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Saints v Blues: Schneider here and there!
September 5, 2011 by 1 Comment
I was filled with a sense of foreboding as I sat up in the Ponsford and Carlton ran onto the ground. No Jamison, no Carrazzo, the enigmatic Thornton rested and no jumpin’ Jarrod Waite up forward. A pointless match for a four points and all the omens were bad While St. Kilda warmed up intensely, [Read more]
Dennis Collins 1953-2011: Sayonara Scruff
September 5, 2011 by 17 Comments
Last Wednesday former Footscray,Carlton & Richmondwingman Dennis Collins died suddenly of a heart attack in the in rural Western Australian town of Hyden. He was 58 years of age. Collins was recruited by VFL side Footscray from FDFL club Braybrook and made his senior VFL debut in 1972. Collins was in good company following the [Read more]
Confident, Confused, Content
September 5, 2011 by 6 Comments
With the Hawks in winning form and the finals upon us, I’m feeling quietly confident, though a little confused. I’d written the Cats off just a week ago. I’ve been writing them off all year. All season, I’ve watched and waited for the once mighty to fall, their gallant but weary warriors unable to defy [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XXIV
September 5, 2011 by 2 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES SPORT What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Firstly, let’s find out if that runaway wheel that spun off the Carringbush Bandwagon hit anyone. They can build up a good deal of speed and do some severe damage. Especially to those riding up in the front of The Bandwagon. The Hawks [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Free of the rubbish and smiling
September 5, 2011 by 1 Comment
I love rugby league. A few years ago, I was asked by a neighbour whether I had watched the Bledisloe Cup. I explained that I had not, because it clashed with 13th placed Penrith playing 14th placed North Queensland in the mud, in front of 5,000 people. He still thinks I was joking. And so, [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Weyman sets the Dragon’s tone
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What proved to me that Wayne Bennett is a coaching genius was the signing of Michael Weyman when he headed to the Dragons in 2009. For the record, I was aware of Bennett’s record of success with the Broncos (being a Dragons fan in 1992 and 1993, it’s impossible not to). But it was only [Read more]
Tigers vs Roos: An Abu Dhabi Perspective
September 5, 2011 by 6 Comments
At 7.00 am on a Sunday in Abu Dhabi it is 34 degrees and the humidity is rising. My aim today is to survive working, as well as get a good live radio stream of the last game of the last round of AFL football for 2011, that of my beloved tigers and the kangaroos. [Read more]
BROWNLOW VOTES IN GALLE
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The final day at the G saw a brave defence by Mahela J and Angelo M with Mahela equalling DGB’s 29 test centruries and Angelo missing out by 5 playing the same windy woof that caused his demise in the first innings. Five wickets to Ryan Harris was the best performance in an attack that [Read more]
Borough Sting Scorpions
September 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
What a proud footy club the Borough is. One of only two stand alone clubs in the VFL, the other being Frankston, providing you don’t count Geelong and Collingwood, This year they are making every week a winning week. Undefeated at the end of the home and away, which is a first for the club. [Read more]
Pendlebury
September 4, 2011 by 4 Comments
Pendlebury. The pub was small and full. There was a great no-name band crammed into the corner, a few loose units dancing, people in booths talking, everybody pushing like mud rivers to get to get drinks, to the smoker’s section, to and from the fire. I wore them all, and the music, like a [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – The battle for the wooden spoon
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The excitement last week of Parramatta’s extra-time loss fuelled the Golden Girl’s fire to make it to Skilled Park for the final match of the season for the Eels and Titans. The fact that it was also the final of the Wooden Spoon- a dreaded consequence of a poor season – made it an appealing [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – A noble rugby league tradition
September 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
For good or ill, I am an optimist, so despite another disappointing season from Canterbury and a reliance on either a Friday night draw between South Sydney and Newcastle or a Rabbitohs win followed by a mammoth Bulldogs win, I still thought there was hope for Canterbury. Mathematical chance, I believe they call it. That [Read more]
AFL Footy Darwin style: unhyped, uncomplicated, and unlikely to push the crocs off the front page
September 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Visiting Darwin is like returning to 1985. This view isn’t shaped by the locals’ preference for iced coffees over flat whites; nor their steaks served with a thick ridge of fat; nor the lack of pretentious fashion chosen by those having a beer in Mitchell St on any given night. It was because of the [Read more]
We don’t have the Blues this morning…
September 4, 2011 by 4 Comments
We’ll start with a generic question: do the Saints have to always put us through so much misery and tension before we reach happiness at the end of the night? It seems so. Saints supporters like me went to the Game at the MCG last night feeling pretty mixed. A win meant a home, Etihad, [Read more]
Floreat Pica: Take Your Pick
September 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
By Paul Fahey Round 24 Vs Geelong 2011 The first weekend in September is usually reserved for the first weekend of AFL finals – we have to be thankful that this was NOT the case this year! As this game was a “dead rubber” I believe that you the type of person you are [Read more]
Friday Night Footy 360
September 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
Ever since the shock loss to Sydney ended the Cats four year unbeaten run at Kardinia Park last week all and sundry have been declaring “Geelong are wobbly”, “The Cats are vulnerable” and “Hawthorn are now the biggest threat to Collingwood”. Funny how they seem to have forgotten that we’ve beaten Hawthorn twice this season [Read more]
Bless ‘Em All – Eagles V Crows
September 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
Subiaco Oval – 5.10pm WST Saturday 3 September 2011 A final round game with nothing at stake. The Eagles are finals bound. The Crows are bound for Mad Monday with the aim of ‘drinking to forget’ a season of loss and disappointment. It is an odd feeling going to the match. None of the expectation [Read more]
Marvin Vaas is ‘Indisposed’
September 4, 2011 by 6 Comments
Tragedy in Galle? Was it the tuk-tuk? Was it the humidity? Or simple ‘over excitement’ at Australia’s victory. The Almanac’s intrepid correspondent Marvin Vaas was mysteriously indisposed and unable to file a fourth day report from Galle. The last sighting of Marvin is below.
Happy Cats
September 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
Sainter Yvette Wroby helps the Cats celebrate Friday night. Will they be celebrating this time next week?
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