LOXTON V WAIKERIE RFL – ROUND 16 2011, Sat August 20th 2011 By Nick Kossatch at Loxton Oval Waikerie easily accounted for bottom side Loxton by 40 points in the final minor round RFL match at Loxton Oval. The Magpies, who meet Berri in Sunday’s 1st semi-final, stamped its authority from midway through the [Read more]
A toast to the ANU footy club
August 24, 2011 by 12 Comments
by Professor John Molony I am singularly honoured in being asked to propose the toast to the ANU Football Club. There are many reasons I feel this way. One is that few nights can match this night. I look back and remember Bucko startling Gough Whitlam, our guest for the evening, when he [Read more]
Chance for a sneak peak at AFL future
August 23, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Troy Thompson If you barrack for Brisbane, Hawthorn, Richmond, GWS or Essendon – or for that matter any club, you may have good reason to head down to Royal Park tomorrow (Wednesday) and Friday to see players your club has scholarship listed or those that may be playing against your club in future.
The most over-used word in footy
August 23, 2011 by 13 Comments
By Domenic Favata Game-plan, formation, style, press, composition, makeup, form, arrangement, configuration, format, ‘spine’, framework, order, STRUCTURE- the most overused word in footy. Exactly what is a structure fellow sports enthusiasts? I believe it is the way a team sets up when they are not in possession of the ball, how they press and [Read more]
You Know
August 22, 2011 by 4 Comments
You Know. Every time I, or a team I coach, make it into finals, about now, when the time is right and the steel has to come out, I tell this story to the squad. Because it was true. Because it hurt. It was my first year at the club. We had only [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XXII
August 22, 2011 by 6 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES SPORT What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Hawks led at every change and at the final siren to send the Flags along La Via Lygon to halfmast and consign The Miseries to the Bottom Half of The Eight. The Mighty Adelaide Scarecrows, unable to muster a 100 point demolition [Read more]
The Footygods: Elpis
August 22, 2011 by 2 Comments
The greeks were funny about hope. Some of them thought that there wasn’t much point having hope because the gods would do you in anyway. Some thought that hope only existed to make your suffering even worse. But they did give hope a minor goddess; Elpis; a young woman who held flowers in her hands. [Read more]
Medhurst Memories <3
August 21, 2011 by 2 Comments
You know those random moments when a former player just pops up in your mind and you start you-tubing his goals and hangers? That’s what happened to me….in relation to one of my favorite Magpies Paul Medhurst. Tarrant sent packing for Medders and who we all know now as Premiership player Ben Reid…oh yeah, that [Read more]
Club versus Country and Career
August 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Brett Northey, worldfootynews.com One of the side issues that was always going to emerge at the 2011 AFL International Cup (underway in Sydney with a record 18 men’s sides and for the first time 5 women’s teams) was the pull of club versus country. And in many instances this is also career versus country. [Read more]
Characters III: Almost Everybody Loved Brauz
August 19, 2011 by 2 Comments
Almost everybody loved Brauz. I did, in spades. He was a freak of a player. CHF. Strong, like Ablett Sr. Could leap and kick like Ablett. Run and hit packs like Ablett. He had natural power. Head-to-toe. And never trained and was always on the grog. He would win any 400 race, but [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XXII
August 19, 2011 by 22 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The ghosts are stirring at the Yarra Falls End as the tension continues at Victoria Park. Mick wants the Black&White Army to give the opposition a Helluva time. Eddie wants it to be a more Ra! Ra! Ra! sort of thing. Are [Read more]
Non-Stop AFL?
August 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
John Weldon offer some thoughts on the possible future of AFL broadcasting over at the Conversation website. http://theconversation.edu.au/non-stop-afl-andrew-demetriou-has-an-app-for-that-2880
What’s in a name?
August 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
Political correctness is a movement to promote tolerance, understanding and acceptance. I’m sure it is a valid movement as far smarter people than I have implemented it, advocated it, and supported it. To me though, it is un-Australian, at least in some part. The “Aussie” persona has been built on the knockabout, “she’ll be right [Read more]
Keep The Rules The Way They Are
August 18, 2011 by 2 Comments
(An ode to Kevin Bartlett and the Rules Committee) by Michael Viljoen (Sung to the tune of Just the Way You Are – B. Joel) Don’t go changing the rushed behind rule We’ll try to keep the ball in play, Mmm Sometimes I fumble across the goal line Disguised in my own [Read more]
One Hundred Years Ago: Round 16, 19th August, 1911
August 18, 2011 by 12 Comments
The VFL was more prepared to make allowances for interstate football one hundred years ago than it would ever consider today. The 50th jubilee of the codification of the games’ rules had seen a grand festival of football held in Melbourne in 1908 under the nominal auspice of the Australian Football Council. With nationalist fervour [Read more]
The Krakouers
August 18, 2011 by 19 Comments
In 1982, I was in Grade 6 at St. Pius X West Warrnambool and obsessed with the Krakouer brothers. I kept scrapbooks of newspaper clippings that said ‘BLACK MAGIC!’ and ‘KRAKOUER MAGIC!’ I wrote ‘JIM 3 KRAKOUER’ and ‘PHIL 8 KRAKOUER’ all over my books and pencil case. I sat in the filtered sun in [Read more]
The Best and Fairest excuse
August 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
So I called the boss at the newspaper the other day. Said I wasn’t coming in. He asked why. “General soreness,” I said. “A bit of this, a bit of that. You know how it is.” “Um, no,” he said. “Not able to take the mark like usual. Not able to fly into the contests.” [Read more]
The Cats that ate Paris
August 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Ken Haley As a lifelong St Kilda supporter, I’ve never been afraid of lost causes. The heartbreak years fall into two classes – those when we could believe feel that Cup within our grasp – 1965, 1971, 1997, 2009 and 2010 (there has only been one of glory, as the entire world knows) [Read more]
The Footygods: The Titans and the Giants
August 16, 2011 by 7 Comments
by Ian Latham You can always tell Zeus. He’s the middle aged greek bloke either standing up looking serious with his thunder bolts or sitting down looking serious. You didn’t want to get in his way. Well, tell that to the Titans. They thought that they just owned the place, which was true. They [Read more]
Wanna Bet on Another Shaw Thing?
August 16, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Merv Collins When I stuck my head above the blankets to greet the two degree morning in Melbourne today, I’m sure I felt a shiver of sympathy for poor Heath Shaw doing it hard over there in sun-drenched southern America. I suspect his team-mates experienced some of the same emotions as they [Read more]
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