ROUND SIX Essendon versus Hawthorn Saturday, May 1st., M.C.G. (Night) At one and five, our season is in tatters. Avoidance of the issue is no longer an option. Last week Tommy and me had our heads in the sand so long, we ended up with gravel rash. This time, we have to come out and [Read more]
DRESSING UP FOR THE RE-ENACTMENT
May 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I have always found those American Civil War enthusiasts a curious bunch. The fanatics who dress in the blue of the Union or the grey of the Confederacy and re-enact the battle of Gettysburg in some Pennsylvania field. It is as if they yearn for a time in history which they never lived through; some [Read more]
Poetry: TWELVE STRAIGHT MATE
May 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The balmy army sat there calmly well….for just a little while thought they had the old foe down and out so they chanted, yelled and smiled openers smacked the ball around Australia in a pickle but balmy army hadn’t counted on a startling spell from Bichel he used the humps and hit the stumps made [Read more]
TIPPING POINT
May 25, 2010 by 6 Comments
Aliases abound. Polky, Peter Pan, Connor, Snoopy, Craypot, Ms Paula, Mongrel Punt, DO, Butcher, Charlie, Chris, Jimbo, Jay Gee, Dic Dic, Hoppy, Roy the Boy, Swan Doggo, W1 (which sounds like something’s missing from a central London address), Rado (Is that short for radical?), KB, Top Gun, Le Roy, Benny, Gazza, Bitch Lips, Miss Boston, [Read more]
Gigs’ Stats Entertainment Round 9
May 25, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz TWO-TWO BOO-BOO A tutu on a Sunday might be fine if you have ballet practice, or even if you are South African bishop. But if there’s one thing the weekend taught us it’s that a score of 2.2 is NOT ok on a Sunday, especially in the first quarter. In Round 9’s [Read more]
Crio’s Question: A mid-season draft anyone?
May 24, 2010 by 28 Comments
In recent years there have been rumblings for a mid-season draft. I don’t know what form it should take, but most supporters would have a dump and a wish list for their side. I watched Brisbane, for example, and reckon that Luke Power has lost his bite and could be headed for the scrap heap. [Read more]
Banter and blue cheese in front of the telly
May 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
I can’t remember a home and away game ever having so much riding on it. It was indeed a battle of the titans. Collingwood, terrifyingly, were on top of the ladder and, with St Kilda hampered by the loss of Nick Riewoldt and the Bulldogs struggling to find consistency, seemingly a real chance for a [Read more]
Media off the Mark in Illicit Drug Reporting
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Michael Filosi There has been a tremendous amount of hoopla recently surrounding the release of the AFL’s illicit drug testing results for the 2009 season. The media latched onto the higher number of positive tests when compared with the previous year as an indication that the league’s illicit drug testing regime is ineffective, whereas [Read more]
The Proff is in the Tasting
May 24, 2010 by 3 Comments
I’m always one to give credit when credit is due but it pains me when that credit is being forwarded to the account of the Hawthorn FC. The Blues and Hawks faced off in what appeared to be a straight forward game of one team in form against a team very much out of form. [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Round 9
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Well, the Collingwood team should collectively purchase a bridesmaid’s outfit because it obvious after last Friday’s game that is what they will be again this year. They promise so much but in the really big games they are found wanting. I was looking at the Geelong Footy Club web site and noticed a piece recalling [Read more]
Local Footy: Carlson’s appointment revives Eagles
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On the morning of Sunday 16 May, Paul Dodd, the coach of Victorian Amateur Football Association club Marcellin, responded to the Eagles’ fourth consecutive loss by 100 points in Premier Section by resigning at the club’s scheduled review meeting. That afternoon, Marcellin president Michael Howard scored a coup when he persuaded Leigh Carlson to take [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games: Rd 5
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND FIVE COLLINGWOOD versus ESSENDON Sunday, April 25th., M.C.G. Which leaves the Dons at one and three. One of the weekend papers suggested it was going to be a long, cold winter at Windy Hill. What idiots. The week following our woeful showing against the West Coast Eagles turns into an Indian Summer with the [Read more]
JACK DEAN – PRINCE OF PLAYERS IN SYDNEY FOOTBALL
May 24, 2010 by 13 Comments
In the 1949 interstate match between NSW and Victoria at the SCG nineteen year old East Sydney ruckman Jack Dean went up against veteran Victorian captain Jack Dyer at the opening bounce. “He sat me on my arse!” Jack told me over a few beers. We were at Harry McAsey’s pub in Alexandra after a [Read more]
No Dreamtime for the Tigers
May 24, 2010 by 7 Comments
Essendon v Richmond Dreamtime at the ‘G. One of the major events of the AFL fixture, but somewhat shadowed by the two teams playing. Essendon and Richmond, hardly a mouthwatering game. But, I looked forward to seeing Richmond play for the first time since the season begun. After all the pre-game festivities, the match finally [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND IX
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Geelong emphatically announced that they are TTTBFTF as they sat The Cakewalking Collingwoods on their backsides in front of the 88,115 Faithful, Punters & SOTG at The G, not to mention the Whole Football World catching the action on Channel Kerry. The Kennel Coughs exposed The NMFC [Read more]
“The Bloke” goes home disappointed
May 24, 2010 by 25 Comments
The lights on the MCG towers shine down upon the poor huddled masses with such brightness it looks like the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a Friday night in Melbourne, brisk is the air and somewhat dewy is the grass. Approaching the MCG with thousands of other football worshippers gives me [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games: Round 4
May 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND FOUR WEST COAST EAGLES versus ESSENDON, Subiaco Oval, Friday, April 16th. I’m walking. I’m on my first big walk since I joined the staff at Huntleigh Mews. I’ve been through the Carlton Gardens – the grass still scarred from the recent Garden Show – I’ve seen off the Catholic Cathedral and I’m on the [Read more]
No pay off for the Roos
May 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
North Melbourne v Western Bulldogs After the morning’s high-drama eight point win over Rennie, I returned home from Waaia to watch a clash between two financially struggling sides, North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs. One club, despite it’s money-woes, have strived on the field for the past couple of years, but haven’t hit their straps [Read more]
Waaia break the long drought
May 23, 2010 by 3 Comments
Waaia v Rennie Waaia Under Seventeen’s. 29 games without a win since late 2008. Since then a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. Today, we played Rennie, a team from New South Wales. They made the long trip down, prepared for yet another easy win over Waaia. I woke up at 7am, not [Read more]
Elcho Island footy an inspiration
May 23, 2010 by 8 Comments
Not many people have been to, or heard of, Elcho Island. And to be honest, before I accepted the position of Regional Development Manager for AFL NT, I hadn’t, either. It’s a unique place in that it’s a remote aboriginal community and one that every white person who I’ve spoken to agrees every Australian should [Read more]
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