By Damian Watson Throughout my short life there is one question that has left me pondering about Port Adelaide. How can a suburb with a less than adequate reputation produce one of the most successful clubs in Australian Sport? This is by no means a scathing attack on this Adelaide suburb after all the club [Read more]
Port Adelaide v Carlton: Blues Claim Huge Scalp as I Claim a Frustrating Cold
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
The View From Shepparton: Round 8
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Geelong and Collingwood are light years ahead of the rest of the competition and next Friday night we will find out which team is the best at the moment. In respect of last Friday night’s game I really thought that Freo would get up. I felt that the Magpies would be useless away in that [Read more]
Fev-less Blues continue to prosper
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Round 8- Port v Carlton This was one of the games of the round. Carlton, a much-better side without Brendan Fevola, taking on Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, a team that is working and working their way up the ladder. Both teams have serious potential, but who is better? The match began with plenty of [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND VIII
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. On Friday night The Pies sent The Barry Crockers an unequivocal message about playing at The Elite Level. Those Crazy Cats from Sleepy Hollow did the same for Vossy’s Lions. North drew deep on the Shinboner Spirit to hang on against The Fast Finishing Chardonnays and West [Read more]
AFL Round 8 – Fremantle v Collingwood: What if?
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by Andrea McNamara Haven’t felt this nervous before a game in ages, maybe since that final in 2007 against West Coast, the one that went into extra time. I was there, I flew over to see what could have been Bucks’ last game, if we’d lost. What a win at the House of Pain – [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s “Home and Away Games”: Round 1
May 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Geoff Sinclair I’m out of here. I slide across the seat, side-step the kid asleep in the pusher and skip down the steps a split second before the doors jam me rigid. I stand on the footpath and consider the situation. I don’t know what piece of Melbourne I am standing in, but I’m [Read more]
Calling all Almanackers
May 17, 2010 by 44 Comments
It’s a beautiful day in Melbourne and, in a particular quirk that seems to only occur here, the crowd is turning out in force to watch Hawthorn and Richmond — 14th play 16th on the ladder. As I take advantage of the free wireless afforded to me at the ground, I ponder all the other [Read more]
Crio’s Question: Talent spotting
May 17, 2010 by 32 Comments
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]
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