Let’s try and get to ten in a row without hitting the ground. OK! One. Two. Three. Use your opposite side. Guide the ball down with your left hand. Head over the ball. Better. Six. Seven. Take the ball in your hands. Nine. Ten. Good! Keep going! It’s Tuesday before Easter at Mum and Dad’s [Read more]
The Beginnings of Obsession
April 19, 2011 by 18 Comments
By Holly Fahey (almost 15) Yesterday I attended, along with Paul, Jacob and Joel, a Thommo’s Team 13 clinic in Brunswick Street. After much resentment towards going (“I’m too old”, “I do have a life you know, dad”) I decided on Sunday evening that I would go, just so I could get the signatures of [Read more]
Last recruit
April 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
It’s that time of the year in bush footy. No matter what the code, presidents and committees, sponsors and hangers-on, club men who have worked hard all summer are trying to put the finishing touches on their team lists. They’re selling hope.
Stawell Dreaming
April 19, 2011 by 13 Comments
Something is stirring. It might be because the leaves are fading to nothing in the trees, it might be the chill that greets me each morning as I open the front door and toss the tea leaves onto the camellias, or it might be something from within; something that won’t go away. About now the [Read more]
Off Season?? Game On!!
April 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Damn the torpedos and hoist the mainsail, I’ve got an idea. I know we should be gearing up for season proper, honing our Richmond jokes, Arelditing one eye shut and devising an app to decode Razor Ray Chamberlin, but think on this. I have enjoyed the off-season more than any self respecting football purist has [Read more]
Don’t worry Chappy, there’s no chance of that!
April 19, 2011 by 40 Comments
By Sasha Lennon I read this morning that Geelong star Paul Chapman says he’s still hurting from the 2008 Grand Final loss to Hawthorn, so much so that he has vowed “never again” will the Cats lose to the Hawks on that biggest of days. Well let me be the first one to offer you [Read more]
Fitzy and the kid
April 19, 2011 by 5 Comments
What the hell was Mike Fitzpatrick thinking? He was a mountain. Tough, no thug, just honest tough. A damn good sort of strong to be. Carl Dietrich would make the headlines, Don Scott punch out his own teammates at training. Neil Balme was crazier than any of them. He’d do more damage than the lot [Read more]
Following the Blues from Cambodia
April 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
by Sophie Smith Having lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the past three years, I would’ve come home a lot earlier I think if this region of the world did not have the Australian Network! At least five games every weekend of AFL has been my saviour and watching my beloved Carlton team play is always a [Read more]
Scoreboard Pressure, the website
April 19, 2011 by 2 Comments
Almanackers Les Everett and Vin Maskell have never met but they share an affinity for photographing and philosophising about scoreboards. scoreboardpressure.com is a fledgling website inspired by Australian Rules football scoreboards. The blog celebrates the fact that while all footy scoreboards have the same basic function, they can differ from ground to ground, and from [Read more]
GIGSTUFF 52
April 19, 2011 by 4 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz What a round, eh? The 150th draw in VFL/AFL history (and third in four rounds), Geelong defeated Sydney by the average player-age of the Cats (27) and congratulations to Brisbane and St Kilda, who both managed to get through Round 4 without losing. And in even better news, at least one of [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND IV
April 18, 2011 by 4 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. It was yet another Cakewalk for The Good Old Collingwoods on Friday night as TRP delivered the coup de grâce to The Gallant Tigers. The Bombers & The Blues gave us, arguably, the best draw of the season so far, in match chock-a-block [Read more]
The View From Shepparton- Rd 4
April 18, 2011 by 3 Comments
Friday night. In the unreal world of our household decide that a combination of the delayed telecast plus the certainty of a one sided match means that I spend the evening with my daughter and her triplet girls aged 12 watching the first half of a new Blu-ray recording of Les Miserable’s. Son in law [Read more]
FPS Report RD 4: Normal Service has been resumed; thank you for your patience.
April 18, 2011 by 14 Comments
I suppose I will reach a point where Magpie domination of one sided games becomes boring but it won’t be for a while. In sixty years of following Collingwood I don’t think we have ever looked this dominant. Both of our two previous premierships, 1958 and 1990, were followed by pretty ordinary seasons. The two [Read more]
Round 4 Sydney v Geelong SCG April 16 2011
April 18, 2011 by 9 Comments
Round 4 Sydney v Geelong SCG April 16 2011 Friday arvo. Chris SMS’s seeking counsel for her footy tips. “Cats or Swans?” reads her succinct question. Three wins from three has convinced me the Cats are the real deal still and not even the fact that the game is at the SCG dents my confidence. [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Horror Away Trips
April 18, 2011 by 26 Comments
North will limp, winless, back to Melbourne, their fans cussing a draw that has had them twice cross the Continent already this season. Geelong are unbeaten at Kardinia Park since August, 2007. Whilst “processes” and “structures” remain the catchcries amongst motivators, sometimes it is impossible to ignore the impact of a horror away trip. What [Read more]
AN EVENING WITH DOLLY GRAY
April 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
Dimmer says we’re “a fair chance” tonight against Collingwood. Humble supporters can be a tad more realistic. A Tiger victory over Collingwood is about as likely as Bob Brown receiving an invitation to the BHP Christmas picnic in December. At least I can do it in comfort tonight. I like my normal seat at ground [Read more]
Mum Shows Them How to Barrack
April 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
Yesterday, Mum and I went to the ‘G for our favourite winter outing: footy. Mum is 81, and I am the eldest of her 9 kids. I am 58 and still learning not to get sucked in by annoying oppostion footy barrackers. I use my radio earpiece to block out annoying comments. Is that what [Read more]
The Return of Football
April 17, 2011 by 6 Comments
My niece wants me to take her to the football. I’m not so sure. We’re Bulldogs supporters. The whole family is Bulldogs, apart from a couple of irritating Tigers fans who are always trying to rub something in. She comes over in a red-white-and-blue scarf even though it’s twenty-five degrees outside. It’s the first [Read more]
Saturday Afternoon Spectacular
April 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
You have to give it to the AFL for innovation, today they came up with the novel idea of footy at the G on a Saturday afternoon! You know what ,I think it could catch on, there was a very large crowd there to see the Dons play the old enemy Carlton on this sunny [Read more]
A Sherrin among the pucks
April 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By Sallese Gibson Scores are tied. Less than two minutes of play remain. You can feel the tension in the air as the players jostle for best position. Play resumes and two opponents sprint towards each other. You can hear the thud, like a thunder clap, as their bodies collide and they fall to the [Read more]
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