Georgia Blom, from Genezzano College, presents a thought-provoking argument on stadium safety.
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]
A Tribute to Norm McDonald
September 20, 2012 by 24 Comments
Max Watson, aged 11, wrote this profile as a project at Merri Creek Primary School.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 19: Blood
September 20, 2012 by 9 Comments
Uncle Les is dying. It’s not right. I have such vivid memories of him being so damn imposing. So solid. All Hungarian, with that slicked back hair, the angular face, barrel chest. That way. Straight down the line. Now he’s skin and bone, there nothing there. He sits opposite me in his house [Read more]
Freo’s Dockers Should Not Be Moved
September 19, 2012 by 11 Comments
Austin Robertson with some thoughts on the what’s happening at Freo, where there are those intent on removing Freo from Freo.
Side by side, back to back
September 19, 2012 by 5 Comments
On Friday night the Magpies and Swans engage in the most important game they’ve played against eachother for 76 years. This is the Collingwood’s 50 Most Sensational Games story of the 1936 Grand Final. 1936 Grand final MCG, Saturday 5 October CROWD: 74,091 UMPIRE: Blackburn Collingwood 3.6.24 7.16.58 8.19.67 11.23.89 South Melbourne 3.4.22 5.7.37 8.12.60 10.18.78 BEST COLLINGWOOD – Pannam, Whelan, Carmody, Kyne, [Read more]
Footy Book Review: Legends and more Legends
September 19, 2012 by 2 Comments
Peter Crossing reviews Sean Gorman’s Legends, and Ken Piesse’s Legends of the Bush.
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Preliminary Final, Saturday 20 September, Collingwood v Geelong, VFL Park
September 19, 2012 by 12 Comments
As a neutral observer of sporting contests, I generally find some reason or other for supporting one team. Today’s tricky. I want the team to win today that’s most likely to lose to Richmond next week. But which is that? Logic tells me I should want Collingwood to get up. They finished fifth. We beat [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]
AFL Finals – Week 2: Start with guns ablazing and then fire blanks..
September 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
1st Semi Final: Adelaide v Fremantle – AAMI Stadium Friday Night With the fear of going out in straight sets resonating through the smaller than expected AAMI Stadium crowd of 31,000, Adelaide took to Footy Park to play Fremantle for the right to progress. The silence was deafening as Fremantle, led by Docker look-a-like Chris [Read more]
What’$ the point?
September 18, 2012 by 5 Comments
There was a lot of hype this year of it being the closest top eight for many seasons; up to six or even seven of the top eight could win the whole thing. No one had ever had to win 13 games to get eighth before. Geelong fans were talking up the possibility of winning [Read more]
Off Season Odyssey – Part 17: Nowhere Rugby
September 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
I’m driving through some town in NSW. I’ve well lost count of names and details. It looks like a beaut. Rural. No coast for miles. Nothing but giant waves of mountains. They’re everywhere, weaving into and out of horizons. The people in this place are different to those on the coast. They live here, [Read more]
2012 VFL Finals – Borough v The Towners
September 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
Hey it doesn’t get much better than this, a fine Saturday afternoon and I’m at North Port Oval for a game of footy between two of the oldest football clubs in Australia, as they play for the right to be in next weeks grand final. Williamstown, established in 1864, known as the Towners or Willie, [Read more]
AFL Finals – Week 2: One Moment Please
September 17, 2012 by 5 Comments
An old friend of mine used to say that life was a series of elevated moments in time. In the throes of our regular late night philosophical discussions, our tongues lubricated by several glasses of BWS’s finest, he would explain that while he was not a religious person, he replenished his soul by taking joy [Read more]
AFL Finals – Week 2: The Wrap’s Last Four Standing
September 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Barry Crockers started off like a German Band and finished with a dirge. They’ll probably say it wasn’t a cause, but there’s a fair bit of travelling in there, and they probably only slept in their own bed two or three [Read more]
It’s the Sharks and the Tigers
September 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
WAFL preliminary final… EAST FREMANTLE will play in their first grand final since 2000 after a strong preliminary final win over Swan Districts at Bassendean Oval. The Sharks got on top during the second quarter and took their lead out beyond six goals before a Swans fightback that got them within 13 points early in the last [Read more]
Off Season Odyssey – Part 16: Not Every Club Is Roses
September 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
Off Season Odyssey Pt.16. Not every Club is Roses. The plan is simple. Vaguely bounce through Kingston, S.A., then wobble towards Gypsy Point, somewhere on the other side of the ranges, where there’s work on the coast. About two days away, give or take. But there’s a beaut pub just off the highway, [Read more]
Northern Areas Football Association Grand Final
September 17, 2012 by 4 Comments
More than 6,700 fans watched the Northern Areas footy and netball finals at Jamestown in South Australia. James Lang was there.
St Kilda Best and Fairest: Two Elephants in the Room
September 16, 2012 by 6 Comments
There’s a lot of preparation that goes into a Best and Fairest. I am, of course, talking about the shaving of legs, preparation of clothes, planning of transport; make up, hair and nails. Feeding the dog, making sure the kids take care of themselves, and booking a cab to pick me, and then Rina, up [Read more]
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