Wasteful and lost. That’s how my boys looked, up until the fourth quarter. From a Magpie’s perceptive it was a shocking effort for the majority of the game.
A history of football
May 22, 2011 by 1 Comment
A football career is a life. It is it’s own world, it has its own language, which you learn. It tests every emotion, builds character and breaks the weak. It has a birth, adolesence, maturity and, if done right, if seen through, a decline. In this decline you desperately try to pass your strength and [Read more]
Book Line-Up
May 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
2011 Round 24 Carlton v St. Kilda Joseph Walker Port Adelaide v Melbourne Julian Morison Western Bulldogs v Fremantle Tom Riordan Sydney v Brisbane Chris Bracher West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Callum O’Connor Collingwood v Geelong Ben Jensen Richmond v North Melbourne Paul [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – Granny’s five cents goes a long way (a late sixties boyhood in Sydney)
May 22, 2011 by 12 Comments
Sausage roll five cents, (sauce one cent extra); musk sticks, cobbers, freckles, milk bottles, musk sticks, bananas – cent each; bertie beetle, choo-choo-bar, both five cents. Shiny packet on top of the glass-topped bench: same as a snag roll (minus sauce); forget bertie, forget the black mouthed bar; bargain! Give over the echidna; Mrs Mineo [Read more]
Is North Relevant?
May 20, 2011 by 24 Comments
It’s the theme of the season. Of the last few seasons. The theme throughout North Melbourne’s history: is North Melbourne relevant? Will North Melbourne survive?
Crio’s racing preview
May 20, 2011 by 5 Comments
RACES May 19, 2011 Despite Brisbane’s Winter Carnival having a month still to run, there is a sense of a let-down after the massive crowds, hype and excitement of Black Caviar’s BTC Cup win last week and the breaking news that she is now to be rested until the Spring.
Roy Boy Liam
May 20, 2011 by 5 Comments
Roy boy Liam O’Connor breaks off half back, assisted by a strong shepherd from Marcel Laidlaw at Alfred Crescent on Sunday 15 March. The Fitzroy U11 Golds hung on to win by 3 points against arch-rival St Marys, in a game that could have gone either way.
What Makes a Footballer?
May 20, 2011 by 10 Comments
I can marvel at Judd. But barrack for Goodes. Voss was a Champion. Pike was a legend. Campbell Brown can be a goose. That’s why we love and hate him.
Striking the Right Balance
May 20, 2011 by 19 Comments
I understand that 2011 is “The Year of Chemistry” according to the United Nations. The UN is the body that seems to take it upon itself to label each year as if such a label might give the following 365 days some direction. I wonder when the “Year of Accountants” gets a run? I like [Read more]
Round 9 Blog
May 20, 2011 by 34 Comments
A week overshadowed by the passing of one of the game’s most popular figures. Bob Davis was one of those personalities who overcame club parochialism and gained the affection of the wider footballing (and general) community. It was a life well spent. And so we look to this week’s games. Tonight offers many questions, fewer [Read more]
Saints deja-boo 1999
May 19, 2011 by 12 Comments
Sunday morning. Grey. It’s summer in London. A hostel-quality fry-up at the Hampstead Heath YHA sits comfortably in my belly. It’s about to hit checkout time, and the hallways are thick with typical backpacker buzz. The forwarding destinations will be varied. Some are Paris-bound on the Eurostar, some the ferry to Calais, others are off [Read more]
TEAM OF DECADE BOASTS WONDERFUL HOUSEHOLD NAMES
May 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
THERE was a tremendous air of anticipation in the room at the All Seasons Quality Resort at the end of October last year. Not only were 10 new people for the BFL’s Hall Of Fame to be inducted, but also the Team Of The Decade for 2000-2009 was to be unveiled. Members of the BFL’s [Read more]
Deconstructing Collingwood, part 2
May 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
Is an old VFL footy ground still a fair dinkum footy ground if it doesn’t have a fair-dinkum old-fashioned scoreboard? The Collingwood landmark what was the 1966 Victoria Park scoreboard was pulled down last January, as part of turning the ground into a community space.
Classic Passages:The Best of the Footy Almanac
May 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Phil Dimitriadis Rounds 2 and 3, 2007 “A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” Umberto [Read more]
Manchester dreaming and other football stories
May 19, 2011 by 6 Comments
By Roy Hay It has been a good year for both halves of Manchester, with City winning the F A Cup and qualifying for the European Champions League next season while United has won the English Premier League for a record 19th time and has a European Champions League final against Barcelona to come on [Read more]
James Gilchrist in Conversation
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The View from Shepparton – Round 8
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by Peter Schumacher OK so Brisbane lost again, this time to Essendon. At the Gabba. My daughter and son in law and grand daughter who are rabid Dons’ supporters didn’t say anything as they rushed into the local Lutheran Church service on the morning after the night before. They accompanied an organ as they played, [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – A personal journey through rugby league in Brisbane from the 1950s to the 1990s
May 18, 2011 by 31 Comments
by Greg Mallory ‘’Doubles on the main game! One of the most enduring memories of going to rugby league in Brisbane was the sight of the double sellers assembled at the gates. At Lang Park they were the most vocal and theatrical — as you passed through the turnstiles you were confronted with about [Read more]
One hundred Years Ago: Round 3, 13th May, 1911
May 18, 2011 by 6 Comments
A perfect autumn day greeted footballers and barrackers alike as they travelled to their appointed grounds for the third round of the 1911 season. Increasingly, Melbournians benefited from the Saturday half-holiday, freeing them to pursue the leisure of their choice. More and more were choosing football. It’s doubtful the sunshine made the streets and gutters [Read more]
Demons up – then down
May 18, 2011 by 3 Comments
North Melbourne v Melbourne by Steve Healy What a season for the Demons, so many ups and downs- the pattern had been a fantastic effort followed by coach-threatening loss. On this afternoon at Docklands I was convinced that pattern would continue. The sun was shining, the sky was mostly blue, so I wasn’t surprised to see [Read more]
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