In what seems like the blink of an eye, we have arrived at the season’s denouement. Was it really six months ago that the ten Division 1 clubs were winding up their pre-season programs, full of hope for the year which lay ahead? The season has whisked past us so quickly. Preliminary Final review: [Read more]
Blacks Clinch ’12 GF Spot and ’13 A-Grade Berth
September 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
NO PROBLEM FOR OLD MEN AS EXPERIENCED BLACKERS GET THROUGH TO GF They say that love can make music sound sweeter and food taste better. Whilst your narrator is not normally prone to such sentimentality, a similar feeling came over me as I carved through my sweet and sour pork whilst Rose Tattoo’s ‘We Can’t [Read more]
WAFL: Royals bow out, Sharks shape up
September 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
THE home teams won the WAFL semi-finals on Saturday setting up an interesting preliminary final at Bassendean Oval next Sunday.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 11: New Year’s Without Resolutions
September 11, 2012 by 7 Comments
Off Season Odyssey Pt11. New Year’s Without Resolutions. Princetown has a beaut oval. Round. Hard. There’s no team any more, no town. Just the reedy wetlands that is the last gasp of the Gellibrand River, where farmers, back in the day, paddled their milk downstream, on longboats, to the Saturday market. Just coastal [Read more]
Melbourne Uni Blacks: Where country meets city
September 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
Following their promotion to the VAFA premier grade, Thomas Dullard highlights the connection the Melbourne Uni Blacks have forged with country footy.
VAFA: Parkdale are not Catholics
September 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
I have cancelled all my Saturday morning appointments for three weeks. Better to be prepared for any combination of results of our three semi-final sides than have to rearrange both patients and staff. So it was down to Sandringham to watch our beloved Roys. I missed the first ten minutes of the Thirds, but I [Read more]
VAFA Div 1 Semi-finals: A weekend for the ages
September 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Will the experience of the Pirates get them over the line in this weekend’s VAFA Division 1 preliminary final? Smokie Dawson runs the ruler over the contenders.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 9: The Bandidos
September 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
After a few big days in the bush, spraying in the gullies, and clearing fireweed, I come down from the hills to have a surf not far off sunset – the good, stupid, lazy kind that hurts no-one. Not the kids on boogie boards I can’t dodge, not me or the water. Jumping in [Read more]
VAFA: History counts for little as Drysdale exposes ‘Hoers Tail
September 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
With Melbourne Uni Blacks progressing steadily towards the grand final in both grades, the Black Hack gets misty at memories of previous close finishes.
Off Season Odyssey Part 8: A well-shared silence
September 6, 2012 by 15 Comments
Off Season Odyssey Pt.8. Concreting has been hard. Jack and I kick the ball. His real name is Steven, but his last name is Daniels. He is a stocky Otway Ressies Premiership player, by way of Geelong. Nowhere Geelong. From one of those non-descript houses, in one of those rolling suburbs in a sea [Read more]
Changing Levels
September 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
We still go to AFL football; our family have always gone. The game at the top level is as fast and uncompromising as it has ever been. My family have been cat fans for generations and we’ve seen the game we grew up with go through many changes and permutations. One constant remains, the game [Read more]
Off-Season Odyssey Part 7: Alcohol und Footyball
September 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
This Odyssey is turning me into an alcoholic. Each stop, old teammates badger me: “We haven’t seen you in years! And you don’t want to have a drink with us?!” So we kick, then drink, as if a little run around has earned it. Each stop I pick up a few more good memories [Read more]
Were they this good in 1944?
September 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
“It was just an ordinary shellacking of a bottom side … then the dam wall burst!” Almanac Admin
Now for the WAFL finals
September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
There was an upset in the Perth derby but the final round of WAFL fixtures predictably made no difference to the ladder order of the top four.
Flying in to play country footy with Thommo and Simmo
September 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
This year I played five games as a fly-in, fly-out player for Kyneton Football Club in the Bendigo Football League. It definitely got a bit tedious due to spending over 10 hours of my weekend either on a plane or at the airport but generally it was an awesome experience and I got to meet [Read more]
Queensland footy: Adding to the past 30 years
September 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As far as local football in Central Queensland is concerned, there are just 8 days remaining in the season. Disappointingly the only involvement Brothers will be having is hosting the Preliminary Final on Saturday September 1 at our Kele Park ground. Even more disappointing was the manner in which the reserves season ended and the [Read more]
Fitzroy Reds: What’s the score at Marcellin?
September 2, 2012 by 2 Comments
Margins, margins, margins; that was the topic that was on all lips out at the Brunswick Street Oval today. What’s the score at Marcellin; what’s the score at Marcellin; what’s the score at Marcellin; was the question posed ad nauseum. Now as a dentist I know something about margins. The margins of my crowns (these [Read more]
Ammos Division 1: All roads lead to Elsternwick
August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
With the weather taking a decidedly spring-like turn for the better, in the air around town we can suddenly detect whiff of finals. The hard slog of eighteen rounds of preliminaries is over, and now we have arrived at the big show. Let’s be honest: for a number of weeks now the final four has [Read more]
Neville Strauch: A man for all seasons and age groups
August 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The late Neville Strauch, a legend of the Bendigo Football League, was one of those rare people in football who was able to make the transition from club footy to the bigger arena of football development.
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