Mickey Randall yearns for a dear old Adelaide red wine winter.
AFL Round 6 – The View from Shepparton: Look a bit deeper, Vossy
May 6, 2013 by 6 Comments
Voss said: “ Our first quarters are letting us down tremendously” Err, well yes that is true but I think that we need a somewhat deeper analysis than that.
WAFL – Round 8: Slick, Dick show in Falcon Shark shootout
May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
IT was the kind of game coaches hate and spectators love at East Fremantle Oval. The Sharks and Falcons kicked 45.11 between them confusing all sorts of arguments about negative footy and how modern players can’t kick for goal.
AFL Round 6: Winners and Losers
May 6, 2013 by 2 Comments
The first rule of Round Six is don’t talk about Round Six. Not because we don’t want anyone to know about it, but because you didn’t even need to witness it to know what happened for 90 per cent of it.
AFL Round 6 – West Coast v Western Bulldogs: Nobody, Nothing and NicNait
May 6, 2013 by 2 Comments
The contest reminded Peter Baulderstone of a Bill Collins race call from the 1970’s when two gallopers called Nobody and Nothing were both running around in Melbourne.
AFL Round 6 – Adelaide v Hawthorn: Sunday Mail Back Page
May 6, 2013 by 5 Comments
Hot off the press!
AFL Round 6 – Richmond v Geelong: Second v First
May 6, 2013 by 12 Comments
When you have genuine feelings for your second favourite team, how does it feel when they come up against your favourite?
AFL Round 6 – Essendon v GWS Giants: Bring Back Kyle Reimers
May 6, 2013 by 2 Comments
With the Bombers down at half=time, the Essendon faithful asked: Who would be our Reimers today? Which fringe player would break out and deliver the expected win?
AFL Round 6 – Richmond v Geelong: The cave of no return
May 5, 2013 by 8 Comments
With a nod to the D-Generation’s Satanic Sketches, Saturday night was the cave of no return for the Tigers.
VAFA: Fitzroy at Glenhuntley
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Fitzroy fan Phill Hill is discontented. This B grade is our winter of discontent. Last year was a “glorious summer”.
AFL Round 6 – Collingwood v St.Kilda: Pies prevail over sinking Saints but no splash
May 4, 2013 by 1 Comment
These teams aren’t quite what they were, and will need to learn to swim better and faster if they want to be competitive with the best.
AFL Round 6 – Collingwood v St Kilda: Homebody’s neighbourly duty brings him into the world of the tweet
May 4, 2013 by 4 Comments
“As I ease through the back door,” writes E. Regnans, “I immediately clock that my aforementioned life partner is wearing her flannelette pyjamas and it’s not yet 6.30pm. That’s a solid claim to home base.”
AFL Round 6 – Collingwood v St.Kilda: For the love of Bucks
May 4, 2013 by 9 Comments
Dannielle Eid has a message for all Collingwood supporters: Leave Bucks alone!
AFL Round 5 – Fremantle v Richmond: A desperate history
May 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Richmond and Fremantle share a particular and desperate history, writes Fremantle fan David Zampatti. One club was set up to be a joke; the other has become one over a horrible thirty years.
Crio’s Racing: No overcoat needed in the heat of the Warrnambool moment
May 3, 2013 by 11 Comments
Hard-nosed racing man Crio is happy to confess that the ‘Bool gets a hold of him. And here are some of his thoughts on racing around the country.
Yabber (from the cheap seats)
May 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
Trucker Slim has turned himself into Yabber (from the cheap seats). Here he uses statistical theory (as practised in licensed premises) on free kicks, the spudliness of Firrito in comparison to the warriorness of Buddy, and the descent of North supporters into a circa-90s Geelong malaise. And finishes with some thoughts on the paradox of sleep.
AFL Round 6: Mind Your Language!
May 3, 2013 by 3 Comments
Another week with a myriad of discussion pointsbut the one to take my ear is the introduction of other language to footy vernacular. I was horrified to hear Damian Hawdwick refer Jack Riewoldt as a striker!
Lacrosse Under 18 National Championships
May 3, 2013 by 5 Comments
Sam Pang has been heard to describe netball as “basketball with all the good bits taken out”. Lacrosse is like hockey, but with a lot of good bits thrown in.
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