by Nick Kossatch Collingwood 3.1 6.5 15.8 17.12 (114) Port Adelaide 5.2 7.5 9.6 11.10 (76) GOALS Collingwood: Anthony 4, Didak 3, Dick 3, L. Brown 2, Lockyer, Swan, Davis, Clarke, Sidebottom Port Adelaide: Ebert 3, Gray, Rodan, Cassisi, Tredrea, M. Westhoff, Lade, Surjan, Pearce BEST Collingwood: Swan, L. Brown, […]
Jones files: High times on the back of a truck
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones WHILE broadcasting sports events in Papua New Guinea was never dull, radio work hasn’t been without its moments here in central Victoria. How many metropolitan radio hacks would hoist themselves into the back of ute parked against a country footy ground’s fence? Not to mention a dairy cattle livestock truck positioned adjacent […]
Putting the farm back into footy – Part 1
May 29, 2009 by 9 Comments
In the first of a two-pronged attack, 1960s “footballers” Graeme Willingham (Camperdown and Daylesford FCs) and Owen Beaton (Camperdown, Heywood, Birregurra and Colac FCs) have a plan to put the farm back into footy, real grassroots style. Secretly, they’ve always been our favourites, the ones we look out for, and indeed watch over. Because […]
Speccie voting
May 28, 2009 by 4 Comments
Greatest speccie of all time voting Shaun Smith at the Gabba 45 Jezza 1970 GF 36 Gary Ablett over Pert 23 Ashley Sampi v Melb 20 Trevor Barker on the wing at teh Lake Oval 12 Gary Ablett (snr) v Melb 1989 10 Gary Moorcroft v Doggies 14 Chris Tarrant v Melbourne 2002 7 Brett […]
AFL Round 9: The Cats, Tim Lane and The Bultman
May 28, 2009 by 3 Comments
by Stephen Cooke The Bultman made his way straight to me at a wedding reception after the Cats snagged the Grand Final on that one day to remember. For someone with access to an open bar for more than an hour, his eyes were surprisingly focussed. “What’s it like?” he asked. I told him seeing […]
General footy writing: Carn the Arckos!
May 28, 2009 by 1 Comment
Tired of going to the Royal Park after games at the MCG? Punters looking for a more cerebral letdown after four quarters of footy might consider walking past the Royal Park and heading onto the Richmond Uniting Church in Church Street, where Tim Phillips’ Arcko Symphonic Project is putting on a Pulling the Strings recital […]
In the Sheds: Not a level playing field
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
One of the great things about footy is that every ground is different. Unlike soccer and rugby pitches, which are uniform in dimension, footy grounds can be as big as the sky or as small as a pie, with straight wings or bulbous wings or a kink in one pocket. Another factor that sets grounds […]
General footy writing: The top ten stepladders
May 28, 2009 by 8 Comments
By Paul Daffey 1. Garry Lyon The former Melbourne captain is to be commended for his habit of getting in front. But such are the pitfalls of this noble practice that it made him the ideal stepladder for some towering marks from spring-heeled teammates. In 1995, Lyon got into the spirit of the construction work […]
Yarra Man: The lowdown on the elite
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Tavis Perry THE talk of whether Lou Richards should be inducted into the AFL hall of fame coincided with Jason Akermanis’ 300th game. Aker is undoubtedly one of my favourite all-time players. The subsequent articles on him and the hall of fame inductees made for some interesting reading on one of my favourite topics: […]
AFL Round 9: Hawks do enough
May 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Steve Healy This game was never going to be a blockbuster. But how can a game be a blockbuster when it is played in a Sunday twilight timeslot? I hopped on the train at an unfamiliar time in the afternoon for the second time in five weeks. Luckily, it wasn’t a Demons home game […]
AFL Round 9: Dogs may be the real deal after all
May 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Josh Barnstable I am very nervous. I’m on the phone, waiting to be introduced. As I sit there, Kathy Bedford and Peter ‘Crackers’ Keenan talk footy and are about to introduce me to the Friday Afternoon panel. Finally I’m given an introduction and my radio gig flows nicely. Asked for my tip on tonight’s […]
AFL Round 9: Port blown away
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch With the Western Bulldogs just failing against unbeaten Geelong – Port’s match against the contested-ball kings, Sydney, was a chance for the club to gain respect from afar as well as outright third on the AFL premiership ladder. It was time for the Power to show their mettle, away from the safe […]
AFL Round 9: Kangas fight back
May 26, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Saturday’s are about sleeping in and enjoying a nice day at home in the warmth of the lounge room watching the footy. Not for me though. Up at seven today after a late night of watching the footy. I really don’t feel like playing footy as I would rather go back to […]
Haiku Bob: poking holes
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Dreamtime – end to end Leon poking holes in the rolling zone real-time TV Pendlebury spots targets out of picture Anthony shoots – the moon post-high Indian summer we suddenly kick it to the hot spots […]
General Footy Writing: Under the wing of Gull
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Paul Mitchell There seemed no reason for our bit part ruck/forward to be nicknamed ‘Gull’. I attributed the moniker to the fact that his mullet stuck out ingloriously at the sides, made him look like a windblown seagull. I didn’t know his real name, but that didn’t matter – when I called out ‘Gull!’ he […]
AFL Round 9: The View From Shepparton
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Peter SchumacherSydney and Adelaide. How I fervently wish that Brisbane and Western Bulldogs had been in that list. Can’t blame the umpies for Brisbane‘s loss, though as one correspondent was quoted as texting on Jon Faine’s (ABC Melbourne) program this morning Brown doesn’t have a back apparently or words to that effect.Tasmania has officially said […]
AFL Round 9: Field of dreams – all types really.
May 26, 2009 by 1 Comment
by John Green The MCG is a field of dreams. All types of dreams. For some, the vision of reconciliation between Australia’s original inhabitants and its newcomers. A resurgent Bombers under Matthew Knights are dreaming of creating yet another successful era borne on the wings of fleet-footed youngsters. Richmond, they may as well be dreaming […]
AFL Round 9: What pain is that?
May 25, 2009 by 4 Comments
By Andrew Gigacz When my son Oliver was about three, he took an interest in birds. Living near a park afforded us an opportunity to be exposed to all manner of feathered creatures. Many were easy to identify: magpies, kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets. But Oliver has an eye for detail and he soon became […]
AFL Round 9: (FPS) Pies work together for Tarks in the west
May 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Andrea Mcnamara Collingwood 12.16.88 West Coast 9.12.66 I like to get my game preparation right, and looking back, I know I wasn’t ready for either that Monday Massacre or the Sunday Blues game. With both, life got in the way of footy – I hadn’t fully absorbed how much the team had changed since […]
AFL Round 9: Nightmare at the G
May 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Michael Allan I don’t know what to think of Richmond anymore. At the start of the year I penciled the dreamtime match in as one of our 14 wins on the way to September. Seven losses later I’m struggling to keep up with all that is wrong with Richmond. It started off with their […]
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