Sometimes you look forward to something and it turns out a lot differently to what you expected. I always wanted to walk the Overland Track through the Cradle Mountain–Lake St. Clair National Park in Tasmania. After a few practice rambles through places like Wilson’s Promontory, I landed in Devonport in January 1997 with a mate [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 5, 2012: Brisbane vs St George Illawarra
March 31, 2012 by 3 Comments
Thank god for Andrew Voss. That’s not a statement I ever thought I would find myself typing, but after a month of ruined Friday nights courtesy of Ray Hadley’s execrable commentary, hearing the dulcet tones of Vossy, everyone’s 17th favourite sports caller, came as a welcome relief. If, as has been suggested, Hadley is viewed [Read more]
Gallant Pies run out of legs and class as Buddy and Cyril bite us on the ass
March 31, 2012 by 5 Comments
Footy came back with a huge bang as we went down to the Hawks in an epic opening round encounter that deserves a record length heading for a Floreat Pica Society match report. The biggest question going into the game was how well our bottom six would handle the blowtorch heat of the Hawks’ [Read more]
An Obituary
March 31, 2012 by 9 Comments
I’ve just found out that he’s dead. My mate. Dead. It’s such a small word but carries so much with it. I want the world to stop for a while. Work can wait. I need to write this down. He didn’t wake up. Went to sleep and didn’t wake up. Simple as that. When Max [Read more]
Round one for Collingwood, only the start for Buckley
March 31, 2012 by 22 Comments
5, 4, 3, 2 ,1! With the count down round one of the 2012 season had officially begun! Don’t bother with the- “but GWS played Sydney last week” line, nobody cared! Even the people in Sydney didn’t care! I’d know, I was in Sydney at my cousin’s 21st. So anyway my boys went up against [Read more]
Hawthorn v Collingwood
March 30, 2012 by 2 Comments
Term one down. Two more to go. That’s how long I have left for school in my life. It feels just like a couple of weeks ago that I started Year 12, although the floods in Northern Victoria disrupted that for a week and a bit with all schools in the district closed. A nice [Read more]
CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE CANTEEN IS COOKING?
March 30, 2012 by 7 Comments
With the AFL starting their season with a cracking opening round of games, that seems in many cases to have divided tipsters, and other leagues around the country in full swing, it is worth sparing a thought for where all this begins, especially playing careers. This weekend sees the start of junior football, at least [Read more]
Here we are again
March 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
A couple of years ago, I sat and watched the Tigers run out onto the MCG, led by a man who many said was to be the messiah, of sorts. The bringer of good times and good fortune to Punt Road. “Isn’t he great,” some said. “What he a boost he’ll provide,” said others. “What’s [Read more]
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Leunig at Rotunda in the West
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THE PRE WRAP – ROUND I
March 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We’ve seen the launch of Sheedy’s Sydney Shenanigans up in the shadow of the Sandstone Curtain. (No Nurelle – I know he mumbles, but you’re thinking of Sandy Stone) That didn’t go too badly. Sydney blew Their Crosstown Rivals off the [Read more]
Archibald Prize Entrant: Brian Bourke
March 30, 2012 by 2 Comments
Words and portrait by Martin Tighe. l chose to depict Brian Bourke in the way in which l imagine his clients saw him; a formidable barrier between a desperate defendant and the awesome power of the law, as someone between them and the iron bars of prison in some cases. Brian Bourke is also [Read more]
Premier Cricket: 2011/12 Grand Final Preview
March 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
Preview – 2011/12 Premier Cricket Final One game of the 2011/12 Premier Cricket season remains. After finishing the Home and Away season with consecutive loses Dandenong found form when it mattered most knocking over the first and second ranked sides in consecutive weekends. They’ll defend the premiership they captured in dramatic circumstances a year ago. [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: The Hard Sell
March 30, 2012 by 7 Comments
Starting now it becomes a hard sell. Ask anyone involved in “other” sports in Melbourne between March and October. But, for racing, it needn’t be a matter of giving up. Here’s where committed “horse players” need to get organized and develop a resilient punting habit to withstand footy’s destructive tsunami! I’m certainly not advocating that [Read more]
Another disappointing start for the Tigers
March 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
By – JACKSON CLARK After an impressive preseason you cannot blame Richmond supporters from being disheartened after the Tigers’ momentum came to a shuddering halt in the first round of the season. The 44-point loss to Carlton is far from catastrophic but it was certainly an anticlimactic way to start the season – something that loyal [Read more]
NTFL Season Review
March 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By – JACKSON CLARK Tiwi Bombers won its first premiership since inception into the competition to culminate a fantastic season of football in the Northern Territory Football League. Commiserations must go to Nightcliff as the club fought its way back from bottom place to fall agonisingly short of its first premiership title in 47 years. [Read more]
Kentucky’s Uncivil War
March 29, 2012 by 3 Comments
The footy season starts in earnest this weekend, but here in Louisville all attention will be paid to an historic college basketball game – for the first time, the University of Louisville Cardinals will play the University of Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Final Four. Wallabies vs. All Blacks? Collingwood vs. Carlton? Try more like [Read more]
A one-sided rivalry
March 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Daniel O’Sullivan Question: Can a fierce rivalry still be considered a fierce rivalry if one half of the fierce rivalry is blissfully unaware of its existence? This sounds like it could be one of those “if a tree falls in the forest” questions with no definitive answer asked by men sporting turtle neck sweaters [Read more]
Oh what a night……….
March 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Oh what a night, late in March back in 91. That’s when the Crows story had began What a game and what a night………….. Okay it’s not quite as good as the Four Seasons song but on an autumn Friday night at the end March it was not only the beginning of the 1991 [Read more]
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