by Bill Walker The debate relating to the 2010 Brownlow Medal rages and will continue to do so for a long time. I will be as bold as to say that this will be one of the ‘footy lesions’ that festers and erupts for a long time. This is a big deal and the issue [Read more]
Faith Tested and Restored
September 22, 2010 by 3 Comments
There was once a time when my loyalty and trust had ebbed to an extreme low. My faith in the North Melbourne Football Club was severely tested, and I thought it was time for me to cut ties with the team I’d grown up loving. I needed a new club. March 2007, the Roos played [Read more]
Richmond’s finals best of the last 50 years
September 22, 2010 by 10 Comments
Richmond’s best players in finals during the last 50 years by Miles Wilks Bartlett 39 votes Hart 18 votes Bourke 16 votes Sheedy 16 votes Barrot 12 votes Richmond’s best players in finals during the past 50 years can only be determined by accruing all of the best on ground votes from various newspaper [Read more]
Students pip staff as Bulman achieves goal
September 22, 2010 by 4 Comments
by Adam Bulman It’s funny how things can change in a matter of moments. In the space of a few seconds during the Eltham High Staff vs. Year 12 students footy match, I went from hoping to actually get a kick to celebrating a goal in total astonishment.
An elderly perspective
September 21, 2010 by 11 Comments
by Julia Harrison Aside from easing doubts about my own sometimes-questionable mental state, a visit to my mother’s parents, my Oma and Opa, always provides an amusing anecdote. Actually, to be completely fair, half the time it’s an amusing anecdote and the other half it’s the sort of racist and/or sexist and/or mind boggling un-PC [Read more]
Brownlow Fashion
September 21, 2010 by 26 Comments
It’s a known fact that Magpies are strongly attracted to shiny objects. The premiership cup, that’s one bloody shiny thing! In my head I can imagine the WAGs sitting in a room with designer jewelry spread in front of them, all they have to do is pick and advertise it on TV when asked. Anyone [Read more]
The darkness commeth
September 20, 2010 by 40 Comments
It would now seem that the planets are aligning and the universe as we have known for the past twenty years may soon plummet into a dark and otherworldly abyss. We have become accustomed to the rogue asteroid that travels the skies occasionally presenting danger but never actually impacting. Similarly, we have feared magpies in [Read more]
THE FINALS WRAP – WEEK III
September 20, 2010 by 4 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Mighty Magpie Machine laid to waste The Collywobbles and torched The Little Town at the Bottom End of The Bay on Friday Night to Cakewalk into the 2010 Grand Final. Joining them is none other than their Nemesis from 1966. A Match [Read more]
Brownlow Blog
September 20, 2010 by 160 Comments
Football’s Night of Nights is with us again. A night for the WAG’s to shine, and the blokes to look out of place in a tux. Expect the grog to flowing less freely (courtesy of Fev). Andy D has been polishing up his best gags (be warned), and practising his pronunciation (won’t help). As is the custom, [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Preliminary Final Round
September 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Headline in the Oz’s sporting section of Friday September 17, “We can beat anyone: Malthouse”. And there was bloody Joffa near the end of the match flaunting his gold jacket. How I hate that scene. I wish that he would push off into another universe. The reality though is that he could have put on [Read more]
Shane Crawford: That’s what he’s walking about
September 18, 2010 by 4 Comments
I watched The Footy Show episode six weeks ago when the show was dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness Network. Shane Crawford offered to run from Adelaide to Melbourne to raise awareness for the Network, Raelene Boyle had come on to talk about the work of their many volunteers, helping those with Breast Cancer as well [Read more]
“She loves footy, she loves it not…”
September 17, 2010 by 13 Comments
by Danni Eid One of the best things about having friends that aren’t that into footy, is that they say the funniest things when they try to talk about it. Candy is the main offender. One minute she wants nothing to do with it, the next she’s asking me questions about it. She claims to [Read more]
NOT IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
September 17, 2010 by 5 Comments
”The fact is rugby league lives and breathes in western Sydney – we’re part of the community, we have been there for a century … ” (my emphasis) (David Gallop, NRL CEO, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 September, 2010) The NRL is paranoid about the AFL’s expansion into western Sydney. And they’ve got good reason to [Read more]
Maximum Power required for Cat victory
September 17, 2010 by 2 Comments
Geelong needs toughness. Geelong needs brute force. Geelong needs at least one player raised by Norwegian Vikings on a diet of the raw flesh of fallen foes. Geelong needs Max Rooke. Max Rooke, born in the frigid waters of the Berent Sea in the 6th century to parents Odin and Frigg Rooke, is world renowned [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – 3rd WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
September 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Little Gazza has come clean with his burning ambition – he just wants to toss the coin. Now we just have to wait and see who’s going to give him the most coins to toss. We’ve heard that the bitterness won’t last [Read more]
2011 New team slogans
September 16, 2010 by 4 Comments
In the wake of two of the worst membership slogans in football history from Carlton I ask other club supporters for their thoughts on next year’s themes for their or other teams membership drives. Here’s a couple of quick ones Adelaide: At least we’re not Port Brisbane: He’s not the messiah. He’s just a naughty [Read more]
Grand Final Nirvana – Celebrity Skin
September 16, 2010 by 24 Comments
With Grand Final week looming large, ready yourself for the celebrity footy supporter to come out of hibernation. You know the type. Those that are prominently positioned at one of the front tables at the Grand Final breakfast; proudly garbed-out in their “never soiled by dripping sauce from a Four ‘N’ Twenty” scarf – still [Read more]
Between a rock and a VFL grand final
September 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Vin Maskell After Williamstown’s lame loss last Saturday in the VFL preliminary final against Northern Bullants I went looking for a big rock. I figured if I banged my head against a big rock long enough the memory of the game would disappear. So I went down to the Williamstown ground and found a [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – second week of major round
September 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Peter Schumacher Even though I had fervently hoped that the interstate sides would get up I have to admit that in the first game at least justice was done. Geelong were simply far too good. I actually watched the first half on repeat early Saturday and gave up viewing at half time, the match [Read more]
Why barracking for Collingwood is hopeless
September 14, 2010 by 27 Comments
by Chris Taylor This situation is hopeless. No matter what happens over the course of the next two weeks, if you barrack for Collingwood you might as well go and hide under the bed. It’s going to be nothing but pain. Painful pain. Yes, the kind that hurts. If you know a Collingwood supporter, help [Read more]
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