Peter Baulderstone brings us the David Bowie guide to AFL 2013 and the forthcoming Dockers-Cats game.
AFL Round 23 – The Wrap: Journey’s end for some; the start for others
September 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
The Wrapcave is alive with the sounds of Round 23 as he mournfully puts to bed the under-achievers, the old and weary, and honesty in football admin. He is looking forward to September, anointing the Mayblooms as TTTBFTF.
Northern Lights – a documentary worth catching
September 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
For the next ten days, a great Australian footy film is available on the SBS website. Northern Lights is a documentary covering the exciting roller-coaster 2011 season of NT Thunder, no ordinary team – they play in the north eastern states league clocking up more than 100,000 kilometres travelling interstate, pitting remote indigenous players against professional players from national AFL teams. Go into the heart of remote Aboriginal communities and schools where football is not just something to do, it is a crucial part of community life.
Cats to host first final in Geelong – surely they’ve earned the right?
September 1, 2013 by 51 Comments
Haven’t Geelong earned the right to host a final (organised at the last minute)?
The Red Setter
August 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
Andrew Embley is Peter Baulderstone’s favourite Eagle of the past decade. He feels a sense of loss today.
2013 Grand Final Entertainment
August 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
Mail on the 2013 Grand Final entertainment.
The Pre Wrap – Round XXIII
August 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
The Wrapster looks at how the last home and away round of 2013 may unfold.
War and peace – Essendon vs the AFL
August 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
(note to editor – War and Peace was written by Leo Tolstoy in the 1800s. If Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in 2013, this would be his story…) The AFL was thrust into war in February, 2013. As Colonel James Hird oversaw Essendon’s preseason training and plotted his conquest of the premiership, the AFL was beginning [Read more]
So long, Footy Park: you raised the bar (for coldest seats at a sporting venue, at least).
August 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
Mike Sexton’s 730 (ABC TV) piece on the last days of Footy Park. [Have a look and then add your Footy Park memory and tribute – or otherwise – to the comments].
Round 23 Preview – The Tipsters’ Nightmare
August 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Could this be the season where one of the bottom half of the finalists rewrite the record books? Possibly even the ninth placed team?
Footy Club songs: The Geelong one is crap (A potentially career limiting article)
August 29, 2013 by 15 Comments
Sean Curtain says the Geelong song is bland, plain and uninteresting. (Who cares what he thinks, he barracks for Richmond – Ed.)
Blokes who grew up on dairy farms Team of the Century – latest
August 29, 2013 by 11 Comments
The noms have come in and the self-appointed Match Committee has picked the latest team. [How did they leave out John Williams? – Ed] The debate continues as this may be getting closer.
The Carey Effect: How Bombers fans can reconcile with Hirdy
August 28, 2013 by 8 Comments
The best course of action for Essendon fans is to come to terms with the fact that their saviour, their warrior, their seargant-at-arms may just in fact be a bit of a knob. Bombers fans, hear Dan O’Sullivan out – after all, he once defended Carey.
Footy used to be fun
August 28, 2013 by 6 Comments
James Hird used to epitomise everything that was great about Aussie Rules to Sam Duncan. Now, he needs to hear some honesty from Hird and Essendon.
Lest We Forget!
August 28, 2013 by 15 Comments
If, as accused, Essendon have brought shame on football, they must lose the ANZAC Day match.
My Old Man the Tiger
August 27, 2013 by 22 Comments
Matt Zurbo, his Dad and the Richmond footy club expunge the rubbish.
AFL Round 22 – Review: The View from Shepparton
August 27, 2013 by 3 Comments
Peter Schumacher gets a few things off his chest.
Obituary: Carlton legend Jim Clark
August 27, 2013 by 9 Comments
Jim Clark, one of Carlton’s last surviving members of the infamous “Bloodbath” Grand Final of 1945, has died in his hometown of Echuca at the age of 88.
#WhatEveritTakes
August 27, 2013 by 2 Comments
Peter Creswell’s fellow Kiwis may wonder who this James Hird character is. He’s the fellow who employed the spin doctor to make sure he became the story, while the facts did/didn’t get out there, Peter says.
Redemption on the Big Stage
August 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
There was a boilover at Skoda Stadium on Sunday as a tenacious young team triumphed. As for that other game that took place either side of the main event, well, the less said about that the better, writes Auskick dad Steve Duffy.
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