Many AFL supporters that don’t support Collingwood are quick to degrade Premiership player and Collingwood Captain Nick Maxwell; a little too quick if you ask me. I won’t shy to the fact that for the past two years I have jumped to Maxy’s defense when he’s bagged in an online or real life environment. [Read more]
Best footy club monikers
October 22, 2012 by 25 Comments
Just putting a call out for the best footy team monikers in the country. I just posted some photos featuring the Mount Gravatt Vultures – now there’s a team name that strikes fear. I can’t help but picture a 40-year-old backman, bald as Mil Hanna, sharp elbows, a fearsome stare, ready for his opponent to [Read more]
Footy keeps on keeping on!
October 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
Jill Scanlon looks at footy in the Top End.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 33: The Real Plugger
October 19, 2012 by 2 Comments
It’s belting down rain on the highway. On the everything. I have two days to get 1,600kms, which is going to take every cent I have. I’m over music, it’s all starting to sound the same. I love driving. Even when I’m hating it, or fighting it and sleep. An open road, a purpose. [Read more]
Off Season Odyssey – Part 32: Masters of Stories
October 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
I’m driving through Air Force bases, and Army bases, and American Military bases and palm trees and R.A.A.F museums, when I hear Townsville Sharks Masters Footy Club are having a training run on a stinking hot Sunday morning. I’ve been on the road for a day and a half, and still have to get [Read more]
A sporting pilgrimage
October 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
Parilla is a ‘blink and you miss it’ town smack in the middle of the South Australian Mallee. There is nothing there really. Most of its buildings are perched on one side of a one hundred metre stretch of road that comes from Adelaide and eventually leads to Sydney.
No Oliver, you may not have some more. Eighty will do.
October 16, 2012 by 5 Comments
Another off-season, another fundamental change to the way football is played, says Adam Ritchie. Considering how great our game it, it sure does seem to be tinkered with a lot.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 31: Soothing Rain
October 16, 2012 by 4 Comments
Lucy’s hurting. It breaks my heart. She comes over, all warm smiles, to pick her boys up from where I’m staying the night, just outside Charter Towers. Her ex-husband is camping in the bungalow until he sorts his shit out. It’s been his turn with the kids for a day or two. He’s vanished [Read more]
Off Season Odyssey – Part 30: A Legend Called Uzz
October 13, 2012 by 11 Comments
Shortcut, Gladstone. The road winds, just right, through rolling hills and eucalypts. It’s beautifully empty other than the music in the deck and kilometre long coal trains that weave into and out of riding side-saddle with me. They look as if they were made with everything else: the volcanoes, the rocks. Natural. I grew [Read more]
Another Gorilla Missed
October 13, 2012 by 35 Comments
The Bulldogs need more gorillas. I mean that in the nicest possible way. Our last gorilla, Brian Lake, left to be part of premiership glory. Not sure if he lived in the Western Suburbs but if he did, I hope the trek out to Waverley every night is worth it. So the Bulldogs decide to stick [Read more]
Off Season Odyssey – Part 29: Full-Backs
October 12, 2012 by 3 Comments
It’s late. I’m all over the road like a goddamn zombie. My left wheel keeps hitting the gravel, I’m constantly falling asleep. I can’t even remember where I’m heading. A central Queensland mining town, I think.
Post season Pouting
October 12, 2012 by 16 Comments
Im Bored. The players need to get away from the Bali beaches, the umbrella decorated cocktails and their tanning chairs. They need to get back to their clubs, back onto the MCG, back into my life! Okay so im struggling without footy a little… What’s a girl to do to fill this time? I [Read more]
Looking for Lars
October 11, 2012 by 6 Comments
Saturday night was the night of nights for the Swedish Australian Football League and Haiku Bob was there.
Caddy settles on choice of clubs
October 11, 2012 by 9 Comments
A highlights package of new Geelong recruit Josh Caddy is available here.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 28: Starting Late
October 11, 2012 by 15 Comments
Starting Late. If. If this Off Season lasted forever I’d hang around at each town, each truck stop and city, until I really got to know the people, the place. I’d stay until that person who I was sure, given time, would be a good mate, became a good mate. If time could be [Read more]
Damian Callinan in The Merger
October 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
Folks, I have seen some of this specifically, and a lot of Damian’s stuff generally. It is ALL BRILLIANT. He was in superb touch at The Roaring Forties Lunch last Friday where he had us (1000+ crowd) laughing our heads off. Very funny and insightful. I strongly recommend this. I hope we can get a few together to go along – especially to the Saturday performance – JTH
Off Season Odyssey – Part 27: Gods, AFL Footballers and Human Beings
October 9, 2012 by 7 Comments
The Gold Coast is L.A. with cane toads. A paradise they’ve layered a blanket of bitumen over, then pinned down with big boats and shopping centres. It oozes money and ex-Victorians. At its heart is Broadbeach. A wonderland of towering, round-edged, honeycomb apartments, swimming around a sea of top dollar restaurants. There are [Read more]
Oh Big Q! Say it ain’t so
October 9, 2012 by 19 Comments
Brandon Erceg is distraught. The Big Q is leaving the Eagles for Collingwood. Of all places, Collingwood!
Off Season Odyssey – Part 26: Bread and Sports
October 8, 2012 by 7 Comments
Somehow, while heading towards work on the Gold Coast, the ute stops at a pub. Well, I never! How could it not? The town is high in the mountains, full of trees and old school buildings, which make it look much smaller, more forgotten than it is, in good ways. The pub’s the St.Kilda [Read more]
If it moves, Brand it. If it doesn’t, sponsor it anyway.
With even the AFL Trade and Free Agency period now having a sponsor with Gillette plastered over everything, can it be too long before commentary of the opening round sounds like this….