By Domenic Favata Nowadays, the football world is intrigued by many negative aspects and stories of footballers or football managers. What is really forgotten are the things that make our game so great and unique. I’d like to focus on a positive aspect of footy and that is the quality of football displayed over round [Read more]
ANZAC Day2011
April 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
ANZAC XVII by Mark O’Connell I sent a brief email to the Herald sun about 2 weeks ago suggesting they promote this year’s game as ANZAC XVII. I received no reply but this year there have been repeated references to this being the 17th clash of the 2 sides on this day. In no previous [Read more]
The Sounds of Silence
April 27, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Steve Fahey I like this Easter Monday/Anzac Day confluence. I am not sure when it will happen again, nor whether I will still be breathing when it does, but this year it assisted my enormous privilege to experience two of the great sporting silences on consecutive days. Monday I was of course at [Read more]
Chappy’s pact remains intact
April 27, 2011 by 27 Comments
The two arch-rivals prepare to do it all again. Mooney is a late scratching. Menzel the Magician (leading the goal kicking at Geelong) is named as substitute. The match begins under glorious hazy sunshine. I’m standing among a bunch of triumphal Hawthorn fans. Where is Charles Darwin when we need him? The message emanating from [Read more]
Another one for the history books
April 27, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Hawthorn v Geelong It looked as if everything had gone back in time. September 27, 2008, a sunny day at the MCG, with the stands packed to the rafters. Grand Final day, the Hawks and the Cats. But no, this was April 26, 2011. Replace the names of Dew, Crawford and Williams [Read more]
Under Wimmera Skies
April 27, 2011 by 8 Comments
by Robert Allen The Wimmera Football League (WFL) is a nine team competition based on a string of towns along and adjacent to the Great Western Highway. For many years, the Minyip Double Blues and the Murtoa Kookaburras were bitter rivals in the League, and in its various antecedents dating back to the early 1900s.
pig skin redemption
April 26, 2011 by 1 Comment
pig skin redemption god came to our footy club on a tuesday night. he wore jeans with work boots and a flannel top. he looked solid, like a farmer, when he stripped down and ran out. he did a few parlour tricks, or, what for him would have been parlour tricks, just to prove who [Read more]
Crio’s Question: how do you like your sports?
April 26, 2011 by 8 Comments
It was always a given that “there’s nothing like being there” and, whilst that’s true, it doesn’t necessarily make it better. The push for all “live” AFL matches brings the choice even more in to focus. Whilst I love going to the MCG for a day match – bar blockbusters – there are viable alternatives. [Read more]
Ronnie’s 147
April 26, 2011 by 11 Comments
April 21, 1997. I’m playing pool with Previous Ann in a smoky Galway boozer. Previous again demonstrates her prowess on the baize by nailing the black. I’m left to ponder how I’ve been rolled again. She can play this girl. Sadly, I can’t. Discussion quickly turns to the prospect of devouring chips and curry sauce [Read more]
The human element
April 26, 2011 by 13 Comments
Have you even noticed how most racists start their rant with: “I’m not racist, but…” Just as most commontators start with: “Now I don’t want to take all the colour out of the game, but…” This piece is for them… Goal Umpires and Video Calls Some time this year, as sure as Brisbane aren’t much [Read more]
Worth the trip: Tiges too good in a thriller
April 26, 2011 by 6 Comments
In my mind there is nothing better than making the 2 and a half to 3 hour trip down to Melbourne just to go watch the footy, and it’s made better that Dad and I are going down in the Torana which is mine when I get my license so I just recently spent $1500 [Read more]
Saints Season of False Dawns So Far
April 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Sculley It has been a season of false dawns for St.Kilda with each of the opening four matches following a familiar script. In round one against the now undefeated Cats the Saints led all day and should never have lost. In round two, and again on Thursday night, the men from Morabbin blew [Read more]
Friday
April 24, 2011 by 4 Comments
The chainsaw packed up well before dusk, but I was already up the other side of Mt Sloak, so locked in the hubs and pushed the ute through the regrowth of an old, steep loggers’ track, looking for Sunday’s jag, thinking too much, until, before I knew it, the sun had fucked off. I had [Read more]
Time for fans to stand up for our game
April 24, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Jill Scanlon On Thursday, Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes commented in the media about his disgust with the fact that racial vilification from spectators still occurs in our wonderful game, more than a decade into the new century. This comment emerged in the week following an incident during Hawthorn’s Round 4 match at Aurora [Read more]
The Numbers Game – Collingwood 2011
April 23, 2011 by 14 Comments
Well, it’s Good Friday and there’s only so much a man can take of Sandy Roberts, Peter Mitchell, Jennifer Keyte, Deeksy and even the old legend, the now dottery Dan (“number 12 please Mr”) Webb on the Good Friday Appeal, so I took up Peter and Mals’ best numbers challenge from late in the week [Read more]
Round 5: Easter Blog
April 23, 2011 by 49 Comments
One round of football will blur into the next with a leisurely spread of fixtures up to May Day. Saints fans will be relieved but unconvinced about their win up in Brisbane. Lions fans will console themselves with the effort, but still face the reality of a 0-4 start. The unpredictable Port have the chance for consecutive [Read more]
Crio’s Easter racing preview
April 22, 2011 by 11 Comments
If you can get through the Good Friday doldrums – hint: Singapore races on TVN from 230pm! – the reward is a fantastic weekend of punting options. On this particular forum I shall ignore AFL and the furore surrounding the betting explosion, which, by any measure, has been immense and intrusive. And, though this page [Read more]
Half-watched
April 22, 2011 by 3 Comments
You know that game kids play when there is something spooky like a scary movie and you watch between your fingers because you kinda don’t want to watch and you kinda do. I half-watched St.Kilda half-play last night on the TV. It was the most reluctant I have ever been to watch a game. Gone [Read more]
My Friend Gary
April 22, 2011 by 17 Comments
Prep can be a tough gig when you have a thermos of fried rice rather than a Vegemite sandwich. Sure, I got a knowing nod from the Wong sisters, and the insatiable competitive beast that was Andrew Sun, who, even at the ripe old age of five, had the age-old Chinese tradition of comparison perfected. “My [Read more]
Stawell – The Hush
April 21, 2011 by 2 Comments
John’s story about Ken Trewick was a ripper and it brought to mind many happy memories of Stawell from a time long past. While Trewick’s story is, was and always will be part of the folklore of Stawell it made me think about the thousands of runners who, over the past 130 years or so, [Read more]
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