I am off to my fourth consecutive 1.10pm Sunday game in a row. The conditions are wet and windy as I make my way to the ground. This is a bad sign for the Dees. According to many one-minded Demon supporters, this is the only game we are allowed to win before season’s end. I [Read more]
The Wrap: Hawks bow out while Crows confirm finals spot
August 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Where Life Imitates Sport What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Hawks bow out once and for all and Adelaide book their place on the starting grid for September 2009. THE TIGERS cost another coach his career as The Mighty Magpies leap into thirds spot on The Table for a crack at Geelong [Read more]
View From Palm Cove: Queensland setting inspires dreams of Lions surge despite loss to Bulldogs
August 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Still at Palm Cove, what a great place, have been spurred to ask why anyone would want to live in cold old drought-stricken South Eastern Australia when one could be living up here. Unfortunately there is the small issue of finances …
Local Footy: Tigers end Xavs’ winning streak on windy day at Mentone
August 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
On a day to top even all the other windy days that have blighted footy in Victoria this season, the home ground advantage of St Bede’s-Mentone Tigers played its part in the Tigers’ victory over A-section rival Old Xaverians by 28 points on Saturday. The results ended Xavs’ winning streak at 14. The Tigers’ home [Read more]
Local Footy: Willy CYs wrap up second spot with dominant first quarter
August 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
SENIORS WILLIAMSTOWN 4.3 14.10 15.11 27.16-178 YARRA VALLEY 0.2 1.4 2.10 2.11-23 WILLIAMSTOWN Goal Kickers: W. Cooper 7, J. Wong 6, C. Elliott 3, B. Gray 2, M. Lishman 2, Z. Read 2, S. McGuinness, B. Lethborg, J. Reid, M. John, C. Richards Best Players: J. Hatfield, W. Cooper, C. Elliott, J. Tranter, Z. Read, [Read more]
Round 20: I especially love Saturday nights when I can watch the footy. Cats did well to get up, too
August 17, 2009 by 4 Comments
Saturday nights are usually chaos at my house. Arguing about what should be on TV, so on and so forth. Derogatory comments about footy. It’s what happens when you have 10 people in one house. But tonight was one of the luckier nights. I got to watch the footy without much fuss.
AFL Round 20: Pies continue merry march while Tigers confirm culture problem
August 17, 2009 by 11 Comments
By Paul O’Connell A gloomy Saturday morning was becoming by midday a warm sunny afternoon. At least I knew I could see, feel and smell the weather at the ‘G. It really felt like I was going to the footy, a rare Saturday avo just like in the good old days. I make no apology [Read more]
AFL Round 20: Pies sew up top-four spot by trouncing hapless Tigers in heated stoush
August 17, 2009 by 56 Comments
As we creep into the latter part of August everything begins to heat up. On the weather front the temperature gradually begins to slide up as we near spring and out on the footy field the intensity rises and many teams fight for a crucial spot inside the eight with finals just around the corner.
Round 20: Farewell to a true Tiger champion
August 16, 2009 by 31 Comments
Today was always going to be a painful day. Collingwood are in fine form while Richmond are putting forward a case for relegation to be introduced to AFL. If it wasn’t bad enough to put up with an imminent thrashing against my least liked team in the AFL, earlier in the week it was announced [Read more]
AFL Round 20: McLeod BOG as Crows see off Hawks
August 16, 2009 by 28 Comments
Fridays are great, especially if you have the day off school. I spent the most of my day off with my friends at Chadstone shopping centre. I came home, awaiting the game of footy. I turned on the TV at 8.30pm, after deciding not to listen to the game on the radio. There were no [Read more]
General Footy Writing: An open letter to Neil Craig (after a slap to the editors)
August 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
John Kingsmill On the City of Churches, Adelaide Pubs, Why Neil Craig is Obstinate, and How the Adelaide Fans Have Got It Wrong for Five Long Years PREAMBLE First, more things Footy Almanac readers don’t need to know. Or perhaps they do. Not colonised by convicts but by free settlers, South Australia offered another attraction [Read more]
AFL Round 20: Fight makes me flip but Pies right the ship
August 16, 2009 by 2 Comments
It got pretty crazy at school yesterday. It was a celebration day consisting of a Liturgy, house group activities, my friend Brittany’s birthday, food stalls, a DJ and in my case SingStar. Despite having to read about boring things, the girls and our teacher had a few laughs making the house meeting a lot more [Read more]
General Footy Writing: It would gladden my heart to see an AFL club in western Sydney
August 16, 2009 by 6 Comments
I am a major advocate for an AFL team in western Sydney. I believe that it will ultimately be very successful – but it will take a long time and a concerted effort by the AFL and its fellow travellers to make it work. I’ve been involved in the promotion and development of football in [Read more]
General Footy Writing: Bells are ringing in City of Churches
August 14, 2009 by 11 Comments
On warbling magpies, Adelaide’s wheels, Didak’s revenge, Burton’s orthodoxy and Port’s head jobs … JOHN KINGSMILL Here are some things you don’t need to know. If you hear magpies warbling at 3am, it’s the female of the species on heat. She’s saying that she’s fed and fat and ready to propagate the species. The warble [Read more]
The Pre-Wrap: Benny G appointment signals glimmer of light at end of Tigers tunnel
August 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Where Life Imitates Football What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The changing of the guard at THE TIGER DEN has begun as Benny Gale comes home to PUNT ROAD. With new facilities and a new attitude, TLSPRF catch glimmers of light peeking out from the edges of the storm clouds. The maudlin fairground [Read more]
Racing: Liston Stakes day is a matter of weighing up winter-fit runners against the classy ones resuming for spring
August 14, 2009 by 4 Comments
PREVIEW: Mark “Makybe” Freeman writes: Punters! Forget the arctic blasts and sideways rain – spring has sprung and it’s time to get on. Already we’ve seen rising star Mic Mac put paid to them in the Aurie’s Star, which also featured “Big El” – Colin Little’s champ El Segundo – rattling home for third.
Racing: Search resumes for ones to follow
August 14, 2009 by 6 Comments
By Chris Riordan Neighbours were chatting on the footpath this week. It was approaching 6pm and still light. Winter is fading and the joys of spring can be sensed. Saturday’s fields reinforce this. It’s by no means a feature card, but the Liston Stakes meeting, for a time a Sandown fixture but now “Classic Caulfield”, [Read more]
Cricket: Amid scandal and despair, Stephen Fry finds reason to toast England, Australia and cricket itself
August 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This is an edited version of Stephen Fry’s speech at a dinner for Andrew Strauss at Lords before the second Test … Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. It is an honour to stand before so many cricketing heroes from England and from Australia and at this, my favourite time of [Read more]
Ireland Correspondent: Cahill leaves stamp on lacklustre friendly in Limerick
August 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Peter Lenaghan The crowd’s response tells you a lot about a game of soccer, and the atmosphere inside a Dublin pub is as flat as it sounds at Limerick’s Thomond Park. It is all Tim Cahill’s fault, and the locals seem genuinely shocked. The small group of Australians around us can only smile and [Read more]
Round 19: Tiger prospects look shaky after Sydney shellacking
August 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Mum and I headed off to the footy unusually early, even for our standards. The reason was because we needed to sneak in RMIT’s open day before the footy. I have plans to be there in 2012. Earlier that day I read an article by Emma Quayle, where she asks where Richmond and North Melbourne [Read more]
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