..and only slightly scattered in my head. The game got so intense toward the end that I’m finding it hard to recall the last quarter. Just a series of moments with a firm grip on my heart throughout! The first time since ’08 that I’ve gone to a Cats v Hawks game expecting to lose. [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s football diary – Round 2
April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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.
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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]
Ugly Footy ( Essendon vs Port Adelaide)
April 8, 2012 by 3 Comments
For the second time in two years, we saw Essendon vs. Port Adelaide at Etihad Stadium. Both came off close wins in the first round and both were eighth and ninth respectively. Last time these teams met, Port was up by 34 points in the last quarter and Essendon won by seven points. It is [Read more]
A lil bit of Essendon and a whole lotta Collingwood
April 8, 2012 by 6 Comments
What started as Father-Daughter Footyday became Father-Daughter-Uncle Footyday :) First we hit Etihad Stadium to watch my uncle John’s Bombers beat Port Adelaide.
You can’t choose your family…or your Footy club!!!
April 8, 2012 by 7 Comments
In case it escaped your attention last year, esteemed journalist Patrick Smith took the astonishing step of turning his back on four generations of Essendon-supporting tradition, trading the Bombers in for my club Richmond! Smith’s actions were in protest of his ‘former clubs’ handling of the controversial James Hird and Mark Thompson coaching appointments, using [Read more]
Let’s Get Physical
April 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Track Cycling World Championships – Night Three Patrick O’Keeffe April 7, 2012. The night is all about Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton. This is where the drama is, the excitement and the tension. Meares and Pendleton don’t like eachother, by all accounts. This rivalry is intensified in the first of three sprints in [Read more]
A push and a rush and the game is ours
April 6, 2012 by 12 Comments
Collingwood’s 50 Most Sensational Games Round 4, 1987 Collingwood 2.4.16 4.10.34 7.11.53 16.14.110 Richmond 3.5.23 7.7.49 14.8.92 15.10.100 VENUE: VFL Park DATE: Saturday 20 April CROWD: 36,749 UMPIRES: Robinson, Forster COLLINGWOOD B Christian Gayfer Kerrison HB Brown Manson Keays C Millane Turner Bradbury HF Fielke Starcevich Rizonico F Banks Taylor Croall FOLL Cloke, Atkins, Ryan [Read more]
Setting the Bar High
April 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In this Olympic year, thoughts go to many and varied events across those two weeks of that competition which comes around once every four years: events that would be given barely a second thought by any of us at any other time. My thoughts seem to have wandered to the field event of high jump. [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: the Easter schedule
April 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Easter schedule has certainly changed in NSW and tomorrow (Saturday) we see the Slipper being run at Rosehill. Tinkler’s scratching of All Too Hard and some tough draws for challengers have made it look very much like Samaready’s year. I was taken with the effort of the maiden Narcissus and must respect all of [Read more]
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