by Andrew Walker Since Yarrawonga announced that Fev may be playing with them during the 2012 Ovens and Murray season there has been no shortage of Fev news. First came rumours that other O & M clubs were also talking to the talented but incident prone player. Once Fev’s arrangements with the Yarrawonga [Read more]
Winners and Losers: Round 3
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Round three had its fair share of milestones and statement games. As always, there are winners and there are losers. Here is everything you need to know about the third round of the 2012 AFL season. Winners Carlton The Blues went into their Friday night clash with the Magpies with quite a bit [Read more]
The battle for Champions League spots
April 17, 2012 by 23 Comments
by Steve Fahey In between watching the Test cricket, I this morning witnessed the latest round in the Wigan miracle, as they followed up knocking off Man U by beating Arsenal at Emirates (Arsenal’s home). One has to admire Wigan – as the calendar year started they were anchored at the bottom of the EPL [Read more]
Broken Heart, But Still Beats True
April 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Simon Dobbie Oh, to be a Melbourne Demons supporter. The expectation. But then the despair. Year in. Year out. Why do I do it to myself? And with a young son now, why should I do it to him as well? I wrote last year when the Club seemed like it was at its [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick
April 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Bill Walker Preamble Wynyard is a sleepy little seaside town on the North West Coast of Tasmania. It has three pubs, one set of traffic lights, an annual tulip festival, an airport, basketball, cricket and footy clubs, a writers group whose leader is aspiring to Colleen McCulloch dizzy heights, numerous stray cats and [Read more]
The View from Shepparton
April 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
by Peter Schumacher The round started well with the demise of Collingwood, and now with the injury to Luke Ball I reckon that it could be terminal for them this year at least. Like every one else I wonder why he was allowed to return to the field after he had first twisted [Read more]
Seasons pass
April 17, 2012 by 8 Comments
I hope technology never catches up with the trusty old season’s ticket. You know, some kind of fingerprint or retina detection device at the turnstiles, hooked up to a central database. It’s not out of the question. After all, stadium security would love to better identify miscreants whom CCTV might’ve previously pinged for stacking their empty [Read more]
Jim Stynes
April 16, 2012 by 23 Comments
I can’t really remember much of Four Weddings and a Funeral, other than Hugh Grant playing to the bumbler in all of us, but especially in the feckless blokes among us. I remember enjoying the movie, in the way that you enjoy happy-sad things. I also remember the poem it featured: “Stop all the clocks”. [Read more]
In A-League of its Own: Preliminary Final Edition
April 16, 2012 by 2 Comments
Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Perth Glory is into their first ever A-League Grand Final after overcoming Central Coast Mariners in the Preliminary Final at the weekend. Played in front of a disappointing crowd of just over 7000, the Mariners went into the game strong favourites after Perth had travelled across the country after [Read more]
I Was There
April 16, 2012 by 18 Comments
In the finest Almanac tradition, I can say- “I WAS THERE.” Matt has chatted with Malcolm in the far north, Flynny’s been bedazzled by Bubba at Augusta, Dips has saluted the winner at Stawell, and now I can declare that ‘I’ve been to Blacktown.’ I knew Blacktown was somewhere between Sydney and the Blue [Read more]
Divided Attention Ends Well
April 16, 2012 by 9 Comments
North Melbourne versus Geelong The baby’s due today and I’m at the footy. Now, that’s a sentence I never expected to write! Males readers are thinking: gutsy effort mate, but you might pay for it down the track. Female readers: selfish so-and-so, hope you pay for it down the track. The baby [Read more]
Starting to believe
April 16, 2012 by 20 Comments
It was instructive that, of all The Age’s expert tipsters, the “Village Idiot” was the only one brave enough to plump for the Kangaroos. This telling lack of confidence came on top of the SEN overnight boys who, in the early hours of Friday morning, predicted that North would be humbled. They generally know [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND III
April 16, 2012 by 5 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On the Friday night The Rattzbaggers did to Collingwood what the butcher did to the lamb: carved it up. On Saturday it was The Tigers of Old who did the carving, this time of the moribund Redlegs. The Bloods withstood The Power challenge [Read more]
Sea Change
April 16, 2012 by 8 Comments
There is a sports (of sorts) ground at Weymouth, One of those village green type set ups on a hill over the back with cow crap patches waiting for the next incoming flight of dung beetles to clear the deck for an occasional holiday cricket match. But sport was off the agenda this weekend. [Read more]
The Footygods: Athena
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Athena was the god of many things but one of the biggest was courage and one of the others was skill. She was so loved that she became the goddess of one of the greatest cities in the Greek world and gave it her name. Unlike her brother Ares, she approached battle as a test [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary: Round 3
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Round Three, Think again The best thing about footy is that it only takes three weeks for the world to change, for nothing else to matter, for the dry summer to dissolve. Unexplainable gaps appear in the tipping comps; injuries punch holes in early balloons; new coaches are, suddenly, stranger than the ones they [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Nature vs Nurture
April 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
One of my petty prejudices is against left-handed golfers. I cower as they take stance, sure the ball is about to clatter in to me on the couch. In summary, they stand on the wrong side of the ball*. I rail against “flop shot” Phil and (yawn) “Snake” Chalmers. But there’s an exception…and he’s now [Read more]
TO THE KNOCKERS
April 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
TO THE KNOCKERS When your kid falls to the ground You don’t put him in the dock. You don’t walk away disgusted You don’t let his buddies mock. You pick him up and dust him off You whisper in his ear ‘Don’t listen to the blighters scoff Get up again and hear them cheer.’ That [Read more]
Clash of the Titans
April 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is the Clash of the Titans, Dustin Fletcher vs. Gary Ablett junior. Both play completely different game styles yet both equally important for their team. Dustin Fletcher is Essendon’s hero in defence, always there to stop a goal, get a match-saving tackle or spoil the AFL best defenders. He played for Essendon seven years [Read more]
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