This is the story of Maurice Flitcroft: golfer. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291587/How-worlds-worst-golfer-gatecrashed-Open–truly-teed-men-blazers.html
Rhys is home
July 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by John Kingsmill* My town is a little better, more loving, less convoluted. Still cold, but Adelaide’s winter skies are cloudless for a while and then a weather system settles in for three or four days of genuine rain. Partly clouded, they call it. I think
A Berri good performance
July 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
BERRI V BARMERA MONASH RFL – ROUND 12 2011, Sat July 16th 2011 By Nick Kossatch at Berri Berri has announced that it will be a major participant come the RFL finals time after its’ run-away 31-point win against Barmera-Monash in Berri. The Demons used its home ground to advantage with Norwood recruit Toby [Read more]
Sat’dy footy July 23
July 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
by Chris Riordan For local junior comps the last few weeks have been like NRL’s Origin time with players unavailable and upsets likely. The end of school holidays should ensure a return to normality as the kids face the last batch of games for this season. There’ve been some super frosty mornings and not [Read more]
NAB Cup set to follow Keenan Cup traditions
July 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
The 2011 season is yet to reach its crescendo and rumours already abound regarding the format of the 2012 pre-season competition. The NAB Cup utilised a three-way play-off system in the 2011 pre-season, and this successful format is set to be taken to even greater heights. The AFL has been keeping a close eye [Read more]
DA’s Clue of the Round (18)
July 20, 2011 by 8 Comments
This week’s clue from David Astle (http://davidastle.com/) taps into the news of the moment: In light of TAB-gate, and the dim demise of Heath Shaw, what three more players (a Blue, a Lion and a Saint) will the AFL Commission also need to monitor due to their punt-prone surnames? (And any more candidates you [Read more]
Johnny Hoogerland and barbed wire
July 20, 2011 by 11 Comments
Tour de France 2011 Photos; Stage 9: Issoire ? Saint-Flour, 208 km Later in the stage, a French TV car swerved into the five man break up front sending Vacansoleil’s Johnny Hoogerland somersaulting off the road and into a barbed wire fence That’s quite a flogging. Someday a clothing manufacturer will invent something more [Read more]
Tony Hachem: no dud brother
July 19, 2011 by 9 Comments
I always like to keep up with what the people in my neighbourhood are doing. Tony Hachem of Northcote, our suburb, has just been knocked out of the biggest and most important poker tournament on the planet, the World Series of Poker, in Las Vegas. He has finished 37th in the huge field. The tournament [Read more]
Umpiring as a (sort of ) therapy.
July 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
Last Saturday on University Oval, I took to the field and was, for the first time in almost 13 years, was part of a match involving the Adelaide University Football Club. As an umpire. As an aside, there are three things that the uninitiated must know about the Adelaide Uni Football Club. · The [Read more]
An imperfect symbiosis
July 19, 2011 by 27 Comments
by Paul Daffey Amid all the hoo-haa about the phone-hacking scandal and the attendant revelations about the media, politicians and power in England, I thought I’d lay bare the workings of newspapers and … yes, you asked for it … country footy clubs in Victoria. The newspapers and the footy people need [Read more]
among the rotting leaves
July 19, 2011 by 2 Comments
cross wind — a betting slip among the rotting leaves no sunlight on that side of the ground — just Daisy but for their whistles the umpires would disappear * a chill in the winter sun — Swan scuffs his first kick the first petal separates.. Daisy’s one hander [Read more]
A team of Wagga warriors
July 19, 2011 by 14 Comments
by Glen Davis We’ve had sides from Corowa -Ruthgerglen and Albury-Wodonga, there was an effort to pick a side from around Berrigan, and we might return to that. How about a side from around Wagga, and beyond? Let’s imagine driving out of Albury, up the Hume Highway, and then turning at the Olympic Highway to [Read more]
Tough month ahead for Willi CYMS
July 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by Dene Macleod For a review of Saturday’s Senior match, plus all the latest club news, head to: http://www.williamstowncyms.com.au/football/?page_id=3826 The Seniors didn’t do their top-2 aspirations any favours by drawing against second-last Old Mentonians. The next month of football represents a huge challenge and will determine our fate: rivals Peninsula (a), where we are [Read more]
The Footy Gods: an introduction
July 19, 2011 by 25 Comments
by Ian Latham In millennia past, the Greeks believed that the gods could determine our future. At times they would act with justice. At times, they would punish you just to prove that they could. But there was little that humans could do to influence them. To make matters worse, they sometimes took human [Read more]
Ben Speight, Super Sub
July 19, 2011 by 6 Comments
At this stage of the season, every club seems to have worked out the best player suited to the tricky substitute role introduced in season 2011. That player is usually a quick speedy type who can have immediate impact, get on the scoreboard and have a real influence on the result of the game in [Read more]
200 of the best
July 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Mic Rees Next Saturday, July 23, Port Melbourne (13-0) take on Sandringham (5-7) at the North Port Oval. The game provides the Zebras an opportunity to atone for their insipid display against the Northern Bullants a fortnight ago, a game in which they could manage only two goals for the afternoon. For the [Read more]
Box Hill v North Ballarat: VFL Round 16
July 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This week, in round 16 of the VFL, Box Hill took on reigning premiers North Ballarat at Box Hill. The Roosters finally won the match by 11 points 14.12.96 to Box Hill 13.7.85. Hawk Jordan Lewis played for Box Hill on return from a two week suspension in the AFL and Clinton Young also lined [Read more]
What is a good coach?
July 19, 2011 by 19 Comments
by Chris Riordan I’m back bagging coaches again after Sunday night’s debacle. The question of what makes a good coach, and on what they should be measured, has been prominent since the passing of “Yabby” Jeans. It is a big role at any level. I spoke to a bloke yesterday about his son’s footy experience [Read more]
Football Memories
July 19, 2011 by 5 Comments
We were engaged. Work wise, her heart was tough, leather. I loved her for that. The way she had dreams. In life it was porcelain. I was in love with that, too. With keeping her safe. I had only ever taken her to one match, when I was still in the bush. [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XVII
July 18, 2011 by 12 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES SPORT What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Not The Brisbane Bombers came from behind to keep Coach Craig at the top of the leader board over in the City of Churches. The Sainters honoured Yabby’s memory with a solid win against The Coasters. Collingwood Upheld The Magpies’ Name to [Read more]
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