Dreamtime, Essendon and Richmond slug it out. The Indigenous round, is a special round for all Aboriginal players, their chance to shine and deliver. Recently, I have become involved in a student Reconciliation group. I have helped promote Reconciliation Week and learnt so much about a side of Australia I barely knew.
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
May 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
Round Eight Port is a Mess, Revisited Skip from Skipton was wrong when he wrote that Port versus North at AMMI was an Eight Tarpaulin Match. On the day, ten tarpaulins covered huge sections of the Outer, protecting the venue from its emptiness. And, with only 14,508 people there, all of us could have sat [Read more]
Starting to play like they want it
May 21, 2012 by 9 Comments
I took the night off work to go to Friday night footy at the G. Friday being our busiest day/night at the pub and Geelong playing an unfortunate number of Friday night matches this year I’m having to prioritise which games I go to. Grand Final replay was a no-brainer. Thriller. Guaranteed… the first half [Read more]
When too much Eagles is never enough
May 21, 2012 by 8 Comments
Subiaco Oval,2.40pm, Sunday 20 May I love Beau Waters. There, I’ve said it. The Avenging Eagle needn’t worry. Julia and Tony won’t let us marry. Beau played his 100th game in 9 seasons in last week’s loss to the Bombers. A series of elbow dislocations and fractures threatened to end his career, but he is [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – A forward explains rugby league
May 20, 2012 by 4 Comments
It is largely unknown to players and followers of the modern game that rugby league started off purely as a contest between opposition forwards, loosely divided between running into each other and taking no prisoners in set scrums. This pitted six men of statuesque physique, supreme fitness and superior intelligence in packs against one another. [Read more]
crio’s Q: All Stars? State of Origin? Am I missing something?
May 20, 2012 by 4 Comments
It is not unusual for me to miss the public’s “pulse”. But what a crock. Aussie Rules has a very successful, strong domestic comp. FULL STOP. Yawn. Predictably the Herald-Sun has pushed for State of Origin and then, amazingly, for an All-Stars v The Rest game. Interstate footy is irrelevant. The history of Origin’s purpose [Read more]
Dempsey shows shades of Norm McDonald in Bombers win
May 20, 2012 by 1 Comment
Dreamtime at the “G” has always been one of my favourite games of the year, so I was in a state of turmoil to realise that a few weeks ago the good wife and I had promised to have an overnighter with the grand kids on that particular night. Pretending it didn’t matter that much [Read more]
Why May is the other September
May 18, 2012 by 2 Comments
I’ll admit straight off the bat that I didn’t see Manchester City’s winning goal last Sunday night. Even as a neutral observer with a leaning towards blatantly wanting to see Sir Alex Ferguson suffer I couldn’t take the tension and changed the channel to ‘Cheers’ where Sam had again got himself in to hot water [Read more]
Making my Eithad Stadium debut
May 18, 2012 by 7 Comments
By Kadin Holloway It felt good to run on Etihad stadium with over one thousand people. And when I ran on to the field but it is only a quarter of the field not the whole field!!!! I could see my Mum and Dad with over one thousand people. I felt a little nervous when [Read more]
What has happened to the long sleeve jumper?
May 18, 2012 by 17 Comments
While shopping recently I tried to track down a long sleeve jumper but alas it appears they have dissapeared much in the same vein as black footy boots and 1/2 time oranges. It seems that all you can buy now are the sleeveless variety (at least via most retail outlets and the swans website). I [Read more]
The Footygods: Hebe
May 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Greeks had a god of youth called Hebe. She was the daughter of Zeus and carried the cup that the gods drank from. You could recognise her by her sleeveless dress. She even turned the old Iolaus into a young man. On Saturday, one bunch of sleeveless kids battled another bunch of sleeveless kids [Read more]
Number 56: Gerard Toohey, a triple premiership captain and Woof Woof
May 18, 2012 by 13 Comments
Number 56 – David Simpson and Gerard Toohey Recruited from Numurkah, not far from Shepparton, David “Harry” Simpson was a tall player (190 cm) who played three games for the Cats in the number 56 guernsey at the tail end of the 1984 season. Simpson arrived at Kardinia Park in 1981 and showed early promise [Read more]
What about a happy ending?
May 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
Greetings All, An extraordinary set of results in Round 7 of the AFL – but nothing compared to the drama of the final round of EPL games early on Monday morning. The great part of the drama was the ever changing positions of teams in their fight for the title and European league qualification or [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary: Gaming
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Round Eight Ultimate Footy This is a neat fantasy comp. It differs from SuperCoach where most end up drafting the same players. Here, we battle against ourselves – each player can only appear in one team. Twelve teams have a preseason draft and trade players each week. We fight one on one in nine [Read more]
Sweet Saintly unshackling
May 18, 2012 by 14 Comments
Me ole’ mate Randy, a blue-bagger, is carving out solid “livin’ the dream” sectionals in Los Angeles. Mixing with “entertainment types”. Promoting cheeseburgers to their own food group. Happy snaps with Earvin Magic Johnson. Trips to Vegas. Waffles for breakfast. A pornstar resides in his apartment block. Heady days indeed. The good wife and I [Read more]
May 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Round 1: Crowd Behavior – The Six Golden Rules April 1, 2012 @ 11:50 am posted by Michael Allan So footy in Melbourne has kicked off and we could not have asked for any better games to kick us off. Richmond looked competitive against Carlton, Hawthorn just had the edge over Collingwood with incredible goals to Franklin and Gunston in [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Crystal Web worth a look
May 17, 2012 by 49 Comments
At this time of year I search for exotic locations of meetings around the country and dream of being there rather than in the wind tunnel that is the (mostly uncovered) main betting ring at Flemington…. Headquarters indeed! A fortnight ago, a couple of blokes collected and I suggested they escape the wet and cold [Read more]
Lenny Hayes
May 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
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