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]
Sav Rocca – my childhood hero
April 21, 2011 by 8 Comments
Unable to sleep in bed at 2:30am is a good time for me to be having a nice scan of the sports section in the Herald Sun website. A familiar face catches my eye. It is the face of my childhood hero, Sav Rocca. Growing up and watching Collingwood, Sav was my everything. Being too [Read more]
The Pre-Wrap: Round V
April 21, 2011 by 4 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Lots of hype around the place. The Dawes ruling was one that caught our eye. Down at the old BGS – and remember, so dogged in defeat, that’s where they learn to play the game – they call that one ‘the look [Read more]
Saturday night footy
April 21, 2011 by 5 Comments
The years click over, but the leathery crack of a good pack mark still makes me horny. It’s only reserves now, but so what? They can hurt you, and try to hurt you, but don’t know how to be a bastard with their bodies when the ball’s in the air. I lead with my [Read more]
LET’S JUST CALL IT ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL, OR SOCCER FOR SHORT!
April 21, 2011 by 23 Comments
The final session of Gaelic football for kids in Abu Dhabi last Sunday involved a match against the parents at the British School – delicious irony in that given the history between the Irish and the English. But that’s another story. The kids call it “Gaelic”, but the parents call it football, after all, its [Read more]
Oakbank
April 21, 2011 by 12 Comments
By Chris Riordan In South Australia, people know how often they’ve “been to Oakbank”. For well over 130 years, generations have journeyed in to the Hills and been intoxicated by the magic that is nowadays promoted (debatably) as the biggest picnic race carnival in the world. The road there, formerly a winding trip across the [Read more]
Eagles soar a long way from home
April 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Sallese Gibson Online at http://sallesegibson.wordpress.com/ It’s February in Toronto – outside, it’s snowing and the temperature is sitting at a chilly -10 °C. But that doesn’t stop the Toronto Eagles. It’s pre-season training as usual, no matter the weather. While it may be a completely unknown concept to most locals, the Eagles are determined to [Read more]
Canberra Track Memories
April 20, 2011 by 2 Comments
One might assume that Canberra racehorse trainers somehow reflect the people themselves. Staid, comfortable, educated and well travelled. That assumption would be well wide of the mark. I have owned numerous horses over the past 10 or 12 years and been involved with numerous trainers. As in other parts of the country Canberra trainers are [Read more]
The beautiful game
April 20, 2011 by 16 Comments
By Ged McMahon Early in the week I scoffed when someone referred to soccer as “the beautiful game”. Soccer has just never grabbed me. My main beef is the constant diving and staging for free kicks. This is at severe odds to the “show no pain to the opposition” approach of Aussie Rules. Last weekend [Read more]
Haiku Bob Rd 4: last of the snow
April 20, 2011 by 3 Comments
It’s fair to say I’m a little confused. Not (just) because I’m on the other side of the world while my beloved Pies enjoy their most purple of purple of patches in living memory! As a haiku poet, I’m a captive of nature and the cycle of the seasons. It’s as it should be. Part [Read more]
SANFL Trumps AFL
April 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
I went to two? football matches in Adelaide on the weekend. One was great football and the other was Port Adelaide v Crows. Give me a SANFL game any time. Last Friday night at Norwood we witnessed not only a great game of football but football in all its glory. A crowd of over 8,000 [Read more]
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