Cats V Pies. By Jeffrey Paterson I get home from work, 10 past seven and my lounge room is a little to noisy for my liking so I head off to my room which is a lot quieter, I decide to listen to the footy on the radio and watch it at the same time [Read more]
Pies present as apprentices as masters do what they wanna do and be who they wanna be
May 22, 2010 by 2 Comments
conviction act of convincing, settled belief I had a vision the other night. Collingwood was on the podium holding up the Cup. The only problems were (1) It was Paul Collingwood, and the Poms had beaten the Mike Brearley, I mean Michael Clarke – led Aussies in the Twenty 20 final, and (2) it wasn’t [Read more]
PIES VS CATS: I should have gone to the wedding party
May 22, 2010 by 7 Comments
You can learn many things in a week. On Monday, when I delivered my speech in front of the school at assembly I learnt that I would never be the next Prime Minister or put myself in that position again. On Thursday I learnt how spine chilling an atmosphere can be, when we went to [Read more]
Geelong makes its point loud and clear
May 22, 2010 by 4 Comments
So I hear there was a game on Friday night? Myself, I’ve been stuck in Outer Uzbekistan all week; so I’ve only had to trawl through a dozen or so feature articles on the Big Game. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Try explaining Cameron Ling to an Uzbeck goat herder. As far as [Read more]
Kicking Goals: Sport in Australian National Identity
May 22, 2010 by 2 Comments
My book Kicking Goals was published in March. It takes a fresh look at the common image of Australia as a sporting nation. Sporting passions have ebbed and flowed since Archer won the first Melbourne Cup in 1861. Tracing these, the book emphasises the differing ways Australians have loved our sports, saluted our national symbols, [Read more]
150 Years and No Gay Footballer? That’s Queer.
May 22, 2010 by 6 Comments
By Phil Dimitriadis In almost one hundred and fifty years, there is no explicit history about a homosexual Australian Rules player at the highest level. This does not reflect the cultural realities of the society that plays and watches the game. If ten percent of the population were gay then out of the six hundred [Read more]
Crio’s racing…look at some form!
May 21, 2010 by 1 Comment
The usual suspects go around tomorrow at Caulfield as winter sets in and racing’s profile drops away. For what it is, your basic meat’n’veg mid-season card, the meeting is OK but for many of us it is time to cut the losses. Even Elvis, our intrepid Groote Eyelandt correspondent, ruminated yesterday on trying for a [Read more]
GEELONG V COLLINGWOOD: A PREVIEW FROM EVERY STATE IN AUSTRALIA
May 21, 2010 by 4 Comments
The Victorian view. In potentially the most important match in the game’s illustrious history, the world champion Geelong Cats will clash with Australia’s biggest sporting club the Collingwood Football Club tonight at the greatest stadium in the world, the mighty MCG. With a potential world wide audience of seven billion people potentially tuned into this [Read more]
Race Call Gone Wrong
May 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
“I think we’re gone here”. That about sums it up, as veteran race caller Jimmy Jacques has a tough day at the office. One man’s discomfit is another’s entertainment. http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/9raw-race-callers-voice-goes-lame/xrh8vf
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND IX
May 21, 2010 by 2 Comments
What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Of course there’s the Big One tonight. We’ll all be tuned in for that. Although our hearts go out to those devotees of Better Homes & Gardens who will find themselves at a loose end. Surely Channel Kerry has a second band they can broadcast it on? [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games: Round 3
May 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND THREE Carlton versus Essendon Saturday, April 10th., M.C.G. (Night) Zip – two to the Bombers. Consequently, relations are testy between me and Tommy Hubble. Defeat makes us irritable. He stays indoors doing the managerial side of Huntleigh Mews business, which involves sending one long email (that I know of) to Matthew Knights, the Essendon [Read more]
The Monthly Teams
May 21, 2010 by 16 Comments
By Steve Healy In recent times I have taken an interest in the birthdates of players. This interest sparked a ridiculous idea in my head to do some research and select the best players born in each month and see which the strongest side is. I have judged my selections based on career form, along [Read more]
Two games are better than one
May 21, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Steve Healy Two footy games in one day, could there be a better way to spend a Saturday? I walked towards Etihad Stadium as the sun set over the Melbourne CBD. The Dees had lost, but I was excited about going to the Roos V Crows game, where I would get to catch up [Read more]
Home ground disadvantage – North Melbourne’s Western Oval dominance 1973-1995
May 20, 2010 by 10 Comments
When North Melbourne take on the Western Bulldogs this weekend at the concrete canyon located in Melbourne’s Docklands, discernable home ground advantage will favour neither team. In what was viewed as perhaps the toughest assignment in the days when there was, with respect to the VFL teams located in the Garden City, home ground advantage, [Read more]
Bloody Collingwood
May 20, 2010 by 10 Comments
By Ged McMahon I hate Collingwood. I have hated them for a long time. There are many reasons for this hatred but I think the best way to sum up my argument is to borrow a quote I heard from Dr Turf a few years ago … “I hate Collingwood so much that if they [Read more]
West Coast Fly High
May 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Steve Healy I was back at the MCG on another glorious afternoon. This time, it was a little different, we were playing West Coast. Based on recent form, we should’ve smashed them. I met up with a large group of people from school (James, Tim, Miles, Nathan, Matt, Anthony, Josh and Danny) and we [Read more]
North: Fade Outs a Speciality
May 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
North Melbourne versus Adelaide 7.10pm, Saturday, May 15 Etihad Stadium During three-quarter time I was almost through a banana, and this thought: ‘We can’t lose this game, we cannot poss…’ when I stopped myself, turned to the big bear of a bloke behind and said, ‘You’re still in this, mate. We never put teams away.’ [Read more]
“Football Williamstown”
May 20, 2010 by 4 Comments
By Darren Dawson There has been more than a little discussion about junior footy on the Almanac website recently, in part prompted by Paul Daffey’s piece referencing the Brunswick Junior Football Club: http://footyalmanac.com.au/?p=10504 Was it mere chance that in the very week Daff’s article appeared on this site, that my old club Williamstown CYMS was [Read more]
Footy in NSW 1883
May 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
The following article was published in the Maitland Mercury, and Hunter River General Advertiser Thursday 19 July 1883. It is astonishingly long and speaks to the idea that footy was getting a strong foothold in NSW. There seemed to develop an intense and passionate culture that only a few short years later was no more [Read more]
John Smith
May 20, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Ed Harcourt John Smith plays for Geelong. His disposal this season has been first class, his versatily around the grounds is respected by his peers, and his use of the ball in and around the packs is unusually very classy to watch. Over the past few seasons I’ve been a fan of his game, [Read more]
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