Hawthorn V Sydney by Steve Healy It was a lazy Sunday Afternoon on the long weekend. I sat down and watched the Sunday Footy Show. Dean Bailey was on and he was being asked the usual questions and giving the usual answers. At one o’clock I took the laptop into my room and listened to [Read more]
Coach speculation: On Mark Williams
June 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
John Kingsmill One of the curious aspects of the Port Adelaide/Mark Williams engagement is that the more victories Power stacks up this year, the harder it will be for Port to afford to retain him. If, for example, the Alberton waters split asunder and Power wins the 2009 premiership, suddenly Williams will [Read more]
AFL Round 11: cloudburst by Haiku Bob
June 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
cloudburst Queen’s Birthday the number one pick rubs shoulders with the best this day looks no different yet eight unanswered goals dark clouds and Presti shut out any light cloudburst – goal sharks spill over themselves for [Read more]
Local Footy: Bushpigs face extinction
June 10, 2009 by 3 Comments
by Rocket Gillett The Wagga Uni Bushpigs broke a 38 game losing streak when they beat The Rock-Yerong Creek by five points in their Farrer Football League fixture last Saturday. It was their first win since 12 August 2006 when they beat Temora. It was a huge day for the Pigs as they [Read more]
Gigs’ Stats: Round 11 Stat Declaration
June 10, 2009 by 8 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz As most footy fans would know, round 11 was declared by the AFL to be Women’s Round. The final scores, however, suggest that naming it the Bill Collins Round would not have been inappropriate either. And by Bill Collins, I don’t mean the film buff (though there’s no shortage of good acting [Read more]
AFL Round 11: Footy first-timer films fan fervour and Fev fever
June 9, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Pamela Sherpa Brisbane Lions versus Carlton 7.10 pm, 6 June The Gabba, Brisbane What’s the best possible Aussie experience to share with someone before they travel overseas? Go to the footy of course. As I’ve travelled up from the Snowy Mountains to visit my daughter Tashi before she leaves I’m grateful there is a [Read more]
Application for the Richmond coaching job
June 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
8th August, 1997 Tony Jewell Richmond Football Club PO Box 48 Richmond, 3121 Dear Tony, With the recent uncertainty surrounding the senior coaching position at your club, we write to offer our services with respect to this role. This correspondence is not meant to represent a waste of your time, or ours. [Read more]
AFL Round 11 (FPS): Did Dick? Dick did. Talented Dick.
June 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Tony Scully Good morning Floreat Picans, lovely to wake up to a cold rainy winter’s morning. It was with trepidation that I, (1) accepted this responsibility knowing the quality of previous offerings. And (2) went to yesterday’s game knowing I had only been to ‘loss’ games so far this season. (Am I the [Read more]
AFL Round 11 (and gymnastics): Perfection 1 Gymnasts 0
June 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Dips O’Donnell I’m at the Sate Netball and Hockey Centre to watch the Victorian Gymnastics championships. It’s an impressive centre. Lots of steel girders, vast glass windows, and official looking desks with official looking people manning them. I have a nervous daughter competing today. There are a few Olympians [Read more]
Footy yarn: Never under-estimate the importance of the ladder in football
June 8, 2009 by 4 Comments
By John Dunne YOU can never underplay the relevance of the ladder in football. And while it may be stating the obvious, it was rammed home to me in no uncertain terms back in the late 1980s. I was domiciled in the hub of north-east Victoria in a place called Wangaratta and in the [Read more]
AFL Round 11: And that was that, for Tiger Terry.
June 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by John Green After weeks of wondering when the guillotine blade is going to drop, Terry Wallace has left the scaffold and decided to go of his own accord. The Tigers’ clash with the Western Bulldogs is to be his last as Richmond coach. There is a curious irony in Wallace’s swansong. He is competing [Read more]
AFL Round 11: Magpies fly through exams
June 8, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Danielle Eid With year 11 comes the stress of VCE exams and with that comes my chocolate obsession. (Im an emotional eater) The notion of locking myself up in my room with books became a reality. My head buzzing with endless facts about the Legal system, Kristallnacht, Literature quotes and God knows what else. [Read more]
AFL Round 11: Edge of your Geelong seat?
June 8, 2009 by 13 Comments
by John Harms Geelong 15.9.99 d West Coast 11.11.77 I’m not sure I’m enjoying my footy the way I did a few years ago. Sounds ridiculous really. But it’s a different experience now. In the old days of watching from the couch I wouldn’t be interrupted. Nothing would break my concentration. It was all too in-the-balance. How [Read more]
AFL Round 11: The Dons v Tyson Edwards’ receding hairline
June 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Rod Oaten Two things wrong with this game, the Dons are playing at the ground behind Spencer Street Railway Station and they are playing an interstate team, called Adelaide. This footy ground is like a giant fish bowl even more so when it started to drizzle and they closed the roof. Not my ideal [Read more]
Women’s footy: Vics win national championship
June 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Leesa Catto The BIG V claimed the AFL women’s national championships today with a hard fought thirty-eight point win over West Australia in perfect conditions at Subiaco Oval. In a very tight opening term the Victorian backline was placed under enormous pressure as the W.A team pushed forward relentlessly. W.A led by seven points at quarter time, the [Read more]
Round 11: Richmond v Western Bulldogs – Tigers farwell coach in characteristic fashion
June 6, 2009 by 1 Comment
Tonight is the farewell game for Richmond’s Terry Wallace, his five year plan ending in failure with Richmond not much better off than when he came to the club. But tonight we may see even more farewells. Jordan Mcmuffin has been selected ,while Pettifer and Simmonds will get their last chance to show the new coach [Read more]
Special Feature: Bring the farm to the footy
June 6, 2009 by 3 Comments
1960s “footballers” Graeme Willingham (Camperdown and Daylesford FCs) and Owen Beaton (Camperdown, Heywood, Birregurra and Colac FCs) continue with their plan to recognise the contribution The Farm has made to today’s modern game. Naming a FoFF Farmyard Team of The Centuries is all well and good and has been done by [Read more]
Gigs’ [extra] Stats: Amazing potential ladder, if all falls the right way
June 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Andrew Gigacz Knackers I’ve just taken a break from working on the Pensky file and have come up with the following potential results for the next 12 rounds. If all 96 of those results eventuate, the Round 22 ladder will have all 16 teams on 11 wins and 11 losses. Who [Read more]
Friday preview: Plough’s last hurrah
June 5, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Dan Lonergan I’ve followed the Western Bulldogs since I was six, which stretches back to 1975, when the new cool kid came to school in grade one. He barracked for Footscray and everyone wanted to be his friend, but maybe adopting his footy team was taking it too far. At the time I was [Read more]
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