I could start this piece and write about St. Kilda (and Hawthorn’s) wonderful premiership coach, mentor and friend, Allan “Yabby” Jeans, 1933-2011. His passing this week has left the world a little colder. He was loved by family, friends and the football world, no matter who you are. I could start this piece with [Read more]
3 Votes to Eddie as Pies find on-field kumbaya
July 17, 2011 by 23 Comments
Those of a non-Collingwood persuasion, which – despite the efforts of sections of the media to imply otherwise – still constitutes the overwhelming majority of the football world, have long become familiar with the Magpies’ desire to dominate the agenda. After all, in the Collingwood world view, it is all about them. But even by [Read more]
Why is it the AFL cannot sort out the advantage rule?
July 17, 2011 by 7 Comments
by Jim Young Yet another episode late in the first quarter to remind everyone of the incompetent folly of the advantage rule as presently administered – a clear free in a marking contest to Geelong, umpire blew the whistle, by which time the ball had spilled to another Geelong player only about a yard [Read more]
Tiger Suit Revisited
July 17, 2011 by 4 Comments
My beautiful sister Mia Harrison valiantly wearing the Tiger suit to Richmond’s 103 point loss to Carlton on Saturday afternoon at the MCG. It is important to note it is nothing short of a miracle Mia allowed me to send this in. Notoriously possessive, having steadfastly ignored the ‘Sharing is Caring’ concept emphasized in kindergarten, [Read more]
Maggies let their football do the talking
July 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
By John Sandy Round 17 Carlton v Collingwood I am someone who believes that you don’t choose your football team but it is something that is given to you at birth. In my case, my father grew up in Clifton Hill within walking distance of Vic Park and so all of his children simply followed [Read more]
The Crows: about as good as tooth-ache
July 16, 2011 by 3 Comments
The pain had subsided. Not completely gone, it was still lingering. Still enough to make me wince, but not enough to force me to stomach the awful aspirin and painkillers that I’d been living off since Monday. I felt better knowing I had gotten through a day without any medication. It meant I was [Read more]
Round 17: Heath Shaw Memorial Blog
July 15, 2011 by 79 Comments
Well, well, well. What can you say! Interesting that they allow Mr Shaw back for finals. Not quite all-guns-blazing from the AFL? Or overkill? And what of the Captain’s position? So, while the headlines roar, we begin the football in Adelaide, previous burial ground of Bomber hopes (can we still call them Bombers without clarification?). [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVII
July 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We farewell An Ornament To The Game as Yabby Jeans moves on to Eternal Rest. What’s to be said of him that hasn’t already been said by those closest to him? My Dear Sainted Mother used to say Royce & The Boys [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Saturday 16/07/2011
July 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
With just 3 Saturdays left in this season, most of the Premierships are already decided. NSW: Nash Rawiller Chris Waller VIC: Luke Nolen P.G. Moody QLD: C. Munce R.L. Heathcote WA: W. Pike N.D.Parnham SA: P. Gatt J.Thompson, Kav and Jolly within 2 of each other! Nationally Peter Snowden has trained the most winners, but [Read more]
Deep inside the Junction Oval scoreboard
July 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
When was the Junction Oval scoreboard built? What is its official name? Who rolls the numbers from inside the scoreboard? How many pulleys and panels are part of the scoreboard? Who is Julia and how old is she? What is the future of the Junction Oval scoreboard? You’ll find the answers to these questions [Read more]
The British Open blog
July 14, 2011 by 26 Comments
Now is not the time to tell you how I got there, but I will later. But I was at Royal St George’s in 1993 to see Norman win The Open. Given the course is on the coast at Sandwich it was a sub-editor’s delight. History and all that. I went to see The open, [Read more]
Peter Daicos: The Top 35 (in chronological order)
July 14, 2011 by 35 Comments
1. 1981 Round 10 vs. Richmond, Victoria Park After showing promise as a centreman, Tom Hafey swung Daicos forward in 1981. The results were phenomenal: 76 goals, including a bag of 9 against the reigning premiers on this occasion at Victoria Park. In this memorable passage of play, he utterly embarrasses two charging Richmond [Read more]
FOR THE OLD COACHES
July 14, 2011 by 1 Comment
I look at all our coaches nowadays And listen to them holding forth post-game: The stream of phrases, sausages, all the same, Ground up, churned out, consumable clichés. Where are the masters of the pithy phrase Whose wisdom, wit – and frequent lack of shame! – Brought World of Sport and Football Inquest fame? The [Read more]
Footy Almanac Race Day
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Dress code neat casual. Shirt with collar. No denim (pending discussions).
Marketing the death of state of origin
July 14, 2011 by 8 Comments
by Luke Morris. Remember watching Paul Salmon tap to team-mate Robert Harvey? Or Brad Johnson kicking long to Glen Archer? How about Chris Grant handballing to the run of Anthony Stevens? This was State of Origin football and it gave us the best players on the same field. Champions of the game united in [Read more]
I loved beating Geelong on Friday night but one thing kept bugging me
July 14, 2011 by 8 Comments
By Mark Simms I wish they wouldn’t call Subiaco Oval ‘Patterson’s Stadium’. It hurts. At the beginning of the season, I thought I might be able to ignore it, and concentrate on the money for ‘grass roots footy’- an evocative phrase- but I’m struggling. I’ve been thinking about why it hurts. Why do I feel [Read more]
Rotunda in the West, 28th July
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Is disliking Collingwood bad?
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Every major league in the world has them. The team that is literally black and white (sic). You love or hate them. Manchester United and New York Yankees spring to mind. But I have a notion that all we do is provide the fuel that fans the flames to drive the boilers of these great [Read more]
One Hundred Years Ago: Round 11, 1st July, 1911
July 14, 2011 by 12 Comments
A long time after 1911, a young Bob Dylan sang “when you got nothin’ you got nothin’ to lose”, as a young man would. There’s no evidence Bob had ever heard of Collingwood when he wrote that line, but it pretty well explains much of the motivation behind the founding of the Collingwood Football Club, [Read more]
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