They. Are. Freaks! Most all of them! I only started watching because of sleep problems. In the midnight, in the bush. And then I was interested, and then I was hooked. The cyclists of the Tour de France rolled and whirled across and up my telly every night. They pushed through pain, they went past [Read more]
A Heavenly Forum
July 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Oppy and Mocky were chesting the bar, Looking down on the Tour from a heavenly star, “Doesn’t seem fair we’ve all fought so long, The Champs Elysee needs an Aussie Fair song.” But things just don’t happen from man’s good intention, Just a small touch of luck – some divine intervention, So they called [Read more]
Round 18 Blog
July 24, 2011 by 10 Comments
Several substantial flogging have been the feature of the weekend’s AFL action so far. That, and a couple of goal sneaks bagging 8 apiece. While Crows, Bombers and Bulldogs lament, the Saints have clawed their way back into the eight. With the Western Derby the feature game today, what do you make of it all folks?
VFL R17 – Coburg Tigers v North Ballarat
July 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
Pictures by Shane Goss. www.licoricegallery.com
The Saints March in and over the Crows
July 23, 2011 by 3 Comments
Oh When the Saints…* Oh When the Saints……have belief, effort, run and spread, and poor Opposition…. In the next few weeks, I will be rocking up at my daughter’s school and hear how she is travelling in her Year 11 studies. We will talk to each teacher and get a run-down of what is working [Read more]
Memo Blues: Win, and kill off the new anti-Ratts swarm NOW
July 22, 2011 by 7 Comments
On The Gruen Transfer last night Russell Howcroft said ‘all advertising works, just some works better’. I feel the same about talk-back radio and ‘comment’ facilities on news sites: it’s all at least somewhat annoying. And football talk-back is generally more than ‘somewhat’. Cicadas are responsible for that God-awful racket you hear in the summer, at [Read more]
Tour of Thornbury
July 22, 2011 by 11 Comments
by Matt O’Connor If I can just hold my nerve, the Tour de France is mine for the taking. Three more nights, including l’Alpe-d’Huez tomorrow and the time trial on Saturday, and I will be in a position to pilot my couch triumphantly down the Champs Elysees. Presuming of course that teammate [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVIII
July 22, 2011 by 9 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Collingate has extended it’s creepy testicles tentacles to include the troubled denizens of The Culture Club. Leigh Montagna has been cited as sharing a betting account with his brother. Gee whiz. But it looks like the key to all this – as [Read more]
The footy gods: Hubris
July 22, 2011 by 8 Comments
By Ian Latham The ancient Greeks knew one thing. Do not pretend to be one of the footy gods. They called that hubris. And if you were found to be hubristic, well, that meant trouble; with a capital T. Nemesis would fly down to find you. She would spin her wheel of fortune and [Read more]
Odyssey of USA Saint
July 22, 2011 by 15 Comments
It all started at a bus stop 36 years ago. Little things beget big things. At that bus stop, I met my future wife on a double blind date when the pairing was determined by who boarded a bus first (she chose not to). Then in the early 80s, we could only afford to send [Read more]
Knights vs Van Der Haar
July 22, 2011 by 13 Comments
These are the things I’d pay good money to see. Goodes on Pavlich. Judd and Barlow, toe-to-toe, kick-for-kick. Pendlebury and Hayes. Both of them tackle as much as they win the ball for themselves. Goddamn, I loved it when Pike played on Hird. Total opposites, in every way. Both proud men. How clever was the [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: 23 July 2011
July 22, 2011 by 6 Comments
Flemington hosts its last meeting for Season 2010/11 this Saturday and, for those few stalwarts in the wind tunnel of a main ring and for the Paddock bookies, it will be a ghost town as the VRC continues to make its money whilst the foundations of our “game” crumble. An empty ring has meant not [Read more]
Mining young footy talent at Roxby Downs
July 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I’d like to introduce Rob McLean who writes a popular country footy column called Footy People. (Ed) Rob is an SA based football fanatic who once dreamed of playing in Central District’s first premiership side At 34 and a half, he still believes he could play in a Doggies premiership, but instead is winding up his career [Read more]
Bring back the biff? I hope not.
July 21, 2011 by 3 Comments
Embedded into this story are two YouTube videos. One is full of shameless violence. The other is a package of highlights from Crib Point Football Club’s 1985 Premiership year. You don’t often get to see video footage of grass roots footy and footage of grass roots footy from the 1980s is even rarer. I’ll start [Read more]
Millewa League Grand Final
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
from Bob Utber Millewa League Grand Final at Lake Cullulleraine – something different – no club out there, beautiful scenery. Real old fashion footy (see my article last year on preliminary final) If interested :- * I could arrange accommodation on houseboat/s * Dinner at Stefano Di Peiros’ * Visits to wineries, * [Read more]
Murali v Swanny
July 21, 2011 by 1 Comment
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q8m43-YLd4&feature=player_embedded
STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE: Album Launch
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE A West Papuan Soundtrack. ALBUM LAUNCH. NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2011 Buy Tickets Here “Music can rise above tyranny” “Art is a weapon and culture is life, as long as they can sing they will prevail.” Film-maker Charlie Hill-Smith on the plight of the West Papuans in their [Read more]
In the saddle with Cadel
July 21, 2011 by 10 Comments
About 1.00am, Saturday 16th July. Someone is ringing the bejesus out of a cowbell in my lounge room. People are yelling, cheering – ‘Allez!’, ‘Vamos!’, ‘Go! Come on!!!’ Phil Liggett is talking to me. He mentions something about riders pushing themselves to the limit, this is what they train for, Le Tour at its [Read more]
One Hundred Years Ago: Round 12, 8th July, 1911
July 21, 2011 by 13 Comments
A ‘grey, windless, foggy afternoon’ was the setting for round 12, the coldest football match-day recorded to this time. The temperature wouldn’t rise above 7.1 °C (44.8 °F) as six clubs began the day within close proximity of a top four position. 20,000 spectators ignored the conditions and flocked to Brunswick St to watch fourth [Read more]
Thank You Hawthorn
July 21, 2011 by 7 Comments
I was not a fan of the AFL rule change prohibiting the deliberate rushed behind. Not a fan at all. If I was in the front bar of Cramers in Preston I’d go so far as to exclaim to no-one in particular that it’s akin to social engineering as far as I’m concerned. It’s a [Read more]
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