Some have said I’ve recently gone missing and to be truthful, I have. It has been a week of reflection. A task that should not be undertake in the public gaze. I’ve spent many hours trying to make some sense of a loss, that only 7 days ago, seemed unimaginable. I sought refuge in the isolated hamlet [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick – Part 4
April 29, 2012 by 6 Comments
Selection Sensitivity As the first match gets closer nerves start to jingle; ever so slightly. You know who you have: well they haven’t all signed yet, but they will. There is an intermittent presence from key players but we can’t get a full group together for practice matches. Some one has a hammy, another, [Read more]
Almanac Local Footy: My Anzac Day 2012
April 29, 2012 by 11 Comments
Mick Rees went to the Braybrook-West Footscray game on Anzac Day 2012.
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND V
April 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What mixed week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We’ve already had The Anzac Day Blockbuster. It’s history now how an overweight Dane Swan steamrolled the opposition and The Mighty Maggies snatched back the lead they’d held since the 1st quarter to win an absolute spellbinder of a match. Once again [Read more]
The Footygods: Zelus
April 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
Zelus was a difficult god to be around. As the god of envy and rivalry, he could cause real difficulties even when he wasn’t trying. And he would leave us mortals to drink of bitter sorrow. We’ve seen a bit of envy and rivalry in the black and whites in the last year. Eddie wanted [Read more]
The View From GWS
April 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
So according to the pundits, purists and punters, the GWS Giants are little hope of making an impression this year. They won’t win and they won’t conquer the League-loving locals. It all sounds a bit bleak for the fledgling team in Sydney’s deepest, darkest west. I live in Sydney’s west and it all looks a bit [Read more]
Sal’s Tips: Go the Early Crow!
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Humble Greetings to all this week! In only a week the Blues have gone from champs to chumps! Now also with a couple of key injuries. We are also hearing of the impending demise of the Cats or even the Pies – one prominent journalist has even gone so far as to say the [Read more]
Rd 4 2012 FEARLESS – Bad injuries weekend. A couple of broken legs etc…
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Ross Lyon returned to Etihad Stadium as the Fremantle coach on Friday night against the Saints. The boos were there from the St.Kilda faithful but Ross remained calm enough to plot a purple victory. Stephen Hill played his first blinder in Melbourne after promising for a while. A tight contest all night saw the Dockers [Read more]
The View From Shepparton – Anzac Day
April 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
It is 3 am and my thoughts are swirling around as lie in bed thinkindg about the totality of yesterday’s Anzac Day. Obviously on this site this should relate to yet another great game of Aussie Rules but really to call this event, great as it was, the highlight of the day would be [Read more]
Simon Black – Champion bloke and a Champion Footballer
April 26, 2012 by 11 Comments
The word champion is used quite a lot in sporting circles these days, so much so that some commentators may say that someone is a champion player even though they have only played a handful of games. To try and distinguish between high quality players people will not just use the term champion anymore but [Read more]
A feline struggle in a sea of purple and orange
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
“Forget the footy!” “ It’s about Glory this weekend!” “ How long have we waited for this!” I think I heard these comments over a dozen times each on the weekend when in Brisbane to watch the A-League Grand Final. The two sporting teams that I pigeonhole under ‘By pain of death’ as far as [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 5, Friday 25 April, v Fitzroy, MCG
April 25, 2012 by 3 Comments
I’ve barely been able to absorb the magnitude of the Collingwood victory when Round 5 is upon us. For Anzac Day falls on a Friday this year. Anzac Day Before 1995, when Essendon and Collingwood hatched a duopoly based on greed and self-interest, disguised under such epithets as “tradition” and “honouring the fallen”, the League [Read more]
Damian Bourke: Standing Tall
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Sasha Lennon At six foot five inches tall, Damian Bourke looks every bit as lean as the Geelong Football Club captain who retired from the game almost 20 years ago. Making coffee in his suburban Brisbane kitchen, he recalls with fondness his days at Geelong and later at the Brisbane Bears/Lions where he [Read more]
Superdogs’ super start to season
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
MID NORTH V RIVERLAND SUPERDOGS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFL MASTERS – ROUND TWO SUNDAY 22ND OF APRIL 2012, SPALDING OVAL By Nick Kossatch It is two wins from the first two games of the AFL Masters for the Riverland Superdogs after it easily accounted for Mid North by 86-points in Spalding on Sunday. In a [Read more]
France’s answer to Hayden Ballantyne falls
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Bob Utber Paris in the spring without football is not football. Mind you the way the weather has been behaving here, walking up the Champs Elysees is like making your way to your seat at Arctic Park. Not once has anybody asked me the score and there have been some big games this [Read more]
The midweek Wrap – Round V
April 24, 2012 by 4 Comments
by John Mosig FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What short week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We’ve hardly had time to get the duffle coat back from the dry cleaners and sow on the new badges before we’re out on the terraces again. This time it’s The Anzac Day Blockbuster. And while we’re talking [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick (Part 3)
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Bill Walker Sword Sharpening Christmas is coming, players all get fat; first run in the New Year they’re all well tanned, but flat. No such problem this year at Wynyard. Shannon and his bench coach Dan Smith had got them onto the track in mid November. The young recruits were like [Read more]
WAFL Round 6
April 23, 2012 by 1 Comment
Les Everett looks at round 6 WAFL action, where upsets of various kinds stole the spotlight. http://australianrules.com.au/news/979/78/Perth-upset-Lions-Peel-upset-fans
The View From Shepparton – Round 4
April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Like to meet any individual who aced round 4. I suppose that such a person does exist but he / she would also have to be clairvoyant of the year. The really good thing now though is how the whole competition has evened up. The first game of the round had to be one [Read more]
The game that had everything
April 23, 2012 by 19 Comments
Collingwood’s 50 Most Sensational Games Round 11 1972 Collingwood 3.4.22 5.5.35 15.8.98 23.10.148 Essendon 2.2.14 7.9.51 8.12.60 13.15.93 VENUE: Victoria Park DATE: Saturday 12 June CROWD: 42,200 UMPIRE: Coates COLLINGWOOD B Britt Clifton Dunne HB Salmon Potter O’Callaghan C Oborne Price Atkinson HF McOrist Gott Greening F Jenkin McKenna Wearmouth FOLL Thompson, M [Read more]
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