Year 11 was definitely getting to me. The increased workload, the longer hours (it seems longer anyway), and the increasingly colder mornings had been working against me for a while now. Free dress days always put a spring in my step though. I don’t know why, I guess it makes us students feel more human [Read more]
GIGSTUFF 49
April 1, 2011 by 12 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz “2… 1… ZERO, AND THE FOOTY SEASON HAS CLEARED THE TOWER OF OFF-SEASON SCANDAL” And what a season blastoff it was! 2-point, 1-point, zero-point margins and a 4-point one in there, to boot. I’ve got enough material from round 1 to last me until the mid-season break! Or I would have [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND II
April 1, 2011 by 13 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. We welcome the Gold Coast Chopping Blocks to Football at the Elite Level and The Saints’ Crap Riewoldt lines up against his cousin Jumping Jack Tiger. The Socceroos beat their nemesis Deutschland 2-1 in a friendly over there and India and Sri [Read more]
Who Loves The Suns?
April 1, 2011 by 32 Comments
As the AFL has been loudly proclaiming all week, “history” is about to be made. With the latest grand football experiment set to debut, it seems timely to ask the football public what they think. Aside from the barrage of publicity, do you really care? How do supporters of clubs who lost players feel? What [Read more]
Drawing a Blank
April 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
Tuning into the Swans v Demons match last season caused me to whimper like a dog and all of my teeth to fall out. Despite being the catalyst for a magnificent comeback the shock of that 73 point belting has haunted me ever since and when I found out we were playing them in round [Read more]
Almanac Racing: ELVIS’ CINDERELLA DREAM…will the shoe fit?
April 1, 2011 by 5 Comments
Our society’s adaptation of the Golden Slipper tale is most widely known as Cinderella, in which a most unlikely, improperly disregarded individual finds wealth, true happiness, blah, blah. Since its inception in 1957 with Todman’s triumph, George Ryder’s brainchild for the STC’s Slipper “enchantment” has become the richest juveniles’ race in the world. It has [Read more]
There’s nothing that can substitute a good crowd ….aka uncomfortably numb.
April 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Hi there everyone, Not sure about the rest of you ‘nackers but I’m still in a sense of shock/numbness that footy is back… Anyway after an exciting first round I’m still (slightly)perturbed by 2 issues: Why is the football community obsessed with rule changes and does the sub rule change really matter anyway? (i’m more [Read more]
Round 1, 1965
March 31, 2011 by 9 Comments
Last week on afl.com.au, Paul Daffey wound the clock back to Round 1, 1965. Relive the Saints very first match at Moorrabin, North Melbourne’s debut at Coburg City Oval and Ron Barassi’s debut as Carlton captain-coach right here: http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/109819/default.aspx
Before and After
March 31, 2011 by 1 Comment
by Yvette Wroby 1 Ok, footy starts tonight with Carlton and Richmond. The season begins and we are so ready to get away from scandals and injuries and misbehaving footballers and agents, just get back to the games we actually want to hear, see and read about. So the day before our first match against [Read more]
F1 Grand Prix: Should our nation’s most prestigious motor racing event be axed?
March 31, 2011 by 10 Comments
By Damian Watson The Australian Formula One Grand Prix has been previously touted as the pinnacle of international sporting events staged across the country, however the sanctity of the race has been questioned and threatened in recent years. As a result of dwindling crowds, significant financial consequences and angst amongst local residents and politicians, the [Read more]
Arma’s Club Corner – Edition 3
March 31, 2011 by 6 Comments
by Arma Nasco Adelaide: Has recently launched “Super Seven” on Crows TV where they feature seven super moments from the previous round. It wasn’t hard for them to come up with a good set of seven from their opening round win. Looking forward to seeing if the “Super Seven” idea still has legs in the [Read more]
The Mighty Matadors
March 30, 2011 by 5 Comments
By Ged McMahon It has been a few years since my Fridays have been lazy enough to justify spending an hour fixing, pimping, bolstering and shuffling my Supercoach team. My debut season in 2007 was a steep learning curve. It wasn’t until about Round 7 that I discovered that you can actually substitute your players [Read more]
A new beginning?
March 30, 2011 by 15 Comments
Melbourne V Sydney By Steve Healy Round 1. It represents a new beginning. But for the Demons, it has so often represented a new ending. Who could forget our disappointing first match in 2007 against St.Kilda, where it would signify the end of the Daniher era? Or 2008, when we were obliterated to our core [Read more]
Pre season is over
March 30, 2011 by 5 Comments
Chasing the elusive bush premiership – Part III by Jared Newton Friday night at Johnstone Park saw the Imperials final trial match for the pre-season. Overall it’s been a successful pre-season, numbers have been good, players have been fresh and keen at the prospect of playing under a new coach, coaches are keen and ready [Read more]
Celebrating Pies occupy the Yorkshire Stingo
March 30, 2011 by 1 Comment
I remember Steve Fahey. Not him exactly, but do remember the 30 or so people sitting in the trees. I was 15, and my parents had the Yorkshire Stingo at the time and I’ll never forget that day. My family are all Essendon supporters, but I still remember that day as one of the greatest [Read more]
Pre-season in the Tassie mountains
March 29, 2011 by 10 Comments
Last night was a good one. Everything that’s great about Tasmania, the Wild West down South. I’d missed my team’s last practice match and needed a run, so drove up to the mountains of Scotsdale, where a bush league was having a pre-season lightning Comp, and whored myself to the first team who needed me. [Read more]
St Kilda: Out of their comfort zone
March 29, 2011 by 7 Comments
I think us Saints fans are now decidedly out of our comfort zone. For so long we carried the mantle as “everyone’s second favourite team” or “the loveable loser” – but in recent years, despite still not having won anything, it seems we are now public enemy one – very unfamiliar territory for a Saint [Read more]
Blues turn gun on themselves, still manage to miss
March 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
To figure out what you stand for, it usually helps to know what you stand against. In this regard, Collingwood has proved invaluable to Carlton supporters. But if I was to turn to chapter one, page one of my personal book of nemeses, you wouldn’t find a Magpie. Instead, there’d be a big snarling Tiger. [Read more]
Is There a Defence?
March 29, 2011 by 3 Comments
The simple answer is yes, there most certainly is a defence and it kept last year’s Prelim Finalist to 6 goals. It’s the attack that is the issue. I don’t mind pragmatism in footy. The Saints forward line on Friday night will not go down in history as the game’s most potent. A coach can [Read more]
I Don’t Care
March 29, 2011 by 2 Comments
By Andrew Else A text message from a friend before the game read: “Today is the first day of our new football lives”. I’d heard them all throughout the off-season: Bomber did the dirty; Hirdy is just the coffee boy; Goodwin is your best midfielder; David’s Dad wouldn’t have done such a thing; My response is simple: [Read more]
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