Elsternwick Amateur Football Club’s greatest rivals Club games won lost drawn first played last played ANZ Bank/Albert Park 50 26 24 0 1961 2010 Collegians 47 20 25 2 1914 1953 Old Scotch 42 11 20 1 1923 1947 University Blacks 41 15 26 0 1921 1947 Glenhuntly 40 17 23 0 1928 1998 Power [Read more]
Cats keep out the Cold
July 8, 2010 by 8 Comments
It was a cold old day in Canberra last Sunday. Freezing in fact. With the kids bored out of their brain. And you kicking yourself for not having backed Serena to win Wimbledon. And sad with what the Uruguayans, and Fate, did to Ghana. Miserable outside and in. Although the fire and the Rice Bubbles [Read more]
Tigers’ win just as good on replay
July 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
Obviously, I was at St.Kilda V Melbourne when this match ended. Fortunately, I taped it so I could watch probably the equal best match of the round in full. A lazy afternoon in the holidays was the perfect time to view this game. Sydney won the toss and kicked to the city end. As the [Read more]
Top 10: Notable Comebacks From Injury
July 8, 2010 by 7 Comments
Well it is fair to declare that the hot topics in the football world at the present time relates to long-term injuries. The loss of star Fremantle mature-age recruit Michael Barlow to a broken leg is a blow not only for the Dockers but also to the competition in general as many would agree his [Read more]
WALKER NOT A GRADE, NEVER WILL BE
July 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
Enigmatic Adelaide forward Taylor Walker will never be an A-grader. A big statement, but it is true. The boy from Broken Hill does not fit into the A-grade category, according to the locals at the Barrier town (Broken Hill is on the Barrier Range). To be an A-grader one has to be born in Broken [Read more]
round 14 – one touch at a time
July 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
the night drifts along until Didak another night punctuated by Harry’s stampedes Jolly sidesteps the night all to himself first goal in an hour followed by another a minute later World Cup month and now Daisy tries a scissor kick night sounds a smother ricochets off the roof Swan up the ground and back one [Read more]
Freo breaks Port, Palmer breaks Barlow’s leg
July 7, 2010 by 1 Comment
Fremantle V Port Adelaide By Steve Healy This fixtured match left me dazzled, it has since last October. Fremantle v Port Adelaide, the only Saturday afternoon game in Round 14? Surely not. A game of footy is a game of footy, however. There are not many things I love more than listening to the footy [Read more]
The Albatross Rules – Chapter 18: Birds of the High Country
July 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
18. Birds of the High Country Con had woken up late on the Monday before the Dwights Mill game, flipped out of bed into the same pair of board shorts he’d kicked off the night before, and padded into the kitchen. Maureen was sitting at the laminex table staring into a half-full mug. He wasn’t [Read more]
Victoria v The All-Stars: Newman for mid-season draft?
July 7, 2010 by 8 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Sitting in the black chairs in the Numurkah doctors, I looked down at the ground, not trying to attract the attention of anyone. Wearing my ugg boots and trackies and with unbrushed hair, I was quite a sight. It was only old people in the waiting room though. If they are going [Read more]
Franksy’s 200th game
July 7, 2010 by 10 Comments
Daniel Franks player his 200th game for the Wynyard Cats last Saturday. Who? What? Where? Who cares? We all do. The long suffering supporters who have shared all his pain from the bone crunching hits he has received in his protracted career of unflinching attack on the ball; the emotional pain of another belting to [Read more]
Glitz and Glamour
July 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
by John Green Is it possible to be the glamour team of the competition and yet be sitting in last place on the ladder? Suddenly, after three wins in four games, Richmond is the flavour of the month. Ranked number one in clearances, scoring from clearances, individual clearance winner (Shane Tuck) and individual goalkicker (Jack [Read more]
Book Review: The Damned United by David Peace
July 6, 2010 by 9 Comments
David Peace, The Damned United, Faber and Faber, London, 2006, $23.95 Reviewed by Chris Riordan David Peace’s THE DAMNED UNITED is a remarkable novel. By dint of its nominal subject, Brian Clough, football manager, and his catastrophic 44 day reign at Leeds United in 1974, it is a sports book. But whilst that in itself, [Read more]
Cats cruise as Roos lose Ziebell – and belief – early
July 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
Geelong versus North Melbourne 1.10pm, Sunday, July 4 Skilled Stadium, Geelong by Andrew Starkie ‘Confident?’ I ask the Roo beside me, taking my usual seat, front row, Melbourne end goals. In order to avoid disappointment, I always pre-purchase a ticket from the club for the annual Cattery game, and this is where they invariably put [Read more]
Crio’s Q: The All Australian Argument
July 6, 2010 by 39 Comments
by Chris Riordan Quite rightly it is oft repeated that footy is not an individual game, yet it is also true that great players are what we go to watch. Although from year to year I could not recite the All-Australian team, it can be an interesting source of discussion at around this stage of [Read more]
Saints too strong for young Demons
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Is Sunday Twilight football a friend or a foe? It’s certainly worse when you’re following it from your own home, especially since the games are on Foxtel and I don’t get to watch them. However, in saying that, these matches aren’t that bad to attend, giving myself more time earlier in the day to do [Read more]
Floreat Pica Society- West Coast Game
July 5, 2010 by 1 Comment
By John Ramsdale I hate this ground-see Bulldogs report, 6/6/2010. On paper this looked like a straightforward game and we should have approached it with great confidence. Tim had marked this down as a win in his half –year summary. However, based on previous experience going into games that were classified as certain wins there [Read more]
The View From Shepparton Round 14
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
First up, I scored 8 out of 8 in one tipping comp. Pretty good eh? Pretty Unique? I thought so until it emerged on ABC radio’s (Jon Faine 10-10:30 or thereabouts ) that half of the existing footy firmament had attained this score by virtue of picking all of the home sides. Bad luck for [Read more]
Hawk resurgence continues
July 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
This game was set to be enormous. A win for the Bulldogs meant that they would be back to their best after a shaky first half of the year. As for the Hawks, a win for them meant they were a serious finals contender, who at one stage were 1-6 but haven’t lost ever since. [Read more]
Essendon past and present
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On the day that Kevin Sheedy was sacked as Essendon’s coach in 2007, I was in Paris. It was four o’clock in the morning when I was awoken to the piercing sound of my phone ringing on my bedside table. Looking at the screen, I was immediately startled. It was my father. Why would he [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XIV
July 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Les Miserables opened proceedings with a win on Thursday night in a match that had some viewers taking 40 winks so they would be fresh from the midnight soccer. On Friday Night The Hawks topped the Doggies in one for the archives. Saturday’s [Read more]
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