POSITION VACANT CEO AFL Applicant must have excellent outsourcing and divestment skills. The capacity to ignore public sentiment is also an advantage. Ideally the successful applicant will have a keen interest in attending AFL matches and match day functions and preferably had experience as an average half back flanker. There will also be a requirement [Read more]
What’s in a Name?
February 25, 2011 by 13 Comments
By Sasha Lennon As the footy season proper approaches and our interest in off-field indiscretions and the confusion of the NAB Cup begins to wane, more important questions confront us. Will Collingwood go back-to-back? Will the Saints wither and die? Can Buddy kick a tonne? How far up the ladder can the Demons climb? Is [Read more]
NAB Cup: Melbourne V Essendon
February 25, 2011 by 1 Comment
By Steve Healy I was needed by the Melbourne Football Club. It easily surpassed the need for me to stay home ‘because it’s my sister’s birthday’. The Dees needed my support at Etihad. And footy was back. Four-quarter footy, two team footy. Strangely, it seemed to be a distant memory after the two weeks of [Read more]
2011 AFL Crystal Ball
February 25, 2011 by 6 Comments
By Domenic Favata Yes the NAB cup’s only just begun, yes some might say that it’s too early to call and yes some people will call me ridicule my projections. But the AFL season is near, its time to put our serious hats on and think about the long haul. Whether they are ambitious (like [Read more]
NAB Cup: Geelong v North v Bulldogs
February 24, 2011 by 8 Comments
This had been scheduled in for some months now. Even though I hadn’t asked Dad about it, my main means of transport to games, as soon as I saw Geelong v North Melbourne (and the Bulldogs) playing at Skilled Stadium on February 20 for the NAB Cup, I knew I’d be going. One, because it [Read more]
Tom Hawkins’ greatest fear
February 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
“Tom Lonergan’s public speaking.” …from the Geelong Football Club website
Scratcher
February 23, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Matt Zurbo The oval of the Otway and Districts Footy and Netball Club was packed like I’ve never seen it for Scratcher’s 500th game. Every ex-player, all my old peers, kicking around the boundary, milling between the gums trees that surround the oval, gathering around the oil drum fires, drinking, cheering, being happy, having a [Read more]
Arma’s Club Corner – Edition 2
February 23, 2011 by 9 Comments
by Arma Nasco Adelaide: Could Lleyton Hewitt be behind the Crows’ latest interesting initiative, “The Tribe”? Apparently there will be 60 specially recruited Crows fans to become a part of The Tribe; their charter being to make noise. Sound a bit like The Fanatics? C’mon (everyone please point to your forehead now) !!!! OK, let’s [Read more]
NAB Cup: Geelong, North Melbourne, Western Bulldogs
February 22, 2011 by 26 Comments
By Steve Healy Travel- It’s a word that circulates through the realms of every footy lover’s soul, season after season. How will we get to our destination? Why are we going there? In this particular situation, it would’ve been quite hard to understand why, from an outsider’s point of view. Is it really worth it [Read more]
NAB Cup: Essendon v Brisbane v St Kilda
February 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
Spraying the colour into my hair, I studied it in the mirror. It looked pretty good. My hair was now a lush green colour. It was the 2011 Numurkah Secondary College Swimming Sports Carnival at the local pool. My house, Gray, which is actually green house, was vying to against the three other houses, Christie [Read more]
Adrian’s call
February 16, 2011 by 11 Comments
by Damian O’Donnell The sun came up as expected this morning, people will die of old age today as usual, governments will extort taxes from their hard working citizens because they can, and the AFL has announced that the new NAB Cup format is a success. All very predictable really. Adrian Anderson proudly announced, ”We [Read more]
Arma’s Club Corner
February 16, 2011 by 10 Comments
by Arma Nasco Adelaide: Marking 20 years since its first Trial Game at Football Park; a victory over Essendon (1991). Crows team featured John Klug and Romano Negri. Brisbane: The pride of lions no longer includes Proud. Carlton: A “highly spirited” intra-club match rekindles fond memories of vision of the Setanta O’Hailpin and Cameron Cloke [Read more]
Anne’s Choice
February 15, 2011 by 5 Comments
by Anne Fedorowytsch When the NAB Cup fixture was released late October 2010 my reaction to the draw was a very long and exasperated ‘Nooooooo!’ The Crows’ opening round matches versus Port Adelaide and Melbourne had been scheduled head to head against Adelaide United playing their biggest rivals, Melbourne Victory, at Adelaide Oval in the [Read more]
Accuracy in reporting
February 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
Good to see that the Vics have survived the summer. First non-game of the year, and the ‘reporting’ in The Age is: “Two goals to Lisle and one each to Schneider and Menegola brought them within three points, but misses to Brent Renouf and Brendan Whitecross robbed them of a win.” Some people would call that [Read more]
Where’s the stat for the split pack?
February 14, 2011 by 14 Comments
by Peter Zitterschlager The presentation of Aussie rules players stats has come a long way since the days when they simply tallied up kicks, marks and handballs. From this rudimentary approach, it has evolved to a level of sophistication – one which it is fair to say is nothing short of a science. Possessions are [Read more]
Nab Cup- The good, bad and ugly.
February 13, 2011 by 7 Comments
Don’t we all just love the start of a new footy season? We get new players, new teams, new jumpers, new scandals, new game plans and in my case a stunner of a new beau. While I love a new footy season, I don’t exactly have any love for the NAB cup.
NAB Cup: Carlton v Richmond v Collingwood
February 13, 2011 by 3 Comments
Signing out of the OneFM log sheet, I neatly scribbled by signature and wrote down 6:00pm next to ‘exit time’. Another two hour, Saturday shift was over and done, but today was different. I was going home to watch the footy, something I haven’t enjoyed since September, 2010. But, there was a catch. It was [Read more]
NAB CUP: Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Adelaide
February 13, 2011 by 2 Comments
By Steve Healy It was imminent that the return of footy in 2011 would be a completely different experience from previous seasons. I really couldn’t, and still can’t, get my head around the round-robin planning of the first round of the NAB cup. It just isn’t footy. Our game is meant to be a sacred [Read more]
Time for a new AFL Draw
February 12, 2011 by 8 Comments
By Robert Dalton With the expansion of the AFL to embrace even more interstate teams, it is high time to re-think the draw and extend the football season, perhaps by eliminating the NAB Cup for starters. In the days of the old VFL it was a fair draw as all teams played each other twice [Read more]
I can’t figure out the NAB Cup!!!
February 11, 2011 by 4 Comments
I’ve heard it a few times over the last few weeks; bring back the footy. The cricket this summer was disappointing, both because we lost badly, and because the decisions of the cricket selectors were completely baffling for the punters on the street. There is a distinct feeling that we lost the Ashes partly because [Read more]
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