FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Collingate has extended it’s creepy testicles tentacles to include the troubled denizens of The Culture Club. Leigh Montagna has been cited as sharing a betting account with his brother. Gee whiz. But it looks like the key to all this – as [Read more]
The footy gods: Hubris
July 22, 2011 by 8 Comments
By Ian Latham The ancient Greeks knew one thing. Do not pretend to be one of the footy gods. They called that hubris. And if you were found to be hubristic, well, that meant trouble; with a capital T. Nemesis would fly down to find you. She would spin her wheel of fortune and [Read more]
Odyssey of USA Saint
July 22, 2011 by 15 Comments
It all started at a bus stop 36 years ago. Little things beget big things. At that bus stop, I met my future wife on a double blind date when the pairing was determined by who boarded a bus first (she chose not to). Then in the early 80s, we could only afford to send [Read more]
Knights vs Van Der Haar
July 22, 2011 by 17 Comments
These are the things I’d pay good money to see. Goodes on Pavlich. Judd and Barlow, toe-to-toe, kick-for-kick. Pendlebury and Hayes. Both of them tackle as much as they win the ball for themselves. Goddamn, I loved it when Pike played on Hird. Total opposites, in every way. Both proud men. How clever was the [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: 23 July 2011
July 22, 2011 by 6 Comments
Flemington hosts its last meeting for Season 2010/11 this Saturday and, for those few stalwarts in the wind tunnel of a main ring and for the Paddock bookies, it will be a ghost town as the VRC continues to make its money whilst the foundations of our “game” crumble. An empty ring has meant not [Read more]
Mining young footy talent at Roxby Downs
July 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I’d like to introduce Rob McLean who writes a popular country footy column called Footy People. (Ed) Rob is an SA based football fanatic who once dreamed of playing in Central District’s first premiership side At 34 and a half, he still believes he could play in a Doggies premiership, but instead is winding up his career [Read more]
Bring back the biff? I hope not.
July 21, 2011 by 3 Comments
Embedded into this story are two YouTube videos. One is full of shameless violence. The other is a package of highlights from Crib Point Football Club’s 1985 Premiership year. You don’t often get to see video footage of grass roots footy and footage of grass roots footy from the 1980s is even rarer. I’ll start [Read more]
Millewa League Grand Final
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
from Bob Utber Millewa League Grand Final at Lake Cullulleraine – something different – no club out there, beautiful scenery. Real old fashion footy (see my article last year on preliminary final) If interested :- * I could arrange accommodation on houseboat/s * Dinner at Stefano Di Peiros’ * Visits to wineries, * [Read more]
Murali v Swanny
July 21, 2011 by 1 Comment
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q8m43-YLd4&feature=player_embedded
STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE: Album Launch
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE A West Papuan Soundtrack. ALBUM LAUNCH. NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2011 Buy Tickets Here “Music can rise above tyranny” “Art is a weapon and culture is life, as long as they can sing they will prevail.” Film-maker Charlie Hill-Smith on the plight of the West Papuans in their [Read more]
In the saddle with Cadel
July 21, 2011 by 10 Comments
About 1.00am, Saturday 16th July. Someone is ringing the bejesus out of a cowbell in my lounge room. People are yelling, cheering – ‘Allez!’, ‘Vamos!’, ‘Go! Come on!!!’ Phil Liggett is talking to me. He mentions something about riders pushing themselves to the limit, this is what they train for, Le Tour at its [Read more]
One Hundred Years Ago: Round 12, 8th July, 1911
July 21, 2011 by 13 Comments
A ‘grey, windless, foggy afternoon’ was the setting for round 12, the coldest football match-day recorded to this time. The temperature wouldn’t rise above 7.1 °C (44.8 °F) as six clubs began the day within close proximity of a top four position. 20,000 spectators ignored the conditions and flocked to Brunswick St to watch fourth [Read more]
Thank You Hawthorn
July 21, 2011 by 7 Comments
I was not a fan of the AFL rule change prohibiting the deliberate rushed behind. Not a fan at all. If I was in the front bar of Cramers in Preston I’d go so far as to exclaim to no-one in particular that it’s akin to social engineering as far as I’m concerned. It’s a [Read more]
IS BEING CRAZY/BRAVE A THING OF THE PAST?
July 21, 2011 by 36 Comments
When we talk about footy, what is courage? What is bravery? Jonathon Brown is courageous. He is brave. These conclusions are magnified as we flinch slightly when watching replays of the clash which caused his latest facial injury. But what I have found fascinating in the wake of this incident is the commentary suggesting that [Read more]
Football Intelligence
July 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
by Peter Edwards Hold the press Melbourne and Richmond supporters. There may be a ne’er previously considered reason for why your teams have not performed to expectations, and which at the same time, may explain why the Cats have defied the popular opinion of most AFL pundits. Go home tonight and pen a letter [Read more]
Airports and Grunt
July 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
The road must have been in a safe seat. It was shit, but in a good way. Thin, with narrow shoulders, ebbing and flowing through a bumpy patchwork of tar repairs, but, suddenly, it bent and rose across a railway track and smoothed out into a town that was more like a village. [Read more]
Maurice Flitcroft: good old boy
July 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
This is the story of Maurice Flitcroft: golfer. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291587/How-worlds-worst-golfer-gatecrashed-Open–truly-teed-men-blazers.html
Rhys is home
July 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by John Kingsmill* My town is a little better, more loving, less convoluted. Still cold, but Adelaide’s winter skies are cloudless for a while and then a weather system settles in for three or four days of genuine rain. Partly clouded, they call it. I think
A Berri good performance
July 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
BERRI V BARMERA MONASH RFL – ROUND 12 2011, Sat July 16th 2011 By Nick Kossatch at Berri Berri has announced that it will be a major participant come the RFL finals time after its’ run-away 31-point win against Barmera-Monash in Berri. The Demons used its home ground to advantage with Norwood recruit Toby [Read more]
Sat’dy footy July 23
July 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
by Chris Riordan For local junior comps the last few weeks have been like NRL’s Origin time with players unavailable and upsets likely. The end of school holidays should ensure a return to normality as the kids face the last batch of games for this season. There’ve been some super frosty mornings and not [Read more]
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