Football Fact No. 1,000,000,002 Geoff Raines. Geoff Raines was the crispest player to ever pull on a boot. I don’t care that the father of Andrew was a pretty boy, or that the umps didn’t like him, or that he chased the dollar. Not a bit. In his days at Richmond he would take the [Read more]
27 May: Manangatang Lunch
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Great footy matches which have made it into your family mythology
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In the Harms family mythology there are many footy matches which are remembered. Not all fondly I might add. Almost all of them involve the Geelong Football Club. Many involve the despised Pies. Which footy match has made it into your family’s mythology; a story which is told and re-told.
From now on every loss just makes it harder for Voss
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By Sasha Lennon As a Victorian living in Brisbane, Saturday night’s inaugural ‘Q-Clash’ between the hapless Brisbane Lions and the exuberant Gold Coast Suns was a mouth-watering affair. But for Lions coach Michael Voss, I imagine the result left a particularly foul taste. Voss must be nervous. A Brownlow medallist, three-time premiership-winning captain and without [Read more]
Sporting achievements to be proud of
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by Jill Scanlon Sport – It’s part of being an Australian. In saying this, I mean no disrespect to those who prefer the Arts, music, literature and the like – not that these are mutually exclusive to sport. But Australians by-and-large truly are brought up with a healthy respect and enthusiasm for sporting endeavour and [Read more]
How I got to see the Cats game
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by Damian O’Donnell If you spell Daniel Menzel’s surname backwards you get “Leznem”. But Leznem is not a Geelong name. A bloke with that surname might play for St Kilda or Brisbane or Fremantle, he wouldn’t play for the Cats. No, the Cats have Menzel. I was thinking this as I strolled around a nursery [Read more]
Saturday in Geelong
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by Marcus Holt When I was growing up Saturday in Geelong was always synonymous with footy. Saturday mornings saw me running out in the resplendent yellow and red jumpers of the Terrifics in the Geelong West YMCA Little League under 9’s. Each week we’d line up against similarly named opposition: the Dazzlers, Rippers, Corkers or [Read more]
Heart-stopping Swans
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by Tom Bally The Sydney Swans are trying to kill me. There’s no other explanation for the last four weeks, a feverish run of breath stoppers and general all out frenzies of matches. A desperate hold out from an Eagles attack was followed by three soaking hours watching Geelong overrun us. To be fair my [Read more]
Stanhope
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The View from Shepparton
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Went to church yesterday as is my wont every Sunday. Thus I miss out on Insiders and Offsiders every Sunday which is not my want. But just discovered iview. Hallelujah.
Why we love footy
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by Steve Ingham It’s easy to get carried away in football. If a story is on the front page of the newspaper, if it leads the nightly news or takes up hours of talkback radio, most likely it is an ugly story. A scandal of some description. Sex. Drugs. Alcohol. Violence. Aside from the Brownlow [Read more]
Ted Hopkins
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by Graham Jackson Having just read and enjoyed ‘The Stats Revolution’ I thought I might revisit a poem of mine published in the Winter 1974 number of ‘Canberra Poetry’. It’s called ‘Ted Hopkins: The Twentieth Century Identity’. I first met Ted in 1968/9, but only got to know him in the early 1970s, in Albury, some [Read more]
The Monday Night Lament
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The Monday Night Lament (sung to the tune of Peter Paul and Mary’s “Where have all the flowers gone.”) by Yvette Wroby Where have all Saint good games gone, Long time passing Where have all the good ones gone, Long time ago Where have all the good wins gone, gone to others, almost every one [Read more]
Crio’s bucket list
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by Chris Riordan Seemingly unrelated matters have latterly caused me to reflect on great times and, indeed, the quick passing of time. Marto texted when he heard of Lionel Rose’s passing – “more memories of growing up”. Years are most easily remembered by events. Marto was with me at St Andrews in 1984 to see [Read more]
Seve: a shot of genius
May 10, 2011 by 6 Comments
The many obituaries devoted to golfing legend Seve Ballesteros are rightfully glowing. No golfer was more cavalier than Seve. And no golfer was more fearless than Seve. Very few if any golfers possess the mental and physical capabilities to win Open Championships from car parks. Check out the link below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpcBFvZlyDk Physically, Seve’s skill largely [Read more]
The Match Report for the Round 7 (aka the bye)
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by Paul Harkin The weekend started off slowly. No Collingwood game on Friday night, only a boring Port versus Hawthorn. What am I going to do this weekend without the Pies to keep me from being totally nuts Saturday arrived and my wife informed me she was away all day and so was my one [Read more]
A young bloke having a go
May 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The news of the passing of Lionel Rose was very sad indeed and brought back a few memories. I was appointed to Yallourn North Primary School in the early 1960’s and every now and then I would head back to Melbourne for the odd weekend. One Sunday afternoon on my way back to Yallourn I [Read more]
Ron Casey’s call of the Rose-Harada fight in `68
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Folks (radio link follows) In tribute to Lionel Rose….. have a listen to this call of the last round and the decision of his world title fight with Fighting Harada in Tokyo in 68 I was 14 at the time and listened to it broadcast down a phone line from Tokyo on my transistor. I think I [Read more]
Essendon, West Coast and Lionel
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Once upon a time, a mate of mine and I created the “Let the Eagles Fly at Yarraville Action Faction” for the” Coodabeen Champions”, at that stage broadcasting on 3RRR. We got a few honourable mentions for our entries and even had a victory one week. I would still like to see the Yarraville VFA [Read more]
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