I thought that this week I would share an edited version of a letter which I sent to a long standing friend who lives in Manila. Last evening a marquee sports event in the Australian calendar took place, that is the third and deciding “State of Origin” Rugby League clash between Queensland and NSW.
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Fifteen
July 10, 2012 by 1 Comment
Greetings Tipsters When is a team truly down and out for the season? Sure, the bottom six definitely are and the next five are really only battling for the honour of being the first team to get kicked out of the finals. But above that, where do you draw the line? Folks, you don’t have [Read more]
The Wrap – Round XV
July 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
THE WRAP – ROUND XV WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night it was a famous Victory for truth & justice as Captain Carlton drove the Carringbush Interlopers from the field. By Saturday night The Ladder had undergone a major reshuffle as The Gliders crash landed [Read more]
Floreat Pica – Collingwood v Carlton
July 9, 2012 by 14 Comments
I have waited until the weekend has nearly passed before writing this report. A number of factors have contributed; primary is that Collingwood lost to Carlton. The motivation to actively review the game and then write about it is significantly reduced by the disappointment with the result. I am pretty sure I am not the [Read more]
crio’s Q?…Like jagging a five-under on a big pontoon pool….wins that just land in your lap.
July 9, 2012 by 5 Comments
Aussie golf fans can easily fall for the “we woz robbed” syndrome, especially the many of us wounded by The Shark….all of those ones that got away. But watching Marc Leishman’s extraordinary debut PGA win the other week reminded me of swings and roundabouts. For those who missed it, one commentator referred to “Ambulances lined [Read more]
Worrying signs at Collingwood.
July 9, 2012 by 36 Comments
Friday afternoon. I don’t think there was a tip of which I was more certain in the history football, as I caught the tram down to the North Fitzroy Arms, than Collingwood to win Friday night’s game. They would win by a stack, and the doof-doof boys of Lygon Street would be calling for Ratten’s [Read more]
Rd15 2012 FEARLESS: The goal review system reduces human error or does it?
July 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
Interesting as we head towards finals action that the media seems well entrenched in their outlets and getting ready for a thrilling end to an interesting, tight and unpredictable season. The media firestorm associated with footy I think is actually too hot now…coverage is far too intense and results in players having to live in almost [Read more]
Giant lurve never dies
July 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
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]
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