, effectiveness and intimidation within the Magpie camp became as prominent as ever. The annihilation initiated by the Magpies has no doubt sent the vast Collingwood army into raptures as they [Read more]
This is it, again.
October 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This is it. The decider. The day of battle. The last hurrah. Really! No kidding. Found it hard to sleep. Not as nervous as last week, and am still quietly optimistic (I’ve even started inviting friends and family on Sunday night for a party if we win). Yesterday morning we blew up more balloons. I’m [Read more]
2010 Grand Final- Part II: Discussion
October 1, 2010 by 36 Comments
By now the nerves of all Saints and Magpies supporters have received an extended shredding. The teams have been selected- heartache for some, delight for others. After a week of huge football stories, the biggest one of all will now be played out. How is everyone feeling? What do we expect tomorrow? Let ‘er rip [Read more]
Grand Final 2010: One More Day
October 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
Syd Barker Medal 2010
September 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
Everyone is talking about the draw, the tie, whatever you want to call it. Sure, there’s some uproar about it, but in the end, you just couldn’t split them. Two great competitors having great seasons and it all climaxing in a draw. How fitting.
Grand Final 2. The sequel is never as good.
September 30, 2010 by 4 Comments
As those inside AFL House rub their hands with glee and dive, Scrooge McDuck-like into piles of gold, the rest of us are left with the emotionally draining prospect of another four quarters of nerve-jangling Grand Final football. Collingwood was brilliant but wasteful in the first half last Saturday. St Kilda were strong and brave [Read more]
What a day!
September 29, 2010 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Starkie Wednesday of preliminary final week, a line of eight chairs is roped to the back fence of Reservoir Ticketek. Sticky-taped, scribbled signs warn: ‘Collingwood member. Don’t touch!’ The chairs are like sentries. Or night club bouncers. I brace myself for a Collingwood grand final. At the 11 minute mark, second quarter of [Read more]
The Pre Wrap Lite – Mid-week Edition
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
by John Mosig FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. James Hird has fulfilled his childhood ambition – to train The Dive Bombers. David Evans said Hirdy was the standout applicant in an exhaustive interview process. He must have been. They’re paying the Prahran U9 coach a reported cool [Read more]
The Real Experience from the Great Southern Stand
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Lucas Garth OK. My review, having not watched any TV replay or listened to the game on radio. Literally just watched the game live without input from any analyst which I though was hard to do but made for a gripping “real” experience. First quarter Collingwood played very well early, could have had 6 [Read more]
“Go Hawks!”
September 29, 2010 by 5 Comments
by Bill Walker I was accepted to the Knackery after a cold call to John Harms early in 2008. I had heard about the first book on the Coodabeens when they were at that convenient Sunday night spot. After spending the summer chuckling away, to the annoyance of all nearby, with my snout in the [Read more]
My Grand Final
September 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Bob Utber I decided on Friday night that I would line up at 4.00am instead of the original time of 5 as I had every reason to think that there might be a crowd already. Driving through the streets of East Melbourne it was hard to find a parking spot and I took a [Read more]
Smells like team spirit
September 28, 2010 by 4 Comments
Cheyenne’s first impressions inside the G eerily echoed the end of the day. (Cheyenne and Running Dear had purposely avoided the horrible INXS coverband, sitting on the lawn outside the ground, only entering the Shrine at 2.10pm. The real INXS were bad enough, but this reincarnation had to be missed.) Our seats were near where [Read more]
THE FINALS WRAP – WEEK IV
September 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. As Collingwood prepare for their 3rd GF in a row in 2010, down at Moorabbin they’re getting ready for Round XXVII. But for all those who believe in the Devine Nature of Our Great Game, the Football Gods have spoken. The Collywobbles are [Read more]
That which I most feared has come to pass.
September 27, 2010 by 4 Comments
By Stephanie Holt For 43 years I’ve had one dream – or, at least, one that’s endured unchanged. A St Kilda premiership. And for almost as long, I’ve had one dread. Meeting Collingwood in a Grand Final. There are two ways to rewrite the script of ’66, and only one bears contemplating. It doesn’t help [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]
Suffering in Silence at the Bowl.
September 27, 2010 by 5 Comments
TO FOLLOW COLLINGWOOD IS TO SUFFER; it is to make friends with a person who keeps on letting you down; it is to have grief as a constant companion. All week I repeat the same mantra to my wife Melissa the Saint- “If we win it will be by a lot, if you win it [Read more]
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