We all love to claim being first to spot a talent – it’s part of being a sporting genius! It is why people take feature doubles and is, I am told, a key component in Dreamteam success. My old man backed Galilee when it won its maiden at Gawler. He then stayed “on board” throughout [Read more]
Local Footy: Eagles lose fourth in a row by 100 points
May 17, 2010 by 3 Comments
VAFA Premier Section club Marcellin has matched University Blacks’ unenviable record in the B-section in 1991 by suffering its fourth consecutive loss by 100 points. After losses to Premier Section rivals Old Xaverians (122 points), Collegians (122) and De La Salle (139) in recent weeks, Marcellin went down to Old Scotch by 111 points at [Read more]
Roos limp home at the Dome
May 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
This was a big day for me. Attending the AFL for the first time this season. But first things first, I had a game to play against Katamatite, Sam Wright’s home town. Playing against his brothers, they stitched Waaia up by a very disappointing 109 points, with two players taken to hospital with badly broken [Read more]
URGENT HELP SOS
May 15, 2010 by 16 Comments
Okay so I need your help! I’m getting myself a new pretty Collingwood jumper but I have no idea what number to go for. I don’t like big numbers like 34 or 38. I don’t like low numbers like 1-6. I can’t get Medders because he’s like twenty-eight years old which means he won’t be [Read more]
When the world went slightly wacko for a little minute
May 15, 2010 by 8 Comments
Reported in the Argus, Saturday 13 May 1933 FOOTBALL COALITION. ASSOCIATION’S POSITION. ‘Might Adopt Soccer or Rugby.” A possibility that the Victorian Football Association might abandon the Australian game and take up soccer or Rugby unless it can make satisfactory arrangements with the Victorian Football League for some form of amalgamation was discussed yesterday by [Read more]
My take on the Hamstring Injuries and Game Speed…
May 15, 2010 by 2 Comments
Now I’ll keep this short because this is all it needs to be to explain what I think is happening in the game of football with these injuries. As the speed of the game increases, the physical stress on the player increases. Now this increase in stress and exertion requires more time to recover from [Read more]
The real founders of Aussie Rules?
May 15, 2010 by 11 Comments
By Tony Ward Tony is author of the recently published Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals (Routledge). Paperback ISBN 978-0415575553, published 31 March 2010 in UK – copies available: £26.99 plus shipping, from www.routledge.com/books/ $50 including shipping, from www.bookdepository.co.uk There’s been a decent tussle over the last couple of years on who can claim [Read more]
Pitch Invading
May 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Ged McMahon Last week, a pitch invading baseball fan was chased around in circles and tasered by security staff. It was grandly theatrical and I must admit that I found it highly amusing. Far more amusing than my own personal pitch invasion story. I can’t even remember the exact year, but I was very [Read more]
Momentum
May 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
The Best of Van Halen has a quote on the liner notes: “what is understood need not be discussed”. I can’t remember the attribution, but it makes a certain amount of sense. In sport, there are a few things that are known. A week is a long time. The boys on the winning team really [Read more]
ALMANAC CANBERRA LAUNCH
May 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
Better late than never they say. Holding the Canberra 2009 Footy Almanac book launch in 2010 somehow doesn’t seem odd. Appreciation has no time limit Footy fever has gripped the Kingston Hotel on a Thursday evening, two days preceding the Bulldogs and Swans meeting in what should be one of the games of the round. [Read more]
Regional Communities and Sport: A Comment
May 14, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Bill Walker One only has to only look via any of the plethora of mediums for sourcing, processing and transferring news to see that the basic values and foundations of sport today have been swept up and pummelled by fast and diversely evolving business tsunami. Either through design or chance the status quo has [Read more]
“This Is Country Footy”
May 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Michael Filosi It took just three minutes and one warm up lap before any thoughts of a glowing come back match this Saturday were dashed. Along with the addition of three extra light towers, I could have sworn the council had increased the dimensions of Tamworth’s No. 1 Oval since I had last run [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: Powder-puff guernseys spell trouble for Kangas
May 14, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Josh Barnstable If there’s any team I want North Melbourne to beat in any year, it’s Collingwood. Not since that wonderful year of 2008 have we beaten the Pies, while not that long ago, any losing streak against Collingwood is too long. With the Roos coming off wins against Hawthorn and Melbourne, I am [Read more]
Racing: The Ramsden Day Ramble
May 14, 2010 by 10 Comments
by Chris Riordan Budget week can be an appropriate time for us to review our financial strategies; in this case revisit some of our punting maxims and the big philosophical questions and queries that need to be addressed in the search for success. Today I’m going to incorporate four dilemmas in to the discussion on [Read more]
The Pre Wrap – Round VIII
May 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by John Mosig What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Gambling is still in the headlines – this time it’s pokies: who has them & who pays what for them. Look call us Old School around here in Wrapland, but we can’t help feeling there’s a major degree of moral bankruptcy at the heart [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Melbourne v Footscray: Demons find hope between the raindrops
May 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Steve Healy It was a freezing night, the rain tumbled down for almost the entire match. The Demons were finally playing on Friday, against the Bulldogs who have under-performed for the start of the 2010 season. I had confidently tipped the Demons, due to our incredible form (especially at the MCG) and the fact [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – St Kilda v Carlton: From Twitter to Twigley
May 14, 2010 by 6 Comments
by Tony Reed Twitter Report – St Kilda v Carlton Mon 10/5/10 6.36 pm – just made train from work at Glenferrie 6.55 pm – arrived Gate 9 at Etihad. Where’s Barb and Charles? 7.00 pm – Charles arrives with tickets. Apparently am concession ticket holder tonight 7.10 pm – Omens good. 2 pies and [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – Collingwood v North Melbourne: The pain of being bullied
May 14, 2010 by 5 Comments
Collingwood versus North Melbourne 7.10pm, Saturday, May 8 Melbourne Cricket Ground by Andrew Starkie Good teams bully North Melbourne. Intimidate and beat up on us. Chew us up; spit us out. Against a team with similar or less ability, we usually get the job done. Not so against the top teams. We’ve suffered demoralizing defeats [Read more]
AFL Round 7 – St Kilda v Carlton: The streak is over
May 14, 2010 by 2 Comments
by David Downer In the many contests (er, agon?) of both sport and life, the victor of particular match-ups can be assured well before the event. Harlem Globetrotters v Washington Generals. Federer v Hewitt. Marciano v everyone. Roadrunner v Wile E Coyote. Angelina v Jennifer. Scissors v Paper. Paper v Rock. Rock v Scissors. And [Read more]
Two out of three ain’t bad
May 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As the big bloke with the hankie once said, “two out three ain’t bad”. Three weeks ago, Carlton were staring at a 5 and 2 loss/win ration. Finals would have been the stuff of JRR Tolkien. However, after terrific victories over the last year’s grand finalists, the ledger is now 4/3 and September action looks [Read more]
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