Sometimes we all need a reminder about why we love footy. For some people, they may need this gentle nudge weekly. Over the weekend, at AFL level, many Hawthorn, St Kilda and Essendon supporters may have felt the need to stop loving footy, or question the relationship they have with the game. Elsewhere, Richmond supporters [Read more]
Fitzroy Banyule
August 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“Early to bed and early to rise” makes derrinalphil on time for his first patient on Saturday morning. It was a boring morning, with nothing interesting to do. “Check-ups” and scaling and cleaning; no implants, root fillings or extractions. Looked out the window at about nine o’clock and it was pouring down. I thought this [Read more]
VAFA Div 1 – Round 14: Give me footy
August 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
My wife thinks there is something wrong with me. Actually, she thinks there are lots of things wrong with me, but what she really cannot fathom is how disinterested I am in the Olympics. And it is true. I could not care less for Australia’s achievements in the pool, and on the other various courts [Read more]
The burgers are better at Kyneton but Bloods prevail
July 31, 2012 by 4 Comments
By Shane Goss South Bendigo have been made to work hard to overcome a gallant Kyneton to win by 26 points in their round 14 BFL clash at the Kyneton Showgrounds. Had the Tigers kicked straight the result may well have been different. In a low scoring and scrappy affair, Kyneton began well, registering seven [Read more]
The JFFC is showing signs of lifting
July 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We have just lived through the GFC, the Global Financial Crisis. We Fitzroy people are going through our own crisis: the JFFC. What is this you ask? The July Fitzroy Football Crisis today, showed some sign of lifting, but as Malcolm Frazier once said “life was not meant to be easy.” Fortunately we had wins [Read more]
WAFL Round 19: It’s a one Tiger race
July 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Les Everett A FEW weeks back there were four genuine premiership contenders in the WAFL competition. Then East Fremantle thrashed East Perth and Swan Districts making those two look like pretenders and setting up the most anticipated game of the season. The battle of the top two at Claremont Oval started innocently enough but [Read more]
VAFA round 13 review: Not dead yet
July 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
V.A.F.A. DIVISION 1: Rd 13 Review I have been known to enjoy a lunch or three. So it was with plenty of enthusiasm that last week I accepted an invitation to the picturesque Fearon Reserve, to enjoy the hospitality of my old club Williamstown CYMS. The attendees were entertained by the wit and wisdom of [Read more]
Kempo pulls the driver out as Blacks stretch lead from Rosehill to Belmont
July 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
ROBBO DOES IT ALL AS BLACKS TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS For not the first time this season, my trip to the Uni for the curtain raiser was an alluring one. With marquee names like Foster and Lacey having donned the Black and Blue at 11:40 in previous weeks this year, it seemed like the depth [Read more]
A Good Way To Watch Footy
July 25, 2012 by 5 Comments
A Good Way to Watch Footy. Nutsy and I pull up barstools at the tavern. He’s played well, but his groin is sore. His wife is well-pregnant. “Groin?” I had said, while we watched the seniors belt out an easy win in constant drizzle, then gave him every “too much pulling” joke ever [Read more]
Sharks Tigers shape up Thunder takes a grip on the spoon
July 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
THE WAFL has a breakaway. Claremont and East Fremantle look like turning the season into a race between two. The top two faced tricky assignments far from home and left their hosts to clean up an awful mess. The game at Joondalup started promisingly enough with the Tigers and Falcons trading pairs of goals [Read more]
Fitzroy goes down to Parkdale.
July 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We had a lunch before Saturday’s match to highlight the history project that the club is undertaking. Peter Hille and Arthur Wilson spoke about the Fitzroy and University Reds history that is being collected and preserved. On Sunday I went into Docklands for a Brisbane Fitzroy Historical Society function. If our football team doesn’t get [Read more]
Renmark v Berri
July 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
RENMARK V BERRI RFL – ROUND 10 2012, Sat July 14th By Nick Kossatch at Renmark Oval Renmark and Berri produced a stunning draw in round 10 of the RFL at a wet and muddy Renmark Oval in front of the club’s 1981-82 Premiership Reunion players. Demon Andrew Hume had the chance to give his [Read more]
Rain, mud and shellackings
July 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
V.A.F.A. DIVISION 1 REVIEW (Rd 12) It would give me great pleasure, dear readers, to be able to announce that last week saw a round chock full of cliff-hanger finishes and nail-biting contests. That under grey and rainy skies there were battles decided by less than a kick. That there were heroes anointed after successful [Read more]
Off with the wildebeests
July 19, 2012 by 8 Comments
By Paul “Porka” Stephens It is essential I write a bit about a man who made me, not the re-producing way but in the a way of initiating me into the world of coaching. I didn’t have a clue when I coached my first game at a new club out the middle of nowhere. I [Read more]
Bridgewater bog
July 18, 2012 by 7 Comments
Last week’s rain, plus the pressure of a number of earlier games, turned the Adelaide Hills Central Division match between Bridgewater and Mt Lofty into a mud wrestle. During its history, the Bridgewater Oval has earned itself a reputation for producing conditions that would have the average mud lark rejoicing. Read his yarn and see [Read more]
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot”
July 17, 2012 by 5 Comments
June 30, MIT Fields Boston Australian Rules tournament As Melbourne sank into a slough of perfect footy weather – cold, wet, unpredictable – we were sheltering from the smarting sunshine and exhausting humidity of a Boston heatwave, elbow-deep in boxes and bags and bubblewrap, packing away a year-long expat adventure. We’d recently discovered that [Read more]
Riverland Superdogs v Hills
July 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
RIVERLAND SUPERDOGS V HILLS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFL MASTERS – ROUND EIGHT SUNDAY 15th OF JULY 2012, LYRUP OVAL By Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs put in its worst effort for the year with a 50-point hiding to a tough Hills team at Lyrup Oval on Sunday. Coach Shane Healy let his team know all about [Read more]
WAFL Round 17: East Fremantle makes a statement
July 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Les Everett EAST FREMANTLE started round 17 looking at a run of games that could turn them into premiership favourites or finals onlookers. They thrashed East Perth at home and now face the other two teams in the top four, Swan Districts and Claremont, in away games over the next couple of weeks. Les [Read more]
Life on Red Hill
July 14, 2012 by 5 Comments
Life on Red Hill The Red Hill team song is a variation on the classic, ‘She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes.’ In the second verse we sing – We’ll take on all the champions as they come, oh we’ll take on the champions as they come. Then it sounds something like – [Read more]
VAFA Round 11: Pirates on shaky ground
July 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One could almost feel the seismic shift in the competition last week when North Old Boys – St. Patrick’s comprehensively defeated Peninsula Old Boys at Gillon Oval. That rumbling was not tectonic plates shifting beneath us; indeed, it was the sound of the Pirates being dislodged from their perch at the top of the table [Read more]
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