This is a statement of intent. I jumped off a very good club – Geelong – in order to do whatever I can to promote the game in Sydney through GWS. The Giants are the perfect vehicle in which to take the pioneering work of the Swans to the next level, and to make our [Read more]
A family day out
July 9, 2012 by 12 Comments
North Melbourne versus West Coast Eagles My sister, Anne, has taken the family down to Hobart for the weekend. It’s the Cadbury Factory in the morning and footy at Bellerive in the arvo. Brother-in-law, Dean, has pulled a few strings and they’ll be in the rooms after the game. Lukey’s been practising the theme song [Read more]
A grey strip? Fair dinkum unbelievable
July 8, 2012 by 9 Comments
Fair dinkum, this alternative strip nonsense is just a bloody truckload of frog testicles as far as I’m concerned. All this rabbiting on about making it distinctive for the players just makes me laugh. I can remember back to the VFL days when we had twelve teams and twelve local grounds. Many of these ovals [Read more]
Unbelievable
July 8, 2012 by 4 Comments
After the Saints lost to North Melbourne, Rina had a momentary lapse in Saints madness and suggested we watch this game in the comfort of home, and not have to witness what we and most of the footy world, believed would be a total drubbing of the Saints by the Bombers. My response was, and [Read more]
The Race
July 8, 2012 by 3 Comments
The Race. Black Caviar’s got me thinking. When I was younger I rode a racehorse bareback in the Snowy Mountains, racing cattle horses through the bush. It felt likes something mighty, graceful. It didn’t gallop, it flew, then landed to fly again. Of course I fell, at speed. Twice. Landed in snow and [Read more]
Fitzroy at Central Reserve against “The Oblates of Mary Immaculate”
July 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
I have been on holidays up in Darwin. It’s the dry season, so the weather up there was perfect. It got down to nineteen at night, and reached thirty every day, with never a cloud in the sky. Today I went out to Central Reserve, to watch the Redders (Fitzroy) take on Mazenod and, while [Read more]
Where do footballers come from
July 8, 2012 by 4 Comments
Sunday Morning Coming Down. Emma Quayle has written an excellent intro to this years draft in The Age on Thursday last. That set me thinking about the provenance of those players. For example, it seems to me the number of Father-Son success stories at the draft seriously outweighs their genetics-based statistical-likelihood. I have as a [Read more]
News from Greymouth
July 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
We’re still over in Te Waipounamu, where the only sport of note is Rugby Union, with the primary, if not sole emphasis being on all things All Black. But not for much longer, will their shirts be simply All Black. The local corporate media have run stories of a new sponsorship deal with American international [Read more]
Misplaced sentimentality?
July 6, 2012 by 10 Comments
It’s a little strange to feel sentimental about a stadium that is barely over a decade old. I tend to get lost within the sameness of Etihad Stadium. Signs aside, I can’t really tell the difference between the Lockett or Coventry end, or whether I’m facing north or south. The food and merchandise concession stands [Read more]
Budgerigars and partial rainbows
July 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By John Burke It’s a chilly July day and I’m heading down to Kardinia Park (or Petrol Park as a wag mate calls it, harking back a ground sponsor or two) to see my beloved Cats for the first time at home this year. I’ve been away in warmer climes for a couple of months, [Read more]
The Wrap – Round XV
July 6, 2012 by 10 Comments
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XV FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN And what week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Around at Punt Road The Tiges did what had to be done. Sadly they parted company with Daniel Connors. SOTG and TLSPRF will agree, a promising career at the crossroads, in tatters possibly. However, as any [Read more]
1984
July 6, 2012 by 22 Comments
(or These here are crazy times Pt II) Like most knackers I’m loving Sam Steele’s time warp. It may have been at my mob’s expense, yet I envy Stainless’ uncanny recollections of Richmond’s path to glory, the characters, and the suburban fortresses of the day. All I can remember of 1980 is the shattering Grand Final humiliation [Read more]
Rd 14 2012 FEARLESS: To Tweet or not to tweet – that is the question?
July 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Meanwhile back to 9 games in this The Multicultural Round! Carlton hosted Hawthorn on Friday night at the G, meaning that the Hawks got to wear their best away uniform yet. Having said that, I didn’t realise that Navy and white clashed with brown and gold. The Hawks were well served by their forwards Gunston, [Read more]
crio’s Racing
July 6, 2012 by 4 Comments
It’s Flemington Finals’ Day this weekend, seemingly a peculiar designation in the depths of winter, but the VRC hosts the culmination of a series of races which inject great prizemoney and opportunity in to the Victorian industry “off-season” – this Saturday alone, they race for $760,000 in stakes and $120k in bonuses! Naturally, then, the [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – The fine line: Origin at its best
July 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
After Game I of this year’s State of Origin series, I made the point that Liam’s theory that there’s a fine line between winning and losing in SOO was alive and well. Two games later, it’s reinforced in spades. The margins were 8, 4 and 1 with an overall differential of +5 to Queensland. I [Read more]
A Day At The Footy – Brisbane vs Melbourne
July 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I parked the car in a no-name suburban street and as I walked quickly towards the Chermside Bus Station, I realised this was the first moment I’d had to myself for the day. A moment to reflect then on what the next few hours might bring. The Brisbane Lions versus the Melbourne Demons at the [Read more]
I put the sticker on the car
July 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
By Rick Kane Well, we’ve passed the mid-point of the 2012 AFL season. As a Hawks fan I’m feeling pretty good. I would like to have been at least one more win to the good that’s for sure. And I dearly would have loved to have peeled the Cats monkey from our back but you [Read more]
Thirty six umpires, three players and the twin slit experiment
July 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
Mark invited me into the MCC Members to watch Brisbane take on Hawthorn. Mark and I met at University and have been going to the football together for over thirty years. We were originally Fitzroy fans and are now Brisbane Lions members. Like all long term relationships our level of passion has waxed and waned. [Read more]
Round 15 preview
July 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Harms, coming off a 9 from 9, tries to find a winner for Round 15. http://tatts.com/news/2012/7/3/afl-round-15
the rainbow’s arch
July 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
how to stay warm – the game opens with more tackles than kicks break in the clouds play gets switched to the sunny side burst of sunshine a tangle of shadows around the ball changing conditions the ruckman does the roving icy wind and rain an Irishman prepares to [Read more]
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