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]
Respite from the lounge room, but none from the Cats
May 22, 2010 by 2 Comments
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]
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