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]
Redders v Monash
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Second preference, second preference, second preference; this was the chant (taunt) we old Redders used to inflict on students from Monash. You see we never considered that there was more than one uni in Melbourne. This University was in Parkville and was the home of the Reds. Monash was the southern outreach program of Kew [Read more]
The Cygnet, the Cat and the Goldfish
June 3, 2012 by 9 Comments
The Cygnet training with Yuki. Yuki is a Geelong supporter, think about it Footy and My Pets by The Cygnet Year 2, age 7 ½ For Christmas last year, I got a kitten. She is dark grey all over with tiny white socks on her paws, a white belly and chest and chin. I [Read more]
Blame it on the Train
June 3, 2012 by 3 Comments
Like most footballing folk, I was captivated by Friday night’s game between the Tiges and Saints. Again, like most people I spoke to, I had tipped St Kilda. However as the game went on I became caught up in the rollicking juggernaut of fervour that the Richmond fans were generating. As the final siren sounded, [Read more]
Ovens and Murray down Hampden League in VCFL Inter League clash
June 3, 2012 by 10 Comments
The Victorian Country Football Championships made their way to Carlton’s Visy Park last Sunday where the fifth ranked Ovens and Murray League took on the sixth ranked Hampden League. With the unfortunate aspect of both teams having to travel to meet each other around half-way fans of both sides could be excused for not turning [Read more]
crio’s Q?
June 3, 2012 by 6 Comments
Do team playing styles reflect their coach’s personality or is that too simplistic? Lyon considered, perhaps boring Sanderson capable, innovative.Ultimately effective. Blighty enigmatic. Leigh Matthews indomitable. A winner.
Brisbane v West Coast – there was something in the air
June 3, 2012 by 7 Comments
As a Brisbane Lions supporter, I have felt the full range of footy fan emotions. It was only four or five years ago, that on my visits to the Gabbatoir I expected to leave with four points. Now, I approach games with the cautious optimism, or more accurately a glimmer of hope, that plagues fans [Read more]
Going to the footy
June 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Daniel Taranto Sitting on a plastic chair, in a stadium which makes it colder indoors than out (How does Docklands manage to achieve that?), with 35,000 fellow Carlton Blues supporters on a Saturday afternoon is one of the things in life that I love doing. It gives me a sense of [Read more]
Posts: A Concrete Poem
June 1, 2012 by 10 Comments
Do we have the greatest game of all?
June 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
Dear Fellow Football Fans, I need your help. The game of Australian Rules football, and in particular, the AFL, has changed dramatically over the last two and a half decades. At the end of the 1986 season the Christopher Skase owned Seven Network purchased the rights to broadcast the VFL for just $6 million. Many [Read more]
Leigh Montagna
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Too tough to lose : the Story of Laurie Morgan, Australia’s first equestrian Olympic gold medallist
June 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
Book Review by Jan Smith Too tough to lose : the Story of Laurie Morgan, Australia’s first equestrian Olympic gold medallist. By Warwick Morgan. Published by Forty Degrees South, Hobart, Tasmania. Not many sons write a book about their father, but not too many people have a father like legendary sportsman Laurie Morgan. Australia [Read more]
Haiku Bob: From the outer
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autumn remains – a few minutes left of the low scoring game away game the ball not going to the right spots one goal down in the rain sinking lower into the sofa scores level vapor rises from the outer branches snap off another knee thin rain hopes of winning [Read more]
Round 10 Preview and Ground Irrationalisation
June 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greeting one and all, Welcome to Round 10, This Friday night we have yet another blockbuster, but yet again the “Best Fit” policy has not come into play. The Saints have crossed the line in the sand and Tiger army is roaring but how many will not be able to see the game live due [Read more]
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