Tried to find the source of the quote, “Getting old is not for the faint hearted” but apart from finding a qualification, “neither is the alternative” , the best that I could come up with is “as the old man said”. Not very satisfactory I must confess. And what is the link with sport?.I have [Read more]
The people’s guernseys
August 7, 2012 by 6 Comments
What the hell happened to guernseys? When did we stray into this nether world of ‘clash’? Why, oh why, do we have to imperil our optic nerves with these explosions of offensive colours and corporate images? The curmudgeon within me is riled up people. We seriously need to start formalising the resistance to the clash [Read more]
Bringing back the love…
August 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
Sometimes we all need a reminder about why we love footy. For some people, they may need this gentle nudge weekly. Over the weekend, at AFL level, many Hawthorn, St Kilda and Essendon supporters may have felt the need to stop loving footy, or question the relationship they have with the game. Elsewhere, Richmond supporters [Read more]
Fitzroy Banyule
August 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“Early to bed and early to rise” makes derrinalphil on time for his first patient on Saturday morning. It was a boring morning, with nothing interesting to do. “Check-ups” and scaling and cleaning; no implants, root fillings or extractions. Looked out the window at about nine o’clock and it was pouring down. I thought this [Read more]
A bit of sport on the weekend
August 6, 2012 by 8 Comments
I saw a bit of sport on the weekend. A bit more than usual. All of it live. Missed some as well – two games of football and a game of netball. I will usually go out of my way to miss a game of netball. Most of the games had good outcomes. But there [Read more]
The revolution will be televised
August 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
With all this Olympics brouhaha dominating the news the Swans game this week crept up on me like a spider in the dark. Nine’s coverage has been in modern parlance an epic fail and it’s a relief when Sunday comes and we get to watch an entire sporting event. Imagine if Fox or 7 Mate [Read more]
The Wrap Round XIX – where life imitates football
August 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Hawks & The Cats turned on yet another one for the ages. In years to come, when space travellers from a Galaxy Far Far Away discover our burnt and smoldering Planet and sift through the time capsules we’ve left behind portraying the [Read more]
Diary of a madman (aka Bulldogs fan)
August 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
I’m looking through fingered-covered eyes as the Bulldogs run onto the ground to play the Roos. Silent prayers. No more hundred-point defeats please. Drew Petrie to miss a few goals…please. Nice start Bulldogs! I might just crack that Crownie put aside for the unlikely victory. Yeah, bugger waiting! Drew Petrie’s not doing much and we’ve actually got [Read more]
NOT another thumping – quite the opposite in fact
August 6, 2012 by 6 Comments
Where do I begin? What a day, what a game. We’ve been hammered in the last month by some of the best teams in the land, chasing not only the win but the percentage needed in one of the tightest seasons in memory. Our young kids have been valiant but have run out of legs, [Read more]
Some reflections of a tragic
August 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
1. Hey, Silver is looking pretty good. We have lived with a week of Olympics and shaded expectations. The golden avalanche has disappeared, our addiction to international success well and truly back in the box along with the expectations of certain success levels in international sports: tennis, Olympics generally, cricket specifically. We are [Read more]
Learning from Pierre
August 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By John Green My jobs are almost done. I’ve ridden the bike up to La Trobe Uni and back for the exercise, completed the Saturday morning chores for the favour of the wife and visited a mate in the Austin. It’s time to spend some hours in front of the box watching a double header [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – The Kangaroos and an Irishman’s Rugby League Odyssey
August 6, 2012 by 7 Comments
By Dara Lawlor It’s a dreary winter’s Saturday in 1980’s Dublin and a young child is watching Grandstand on BBC1. A black haired man with brown skin and the funniest name the kid has ever heard toe pokes an oval ball between two big sticks and at the end of the game a smaller and [Read more]
crio’s Q?
August 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
Fans don’t like their side losing. It always hurts. But after the Hawks had reeled in the Cats yet still lost, I wondered… would you prefer to get beaten by “lengths” rather than by a “nose”?
The song remains the same
August 5, 2012 by 19 Comments
We’re sitting in the All Nations Hotel on Friday afternoon. Yeatesy is leaning on the fireplace telling us about the 1989 Grand Final; about the day he knocked The Kid on his arse, bruised his spleen in fact. Yeatesy is a beauty; a raw boned country footballer made-good, the quintessential six foot three and three [Read more]
Alicia Coutts – Thunder Road
August 5, 2012 by 23 Comments
Climb in back Heaven’s waiting on down the tracks Oh-oh come take my hand We’re riding out tonight to case the promised land 4 am March 9, 1976 – Hancock St Doubleview – John has just tied his boards to the roof and got in the back of my EJ. The rain is horizontal so Mark [Read more]
Cats Allegiance
August 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We’ve done it again–defied the odds that is! Speaking of odds, earlier in the week I remarked to my brother Harry how generous the line odds of +25 points were for the reigning premiers. Then again hardly surprising with all the Hawthorn hype and the pervasive penchant for people to write Geelong off. Another brother [Read more]
Hawkins pips Hawks in match of the year
August 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
GEELONG 9.3 10.5 14.9 18.10 (118) HAWTHORN 2.0 7.6 11.8 17.14 (116) 3 Hawkins, 2 Sewell, 1 Mitchell For a Geelong fan, beating Hawthorn with a goal after the siren is one of the sweetest tastes life offers. Only a big finals win beats it. There’s no point building it up. Tonight the Cats won [Read more]
Friday footy is a beautiful thing
August 4, 2012 by 7 Comments
Friday Footy is a Beautiful Thing. I finished work not long after sunset, watching the moon wobble up from, then across, the mountains. It was almost full, but not, as if someone had dropped it on its head. As I came down the logging tracks into the valley, towards the nearest farms, that lead [Read more]
Crio’s racing
August 3, 2012 by 9 Comments
Mick Stumbles has a great Aussie name and is an NT icon. After coming to Darwin originally to train greyhounds, Stumbles found himself at the microphone at Fannie Bay and has been an integral part of the Racing Club and its Carnival since 1971. He announced recently that he will hang up the binoculars after [Read more]
The Pre-Wap – Round IXX
August 3, 2012 by 15 Comments
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND IXX FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN And what a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. If the unravelling of the Australian swimming team doesn’t spoil the Ayatollah’s sojourn in the Olympic City, what’s going down at Harrison House certainly should. The worst kept secret in the History of The Game [Read more]
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