Caption: Richard Naco, The Chad!, and Pamela Sherpa. Caption: The GWS banner. It all started last Thursday night, when … No. Actually, that’s wrong. It really began last year. I was busy being a long distance lover of another club when the much-anticipated second Sydney club started playing. OK, so they played NEAFL instead [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
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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]
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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
Dare to dream…..again
May 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
Prelude: This mad Monday for night footy saw Rina and I picking up Amanda from her place. Someone had run into her car a while ago, and by next week she will have a new set of wheels. At Amanda’s front door, we met a “fairy” in the form of her very little sister. Once [Read more]
The Yorkshiremen
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Collingwood fans in Queensland often end up like Monty Python’s Yorkshiremen; standing around with tans and expensive shoes talking about how tough Reservoir was in the seventies. The collection of aging tradies and engineers in black and white standing in front of us at the Gabba on Saturday were the classic bunch. They were keen [Read more]
No. 55: Austin McCrabb and Mark Neeld
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With no players since 1980 having represented the Cats in Number 54, we skip to two Geelong favourites who wore the Number 55. Number 55 – Austin McCrabb and Mark Neeld Colac farmer Austin McCrabb was a cult figure with Geelong supporters who stepped out in the number 55 jumper for the final two home [Read more]
For the love of professional sport
May 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
For the love of professional sport It’s easy to be cynical towards professional sport. I can be and I sense your average Almanacker (those old enough to be cynical) is a true believer who fears something is being lost. That our sports stars, clubs, franchises and competitions, have become distant, unaffordable, inaccessible, compromised, bastardised, less [Read more]
autumn veins
May 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
autumn night long before it ends the game over goal in the first minute and the last in between the scrap deep autumn veins bulge on the neck of the coach sun long gone the forward line lacking spark sultry night a set shot slides away away game short passing left behind some leaves dead [Read more]
When a throw is a throw
May 17, 2012 by 16 Comments
In baseball they call it a pitch, in netball a pass, in football a handpass. In all three cases it could simply be called a throw. I remember gathering around Mr Patto at footy training as an eight year old at Petrie Park in Montmorency. Mr Patto was a legend; Montmorency’s Pied Piper. Rather than [Read more]
In The Beginning Of The Royboy Bail-Out Was The End Of The Word Love.
May 16, 2012 by 34 Comments
I remember everything and that is unforgivable when you love the Fitzroy Football Club with every molecule and gum-guard. I have always adored them in their absence and write them back to life at every single chance. When the blessed can-rattlers came out like ghouls bearing bent two bob bits I knew the jig was [Read more]
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