FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The World Game gets its four yearly carnival under way tonight and the planet stops to watch. At least it’s got Akka & chequebook football off the pages for a bit. These pages at least. So what if Football’s most unstable bottom [Read more]
One Flew Out of the Hawk’s Nest
June 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
For the first six and a half years of my football life, I struggled year after year to settle on a team that would become an essential part of my sporting life. Family and peer pressure between the ages of one to six can be a daunting and stressful period. My Mother, a Cat; my [Read more]
Eulogy: Memories of a great talent with cheek and heart
June 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In over forty years teaching in country towns and living in local communities I saw, met and mixed with thousands of young people. I saw kids who went on to represent their state and nation in various sports but I never saw anyone the like of Terry Bartel. I was only connected with Terry for [Read more]
Let Me Give You The Tip
June 8, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Anthea Abell It’s happened again. Every year I swear I won’t get involved because it always happens. All it takes is one week of forgetting and it’s all over. Two weeks ago I forgot to put my tips in. It was a crazy day at the office and I ignored the email reminder sent [Read more]
Oh To Be An Arrogant Magpie!
June 8, 2010 by 16 Comments
An arrogant Collingwood supporter. How I wish I was an arrogant Collingwood supporter. Unfortunately, being fifty years old and having supported Collingwood since pre-birth (my mother tells me I went to a post-season night game while still in the womb), there has been only one premiership in my lifetime. And that was twenty years ago. [Read more]
The View From Shepparton Round 11.
June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Last week I wrote that couldn’t care less about North Melbourne, well I do now. I have long complained about the accuracy or lack of it of AFL players when they are attempting set shots at goal. John Anthony after last year’s effort against the Crows was an honorable exception. Well now we have that [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XI
June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Junction Oval Seagulls consolidated their September Credentials at the expense of The Tigers to open proceedings for Round XI. The Northern Bullants, in true Winter conditions, kicked The Sweep against the Gold Cost Meter Maids with an untroubled 26-10 (166) to win [Read more]
GWS and NRL Converts- The Bigger Picture
June 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
I am by no means surprised by the negative reaction to Folau’s signing. Not too long ago I completed a Master’s thesis about the commercialisation of sport and the impact this has had on the sporting community. I wrote about how games were once an expression of the people, where citizens gathered for a common [Read more]
An Alternative Mid-Season Draft
June 4, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Jason Feldman Continuing the AFL’s bold recruitment of Issy Falou and Karmichael Hunt the existing 16 clubs staged a cross-code draft at Etihad Stadium today. The results are suprising.. Richmond – Sharelle McMahon, will provide assistance up forward to Jack Reiwoldt. Besides she’s harder at the ball than Jordan McMahon who will be traded [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XI
June 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Akka is doing his best to rip apart the fabric of Whitten Oval. Teddy certainly would have stuck it up him by now – in the nicest possible way of course. Boss Voss has had a few words to say about Big [Read more]
Can he make the step?
June 3, 2010 by 20 Comments
It’s been a contrasting week for Israel. One has had a shocker while the other has landed a nice earner with GWS. I leave debate about the former as one should never talk about politics and sport in the same thread, FINA and IOC corruption withstanding. Instead, I invite discussion on the latter as the [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Round 10
May 31, 2010 by 2 Comments
Went to the Essendon Bulldogs game on Friday night. I tipped Essendon so I left the ground feeling pretty smug and content with life I also left the ground feeling content because I had enjoyed a fast free flowing game in the company of my wife, our daughter, son in law, and their four children, [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND X
May 31, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Gliders emphatically announced they’d found the rubber band that makes them Fly High, and the talk along Puckle Street is of September Action, although it’s not yet clear whether it will be under their Caretaker Coach or someone who has actually played in Red&Black. Meanwhile, around [Read more]
A Balmey Evening
May 31, 2010 by 19 Comments
I was lucky enough to get an invitation to Balmey’s Roast last Thursday night. It was a swish affair, sort of like a pie night on steroids, held at the Hilton Hotel both to celebrate Neil Balme’s 40 years in football and to help raise funds for the Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation and the N.I.C.K. Foundation. [Read more]
Is Brian Lake an Alien?
May 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I’ve seen the Bulldogs play an oddly high number of times this year. Conspiracy theorists might wonder just why the Bullies and my lifestyle are so compatible, but personally I’m prepared to give coincidence the benefit of the doubt for now. They’re a fun team to watch, so I haven’t minded at all really. It [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND X
May 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Since we last spoke Carlton, like an English summer, have been and gone. And like an English summer, you had you get up early to catch it. The Fuchsias snuck in BTNPM against The Chokers and are knocking on Heaven’s Door at 9th. Over in the City [Read more]
TIPPING POINT
May 25, 2010 by 6 Comments
Aliases abound. Polky, Peter Pan, Connor, Snoopy, Craypot, Ms Paula, Mongrel Punt, DO, Butcher, Charlie, Chris, Jimbo, Jay Gee, Dic Dic, Hoppy, Roy the Boy, Swan Doggo, W1 (which sounds like something’s missing from a central London address), Rado (Is that short for radical?), KB, Top Gun, Le Roy, Benny, Gazza, Bitch Lips, Miss Boston, [Read more]
Media off the Mark in Illicit Drug Reporting
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Michael Filosi There has been a tremendous amount of hoopla recently surrounding the release of the AFL’s illicit drug testing results for the 2009 season. The media latched onto the higher number of positive tests when compared with the previous year as an indication that the league’s illicit drug testing regime is ineffective, whereas [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Round 9
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Well, the Collingwood team should collectively purchase a bridesmaid’s outfit because it obvious after last Friday’s game that is what they will be again this year. They promise so much but in the really big games they are found wanting. I was looking at the Geelong Footy Club web site and noticed a piece recalling [Read more]
JACK DEAN – PRINCE OF PLAYERS IN SYDNEY FOOTBALL
May 24, 2010 by 13 Comments
In the 1949 interstate match between NSW and Victoria at the SCG nineteen year old East Sydney ruckman Jack Dean went up against veteran Victorian captain Jack Dyer at the opening bounce. “He sat me on my arse!” Jack told me over a few beers. We were at Harry McAsey’s pub in Alexandra after a [Read more]
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