by Patrick O’Keeffe I don’t really hold any personal grudge against Andrew Demetriou. I haven’t met the bloke. I know that he played football, though I was too young to recall his playing days, which ended before the VFL competition had entered my consciousness. I once held open a restaurant door for him. He [Read more]
Jones files: All aboard for the South Pacific Games
June 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones BACK in the 1960s and ‘70s inter-Territory and inter-island carnivals were the high points of the sporting calendar for Pacific countries. The emerging island nations to the north and east of Australia contested a wide range of sports disciplines in the event known as the South Pacific Games. The Games were first [Read more]
Supreme Court News: Norfolk and Chance bring a class action against the Richmond Football Club
June 5, 2009 by 2 Comments
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA AT MELBOURNE CLASS ACTION LIST Court No. That Big One Please BETWEEN: RICHARD TETLEY SMITH & OTHERS Plaintiff – and – RICHMOND FOOTBALL CLUB LTD Defendant STATEMENT OF CLAIM Date of document: 29 May 2009 Filed on behalf of: The Plaintiff Prepared by: NORFOLK & CHANCE Solicitor’s Code: [Read more]
Local Footy: Waikerie hammer Berri
June 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch TOM’S TEN TAUNTS THE DEMONS – RFL ROUND SIX Tom Hyde booted 10 goals in the Waikerie Magpies 50-point drubbing of the Berri Demons in Waikerie. It was Demon Terry Bonner’s 200th senior match not the result he had hoped for. Hyde reeled off four goals in the opening [Read more]
Local Footy: Riverland Superdogs go down in Berri
June 4, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs broke their ‘record-breaking’ winning stretch at Berri Oval after Gawler defeated them by 10 points on Sunday. It was a physical and hard-fought epic and Canadian exchange schoolteacher Steve Deighton (here on holidays in other words!) revelled in overcast conditions. He was in-and-under and continually ran to [Read more]
International footy: Knacker pulls the boots on for the San Jose Hornets
June 4, 2009 by 2 Comments
by James Mackay Some of you may be aware of the footy leagues in the USA. Each area has a few teams and then once a year each district sends a team to the Nationals (Colorado Springs in ’08). The district around San Francisco includes teams from the bay city (known as the knights), the [Read more]
Poetry: Twilight by Andrew Gigacz
June 4, 2009 by 1 Comment
Twilight by Andrew Gigacz Footy is not for Twilight Footy is for Highlights and Lowlights And Friday night Floodlights Twilight is not for footy Twilight is for Goths For Stephanie Meyer and Bella Swan It’s not for footy Twilight is for teenagers and Kristen Stewart It’s for [Read more]
Yarra Man: All together now
June 4, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Tavis Perry This year I’m playing for Yarrawonga, which is affiliated with the Ovens and Murray Football League. Like a lot of country players I’m living and working in Melbourne, which makes it impossible to get to training with the team in Yarrawonga. This is common for county footballers. Yarrawonga have 13 footballers who [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Dees’ yelp then fade away at Carrara
June 4, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Steve Healy Saturdays have always been good for footy. For me, they begin at my desk in my room when I listen to the coverage of the Saturday Afternoon match on Triple M (apart from the rare occasion when the Demons play in this time slot). This Saturday was a little bit different because [Read more]
AFL Round 10: You can’t kill Collingwood
June 3, 2009 by 5 Comments
by Danielle Eid Having cable TV is always something I take for granted until I have the pleasure of watching my Collingwood boys live in my pjs and fuzzy slippers. With Dale and Didak named in for the side and the MCG advantage it was known to be a Collingwood victory from the begging, until [Read more]
AFL Round 10: North squander chances while Simon Black takes his
June 3, 2009 by 1 Comment
North Melbourne 12.9.81 lost to Brisbane 15.9.99 2.10pm, Saturday, May 30 Etihad Stadium, Melbourne by Andrew Starkie The Preston Market is my late Friday afternoon ritual. Ham and Cheese from the Greek deli. Salmon from the Vietnamese fish shop. Piped James Taylor floating above the friendly din. Looking down proudly like a portrait of the [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Carlton makes work at the London desk a little easier
June 3, 2009 by 1 Comment
Carlton versus West Coast Eagles 7.40pm, Friday, May 29 Etihad Stadium Ben Santamaria I have always loved the prospect of a Friday night game: the dash from school or work to the ’G or the Dome, or whatever it’s called these days; the taste of that first weekend beer that you feel you have earned [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Politics, money and the Bulldogs at Manuka
June 2, 2009 by 2 Comments
By Pamela Sherpa The national capital Canberra doesn’t have a team in the national competition but it is hosting an AFL game today.Sydney (Swans) and Melbourne (Bulldogs.)Melbourne. The Swans however feel at home in Canberra as they play here twice a year and garnish support from the surrounding NSW region. The politics of money and football is almost as clear as a debate [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Skill, ability, speed, unselfishness. Cats are sensational.
June 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Josh Barnstable A nice Sunday awaits me as I wake up from my sleep-in: 9:45am. Just enough time to get dressed, make a Milo and settle on the couch to watch three hours of consecutive footy replays from the weekend’s games. It’s a nice day to finish off the season of autumn, with tomorrow [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Another Friday, another parma, another Blues win
June 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Josh Barnstable Another Friday, another exciting day at school, another successful radio interview on ABC. I tip the Blues on this occasion, knowing that Brendan Fevola does not play too many bad games in a row and that Chris Judd should bounce back from last week’s shocker against Adelaide, and so should everyone [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Rain, beer and the footy on a front bar TV in Sydney
June 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Tony Reed I guess I have a confession to make from the outset when reporting on this game. I didn’t watch all of it, although I did manage to watch most of it. A bit like Carlton, I knew it was a-comin’ – in this case the rain in Sydney and hoped that this [Read more]
AFL Round 10: The View From Shepparton
June 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Peter Schumacher The main point of point of interest that has arisen from this round is not that Ben Cousins has been caught acting stupidly again but rather what do these excursions to the dressing rooms add to the footy coverage anyway? I would have thought that in general what happens on the [Read more]
Round 10: Gigs’ stat declaration
June 2, 2009 by 2 Comments
By Andrew Gigacz With the World Twenty20 due to start this week, the mind of the sports fan is turning towards cricket. Of course in the quick-fix form of the game the focus is on runs, not wickets. And as if in anticipation of the event, Round 10 was full of runs of its [Read more]
Press release: Victorian women’s footy team
June 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
from Leesa Catto and the VWFL The Victorian senior women’s football team flies out on Tuesday the 2nd of June bound for Perth to compete in the 2009 AFL national women’s championships. The new look Victorian team boasts fourteen players making their debut in the Big V jumper with nine of those fourteen having represented Victoria at [Read more]
General footy writing: It’s all about confidence
June 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Confidence is very definitely a big element in on-field success in any sport. This weekend, well known football identity Kevin Bartlett, on Saturday morning radio, gave his preview of the Round 10 Fremantle Richmond match. ‘KB’ showed a surprising level of faith in the Tigers, when he said he expected Richmond to win and win [Read more]
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