‘Patience’ is the word Patience to get to the business end Patience to watch two pretty ordinary weeks of Pies performance Patience to watch your team get caught time after time Patience with a lack of intensity Patience of a coach to give a dud an even break Patience to see if ANYONE CAN KICK [Read more]
The Tyranny of Football Distance
September 2, 2010 by 6 Comments
There was an interesting article in The Weekend Australian on Saturday by Mick Malthouse, in which he looked at the procession of retiring players that can occur at this time of year, the impact on clubs when they lose a core of experience simultaneously, and how different clubs have managed the process. Significantly, he compared [Read more]
Double trouble for Saints on Friday
September 2, 2010 by 4 Comments
If the pattern established by recent Saints-Cats clashes continue, Roscoe and company have a confidence-sapping eight-goal walloping to contemplate on Friday night. Middle of last year, St K beat Ceelong by six points oal in the classic Round 15 encounter. Then in the Grand Final Geelong turned the tables by 12 points, or two goals. [Read more]
The Feudal Minor Premiers
September 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
In sport there is always a temptation for us fans to take a “Feudal” perspective and say that if you beat the current Number 1, then you assume the status yourself. It rarely actually works that way – transitive logic (if A > B and B > C, then A > C) and team sports [Read more]
The good oil on the Tigers
September 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
by John Green Sometimes tourists return from third world destinations and marvel that the locals “look so happy!” It’s like observing Richmond fans. One wag recently labelled the Tigers as the “happiest bottom four team in history”. Supporters are convinced that the glory days are about to return on the strength of an exciting young [Read more]
Tribute to Roosy
September 1, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Steve Fahey I know it’s an un-Collingwood and un-Floreat Pican thing to do, but I want to pay tribute to one of the greats of our game, who is fast approaching his swansong (pun intended). I first came across Paul Roos in 1979. He was wearing number 19 for the fashionably named Beverly [Read more]
In A League Of Its Own – Issue 6
September 1, 2010 by 10 Comments
Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League Crowds in the A-league are a worry. I’ll probably go on about this for most of the season, but they are getting to a near serious level. Last week, I went to AAMI Park, to see a popular, successful and attractive-to-watch team in Melbourne Victory, take on a team [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 22
September 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Peter Schumacher Don’t like the notion that some teams might have been playing dead in this round, notably St Kilda and Geelong. If that proves to be true, (and outside observers like myself would never know) then I hope that they both go out in straight sets. Meanwhile in the real or unreal world, [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XXII
August 30, 2010 by 1 Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The round started with The Stevedores sending The Miseries Down Below over where the Leeuwin Current warmly brushes the south-western corner of the Fatal Shore. Saturday saw the outbreak of a deeper and more worrying malaise – The Dreaded Collywobbles as The Mayblooms [Read more]
Crio’s Question: Finals Performers
August 30, 2010 by 45 Comments
Brent “Tiger” Crosswell, finals champion, is alleged once to have said, “Give me 80,000 people at the MCG and I was Hercules. Give me a grey day at the Western Oval and I wasn’t worth a cracker.” Reputations are made and broken over the next month of footy. Davis and Milne are under the microscope. Stevie [Read more]
Italian Team of the Century- Alec Epis
August 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
Click on the link. You will be taken to another page, with a small image link. Click on that link, and the full story, with pictures, will load. tony de boldo Alessandro _Alec_ Epis doc
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games: The Finale, Rd 22
August 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
Round 22 Western Bulldogs versus Essendon Saturday, August 28th., Etihad Stadium We’re out of coffee beans. I’ve scrounged and found a bottle of gold-label instant, carefully avoiding a confrontation with the ‘best-by’ date. And because I have gifted the remaining few jars of cumquat jam to the deserving poor, we’re into Cottees’ marmalade. As a [Read more]
Veterans go out on a high
August 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
“Corey Jones can he win it, or at least make it a tie. JONES! JONES’ GOAL!!” That was the proudest, most exciting moment in the AFL career of Corey Jones, a stalwart of the North Melbourne footy club. A great goalkicker for the club, he ran out onto the MCG for just his second game [Read more]
THE FACELESS MEN STRIKE AGAIN
August 30, 2010 by 8 Comments
So the Bomber “faithful” have got their man, eh? Well, good on you guys – love your style. I heard about Matty Knights’ knifing half way through the third quarter at Etihad Stadium today. The shabby decision came as no surprise. But its rapidity certainly did, considering the bungling ineptitude with which Essendon has handled [Read more]
Not happy Mick!!!
August 29, 2010 by 7 Comments
Danni Eid apologizes to her fans for not providing a match report for the Hawks vs. Pies game. While she took notes and was intending on writing one up, her mood took a swing for the worse and her feelings of disgust towards Malthouse’s selection heightened which caused this decision. She had taken to venting [Read more]
Dogs get the job done
August 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This was it. This was my time to shine. After 17 long weeks of training in the radio world, I was finally thrust into the deep end. Sure, I had a lot of responsibility. But for the six hours I was required in the studio, I was mainly sitting back, doing nothing. Yet, with a [Read more]
A Finals prelude to Warm the Soul
August 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Another week down, another Friday, another game of Footy. I remember back to Round 1, when the season opened on a Thursday night with Richmond and Carlton under lights at the MCG, now after such a short time, it’s the opening game of the last round of the home and away season between two finals [Read more]
Fremantle maintain home ground advantage
August 28, 2010 by 2 Comments
With the finals die already significantly cast, this was the Round 22 encounter of most consequence to the combatants: home or away in Perth will always be vital to finals prospects. Eleven inclusions to the Dockers side indicated the extent to which they’d staked their hopes on this game. Carlton had an army of fans [Read more]
LOCAL FOOTY: TWO DAYS IN AUGUST (AND MAYBE ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER)
August 27, 2010 by 2 Comments
I better offer profuse apologies for taking so long between entries. There has been that much going on finding time to do something of this nature is a little too hard but having taken some time out of the grueling schedule it’s time to blog once again. So where do we begin? Well there has [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XXII
August 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. As the drama out t the John Pascoe Faulkner Reserve descends to farce, the basket weaving classes continue under The Caretaker, who assures all that Ian & David are right behind him. (He’d do better with Matthew, Mark, Luke & John – [Read more]
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