The alternate Reclink Australia AFL Grand Final Day Reclink Australia football was born on the streets of St Kilda in 1989 when Reclink founder Peter Cullen A.M started inviting people to kick to kick who were in St Kilda at the time including street kids and street people, male and female arriving in St Kilda [Read more]
Just for kicks
August 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
The weekend before last, in Round 17 of the Northern Tasmanian Football League, a player was reported and red carded for kicking a player to the head while he was on the ground. The two umpires who separately reported the player informally described the incident as a ten out of ten for gravity – the [Read more]
Boomer rises to the occasion – again
August 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
By Glenn Sullivan The usually friendly stadium is hostile tonight. They have given us a tiny section for the cheer squad behind the goals but otherwise there are only smatterings of the royal blue in amongst the sea of red and black all around the stadium.
Dummy spitters
August 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Anson Cameron To gamble your life on a millimeter and a moment is foolhardy brave. But, being an Olympic hurdler, that’s what you’re called to do. You train ten thousand hours to shed a second and gain a hair’s-breadth so when the gun goes you can shape space and time marginally better than the [Read more]
Olympic objectivity, deliberate or otherwise
August 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
The Olympics can draw out many emotions, but to me this year, I actually found them to be… ‘strangely refreshing’. I took a bit longer than normal to get warmed up for the games this time. Perhaps it was because I went to Sydney and to the Vancouver Winter games, whereas this was always just [Read more]
Birchip-Watchem Bulls charge home to beat St.Arnaud: Round 17 North Central Football League
August 14, 2012 by 12 Comments
By Shane Goss (www.licoricegallery.com) The St.Arnaud Saints have failed to grab a spot in the top four of the North Central Football League despite a spirited effort against finals rival Birchip-Watchem at Lord Nelson Park in St.Arnaud. With just four points separating the teams heading into the round, a win was a must for [Read more]
Floreat Pica: Sydney v Collingwood
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By Bangkok correspondent Paul McKay The train trip from central Sydney out to ANZ stadium was one of those entertaining footy crowd train journeys. Lots of cheery footy fans bubbling away at the anticipation of a big game, with first playing second on the ladder. Of particular note were two tall Sydney fans in bright [Read more]
crio’s Q?
August 14, 2012 by 21 Comments
Earnest Ernest again looked home for all money in the last at Warwick Farm until Heartbreak Hotel “jumped out of the ground”. “Ernie” finds ways. He is talented but has become a “muncher”. He is cruelly misnamed. Those who bet on omens or names are often quick to skite. But traps exist. After his failed [Read more]
Invisible Cloke
August 13, 2012 by 12 Comments
TRAVIS CLOKE’S FORM AND FUTURE IS NOW IN HIS OWN HANDS By Jessica Landy The public is sick and tired of hearing about Travis Cloke. Questions concerning his poor form and his future in the AFL are making the public restless. It is known by most of the AFL community that the power forward’s contract [Read more]
The Wrap Round XX
August 13, 2012 by 7 Comments
THE WRAP – ROUND XX – WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Weagles did a Hawthorn on The Cats; the difference being that they regained the lead to beat a Gallant but undermanned Geelong side. The Olympics settled down for you after the swimmers [Read more]
Sid Waddell
August 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
John Harms, P.J. Flynn and all lovers of fine sports commentary mourn the passing of Sid Waddell, son of a coal-miner, Cambridge history graduate, novelist and lover of language. Darts will never be the same. Here is a tribute: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2187467/Sid-Waddell-dies-Tribute.html?ito=feeds-newsxml and from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/12/sid-waddell
Quadrennial Introspection; the Olympics we had to have
August 13, 2012 by 10 Comments
Whilst it might have been nice to see a few more Aussies fulfil their life’s dream, I can’t help think London 2012 was the Olympic version of the ‘recession we had to have’. It’s about time we hit the reset button on our approach, as we re-evaluate funding priorities, what constitutes success and sport’s role in Australian [Read more]
Psalm 89:46
August 13, 2012 by 7 Comments
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? While Ms Gillard struggles with our nation’s weighty border issues its high time Barry cast his bleak eye Albury way to shore up our state boundaries. The scene at ANZ on Saturday night shows that the normal wards [Read more]
‘People and Memories’ Part 2
August 13, 2012 by 3 Comments
Ian Gust – Carlton FC ‘Football was a means for me to become an assimilated Australian. Coming from a European background with parents speaking with accents, we were considered exotic. Football gave me a common language and links with people who’d usually consider me a foreigner.’ Medical virologist, Professor Ian ‘Gusty’ Gust (AO), sits [Read more]
To Be or Not to Be…(in the finals)
August 13, 2012 by 1 Comment
It’s all about probabilities and who else wins and continuing to win and it’s all too complex for this footy brain. When your CEO tells Saints fans in Adelaide after a 4 point loss in Round 12 that we’re looking forward to NEXT year, well, your expectations are somewhat diminished. Perhaps the players and the [Read more]
It takes two to tanko – a McLean pas de deux
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By Neil Anderson Just a few rounds to go which makes it interesting to see how teams will cope ‘dancing’ around the ‘T’ word.Bulldogs verses Tigers on Sunday will give an early indication of which company has put in the hard yards at rehearsals to prepare for season 2013. On the face of it, the Bulldogs [Read more]
We can win this
August 13, 2012 by 28 Comments
WEST COAST EAGLES v GEELONG SUBIACO OVAL, 6.40pm, FRIDAY AUGUST 10th “Faith is belief in the absence of proof.” So sayeth a wise man (can’t remember who). And the faith of the Eagles flock had been tested over the past 6 weeks as injuries mounted and form waned. Then the Lord sent Catmanackers a sign [Read more]
Big Man Dominance
August 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Big Man Dominance West Coast v Geelong Friday 8:30 Patersons Stadium, Perth I now officially hate the Geelong Football Club. The Cats always seem to find a way to defeat (my team) the Hawks. Last week I witnessed yet another close loss for my beloved Hawks with a long bomb after the siren by Hawkins [Read more]
Victoria uber alles
August 12, 2012 by 21 Comments
With the revenue from the most recent media deal the AFL distributes an equal amount of money to each of the clubs and then beyond that there is a special fund to be distributed over 2012-14 and be invested into ‘specific initiatives’ (read handouts) for a selected number of clubs. Western Bulldogs $7m and North [Read more]
No Swanning around
August 10, 2012 by 6 Comments
If footy players had ‘babysitters’ would they get into any of the trouble they do? I’m not saying that footy players are immature…although some of them…. Coco Chanel once said “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.” So maybe it wouldn’t be so bad for us supporters to take shifts [Read more]
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