Good Friday – we discuss who ought to be culled Easter Saturday – we enter the game without our leader a shot at goal brings howls from the crowd – full moon no wind missed kicks still the crowd autumn night nothing much going on except Pendlebury dusk – Daisy splits the night into [Read more]
Preseason pretence
April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Jamie Gault As we approach round three of the AFL season and start to, as the fans, settle into the 24/7 football bubble that encapsulates the community at this time of year, let’s take a moment to reflect on what has come and gone and how we got sucked in yet again. Getting [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 2
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by Peter Schumacher Thursday night. Was uneasy about being at home by myself when the Minister for Domestic Affairs was at a Maundy Thursday Church service which in theory I too should have been attending. Too bad, quarter time, Lions up by a couple of points and playing well enough to make me think about [Read more]
Geelong versus Hawthorn Day!
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AFL Round 2 Geelong vs Hawthorn By Susie Giese I swear I am a child. Excitement is the overriding feeling. I can’t sleep. I try to read a book, watch a DVD, but I can’t distract myself. I’m too excited for tomorrow. It’s my favourite day of the year. I dream about it [Read more]
Distant memories
April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
After a morning chocolate binge, my sister and I stroll down to Southern Cross at dusk. I do not feel confident. Who would after a loss to Port? And it could be argued that last year, Gold Coast were a better side than the Power. I had regretfully witnessed the ’09 Grand Final in the [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Capitulation
April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
By way of a demonstration, I have decided to write tonight’s match report showing a degree of commitment, enthusiasm and attenchun to detale equivalent to that displayed by Penrith. The End. Manly 30 (Buhrer, Williams 2, Matai, Watmough tries, Lyons 5/7 goals, Cherry-Evans 0/1 field goals) def Penrith 0. Venue: Brookvale Oval Referees:Gerard Sutton, Henry [Read more]
The Wrap – Round II
April 10, 2012 by 11 Comments
THE WRAP – ROUND II WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL by John Mosig What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. With an emphatic win over a brave but ill equipped Brissy on Thursday night, The Rattzbaggers announced that after all this coming, they’ve finally arrived. On Saturday we witnessed more demoralizing destruction of Melbourne’s [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s football diary – Round 2
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Round Two, The Australian Rule of Entropy “In statistical mechanics, entropy is a measure of the number of ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of ‘disorder’ (the higher the entropy, the higher the disorder).” This year, will the shape of the season only [Read more]
The shots are fired across the bow
April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Yvette Wroby It’s a different football landscape when North Melbourne, Adelaide, Essendon and Swans have strong beginnings to the season and when St.Kilda is 7th on the ladder before the big game today between Geelong and Hawthorn. All football tragics will be glued to their seats in whatever locations to see the [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Any tips?
April 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’m making a distinction here between tipping comps and the punt. Mostly, a tipping poll is for bragging rights but the punt is for profit. I know there is a crossover but they aren’t the same thing, though no doubt the difference is often blurred. Soccer Pools, for example, the game that made Sangster billions, [Read more]
In A-League of its Own: The Final Three
April 9, 2012 by 3 Comments
Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Perth Glory have made the final 3 of the A-League for the first time following a heart stopping 3-2 win over a gallant Wellington Phoenix at nib Stadium on Saturday. Centre half Bas van den Brink opened the scoring with a header just 13 minutes in to the game. [Read more]
Nobody hates us anymore
April 9, 2012 by 9 Comments
The problem for Richmond is that we don’t rate at all on the football hatred scale. No-one even tells jokes about us. I am with my Magpie-supporting mate, Grant, on a crowded express train jetting past Victoria Park on the way to the MCG for the Collingwood-Richmond clash. The voice of the train driver is [Read more]
Footy on Eurosport
April 9, 2012 by 9 Comments
By Jim Newkirk It is 8am on a fabulously beautiful Sunday, spring morning – no clouds, no wind, 19 degrees. It promises to be a great day, and I’m off to the footy. It feels a bit like those times 20 or so years ago when the boys and I would head out to the [Read more]
The AFL’s Crucible
April 9, 2012 by 29 Comments
Events in recent weeks have the AFL resembling Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, a play based on the witch-hunts of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Puritan Salem disintegrated under the paranoia and hysteria caused by accusations of witchcraft and cavorting with the devil. Simmering resentments and jealousies resurfaced and villagers settled old scores by condemning neighbours [Read more]
Cycling World Champs – Night 4
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Track Cycling World Championships – Night 4 Patrick O’Keeffe April 8th 2012 The penultimate night of competition at the 2012 Track Cycling World Championships was really something to behold. Devastated at missing out in the Women’s Sprint the previous night, Anna Meares produced a stunning turnaround to claim the Kierin world title. Cameron Meyer [Read more]
Love and other couch matters
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MEETING my family was the easy part. It was revealing my inner football demon to my Brisbane-based girlfriend that I was afraid of. Months earlier she had fallen for my charming Dr Jekyll as we perused the Louvre together. Now, on a weekend visit to Geelong, she was about to see my remote control-throwing Mr [Read more]
Let the season start.
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Rd 1 2012 FEARLESS – Finally enough of the sideshow, let the season start! Given that in 2011 there was a break between the LAB Cup Grand Final and the start of the season, Zeus and his henchmen running the AFL decided to give their lovechild, the Fi Fy Fo Fums, a free kick [Read more]
A Seductive Afternoon With Sherrin
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I’m getting jealous. While increasing numbers of our community here are enjoying closer and closer shared family experiences at the footy, my own experiences are going in the opposite direction. My wife’s previous apathy to attending any sort of sport is slowly reasserting itself, while my son said goodbye to me from the couch at [Read more]
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