Chelsea 1-0 Stoke Another game, another win for Chelsea. Both sides went into the game after hard fought draws the week before. Stoke had held on for a valuable draw against champions Man City while Chelsea failed to win at Loftus Road. The first real chance came on twenty minutes, when Walters smacked a header [Read more]
Donegal burst secures All-Ireland final
September 25, 2012 by 4 Comments
Hamish Townsend joined some nervous Mayo supporters on Sunday night for the All-Ireland final against Donegal.
Lumps and Bumps
September 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You can find yourself talking footy any-old-where.
25 years of the Red and White
September 24, 2012 by 5 Comments
In 1987 I sat in the SCG stands as a 9 year old and watched Steve Wright kick 8 goals as the Swans put 201 points on the Eagles. 25 years on I sat on the coach watching us take on the Pies trying not to make a noise and wake up my 6 month [Read more]
AFL Preliminary Finals – Sydney v Collingwood: Silky Swans Grand Final ready
September 21, 2012 by 7 Comments
The Sydney Swans have broken an eleven game, seven-year voodoo losing streak against Collingwood, securing their Grand Final appearance by twenty-six points infront of 57,156 at ANZ Stadium. Amongst the celebration of Jude Bolton’s three-hundredth game and the battle of the Reids and Shaws, the Swans were strong defensively and attacked early putting the [Read more]
Middle Australia Report: Tomic the Tank Engine II
September 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
Enough is enough. Bernard Tomic should no longer be allowed to play for Australia in Davis Cup or even be supported by Tennis Australia after his appalling display in last weekend’s Davis Cup tie against Germany. We commented on what a dud he was at the US Open when he didn’t try in his match [Read more]
The Penultimate Week
September 20, 2012 by 1 Comment
Welcome to the Penultimate Week! We are now down to four and the news this week has been focussed on the selection of a team that will never play together. The All-Australian team is not something that particularly interests me (Especially when there are no Blues in it) and the discussion and debate over it [Read more]
Velocity Sports Grand Final Breakfast (with J. Brown, A. Lynch and M. Williams)
September 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Off Season Odyssey – Part 18: Running In Cathy Freeman’s Steps
September 18, 2012 by 7 Comments
It’s grey when I get to Canberra. I’ve been to dot-towns all over the country, found teammates and ex-teammates underground and in cities, yet not one of them lives here. Not that I know of. I wonder what that says about us – me and the Grey City? I have a kick with [Read more]
Conflicting Interests
September 18, 2012 by 14 Comments
Darren ‘Smokie’ Dawson questions the credentials of the All-Australian selection committee.
Champagne Football: Myth and Bubbles
September 18, 2012 by 4 Comments
By Phil Dimitriadis Champagne is the alcoholic drink commonly associated with upper class tastes. It appears absurdly paradoxical that many fans that utter this expression would probably do so with while drinking beer or soft drinks. The only time we see champagne after a game of football is when it is poured into the premiership [Read more]
crio’s Q: Cattle or Trainer?
September 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
How good the trainer? or You gotta have the cattle. $3m for Malthouse. Lyon engineers Freo resurgence. Gai set to dominate Spring. Coaches/trainers/managers forge big reputations. They are big news and command big incomes. But how can you rate them? Alan Joyce (not Qantas’!) is a dual Premiership coach. Hirdy’s side missed the finals. Is [Read more]
Grand Final Heartache
September 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
I’m now actually pleased that Richmond never makes the finals – it has probably saved me two or three heart attacks. Coaching my first basketball Grand Final was more nerve racking than watching Collingwood throw away another premiership in the dying seconds. I didn’t sleep at all the night after the game and two days [Read more]
Trains,Pains and Silver Linings
September 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Paul Spinks Seagulls fight over a discarded hamburger as I leave Bon Beach station with a Sunday hangover on the 10.45AM Frankston to Southern Cross. The train is already late and proceeds to travel at a pace mimicking tempo footy …slow and measured. I’m on my way home via the noon V-Line to South [Read more]
AFL Round 23 – Brisbane v Dogs: 5km into town, 10 goals out of touch
September 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The last hurrah for season 2012 for the Western Bulldogs was much like most weekends before hand, started with a little promise and hope in the air and finished with nothing but despondency, anger, even thoughts of surrender. But last Sunday was not like most match days for this weary traveller and footy tragic. Sure [Read more]
My time with Sid – a comment on commentators
August 22, 2012 by 4 Comments
In a sporting world overflowing with hyperbole one word seems to have remained untouched. There just doesn’t seem to be a lot of doyens out there. When we lose one therefore it seems an ideal moment to hop off the tread-well and let the mind go back in time for a change. I first encountered [Read more]
Would you prefer gold or a flag?
August 22, 2012 by 5 Comments
Now that we are in the hiatus between the London Olympics and the main sporting event, AFL finals, my mind has wandered. Julia met the medal winning troops as they exited the plane and then skipped off when the non medal winners appeared (some politicians would turn up to the opening of a letter to [Read more]
Olympics – Glory off the dais
August 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you look close enough in the aftermath of the 2012 Summer Olympics, you’ll notice many athletes returning home feeling enormous pride and satisfaction with their performances in London, even though they never got near a dais, a medal ceremony or even a final. Jill ScanlonBlues fan and sports lover. Development through sports advocate; producer, [Read more]
Dummy spitters
August 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Anson Cameron To gamble your life on a millimeter and a moment is foolhardy brave. But, being an Olympic hurdler, that’s what you’re called to do. You train ten thousand hours to shed a second and gain a hair’s-breadth so when the gun goes you can shape space and time marginally better than the [Read more]
Olympic objectivity, deliberate or otherwise
August 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
The Olympics can draw out many emotions, but to me this year, I actually found them to be… ‘strangely refreshing’. I took a bit longer than normal to get warmed up for the games this time. Perhaps it was because I went to Sydney and to the Vancouver Winter games, whereas this was always just [Read more]
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