An assignment for the Anzac Day match…not fun but I have to go there… due 8:30pm night of the match. I have been sick for a ridiculous two weeks, some sort of flu that went away for a bit but then came back even worse after my second day back at uni. Go figure.
Moving Day
April 26, 2012 by 10 Comments
Last week Gigs wrote a touching and heartfelt piece on being sacked andwhat that meant for him and his family. It was raw, brilliant, brave and open and generated a tremendous amount of support and commentary. This Friday is moving day for me, and I can’t guarantee I won’t fall in a crumpled emotional heap.
So Close So Far
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
ANZAC Day, the day that soldiers first landed on Gallipoli April 25th 1914. The day we remember our soldiers who fought against the Turks and now fight the Taliban. April 25th is also the day of the second most famous game of the season, Essendon vs. Collingwood. This tradition has been going on since [Read more]
Anzac Day 2012
April 26, 2012 by 3 Comments
In 2008 I went to my first Anzac day game with my mother. We were beaten by the Pies. It was the last footy game mum was able to attend. On the way back to catch the train she was short of breath. Later, I would realise, that was the first sign her health was [Read more]
A feline struggle in a sea of purple and orange
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
“Forget the footy!” “ It’s about Glory this weekend!” “ How long have we waited for this!” I think I heard these comments over a dozen times each on the weekend when in Brisbane to watch the A-League Grand Final. The two sporting teams that I pigeonhole under ‘By pain of death’ as far as [Read more]
Swimming For Life
April 25, 2012 by 9 Comments
Sometimes sport can surprise you in an unexpected way. It can catch you off guard and make you reassess. But perhaps it’s not the sport so much as it is the participants. Last Sunday I was at a swimming carnival. It was held at the Doug Ellis Pool on the grounds of Monash University in [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 5, Friday 25 April, v Fitzroy, MCG
April 25, 2012 by 3 Comments
I’ve barely been able to absorb the magnitude of the Collingwood victory when Round 5 is upon us. For Anzac Day falls on a Friday this year. Anzac Day Before 1995, when Essendon and Collingwood hatched a duopoly based on greed and self-interest, disguised under such epithets as “tradition” and “honouring the fallen”, the League [Read more]
A Day Out
April 25, 2012 by 4 Comments
by Bill Walker Clinking of the medals crunching of the feet witnessed by the honor guard lining out the streets skirling of the bagpipes dull thud of the drum order of the service just a background hum flooding back the memories so strong it’s hard to cope did their bit for freedom democracy and hope [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Rosemary and Football
April 24, 2012 by 5 Comments
At the door to my (outside) study, there is a healthy rosemary bush. It usually reminds me of happy times: roast dinners, especially, which the kids look forward to. “Can you get me some rosemary please?” I ask Theo, the oldest, as I start clattering trays from the oven. And thus begins the process of [Read more]
The Old Firm Saves the Day
April 24, 2012 by 13 Comments
It’s a balmy and breezy Sunday at Kardinia Park. While it’s a problematic zephyr for wig wearers, it’s a beautiful wind to unfurl a premiership flag. A flag success that many thought could not be achieved by an ageing list, a virgin coach and sans number 29. The now biennial flag unfurling conducted by retired [Read more]
the sunlight’s slant
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
piercing light the defender touches a nerve partly closed roof the ball hovers between flanks filling the stands with groans stubbed toe ump and player in heated discussion – the sunlight’s slant edge of winter – crossing the 50 metre line he falls over falling leaves them all behind Harry clouds adrift so many goals [Read more]
Glum? Or not so Glum?
April 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
Geelong v Richmond. Sunday 22 April 2012. Was this the game? Following a forgettable pre-season and a shaky start to the season my cup-o-pessimism (tastes like sour grapes, and not from a good vintage) has been brimmed. The Cats look like they’ve been staggering, not with a premiership hangover, but with premiership gout. They’ve supped [Read more]
Round 4 Winners and Losers
April 24, 2012 by 4 Comments
Round four is done and dusted in round five is right around the corner. Before you partake in football on Wednesday be sure you are up to speed with all the happenings from the weekend just past. Winners Essendon The Bombers must have heard the ‘worst 3 and 0 start in history’ whispers and [Read more]
Strength through loyalty
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
The Saints have a very ironic saying in their logo. “Fortius Quo Fidelius” Strength Through Loyalty And boy, are they lucky that we Saints fans are loyal to them, because they are certainly inconsistent. Sometimes I think it should read “We know we’re unpredictable, and don’t always win the games we should, but just stick around, [Read more]
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Four
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Earl O’Neill Greetings Tipsters I was pretty damned close to Gary Rohan when he broke his leg but among our group, Robert, Shane and Tim were just that bit closer and they heard the bone snap. Tim picked it immediately. “I know that sound”, a broken arm sending him into premature retirement late [Read more]
Damian Bourke: Standing Tall
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Sasha Lennon At six foot five inches tall, Damian Bourke looks every bit as lean as the Geelong Football Club captain who retired from the game almost 20 years ago. Making coffee in his suburban Brisbane kitchen, he recalls with fondness his days at Geelong and later at the Brisbane Bears/Lions where he [Read more]
Superdogs’ super start to season
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
MID NORTH V RIVERLAND SUPERDOGS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFL MASTERS – ROUND TWO SUNDAY 22ND OF APRIL 2012, SPALDING OVAL By Nick Kossatch It is two wins from the first two games of the AFL Masters for the Riverland Superdogs after it easily accounted for Mid North by 86-points in Spalding on Sunday. In a [Read more]
France’s answer to Hayden Ballantyne falls
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Bob Utber Paris in the spring without football is not football. Mind you the way the weather has been behaving here, walking up the Champs Elysees is like making your way to your seat at Arctic Park. Not once has anybody asked me the score and there have been some big games this [Read more]
The midweek Wrap – Round V
April 24, 2012 by 4 Comments
by John Mosig FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What short week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We’ve hardly had time to get the duffle coat back from the dry cleaners and sow on the new badges before we’re out on the terraces again. This time it’s The Anzac Day Blockbuster. And while we’re talking [Read more]
From the Terrace at the Horse Shoe
April 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
by David Buckley It was great to see John Harms and the others on the Terrace again watching a team unfurl their flag. The stadium at present looks much like a horse shoe, or a face with it’s front teeth knocked out. Standing room on the terrace trimmed again… for more seating. It was [Read more]
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