LUKEY O JUBILANT AS TWOS OUTSHINE ‘HOERS There was no finer place to be in Melbourne last Saturday than at the home venue of Old Ivanhoe Grammarians. Whilst Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee celebrations were dampened by inclement weather, it would no doubt comfort the Monarchists to hear that an inner Melbourne park named after a picturesque [Read more]
A Life with Footy and Kids
June 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
During the first half of the Round 6 night game against the Crows, I looked along Row U and realised that none of the O’Reilly boys nor I had our children in attendance. (The Cygnet was with us, but he was down on the concourse waiting to play with the Under 8s). I can’t remember [Read more]
Weekend at Burnie’s Neighbour (Wynyard)
June 5, 2012 by 10 Comments
Five brave blokes, and two even braver women, met up at Melbourne Airport last Friday morning with one aim in mind. To cross the ditch between Victoria and Tasmania, and track down a legendary beast said to have roamed Van Diemen’s Land for many a long year but which hadn’t been seen for almost as [Read more]
Loose Thylacines Everywhere
June 5, 2012 by 18 Comments
Last Friday night we were driving back to Bill (The Phantom) Walker’s weekend shack in the Rocky Cape National Park on the northwest coast of Tasmania. It was about 9.15pm. We’d been to the Tasmanian launch of the 2011 Footy Almanac at the Wynyard Football Club and were taking things easy, this being our first [Read more]
Tasmanian launch – 2011 Footy Almanac
June 5, 2012 by 13 Comments
Local legend Max Brown chats with John Harms at the Wynyard footy club rooms. Dips and Pamela Sherpa selling truck loads of books to the Wynyard crowd. The Alamanac touring party at the local footy oval. Wynyard gets up – and didn’t they need the win.
AFL Round 10 – Collingwood v Gold Coast – Floreat Pica Society
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By PAM LOWTHER Well off to the twilight game, seems strange to be heading off to the footy at such a time on a sunday arvo, but am neverless very hopeful of a good percentage booster for our team. Having a day out with some girls from work and had to stop at the Hilton [Read more]
The true measure
June 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Stats seem to be the key in the professional footy world right now but quite frankly the sheer amount of gibberish being hammered home of late has turned my mind to jelly. And are they measuring the right thing? It’s all well and good to concentrate on a player’s work rate and inside leg measurement [Read more]
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round 10
June 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
Greetings Tipsters Upset. The Oxford online defines upset as: Verb 1 – make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried; 2 – knock (something) over; 3 – cause disorder in; disrupt: 4 – shorten and thicken the end or edge of (a metal bar, wheel rim, or other object), especially by hammering or pressure when heated; Noun [Read more]
Redemption, redemption, or is it really?
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It has now transpired that this footy trip was some 56 weeks in the making. We knew that we would have to have a rematch replay against the very young Gold Coast Suns and the sooner the better for our own piece of mind.
The View From Shepparton – Round 10
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James Polkinghorne, (James Polkinghorne?, yes well I had never heard of him either), you bloody ripper. Forget Buddy’s 13, forget Melbourne getting over Essendon, forget the Richmond St Kilda epic…… Well OK I’ll grant that that is asking for an awful lot of forgetfulness but all the same that goal which I am sure was [Read more]
Tiger Terrific
June 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
Richmond V St Kilda, Round 10, 3/6/12 It was described as the ‘match of the year’ to this date which perhaps served as an alternative exhilaration for Richmond fans. Their time has finally come, and this time, it is here to stay. Richmond’s’ decade long jinx against St Kilda has finally been dispelled, leaving Richmond [Read more]
University v Lockyer Valley
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Scott Sowerby The University Cougars inconsistent form continued last Saturday at the Gatton Showgrounds when they returned to the winners’ list, falling over the line against the Demons of Lockyer Valley by 208 points. In a major surprise, the 33-17-215 to 1-1-7 triumph was played on a green playing surface, mostly devoid of [Read more]
The Wrath of Josh
June 4, 2012 by 4 Comments
By Josh Barnstable Something isn’t right at Aegis Park. Something has gone wrong, deep in the heart and soul of the North Melbourne Football Club. 10 rounds into the season, sitting 12th on the ladder with just four wins, everything possible has gone pear shaped for the club that promised so much in the pre-season. [Read more]
Round 10 Winners and Losers
June 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
Round 10 of the 2012 AFL season shall be forever remembered as bizzaro round. Winners Mark Neeld and his Melbourne Demons The siren is about to go, right? I believe it is. And our score is a bigger number than theirs? It appears so. Well, this is new. Melbourne notched their first win of the [Read more]
The Wrap – Round X
June 4, 2012 by 9 Comments
THE WRAP – ROUND X WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Competition Leaders and Flag Favourites humbled and humiliated. Yes Bomberland Faithful, a loss by one straight kick is an humiliation when it’s delivered by a winless team with a scoring percentage lower than Julia Gilliard’s approval rating. [Read more]
Is Brad Scott kidding?
June 4, 2012 by 23 Comments
Aberration? Aberration? Does Brad Scott expect North Melbourne members to swallow that? After being smashed by 115 points by Hawthorn on Saturday – a previously out of form Hawthorn, mind you – coach Brad Scott faced the media and declared it an ‘aberration’. Not a typical North Melbourne performance. In two weeks time, after the [Read more]
The Baby Blues
June 4, 2012 by 15 Comments
Da da da da daa, da da da da daa. They are the Baby Blues, They are the old light baby Blues. People bag Eddie and the Essendon leadership because The Pies and The Bombers won’t wear ridiculous “Away” strips. But they turn up at all their matches looking like Collingwood and Essendon (even when [Read more]
Write for the Junior Almanac
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to the Junior Almanac page. We publish the words of keen young writers. You can write about footy. But really, we just want to see kids learning to love stories and words, and to become published writers and enthusiastic readers. So we’d love you to write about your passion, whether it be footy or [Read more]
WOW (not good)
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Saturday I hoped was the end of the hoodoo. We always lose to Melbourne in the middle of the season. I hoped it wasn’t going to happen again. Essendon’s performance last week was average and Melbourne pushed Carlton to three quarters last week. Jetta had come back from staging to give our forward line a [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
June 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
ROUND TEN A teasing time Life conspires to interrupt football. Thank Christ! We’d all go mad if it didn’t. This weekend, we had a house-guest from Perth, sneaking over to Adelaide during their June long weekend, their Foundation Day, renamed earlier this year by the Barnett Liberal Government as Western Australian Day. That’s Inclusive-Speak for [Read more]
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