Round 7 Collingwood v Brisbane Lions. by Tim O’Leary Enough – [ih-nuhf] adjective adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire: enough water; noise enough to wake the dead. In the off-season I managed to get a Telstra phone/internet/tbox thingy bundle with what I thought was going [Read more]
It isn’t rocket science
May 14, 2012 by 8 Comments
Round 7 North Melbourne versus Western Bulldogs Footy. It’s not rocket science, mate. It’s not bloody rocket science. It’s pretty bloody simple. It’s like life: do the right things, you win. If you don’t, you won’t. If you get numbers at the contest; win the ball; pick the correct option; [Read more]
Cutting the grass
May 13, 2012 by 6 Comments
We did a seachange. (That’s poor English). We seachanged. (That’s worse). We were one of the original seachangers. (Don’t really like that either). Here I am trying to improve my writing skills; trying to engage the readership as the website encourages me to and I come up with that tripe. Anyway, you get the idea. [Read more]
A GWS win to stir the soul
May 13, 2012 by 7 Comments
Round 7 GWS Giants versus GC Suns Manuka Oval, Saturday, May 12. What better place for the two newest teams in the national competition to play each other than in Canberra, the nation’s capital. Neither team has won a game this season so today’s game will be keenly contested. The season may be just cranking into [Read more]
Victory Looking Forward to Olympiacos Visit
May 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The glamour friendly against Olympiacos at the Etihad Stadium, on May 19, gives Melbourne Victory players the chance to stake a claim under new manager, Ange Postecoglou, according to Archie Thompson. Grand Final winner, Postecoglou, has already laid out the foundations he believes will help Victory avoid another season flirting with disaster. The club’s record [Read more]
AFL and the Dark Ages
May 13, 2012 by 7 Comments
On one side of the globe, an African – American US President confirms his support of gay marriage; meanwhile, the AFL chooses not to recognise adoptive children under the Father / Son rule………………..words fail me as to the attrocity of this decision. Forgive my cyncism (it is merely my form of outrage) but it appears [Read more]
Defining moments in a basketball life
May 12, 2012 by 3 Comments
In life, there are what I like to call “defining moments”. Sometimes these defining moments pass you by, and at the time you don’t even notice. You may not ever notice. But there are many defining moments – some small, some large – which find you stopping for a moment, or even longer, to reflect. [Read more]
Castlemaine legend Peter Fyffe on wine and flags
May 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
A NEWSTEAD boy through and through, Peter Fyffe came in to play major league football with Castlemaine in the Bendigo league while still a teenager. It was 1969 and 17-year-old Fyffe played on permits with the Magpies. He’d already played senior footy with Newstead at the age of 16 under Castlemaine legend John Williams and [Read more]
Jumper lore
May 12, 2012 by 4 Comments
On the way to the footy last Saturday night, I stopped in to change my mobile phone plan. This involved a fair bit of lightning typing from an under 25, who drew breath only to ask me: ‘Do you want me to do a number sequence search on anything in particular?’ After looking blankly at [Read more]
Lies, damned lies and statistical facts jack
May 12, 2012 by 11 Comments
In this ever-swirling, curly, whirly, hurly-burly worldy world it is hard enough to find your feet long enough to attend to your laces let alone walk the walk. Times were gravity’s pull kept you sufficiently stationed and storied to know your own business enough to speak your bullshit or whatever. Now, you have to carry [Read more]
Number 52: A dual premiership number
May 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
In the third of this 10-part series, we look at former AFL players to have donned the number 52. We again invite readers to recall players from other clubs who sported the number 52 at senior level, whether that number was allocated to the relevant player at the time or was a replacement guernsey. Number [Read more]
Happy Anniversary Mr Zeuschner
May 11, 2012 by 9 Comments
Happy Anniversary Mr Zeuschner Six matches into his senior coaching career and Brendan McCartney’s record stands at 2 wins and 4 losses. Upon his appointment last year McCartney became the 14th different man to take the coaching reigns at the Western Oval since the team last reached the season finale. Saturday 23 September 1961 was [Read more]
Resting Players – Gimme a break
May 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greetings and Salutations all Another week of issues, issues, issues – are they genuine or just too much media? But the one to take a look at this week is resting players. The pragmatist view is that it just makes sense and as a Carlton supporter, I certainly took that view last weekend with Judd [Read more]
Port is a mess
May 11, 2012 by 10 Comments
Round Six Port is a mess In a crunch game, Richmond fought for their season and Port limped along, as if they had all the time in the world to reassemble their parcel. Michelangelo Rucci, chief footy writer for the ’Tiser, and an avowed Port fan, lost his cool. Matty Primus should do the decent [Read more]
Are theTigers learning lessons from the past
May 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Cast your minds back to round 10 of last year. Port Adelaide were a basket case while Richmond had just defeated the Bombers and were humming along nicely, having won four of their past five matches. The result of this Tiger v Power match was considered a ‘fait accompli’. Richmond had sold this home game [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: 21 – the key to the city
May 10, 2012 by 6 Comments
I went to lots of 21st parties in my “Adelaide days” – in fact, I turned 21 there before heading to brighter lights and different challenges overseas. But it was all pretty low key. With considerably more fanfare, Black Caviar bestrides Morphettville on Saturday for her 21st – The time honoured Goodwood Handicap – as [Read more]
Umpires need a louder voice
May 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
I know it’s part of footy culture, but the incessant “BALL!” shouts from the outer have gone too far. The AFL’s loudest supporters might be the most entertaining, but they have an unhealthy obsession with playing backseat umpire. If you were a foreigner, attending an AFL match for the first time, you’d have to assume [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 7, Saturday 10 May, v Footscray, Western Oval
May 10, 2012 by 14 Comments
As we take our places behind the goals at the Barkly St end, the Richmond larrikins are in full voice. Mark Jackson, all jutting jaw and bleach-blond hair, is giving his Footscray reserves opponents a touch-up and the fans are loving it. Yes – that indi-bloody-vidual Mark Jackson! Melbourne, Geelong and St Kilda fans might [Read more]
It was ‘A Hard Year’s Plight’
May 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
I wrote this piece last year during Richmond’s ‘winter of discontent.’ Losses to Port Adelaide and the Gold Coast had overshadowed some good early form in the season, and we were facing another lowly finish…. “It’s been a long cold lonely winter.” These words, penned by the late George Harrison, the ‘quiet’ Beatle, have been [Read more]
I didn’t know ducks had a team in the AFL…
May 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
FEARLESS (6) – Didn’t know ducks had a team in the AFL… Collingwood was staring down the barrel of defeat against a spirited Bulldogs outfit as the round got underway on Friday Night at Etihad. The Dogs had got off to a flyer before the Pies had pegged them back. Ryan Griffen had the ball [Read more]
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