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
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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]
Family spills the beans
March 29, 2011 by 1 Comment
It’s not often that the Swans play in Melbourne. And I always try to make an effort to see my boys live every possible time when they are in Melbourne. But sometimes it just doesn’t work like that. Sometimes I have footy to play. Other times I have work. And sometimes it happens to be [Read more]
Haiku Bob- the twirling sherrin
March 29, 2011 by 5 Comments
footy season begins all the teams freshly tattooed first game of the year – Ball tackles without hesitation umpire’s whistle – side by side fingers point together crisp autumn shadows – they answer each one of our goals feeling closer to home – Cloke shanks one sun slips through clouds Pendlebury finds himself on the [Read more]
A Bad Start and a Good Start
March 29, 2011 by 1 Comment
Before the first bounce of the footy at the Collingwood/Port Adelaide game, the teams lined up and loudspeaker played the National Anthem. “WTF “ I thought to myself. If I had looked at the Footy Recod I would have realised that “Gertie by the Sea” was being played at the start of all Round One [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Head to Head
March 29, 2011 by 11 Comments
Apparently another Pies Flag is a given. The world, it seems, is back on its hyperbolic axis – despite their last consecutive (can’t bear “back-to-back) premierships being over 70 years ago! Here’s a way to stay interested in what will manifestly otherwise be a “cakewalk” – using the increasingly popular “head-to-head” betting. And it is [Read more]
North Melbourne vs West Cost/Collingwood
March 28, 2011 by 7 Comments
By Corey McKernan The season is up and under way, and Round One saw yet another brilliant, tight clash between North Melbourne and the West Coast Eagles. Looking ahead to round two, North come up against my childhood side, Collingwood, and I thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences as a North player [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Round 1
March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
The View can await from its slumbers. Or nightmares as far as the cricket team is concerned. On the latter, despite all of the breast beating surely it is as simple as this. The team has slipped but this was as inevitable as day follows night. So at end of the day Tait, Lee, Johnson, [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND I
March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The round started with The Bluebaggers come from behind win against the dogged but ragged Tigers on the Thursday night. Friday night’s clash between two September contenders droned on until the time keeper could stand it no longer and rang the bell with [Read more]
Harms on Round 1
March 28, 2011 by 16 Comments
Thursday evening. I am thankful for football. Football takes Anna and me to the North Fitzroy Arms where we join the footy tipping comp, and catch up with the grey-haired wits who gather there. Anna has a lemonade-Coke (as we call it on our household). We head home. An hour off the opening bounce. Fish [Read more]
Better your own socks…
March 28, 2011 by 13 Comments
I have no better description of Geelong’s win over the stodgy Saints than to say it was a bit like smelling your own socks; not a particularly pleasant experience but better than the alternative which would be smelling someone else’s. The game had a peculiar feeling about it right from the start. The crowd was [Read more]
Round 1 Geelong v St-Kilda: Winning Ugly
March 28, 2011 by 10 Comments
Tennis journeyman Brad Gilbert penned a ripping book called Winning Ugly. His tome details all manner of methods used to conquer more talented opponents. He concentrates on the mental rather than the physical. He details myriad ways to finagle. Gilbert didn’t have the panache of a McEnroe (although after beating him in three sets at [Read more]
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