The area just south of the Yarra was one of Melbourne’s most populous from the 1840’s. In the gold rush days it was known as Canvas Town, after the huge tent city that was temporary home to thousands on their way inland to seek fortune. Then it was called Emerald Hill in honour of [Read more]
My favourite drop-kick, part 9
September 8, 2011 by 8 Comments
The Drop-Kick Premiership Team Vin Maskell It is said that a champion team will always beat a team of champions, but what if that team of champions is a team of champion drop-kicks? The selection criteria for this team are to be a premiership player and for there to be a reference to the player’s [Read more]
The great equaliser.
September 8, 2011 by 9 Comments
As each club reviews its performance in 2011, there will be perceptions of success for those that have achieved more than expected, and recriminations for those that have not. A host of questions will be asked. Did we improve this year? Did we perform more consistently? Were we more competitive? Did we win as many [Read more]
A draw or a Fixture by John Sandy
September 8, 2011 by 4 Comments
Some months ago when stuck in a car with three kids on the road to nowhere I bored my wife by creating a couple of possible options for ‘the league’ to create a fair and transparent fixture draw that was based on a formula depending on where teams finished the previous season. A [Read more]
Recollections of a Memorable Debut
September 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes it’s the ordinary, mundane games that give us special memories. This is a story of two such matches, both Richmond v Sydney at the MCG, played 18 years apart. The first, on a blustery day in May 1993, was an awful spectacle. Both sides were rooted to the bottom of the ladder,Sydney in the [Read more]
I’m in one. Now to win it.
September 7, 2011 by 3 Comments
Earned a ticket to the big dance. Imperial Football Club sent four teams up to Mannum on a hot windy 27 degree day and each team earned themselves a ticket to the big dance at Meningie on 17 September. The Under 15s after having the week off did the job against Mypolonga and won [Read more]
Homeground
September 7, 2011 by 1 Comment
By Andrew Starkie In September, 1991, favourites Old Collegians Warriors lost the Warrnambool and District Football League Grand Final to the Merrivale Tigers. Earlier this year, the drink company, Gatorade approached media personality, Dave Hughes, to be the ‘face’ of their marketing campaign,’Gatorade Replay’, which offers amateur sporting teams the opportunity [Read more]
The true key to AFL premiership glory
September 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
What is the biggest guide to which club will achieve premiership success in the AFL this season? Most people would suggest winning form is the key. While those more superstitious might say that luck on the day is all that is needed? Well, it is neither of the above, nor is it anything else that [Read more]
Doesn’t anyone know a Grand Final’s at stake?
September 6, 2011 by 2 Comments
For Tony Wilson and so many others, the resting of players in Round 24 had potentially dire consequences. Find out why by checking out Tony’s magnificent piece, “Doesn’t anyone know a Grand Final’s at stake?” on his website.
Football and music. Part I.
September 6, 2011 by 23 Comments
Tonight in Tassie, outside, the city streets were still with cold. Empty. Inside, sitting in the warm seaweed sway of a noisy Friday night pub, I was watching the footy on a small monitor above the wine fridge, while the band, behind me, did their thing. The football looked strange. A pocket of [Read more]
Something’s not right
September 6, 2011 by 47 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Something’s not right. It can’t be. Not when supporters of the same footy team turn on each other. But so it was on Saturday afternoon when I joined my three mates for our regular day at a Bulldogs home game. It’s what we’ve always done; for years at Western Oval, [Read more]
A merger with the Cervantes Tiger Sharks
September 6, 2011 by 4 Comments
by Damian Callinan ‘Do you mind if we start another 15 late? The chef wants to do the dishes now so he can f*#k off home?’ As I changed into my costume behind the modest screen that only barely concealed me from the queue for the kitchen bain maries and didn’t at all [Read more]
The Footygods: the Fates
September 6, 2011 by 3 Comments
The Fates spun and cut the thread of your life. Clotho would spin the thread upon her spindle. Lachesis would measure it out and Atropos would cut it and you were gone. It didn’t matter how good you were for the vast bulk of your days on earth; if you came to the end [Read more]
Dennis Collins 1953-2011: Sayonara Scruff
September 5, 2011 by 17 Comments
Last Wednesday former Footscray,Carlton & Richmondwingman Dennis Collins died suddenly of a heart attack in the in rural Western Australian town of Hyden. He was 58 years of age. Collins was recruited by VFL side Footscray from FDFL club Braybrook and made his senior VFL debut in 1972. Collins was in good company following the [Read more]
Confident, Confused, Content
September 5, 2011 by 6 Comments
With the Hawks in winning form and the finals upon us, I’m feeling quietly confident, though a little confused. I’d written the Cats off just a week ago. I’ve been writing them off all year. All season, I’ve watched and waited for the once mighty to fall, their gallant but weary warriors unable to defy [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XXIV
September 5, 2011 by 2 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES SPORT What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Firstly, let’s find out if that runaway wheel that spun off the Carringbush Bandwagon hit anyone. They can build up a good deal of speed and do some severe damage. Especially to those riding up in the front of The Bandwagon. The Hawks [Read more]
AFL Footy Darwin style: unhyped, uncomplicated, and unlikely to push the crocs off the front page
September 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Visiting Darwin is like returning to 1985. This view isn’t shaped by the locals’ preference for iced coffees over flat whites; nor their steaks served with a thick ridge of fat; nor the lack of pretentious fashion chosen by those having a beer in Mitchell St on any given night. It was because of the [Read more]
Bulldogs take SANFL minor flag – again
September 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By Rob McLean There is something exhilarating about watching a sporting team winning against all expectations, particularly when it is your own. Central District went into yesterday’s top of the table SANFL clash at Elizabeth Oval undermanned and many observers expected the Bulldogs to concede top spot and possibly the minor premiership to a confident [Read more]
Is this the season for the drought to end?
September 3, 2011 by 6 Comments
I’ve hit record button on Foxtel for the Cats v Swans game and headed off to Port Melbourne to see if my VFL side can win 18 on the trot and remain undefeated in the main season. Its been a while since I have not made the trip down Princes Highway for [Read more]
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