The second round of the season is in the books. Hopefully you had a tremendous Easter filled with family, chocolate and football. If you skimped on the last one have no fear, the following will fill you in. Winners Captains This was a good round for club captains. Chris Judd started proceedings on Friday night [Read more]
DA Puzzle of the Round (3)
April 11, 2012 by 8 Comments
For David Astle’s carnival of words, puzzles and more words click HERE! But first, try this: If Heineken can infiltrate the next Bond movie, then what stops alcohol brands sneaking onto the AFL playing lists? If Filipino beer is getting behind the Brisbane coach, then he must be San Miguel Voss, while a Kiwi brewery [Read more]
Purple patch
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Round 2 Collingwood vs. Richmond: Easter Saturday 8th May 2012 by John Ramsdale Purple Patch: “An exceptional period of time when someone experiences success, good fortune or luck.” Vaudeville performers from the early 1900’s allegedly had a saying, “Never follow an animal or a child act.” This was supposedly on the grounds that these [Read more]
Beating the nerves (and the Hawks)
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by Cait Mullen Normally, I go to the footy with my dad and siblings but as they’re all away I’ve had to scrounge up a replacement to go to the Geelong v. Hawthorn game with me. After being away for 12 months I have craved the atmosphere and emotions of going to the footy [Read more]
still the crowd
April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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!
April 10, 2012 by 8 Comments
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]
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