Richmond are improving, and possibly can still be finalists, but as far as getting ahead of yourself goes, this Richmond week rivals the 2012 Carlton Premiership. Has there ever been a game where the arriving crowd was so sure they were going to win! There was no tension amongst the Tiger horde s – they [Read more]
Royals leave it to the last second, again
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WAFL Round 12 IN round 11 East Perth left it until the last second of the game to kick a goal to draw their game. In round 12 they waited a little longer. After trailing all day in horrible conditions at Leederville Oval the Royals hit the front by a point with an after-the-siren goal [Read more]
Rebels with a cause – Round eight of the YVMDFL between Alexandra and Kinglake,
June 11, 2012 by 4 Comments
If opposition teams didn’t know any better, their away trip to Alexandra in division two of Victoria’s Yarra Valley Mountain District League, would have them quaking in their boots. The team from north-east Victoria are known as the ‘Rebels’. After visiting the scenic ground to watch them take on Kinglake recently; I’m pretty sure they’re [Read more]
Spain and Italy turn it up to 11
June 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Euros 2012 commentary by Lee Hugh McGowan Group C. Spain, Italy, Croatia, and The Republic of Ireland. After last night’s matches I suspect this is how this group finishes. The Irish showed up, but apart from a last gasp 10 minutes of bravery, they looked like the only team who didn’t belong here [Read more]
Off the beaten ‘Track’
June 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Earlier this year I visited one of the most incredible, scary and bizarre places on earth. You may have heard of it, it’s a wonderful land called India. Yes, that’s right, India. Snake charmers, Hinduism, busy, dirty, cow worshipping India. I spent one week in India, (Mumbai and Goa) and one week in Sri Lanka [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – On how to improve the greatest game of all
June 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
When you’ve done life’s hard yards and made it into the grumpy years, you understand with cold and dispiriting certainty that there is no turning back the clock. But that doesn’t mean that in the face of crass, intolerable change – or ‘progress’ as the suits would wish to sell it – you should give [Read more]
Summit Fever
June 11, 2012 by 2 Comments
The football world really ought to give Richmond supporters more credit. “Keep a lid on it Tiger fans”? Even Mick Malthouse is getting in on the act. People think we’re like little kids sighting a bit of tinsel in July and getting all excited because Christmas has arrived. But things look good. Scintillating victories [Read more]
To clock or not to clock?
June 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
Like everyone else on this post-Vaudeville Sunday morning, I’m thinking about the clock. We’re told that the lack of an official countdown clock is one of the great romances of AFL football: the drama of not knowing how long to go until the agony is ended mixed with the fervent pleas to either “lock it [Read more]
Invasion of the Bomber Snatchers
June 10, 2012 by 1 Comment
Terror isn’t normally a word thrown into the mixing bowl of footy adjectives. Yet it’s the first word flashing across my mind on this freezing Sunday morning reflecting on last night’s game. A savage final quarter of football so chock full of impending doom that even now, in full daylight and knowing the result, I [Read more]
Part of the tribe
June 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
The experience of being a football supporter is surprisingly unique. You never actually sit down and think it thorough, until you do…and then you end up writing a blog about it. By unique, I am referring to the way you belong to a certain football club. It is a tribal, parochial association that finds you [Read more]
Are the Dutch doomed already?
June 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
Euros 2012 commentary by Lee Hugh McGowan There is an advertising campaign for a telecommunications company which claims, ‘the future’s bright…the future’s Orange’. Coming into this tournament, it could have been the slogan for the on fire Dutch. Robben has been the star of Bayern Munich’s successful domestic and Champion’s league campaigns and [Read more]
Professor Johnson, the young skipper and The Doyen of Unobtrusion
June 10, 2012 by 21 Comments
Carlton v Geelong It was a Frank McCourt afternoon as Anna and I sat in the Lutheran Church at North Geelong at the funeral of old Uncle Theo, a cousin of my late father’s. Dank and gloomy, the Heavens were low, and descending. Two-year-old Anna had sensed the mood and was perfectly quiet and appropriately [Read more]
Europe’s best attack with gusto
June 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
Euros 2012 commentary by Lee Hugh McGowan You could be forgiven for thinking I was on about the Spanish talking to the upheld palm of Angela Merkel and the ECB, but I’m not. One of the best football tournaments in the world is underway. Hosted in Poland and the Ukraine, the Euros [Read more]
A better way to raise the curtain on young talent
June 9, 2012 by 5 Comments
The AFL’s recent merchandising masterstroke – footy cards of kids, for kids, was delivered a pretty swift kicking by the media last weekend. Besides psychological concerns around the pressure on the 78 youngsters featured, and that few will actually ‘make it’ in any case, one does struggle to grasp the business case for a [Read more]
The bottom of the record
June 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is a tribute to all the players who have played a senior VFL/AFL game wearing a guernsey number of 50 and above. The players whose names appear just above the omnipresent Mr “Rushed” at the foot of the player list in the Record, and who have used (in some cases temporarily) a locker that [Read more]
Kicking a bag
June 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
It’s the 60th anniversary of a bag of 12 goals from Doody McGillivray, uncle of Knacker Pamela Sherpa. Pamela dug out this report from an old Bendigo Football League record. ECHUCA EXCERPTS We are still slightly dazed in Echuca concerning Monday’s game. After seeing a junior match on Saturday on the park Oval, no one [Read more]
I think we’ve got a live one!
June 8, 2012 by 2 Comments
Where: the small community hall at Breakfast Point (which looks remarkably like a church, but isn’t). When: Thursday, 17/5/12, sometime between 6pm 10:15pm (most likely around 9ish) Why: making the GWS banner for the game in Brisbane, featuring a tribute to Luke Power on the occasion of his return to his original club, where he [Read more]
Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Cricket Disorder
June 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
A: Obsessions (1) Recurrent and persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced, at least initially as intrusive and senseless e.g. batsman tormented by thoughts that he should walk or an umpire having recurrent fears of getting the ball count wrong, leading to taking out two ball counters.(Crawley Subtype: See Appendix Four) (2) The [Read more]
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