Haje Halabi is coming home. After years abroad he wants his family to know the opportunity and tolerance that Australia gave his parents when they emigrated from Lebanon in the 50’s. And there’s footy and even the Tigers.
Losers are Winners too
June 8, 2014 by 6 Comments
Drop Kick reminds us that winners need losers while making a point about his judged Tigers.
Lost and Found
June 1, 2014 by 5 Comments
A poignant memoir from Yvette Wroby about the passing of a beloved uncle, and how footy teams like people move from flakiness to triumph to gratitude. Her Saints turn will come.
Blood-blisters to the Blacks, a Richmond Oval reverie
May 17, 2014 by 43 Comments
‘On the field of play you know whose side you are on’. The Bloods are in the blood. So are the Blacks. Tom Martin describes living, playing, being footy – with thanks to his parents.
Confessions of a Smart Arse – My Brilliant (Game Show) Career: Episode 4 – (Not So) Hot Seat – Buy Me A Pony
May 14, 2014 by 7 Comments
Swish Schwerdt’s self-indulgent tour of the game show universe limps to its inevitable conclusion. Not sure why he bothered really.
Confessions of a Smart Arse – My Brilliant (Game Show) Career: Episode 3 – (C)Rockwiz – Spare Us The Cutter
April 30, 2014 by 10 Comments
Twenty five years after his last TV appearance, Swish Schwerdt is back for more, this time for the whole world to see (or at least those with internet access). If you are called a freakazoid at the Espy but it doesn’t make it on screen, did it really happen?
AFL Round 6 – Collingwood v Essendon: 99 Luft Balloons
April 29, 2014 by 4 Comments
Mick Gwyther tells the story of his great uncle Llew, World War I veteran, who lived an independent life on his Gippsland farm as the ANZAC Day match at the MCG invite him to consider the notion of freedom. [This is a fine antidote to the jingoism of so much coverage – Ed]
Confessions of a Smart Arse – My Brilliant (Game Show) Career: Episode 2 – Wheel of (Mis)Fortune – It’s A Shame About Rae
April 23, 2014 by 13 Comments
Swish’s journey as a smart arse affords him time with the great J. Burgess and A. Xenides. But where does fortune take him?
Confessions of a Smart Arse – My Brilliant (Game Show) Career: Episode 1 – (It’s) Academic Inspiration, You Gave Me None – Strangways, Here We Come
April 18, 2014 by 7 Comments
Swish Schwerdt began his illustrious game show career under quiz-master Sandy Roberts. It was 1975. Swish, one of Elizabeth High’s finest, may have been a little ahead of himself. Here’s what happened. (Fine memoir – Ed]
Me and John Harms
April 11, 2014 by 10 Comments
During his uni days Matt Watson sat through a lecture from John Harms. This is his recollection.
There Goes The Charabanc – The CDFC Bulldogs Supporters Bus (1970-1976)
March 25, 2014 by 10 Comments
Part travelogue, part snapshot in time: take the trip with Swish Schwerdt on the supporter bus as he travels around the SANFL as a keen teen. Bound to strike a nostalgic chord even with those who were nowhere near.
All Sorts of Football Legends
March 24, 2014 by 2 Comments
Matt Zurbo gives us a hint at what he’s been doing for the last 18 months, and requests assistance.
Exile on Adelaide Oval: Stone[s] the Crows
March 4, 2014 by 40 Comments
Growing up in a dusty town, The Rolling Stones were the band. So Mickey Randall had to see them in 1995 when they played at Footy Park. Now they’re playing at Adelaide Oval during Round 1, and it’s got him looking back, in a true Aussie yarn.
Almanac Rugby League – Dream of glory where there is none
February 19, 2014 by 12 Comments
Simply superb memoir from Patrick O’Brien on playing rugby league as a teenager in Brisbane. (Name the team?) (May have uncovered another one here – Ed)
Last supper of the spin doctors
February 19, 2014 by 5 Comments
Rob Bath remembers his table tennis partner Peter White: a brilliant, intuitive fix-anything mechanic, generous barbecue host, prodigious beer drinker, school bus driver and owner of useful tractors and other heavy machinery
Good Things Happen in Yarrawonga
January 28, 2014 by 11 Comments
Dips loves Yarrawonga. In this evocative piece he hints at why. [Could be a tennis piece; could be a water-skiing piece; could be an exercise in describing sunsets and other serenities piece – Ed]
A search and a small revelation on 21 January
January 21, 2014 by 27 Comments
David (Mountain Ash) Wilson reveals a little of his journey from A grade to C grade and back again – and again. A journey from ignorance to fear to wisdom – and back again. As all good journeys are. (A ***** Classic – Ed).
Christmas Bon Bons
December 30, 2013 by 6 Comments
A meditation from Peter Baulderstone on the meaning of tolerance, community, acceptance and Christmas/Festivus.
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS; THE S.S.S.C.A Christmas Eve Street Criggit Invitational
December 19, 2013 by 11 Comments
Steve Baker recounts a Christmas tale to gladden the heart and stir the memories of anyone who played a game of neighbourhood cricket in their youth. Sorry – criggit. (Also good for those fancying a bit of 80s Melbourne nostalgia.)
Six sixes
November 29, 2013 by 29 Comments
Mickey Randall takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of the biggest tonks of our time. Some on the public stage, some local glories. Mickey is sometimes the victim, never the perpetrator.
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