Photo by Peter Argent Tanunda Reserves. Angaston Oval in the Barossa Valley, Reserves, Tanunda (Pies) v Nuriootpa (Tiges) The emotion of Ritchie Kruger and Will Grosser upon winning a premiership.
Looking Back and Looking Forward
September 18, 2011 by 6 Comments
So it’s the Pies and the Hawks on Friday night. It’s 34 years since these sides squared off in a final,the second semi in 1977. That was a fantastic game, in which the Pies withheld a late Hawks charge to win by two points. The win came at a huge cost however, as Michael Tuck’s head came [Read more]
Dave Goodwin’s dreaming
September 18, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Dave Goodwin I have a dream. An unusual obsession. I want to see Australia play a Test match in each of the ten Test-playing nations. Today I’ve ticked off Sri Lanka. I’m now six down, four to go. Bangladesh is in my sights. I doubt I’ll make it to South Africa this [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – The fairytale continues
September 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
For a lot of people the main focus of this game involves Wayne Bennett and Darren Lockyer. The pair established a strong relationship when Bennett coached at the Broncos, slotting him in at fullback early in his career before moving him to five-eighth – and moulding him into an international in both positions. But more [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Don’t panic
September 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
I’m not a betting man, but if I was I’d say my game would be omen betting. As tactics go, it’s probably questionable at best, but given my lack of allegiances as I settled in to watch the Tigers take on the Warriors on Friday night I had absolutely nothing else to go on. I [Read more]
US Open ’11
September 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
By Joey Agerholm Goran Ivanisevic once said “As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.” I’ve got no idea in what context it was said. I just came across it on [Read more]
Swans, Hawks and Corrugated Tin
September 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
Swans, Hawks and Corrugated Tin. Roland’s home is, basically, a pile of corrugated tin and mice, in a paddock, in nowhere. But the wood-fire’s a corker, the telly works, and he’s a great mate. We had the idiot box and music on, his girlfriend, free from her kids for the night, rotten, laughing, falling [Read more]
It’s Business Time!
September 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As the 2011 AFL season draws towards a close, this weekend sees two massive knockout games which genuinely could go either way. Injuries play a massive part in trying to determine who will get over the line this week. There is nothing more frustrating than getting injured at key times and missing big games; I [Read more]
Semi Finals Discussion
September 17, 2011 by 37 Comments
The Hawks live on. The Swans are done. Tonight either the Blues or the Eagles will have gone the same way. Amid the furore over football ‘business’, there’s the actual football to consider. Any thoughts folks?
Wrap Wrath: Heave Ho, Way To Go Freo
September 17, 2011 by
Far be it for us to offer comment outside our normal allotment of your precious time, but the recent tsunami of pontification has drawn us early from our cave Wrappers. Last night, for the first time in the history of television broadcasting, the half time entertainment outrated the match. It even outrated Helen D’Amico’s famous run [Read more]
Re-Lyon on Technology
September 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz I have a feeling I’m going to end up talking about Lyon today. If there’s no cricket due to Sri Lanka’s dodgy weather, it might be Ross Lyon, after the Thursday night bombshell he and Fremantle dropped. It might be Garry Lyon. Is his team close to announcing the Demons’ [Read more]
WAFL finals cooling down
September 16, 2011 by 2 Comments
We were hoping for a close WAFL finals series but it’s looking very much like a comfortable Claremont flag right now. Last week’s semi finals were disappointing. A pair of 85-point thrashings. Then during the week came the news that Subiaco ruckman Michael Rix busted a knee in the first semi and won’t play [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Underwood 2011
September 16, 2011 by 7 Comments
Though it is far from a vintage Underwood Stakes card, the MRC deserve a big crowd in response to their various initiatives – most prominently free admission – for the Spring Carnival Prelude day on Saturday. With no AFL games, hopefully balmy weather and a ripper Rosehill meeting on the TVs, we’re anticipating plenty of [Read more]
Adam Goodes
September 16, 2011 by 15 Comments
A test of a sporting moment is whether you remember it. By that I mean you don’t half-remember it, but really remember it. Moments which you don’t have to go into the record books to check; moments where the details of time and place are superfluous. Moments so powerful they form the basis for your [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – FINALS ROUND II
September 16, 2011 by 7 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. First we had the false alarm on Rossy Lyon. Nurelle’s truly sorry for the scare she put through all those LSJOF who saw themselves once more up Kananook Creek on a low tide. So much for those psyche-pop pieces in Dolly, eh [Read more]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: or another day in the life of a Saints supporter…
September 16, 2011 by 4 Comments
Just when my next article this week was going to start with “I write with no pain and suffering”, in the way of the footy world, this has completely changed on Thursday night 15th September 2011. The GOOD was being with nine other Almanackers (or family members) and meeting at the Marngrook Footy Show, in [Read more]
Sal’s Tips: Finals Week 2
September 16, 2011 by 3 Comments
Happy Finals to All, However all the action looks like it is off the ground with tonight’s disposal of Mark Harvey by the Purple Haze putting fuel on the coaching frenzy fire. If reports are correct that Get Stuffed Lyon will be new Purple Wizard, then it should spark some frenzied activity with Melbourne, Footscray [Read more]
One Hundred Years Ago: 2nd Semi Final, 16th September, 1911
September 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
All available evidence suggests that Jack Worrall was a man of practical methods. A plain-speaking disciplinarian who proved a model for most successful coaches who followed. His famous recommendation to his players that ‘football and booze don’t mix’ suggests a man of temperate habits and firm resolve. The teams he coached were renowned for [Read more]
Grand Final Scoreboards
September 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Scoreboard Pressure, the website dedicated to scoreboards, is featuring Grand Final scoreboards over the next few weeks. First up are scoreboards from the 1977 VFL, 1986 WAFL, 1990 TFL, 1998 VFL(VFA) Grand Finals. Part 2’s looking like: 1973 WAFL, 1999 AFL, 2002 WAFL, 2008 VFL and 2010 GSFL (WA). Then part 3 will be a [Read more]
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