THE WRAP – ROUND XVI WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Miseries were singing The Blues as Good Old North Melbourne Were Really On The Ball. The Dockers kept their chances of September Action in the realm of a mathematical possibility and those of [Read more]
crio’s Q?….tools
July 16, 2012 by 8 Comments
John Steffensen (who??) managed one A-Qualifier this week. To a country questioning increased taxes and hardships, his faux American rapcrap about “mistreatment” was world-class. He is a tosser. Defending champ, “The Man”, valiantly tried to fight back. But, unlike in the ring, he may have found a serious contender. Nevertheless, with $US at stake, Mundine [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
July 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
ROUND SIXTEEN Fantasy Footy It’s been one of those weekends when most of my high performers agreed to abandon the cause: Matt Suckling – five kicks, four handballs and two tackles; Matthew Kreuzer – two kicks, four handballs and no marks; Jack Darling – five kicks, no handballs or tackles and no marks; Patrick Dangerfield [Read more]
Cats pull rabbit from hat
July 16, 2012 by 18 Comments
Apparently Collingwood’s defeat of the Cats on Friday night signalled the end of an era. “…the Cats simply couldn’t run with Collingwood and, after five years of greatness, their race is run.” Jake Niall, The Sunday Age, July 15, 2012. That’s it. Game over. The end. Das ende. But, as is often the case, the [Read more]
Collingwood less gone this week
July 16, 2012 by 56 Comments
The Collingwood Football Club might not be as gone for the 2012 season as it was last week. However, if you are brave enough to announce a renaissance based on one good quarter of Carringbush footy, where the opponent (the mighty Cats) virtually handed goals out like strip club cards at an Adelaide Oval Test, [Read more]
I’m mad as hell… but will probably continue to take it
July 16, 2012 by 35 Comments
By Cheryl Critchley I’m on a girls’ weekend in beautiful Maldon with three of my favourite people in the world. Great company and plenty of junk to feast on while lounging in a gorgeous old renovated Victorian home in one of Victoria’s best preserved gold rush towns. What could be better? But this special weekend [Read more]
Going troppo
July 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
By John Green It doesn’t seem right. Australian football was originally meant for “gentlemen interested in keeping the muscles in full vigour during the winter months”, as stated in an article in Bell’s Life on July 31,1858. Thomas Wills, one of the founding fathers of the game, wrote in a letter to the same publication [Read more]
AFL bites the bullet
July 15, 2012 by 14 Comments
In a bid to finally fix the inequity of the fixture – where 18 teams play 22 rounds – the AFL has bitten the bullet and will embark on the most sensible option. It will introduce five more teams. Commercial realties dictate a 22-round season must be maintained. Except for this year, when a 23-round [Read more]
Lee and me
July 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Brett Lee was one of the more prominent influences in my junior cricketing career, which is a fond aspect of my childhood. Following the news of his retirement, these thoughts and memories came back to me. Gideon Haigh said Brett Lee was the last bowler of an era where bowlers, in the absence of bowling coaches, nutritionists and [Read more]
Alternative Strip – Grow Up
July 15, 2012 by 3 Comments
Sunday Morning Coming Down. Those grey shorts Essendon wore last week reminded me of the ones I used to wear to primary school. Odd looking on an adult. Essendon’s problem is not that it has developed an alternative strip, it is having developed the worst effort at an alternative strip ever seen in any competition [Read more]
Get yer Record!
July 14, 2012 by 4 Comments
I thought Almanackers might be into this little discovery I made. Every page of every VFL/AFL footy record since the day dot is now available online. So if you have a spare 200 hours, have fun going down this wormhole… http://takata.slv.vic.gov.au/R/UM788H91NVIH5YHPK4J9J5LNM7RHX2RABDMLQ8TDVRM14DP5RH-15826?func=collections&collection_id=1081
Life on Red Hill
July 14, 2012 by 5 Comments
Life on Red Hill The Red Hill team song is a variation on the classic, ‘She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes.’ In the second verse we sing – We’ll take on all the champions as they come, oh we’ll take on the champions as they come. Then it sounds something like – [Read more]
The Pre-Wrap – Round 16
July 13, 2012 by 7 Comments
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVI FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Star Chamber has been in overdrive sending miscreants to the sin bin. And one of their victims to the medical room. There were lots of emails through the week, most of which would have been more [Read more]
VAFA Round 11: Pirates on shaky ground
July 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One could almost feel the seismic shift in the competition last week when North Old Boys – St. Patrick’s comprehensively defeated Peninsula Old Boys at Gillon Oval. That rumbling was not tectonic plates shifting beneath us; indeed, it was the sound of the Pirates being dislodged from their perch at the top of the table [Read more]
Like a moth to a front porch light
July 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Jim Fidler What is it about those MCG lights from a distance? Despite having seen the lights of the MCG many times they are like a front porch light in summer and we are all the willing insects. Irresistible. The walk up to the ground has always created such a great sense of anticipation [Read more]
Trying Bunal
July 13, 2012 by 4 Comments
Greetings all for another installment, Back to Melbourne and back to the reality of winter weather. Once again no shortage of news, both worthy and unworthy. But this week focus is on the Match Review Panel and the tribunal. The majority of the discussion early in the week was about the injustice of the penalty [Read more]
Ireland and England 2012 Tour Review
July 13, 2012 by 5 Comments
After dominating India and the West Indies much was expected of the world number 1 ranked Australian one-day team on its tour of Ireland and England. Injured paceman Mitch Johnson and 19 year old Pat Cummins returned while Mike Hussey was a late withdrawal due to the birth of his 4th child, replaced in the [Read more]
changing pitch
July 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
four beers in things a little ragged down back and up forward winter frost yawning cracks in the back half Beams unsighted the moon hiding in the clouds needing a goal from anywhere Thomas from nowhere back in it the crowd’s noise changes pitch wellinghamagro [Read more]
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