While Les is on a role, we reprise his story about another visit to Kardinia Park to see his Dockers play, on a day when the weather was inclement to say the least.
Memories of Kardinia
September 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Fremantle have a bit of history at Kardinia Park. Les Everett was there for the last game of 1999, and finds it more of a trek than he bargained for.
Father’s Day
September 3, 2013 by 4 Comments
Another kind of season passed; a moving meditation from Peter Baulderstone.
AFL Round 23 – Fearless: X Files Round…cos the truth is out there…
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Fearless gives his usual summary of a round that sees his Roos just miss out on the finals.
Round 23 and other anomalies (from a pumped Bluebagger)
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For once Barb Smith is grateful for the Essendon Football Club. She spends no time thinking about James Hird – now that the Blues are in the finals.
WAFL: Sharks beat top team and it’s mothballs
September 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Les Everett considers retiring on the back of some favourable results in the WAFL.
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Hawthorn: Venue: 10, Transport: 1.
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Here’s an unlikely topic: Glenda Ellis compares the Sydney crowd with her home crowd at the Gabba and winds up eating donuts with a new friend.
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Hawthorn: The Party’s Just Getting Started
September 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
Best of three? With both teams good enough to play in a Grand Final, this could have been the first of a trilogy. The Hawks got the points, but it’s on again, and means a lot more, this Friday night.
Crio’s Question: who are the genuine sportslovers among the ranks of actors and singers and other celebs?
September 2, 2013 by 28 Comments
When a dishevelled Tim Rogers bounded across my TV screen on his way to footy finals, I wondered about other muso/celebs who are serious disciples of sport. Who are they? Mick Jagger at Lord’s, Rod Stewart at Parkhead and Jack Nicholson at LA Lakers are my opening bids.
My extra, personal and vindictive motivation for a Tigers win (warning: may contain nudity and adult themes)
September 2, 2013 by 10 Comments
There are so many reasons to be cheering the Tigers on this weekend. Sean Curtain’s boasts the great Australian pastime of seeing someone you really care about make a complete public galah of himself. Go Tiges!
I have a dream
September 2, 2013 by 8 Comments
Never mind the 2013 finals, Neil Anderson has a vision of the future guaranteed to go straight to the heart of all you Bulldogs supporters. Share his dream.
AFL Round 23 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Last Round Blues
September 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
What is it about Collingwood and the final round?
Is there Life on Mars?
September 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
Peter Baulderstone brings us the David Bowie guide to AFL 2013 and the forthcoming Dockers-Cats game.
AFL Round 23 – The Wrap: Journey’s end for some; the start for others
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The Wrapcave is alive with the sounds of Round 23 as he mournfully puts to bed the under-achievers, the old and weary, and honesty in football admin. He is looking forward to September, anointing the Mayblooms as TTTBFTF.
AFL Round 23 – West Coast v Adelaide: The Crows wonder ‘what if?’
September 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
What did the Adelaide and West Coast clash mean? A chance for Eagles’ fans to farewell some of its retiring greats, for Crows supporters to see what might have been, and for Barry Nicholls to tell the kids about the events of sixteen years ago.
Northern Lights – a documentary worth catching
September 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
For the next ten days, a great Australian footy film is available on the SBS website. Northern Lights is a documentary covering the exciting roller-coaster 2011 season of NT Thunder, no ordinary team – they play in the north eastern states league clocking up more than 100,000 kilometres travelling interstate, pitting remote indigenous players against professional players from national AFL teams. Go into the heart of remote Aboriginal communities and schools where football is not just something to do, it is a crucial part of community life.
AFL Round 23 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Drifting
September 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
Round 23 and the impact of a Polish wedding make Star Wars and a Collingwood game more ethereal than usual.
What to do about Round 23?
September 1, 2013 by 9 Comments
Something needs to be done about “dead-rubber” AFL games in the final round of the season. I saw the most uncompetitive performance from a side in recent memory with Fremantle’s performance against St Kilda on Saturday. With all due respect to the Saints, we were watching a game where only one team cared about winning [Read more]
Cats to host first final in Geelong – surely they’ve earned the right?
September 1, 2013 by 51 Comments
Haven’t Geelong earned the right to host a final (organised at the last minute)?
England v Australia – 1st Twenty20 International: T20 cricket at its best
September 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
With this game of very little context starting at 3.30 AM Victorian time I had very little incentive to watch. So I didn’t. However I recorded the game for the sole purpose of watching Fawad Ahmed bowling his first overs in Australian colours. But after waking up on Friday morning and reading the scorecard and [Read more]
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