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]
Tiger’s keep getting up
July 4, 2010 by 14 Comments
RICHMOND vs. SYDNEY – ROUND 14 “Ooh, bugger!” The replay looked ugly. Deledio’s arm bent at a very awkward angle, pinned between the tackler and the turf. As he went off clutching his arm in pain, it looked like Deledio might miss weeks, and our chances of winning against the Swans would be severely depleted. [Read more]
Tigers rise to the occasion
July 4, 2010 by 15 Comments
I couldn’t sleep at all. I sat in bed at 1:00AM, and slowly, it crept to 4:00AM, where I finally closed my eyes for a couple of hours of shuteye. I had so many things on my minds, for some reason I was thinking about all these mathematical situations, the game between North Melbourne and [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games- Rd 14
July 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
ROUND 14 Adelaide versus Essendon Saturday, July 3rd., AAMI Stadium, Night To: [email protected] Subject: Missing you, and Go hoT Pies My dearest Labrini Howdy Hoodoo Dear Labrini, I wish you were at Huntleigh Mews right now. I will definately be at the airport to pick you up next Monday, fit ‘n’ Well to welcome U [Read more]
Anyone For Trugo?
July 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Oh, the bloody agony of it. There I was, all set up for a night of enjoyable footy, optimistically thinking that The Dons will have a real crack at it but they were pathetic. I think I missed the best part of Essendon’s challenge, the first couple of minutes .By the time I sat down [Read more]
Magpies make score board statement as Danni puts voice to paper
July 4, 2010 by 11 Comments
Apparently I have a throat infection; it’s that time of year when every one gets sick all the time. My throat feels scratched and I can’t last five minutes without having a coughing fit. In two days I’ve gone through three packets of Butter Menthols and I’m waking up crankier than normal, which trust me [Read more]
Hawks Home in a Classic
July 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
After a tiring day in Bendigo, I was ready to get home and relax on the couch. After catching the flu, I felt a little bit better but still had my worries. I didn’t know if I would be right to play footy the next morning against Waaia’s biggest rival, Katunga. That had been at [Read more]
ECHUCA, MAGPIES WIN WINTER MUD BATTLES: JULY 1960
July 3, 2010 by 6 Comments
IN the mud and slush of mid-winter 1960 Echuca and Castlemaine scored surprise victories over fancied opponents Golden Square and Sandhurst. The Advertiser’s chief football writer John Rice described the July 11th round 50 years ago as contested “on muddy battle grounds”. “Tailenders Echuca downed the Square, which was fighting for a place in the [Read more]
The aesthetics of football
July 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The hair-cut is an often unappreciated barometer of social development. Whereas only 20 years ago, before the wholesale professionalisation of football, footballers sported the most unfashionable hair-cuts in our society, today they are at the absolute cutting edge of fashion. No successful footballer today can claim to have reached the upper reaches of excellence unless [Read more]
KEN PIESSE: FAVOURITE SONS FROM THE MID MURRAY
July 3, 2010 by 4 Comments
Sharrock, Bos, Wallis, Raines, Frèe, O’Bree, Guerra… the Central Murray region has been a goldmine for the big city clubs, some of the VFL’s very best hailing from the townships of Tooleybuc, Jerilderie, Wandella and the like. As much as I admired the prodigious punting of Sharrock and the pepper-and-salt arrogance of Raines, as smooth [Read more]
Frogs, Fevers and Footy
July 3, 2010 by 2 Comments
Trying to force the frog from my throat for the 500th time, I stretched out on the couch, annoyed that I’d caught the flu again, the third time in exactly a year. Funnily enough, I got the flu a few days after the Sydney v Collingwood game last year, whereas it has happened again. An [Read more]
Blues run away in the end
July 2, 2010 by 7 Comments
Last October, a wise group of Men chose this fixture to be a ‘Fevola goes back to Melbourne to play Carlton’ extravaganza, on a Thursday night. Unfortunately, this plan came unstuck as Fevola pulled out of the side due to a groin problem, which gave the Lions an even smaller chance to conquer against the [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XIV
July 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Maggot Central unleashes The Geesch. In what would have to have been the most Kafkaesque performance ever seen on an oval field with an oval ball, the reaction to the opprobrium of their previous efforts beggared description. Admittedly, the reaction should have [Read more]
Jabiru impressions of a stormy night
July 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On Friday night I drove in 33 degree heat from Darwin to Jabiru. A roadhouse burger in one hand I jabbed at my crackling radio, willing it to give me some sounds of home… As night fell I found Gerard and Drew on 774 and then (when that dropped out) the genuine ‘insights’ of Rocking [Read more]
Almanac racing…MV mid-winter with the Winning Post on my mind
July 2, 2010 by 25 Comments
“I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall…” * You know its mid-winter when you donate more to MyChemist than to TAB’s MyAccount! The new “synthetic” track at Geelong is already on high rotation as dank conditions shroud Australia’s south-east. There’s little [Read more]
Can we really manage our way to footy justice?
July 1, 2010 by 26 Comments
I’ve been intrigued by the breadth of emotion following the clash of the Steves, Johnson and Baker, in last Friday night’s match at the MCG, and by subsequent events. Most particularly, I’ve been considering the effect of AFL football management style on the conduct of the game. Debate has raged over issues such as the [Read more]
Local Footy: Old Carey at head of amazing logjam
July 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
VAFA PREMIER B Old Carey 7 4 135.55 28 St Kevin’s 7 4 115.67 28 Old Haileybury 7 4 115.24 28 Old Ivanhoe 7 4 113.93 28 Oakleigh 7 4 110.65 28 St Bernard’s 7 4 107.61 28 Uni Blacks 6 5 113.73 24 Hampton Rovers 5 6 100.27 20 Old Essendon 1 10 68.38 [Read more]
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