Tony Robb still seems quite buoyant.
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary: Round 3
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Round Three, Think again The best thing about footy is that it only takes three weeks for the world to change, for nothing else to matter, for the dry summer to dissolve. Unexplainable gaps appear in the tipping comps; injuries punch holes in early balloons; new coaches are, suddenly, stranger than the ones they […]
TO THE KNOCKERS
April 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
TO THE KNOCKERS When your kid falls to the ground You don’t put him in the dock. You don’t walk away disgusted You don’t let his buddies mock. You pick him up and dust him off You whisper in his ear ‘Don’t listen to the blighters scoff Get up again and hear them cheer.’ That […]
Clash of the Titans
April 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is the Clash of the Titans, Dustin Fletcher vs. Gary Ablett junior. Both play completely different game styles yet both equally important for their team. Dustin Fletcher is Essendon’s hero in defence, always there to stop a goal, get a match-saving tackle or spoil the AFL best defenders. He played for Essendon seven years […]
BORDER WARS
April 15, 2012 by 3 Comments
By John Green We would all have to agree that the sport-as-war metaphor has been taken a little too far at times, especially by military history buffs like Mick Malthouse. But allow me to indulge myself for a moment. If I was comparing today’s Richmond-Melbourne clash to a famous battle, which conflict would I refer […]
Coming of age
April 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Keiran Deck What was that? Did you say something? Must have been…Ouch! What is that? It looks like. Well I don’t know what it looks like…Ouch! Will you stop? I’m trying to…trying to. I’m trying to find out how to use these. They’re meaty and I can move them mighty fast. I might call […]
An Evening to Forget
April 15, 2012 by 4 Comments
Collingwood vs Carlton. MCG 13: 4:2012 It started as an excellent evening. I drove to Fitzroy and found a legal park close to Victoria St so I could walk through the Gardens to the “G.” I had arranged to meet my daughter in Gertrude St for a meal before the Game and we found a […]
Da da da da daaa, da da da da daaa
April 14, 2012 by 30 Comments
I don’t’ despise nor loathe the Magpies. I simply hate them. Hate is the singular emotion that sums up a person’s utter contempt for their enemy. Not a Fatwa type of hate but the type that leads you to never mention their name without it being prefaced with a profanity. So as I settle in […]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND III
April 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Fix is in the news again. (Don’t you mean fixture Wrap – Ed) Everyone’s onto it. You can’t pick up a rag or tune into the electronic medjah without copping an eye or ear full of it. You know – about […]
Harms with some thoughts on Round 3
April 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
http://tatts.com/news/2012/4/10/afl-round-3
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