Neil Craig has just announced his resignation as coach of Adelaide. He will take a leave of absence for an indefinite period before discussing any ongoing role at the club. Mark Bickley will fill in as caretaker until season’s end. Full details from the Crows website here. What do our South Australian Almanackers think? And [Read more]
Footy by the sea
July 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In the lead-up to Thursday’s team being announced, we’d flagged a few players to be rested for the Gold Coast game. Not because we don’t respect the opposition, more because we do – so many connections with Collingwood in that team, you wouldn’t want to demoralise them by beating them by a record-winning margin. So [Read more]
Lorne Footy Club: Mind the Water
July 25, 2011 by 7 Comments
Lorne’s Stribling Reserve would have to be one of the most spectacular sporting arenas in Australia. Standing high on the western side of the oval you overlook Louttit Bay and the Southern Ocean. But this has not always been the home ground for the Lorne Football and Netball clubs known as the Dolphins and the [Read more]
Cadel Evans victory: best Australian sporting achievement ever?
July 25, 2011 by 44 Comments
I don’t particularly like comparisons – they’re a bit of fun, but they don’t mean much. In the realm of sporting achievements so many achievements have merit and I reckon it’s better to appreciate all of them for what the are. There are many ways to become the subject of a trivia question – you [Read more]
Football Clubs in New South Wales
July 25, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Miles Wilks The most important aim with this book is to give some positive press to footy clubs in New South Wales. Few people (I would think) would realise that as many as 400 players have been recruited from NSW to the VFL/AFL. It was surprising for me anyway when I was researching the VFL/AFL archives and [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Sporting partnerships
July 25, 2011 by 25 Comments
Tiger’s split from long time caddy Steve Williams ends a long and incredibly successful partnership. Most of our images of Woods have his bagman somewhere in the frame – he became NZ’s most successful sportsman! Great partnerships live long in the memory… Barry Price to Peter McKenna. Angelo Dundee and Muhammad Ali. Graeme Wood and [Read more]
Oh Glorious Night
July 24, 2011 by 3 Comments
After sitting through the Carlton v Magpies game last Saturday, and been driven mad by opposition (Collingwood) supporters, I entered last night’s game Carlton v Essendon still cranky. I could not get over how much the Magpie supporters believe the ball is their right. They have manipulated the media (say no more) and the government [Read more]
Thriving on pain
July 24, 2011 by 5 Comments
They. Are. Freaks! Most all of them! I only started watching because of sleep problems. In the midnight, in the bush. And then I was interested, and then I was hooked. The cyclists of the Tour de France rolled and whirled across and up my telly every night. They pushed through pain, they went past [Read more]
A Heavenly Forum
July 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Oppy and Mocky were chesting the bar, Looking down on the Tour from a heavenly star, “Doesn’t seem fair we’ve all fought so long, The Champs Elysee needs an Aussie Fair song.” But things just don’t happen from man’s good intention, Just a small touch of luck – some divine intervention, So they called [Read more]
Round 18 Blog
July 24, 2011 by 10 Comments
Several substantial flogging have been the feature of the weekend’s AFL action so far. That, and a couple of goal sneaks bagging 8 apiece. While Crows, Bombers and Bulldogs lament, the Saints have clawed their way back into the eight. With the Western Derby the feature game today, what do you make of it all folks?
VFL R17 – Coburg Tigers v North Ballarat
July 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
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The Saints March in and over the Crows
July 23, 2011 by 3 Comments
Oh When the Saints…* Oh When the Saints……have belief, effort, run and spread, and poor Opposition…. In the next few weeks, I will be rocking up at my daughter’s school and hear how she is travelling in her Year 11 studies. We will talk to each teacher and get a run-down of what is working [Read more]
Memo Blues: Win, and kill off the new anti-Ratts swarm NOW
July 22, 2011 by 7 Comments
On The Gruen Transfer last night Russell Howcroft said ‘all advertising works, just some works better’. I feel the same about talk-back radio and ‘comment’ facilities on news sites: it’s all at least somewhat annoying. And football talk-back is generally more than ‘somewhat’. Cicadas are responsible for that God-awful racket you hear in the summer, at [Read more]
Tour of Thornbury
July 22, 2011 by 11 Comments
by Matt O’Connor If I can just hold my nerve, the Tour de France is mine for the taking. Three more nights, including l’Alpe-d’Huez tomorrow and the time trial on Saturday, and I will be in a position to pilot my couch triumphantly down the Champs Elysees. Presuming of course that teammate [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVIII
July 22, 2011 by 9 Comments
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]
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