It was great to see him back again tonight. Uncle Gerard is normally sighted or heard every day of the week. So it felt strange to not hear from him for 3 days. He’s been on a bit of a trip, to London I believe. My two boys, aged 4 and 2, were thrilled to see [Read more]
Chasing the Giants in warmer climes
August 16, 2012 by 3 Comments
As the winter weather had been particularly cold in the Snowy Mountains, when I saw cheap flights to the Gold Coast, I didn’t think, I booked, ($30 one way Sydney to Gold Coast) .The Giants were playing the Suns at Metricon Stadium in round 20.After a pleasant morning relaxing in the sunshine and wriggling my [Read more]
Power House – My home away from home
August 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been involved with Power House footy club since 1985, I played just 66 games for the Club over 15 seasons (I retired from playing in 2000). I’ve been a player, a committee man and since 1995 my business DISKMANdotNet has been the Club’s web designer, domain name and web hosting provider and more recently I’ve [Read more]
where there’s no light
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setting sun far fr o m it Beams where there’s no light wet under foot Harry’s careful side steps through traffic rain falls swirling & bobbing up Didak sliver of moon Fasolo threads it through on & off rain Cloke’s form blurred night closes in two and a half [Read more]
Seagulls fail to bring home the hot chips!
August 16, 2012 by 2 Comments
Well, the big day had come. Saturday morning arrived with a southerly breeze and the promise of mainly sunny conditions. Drew couldn’t believe how quiet and tranquil it was. I told him that had he been here during the week he would of experienced the roaring forties in all their glory trying to blow anything [Read more]
Olympic Fever
August 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I don’t really know where to begin. It must be the weather. Over the last few weeks things have gone from bad to worse for Essendon and my tennis team. It’s not that our tennis team has played badly; it’s just that we have had so many washouts and the team who is coming second [Read more]
Blacks spin a win as Pitt rises from the mud
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BACKS SOLID AS A ROCK LOBSTER After a final week of Olympics-gazing, your narrator was thoroughly looking forward to his Saturday ritual of following the Black and Blue (and black shorts and socks) across Melbourne. As I began my journey, I began to consider all of the venues I’ve visited and the feelings that each [Read more]
Who’s Lie’n
August 16, 2012 by 12 Comments
Many moons ago the Phantom cave was hidden away in a quiet little apple and rhododendron growing valley at Lalla – between Karoola and Lilydale (Turbo Zurbo country) in deep dark north eastern Tasmania. All was well at this time of recent peace in the early nineteen fifties and The Phantom who had recently [Read more]
We are not America
August 16, 2012 by 13 Comments
I read with much disinterest over the weekend of the proposed concept of an East vs West representative match in 2014. Come on people, we live in Australia not America. The concept was the ‘brainchild’ of the players I am led to believe so perhaps I’m just out of touch with the modern era. I [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 20, Saturday 16 August, v Melbourne, MCG
August 16, 2012 by 3 Comments
It’s three-quarter time and the seats around us are emptying rapidly. No, the game isn’t all over. Indeed, lowly Melbourne is only 4 goals down in a high-scoring affair and with Steven Smith causing our defence all sorts of problems, it doesn’t look like they’re going to lie down easily in the final stanza. No, this [Read more]
Sir Trent Cotchin
August 15, 2012 by 7 Comments
by Ben Lannen. Richmond vs Bulldogs Round 20 2012 It’s not often I commend an AFL decision, but a 3:15pm start allowed me to attend the footy after an horrendous weekend shift, to see my beloved ‘Yellow and Black’ cubs take on our somewhat ‘rivals’; the ever significant football club, Footscray… sorry, Western Bulldogs. At [Read more]
Are Saints fans still happy?
August 15, 2012 by 8 Comments
I’ve been thinking about Scott Rankin of late. Scott penned this classic piece for the site in May after the Saints had posted wins over Carlton and Sydney with some electrifying football. He described the win over Sydney as “exquisite chaos”. “It was EXHILIRATING football. We played with flair, speed, guile and fervour.” You would [Read more]
DA Puzzle of the Round (21)
August 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Discover the world of David Astle here. But first, can you solve this week’s puzzle? This week suits master manipulatora. Changing the right letter per word, can you join the new combo to spell a current AFL player? DAM + INHALE, say, can be DAV + IDHALE = Hawthorn’s DAVID HALE. Along with David, these [Read more]
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Twenty
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Greetings Tipsters Hunkered down on the couch to watch the rematch of the Schoolies and the Barbecues, we were informed that it came from some place known as Metricon Stadium and I said “What the hell is a Metricon?” It came to me all at once, with great thuds of earth shaking import, 400 feet [Read more]
I just knew it
August 15, 2012 by 3 Comments
Hawthorn vs Geelong Round 19 2012. I don’t get along to see the Hawks as often as I should, but a Hawks fan these days should never miss a Hawks Geelong game, and as a result, I think 6 of the last 10 games I’ve been to have been a Hawks loss to Geelong (stretching [Read more]
Rd20 2012 FEARLESS: Adios Olympics! After much ado, see you in Rio 2016!
August 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s fair to say that MADNESS played well at the start of the Olympics closing ceremony. The ska/reggae/pop champions of the 80s haven’t been live on TV since an episode of The Young Ones when they played at the pub frequented rarely by the unruly 4 students. In keeping with the MADNESS theme…when a bloke [Read more]
Outsiders fly home in a strange WAFL round
August 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
WAFL round 21 TOP team Claremont was the only favourite to win in an unusual round in the WAFL where the losers lost great opportunities to better themselves. The round featured three away-from-home outsiders coming from well behind to win.
Let them tank
August 15, 2012 by 25 Comments
We’ve heard of tanking over recent years and started to hear a lot more of it lately as it’s started to be raised again as a big problem and everyone’s been saying their bit trying to come up with a solution. The AFL has come out trying to be all flair and nostrils by ‘launching [Read more]
The importance of being Ablett
August 15, 2012 by 11 Comments
I had my first Metricon Stadium experience last Saturday night, as the Gold Coast played host to Queensland’s inaugural Expansion Derby. With a community atmosphere unlike any major stadium I have ever been to, the Suns’ home ground brings a touch of the grassroots to the elite football environment, much like the side itself. It [Read more]
View from Shepparton
August 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I don’t know when it happened but during the last fortnight my long standing antipathy to all things English gradually dissipated and as they had success after success in that second week of the Olympic Games I found myself thinking, “Well good luck to you, you deserve all that you have achieved and more”. In [Read more]
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