West Coast Eagles VS Essendon Subiaco Oval 8:40 16th April By Steven Ingham Friday Night Footy interstate means many things – Home made Pizza Beers Couch A weekend without any structure. No going to the footy, no watching the Bombers on Saturday or Sunday… Probably have to go shopping and do work around the house… [Read more]
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AJC Derby: Quality and intrigue
April 9, 2010 by 14 Comments
by Chris Riordan Racing purists love the Randwick Carnival which begins this Saturday with The Derby. The AJC Derby is Australia’s premiere 3 year-old event and the 2010 edition has quality and intrigue. Whilst discards like Manhattan Rain reinforce my “no pre-post” evangelism, those who make it to the barriers are chasing prestige, stud kudos [Read more]
The Albatross Rules: Chapter 4, Team Building
March 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Albatross Rules (a football chronicle) The season is fast approaching. Coach, Con Filipou, is still looking for players. Meanwhile the Professor wants to implement a few more changes around the club in the hope of turning its flagging fortunes around. 4. Team Building The league had been pressing hard for a merger with Mt [Read more]
Chapter 3: The Kid
March 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Albatross Rules (a football chronicle) If Con Filipou accepts the offer from Barry (the Professor) Massey to coach the Albertville Albatrosses it will mean big changes for both the club and the coach. Con has seen enough to know that without a few new players the success the club craves is unlikely. 3. The [Read more]
Barney’s 2010 AFL Crystal Ball: West Coast and the Western Bulldogs
January 9, 2010 by 2 Comments
West Coast Eagles: Some teams are good, not great, but just good. Sometimes they are great and shoot to the top of the ladder and win the odd premiership, but then they lose some skill and drop down in the top 8. The Eagles used to be like this. 2002, they finished 8th. 2003, they [Read more]
Second Test, Day 2: Akmal misses 50, Dips’ daughter misses 48 tram
January 4, 2010 by 3 Comments
By Damian O’Donnell The first day back at work is the second day of the second Test in Sydney. The first Pakistan wicket to fall is actually the second (after North dropped a dolly), and the first time I heard a live score was when the second wicket fell. The radio is playing quietly in [Read more]
Memoir: My Father, My Football
December 22, 2009 by 9 Comments
This piece was written in 2000, and has not been published before. By Terry Chapman My life’s first footy moment comes courtesy of a black-and-white image of me in Grandma’s backyard in Coburg. I’m about four. Mum would have been behind the old Kodak 126, freezing forever the opening entry on my life’s stats sheet. [Read more]
Footy Talk: PT Barnum and Kevin Sheedy plan to put on a show
November 30, 2009 by 1 Comment
By John Butler Setting: PT Barnum: legendary showman and entrepreneur, founder of Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey’s Circus and famous for pulling hoaxes and working freak shows. Often attributed the quote “there’s a sucker born every minute.” It’s a surprise he hasn’t worked for the AFL before now. Kevin Sheedy: really needs no introduction. With [Read more]
In the Sheds: Warrandyte warrior expects no favours despite taking field with brain tumour
August 19, 2009 by 2 Comments
AS THE Warrandyte players ran on to the field to host Whitehorse Pioneers in their final-round clash in division three of Melbourne’s Eastern Football League on Saturday, their ranks included one footballer who was playing his first game for the season — with good reason. In February James “Jimmy” Logan turned up to training in [Read more]
Second Test — Day 2: The Aussies have a disastrous day and I lose my flag
July 18, 2009 by 2 Comments
By Ben Jensen To say myself and the lovely wife were looking forward to today at Lord’s is an understatement. Last year we lived a stone’s throw from the ground and vowed to do anything possible to get to the Ashes Test. Anything – even sign up to be a member of the England’s Supporters [Read more]
The Pre-Wrap: A quarter at a time
July 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By John Mosig What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The invertebrates around at the Star Chamber have been busy counting the angels dancing on the head of a pin again. Jordan Lewis’s swift jab to Mr Potato Head’s solar plexus earned a severe ‘don’t do it again’ from the adjudicators at the highest [Read more]
AFL Round 14: Big Saints game from the sands of the Gold Coast
July 10, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Anne Fedorowytch Last Sunday I found myself in a rather unusual position. I was searching for a TV that was showing the St. Kilda v Geelong game amongst the high-rises and the sandy shores of the Gold Coast. You won’t usually find me searching for televisions on the popular sunshine strip; in [Read more]
Round 14: John Mosig’s Footy Wrap
July 6, 2009 by 1 Comment
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XIV THE LADDER ST KILDA 14 0 170.44 56 GEELONG 13 1 145.04 52 FOOTSCRAY 10 4 130.37 40 CARRINGBUSH 9 5 118.39 36 ADELAIDE 9 5 102.90 36 BRISBANE 8 6 105.10 32 CARTOON 7 7 107.85 26 THE BOMBERS 7 7 101.36 24 ——————————————————————- THE POWER [Read more]
AFL Round 13: North Melbourne v Western Bulldogs: I like Roos’ approach but Dogs do enough to win
July 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
North Melbourne versus Western Bulldogs 2.10pm, Sunday, June 28 Melbourne Cricket Ground By Andrew Starkie It’s funny what the mid-season break, a new coach, Boomer’s return and school holidays can do. I’m looking forward to today’s game. There’s a freshness in the air, like the start of a new season. I have another reason to [Read more]
Local Footy: Colourful nicknames make footy world go round
June 24, 2009 by 23 Comments
By Daryl Pitman “Go Pies!,” shout Collingwood fans. “Up the Crows,” some even more misguided individuals have been heard to utter. But what about the more original nicknames that have evolved in local football? If you haven’t heard of the Cavemen, the Redeyes, the Yabbies or the Gorillas, then read on . . . One [Read more]
General footy writing: Sports stars should have no more expectations on them than rock stars
June 15, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Nathan Ryan The difference in community outrage between bad behaviour from sportspeople to musicians is astounding and one that I’ve never been able to fathom. Rock stars are lauded for their extravagant, live-on-the-edge lifestyles. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Barnes, the Gallagher brothers … they’re all open about their current or previous drug use. [Read more]
Mid-season review: from Josh Barnstable
June 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Josh Barnstable So, after Round 11 and approaching the mid-season break, just how does each club stand in the Premiership race that is hotting up by the round? And what about the very close Coleman Medal? Ladder: 1st St Kilda Played=11 Won=11 Lost=0 Points for=1160 Points against=633 %=183.25 Points=44 2nd Geelong Played=11 Won=11 Lost=0 [Read more]
Diesel: From Golden Square to gold in Sydney
May 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones Greg “Diesel” Williams, Golden Square’s former champion young centreman, was a senior Geelong player when he spent a busy off-season during the summer of 1985-86. When Geelong dumped Tommy Hafey and Sydney snapped Hafey up, the canny coach knew which leading Cats’ players were coming out of contract. So he had a [Read more]
Australian football and disputes over the Anzac legend
April 27, 2009 by 5 Comments
By Robert Pascoe (with Mark Pennings) A talk to the Almnackery at the All Nations Hotel, Richmond, 24 April 2009 On the last Saturday of the February just gone, the former treasurer, Hon Peter Costello, now a backbencher serving the people of Higgins, was addressing Camberwell RSL at their ninetieth anniversary lunch. In his speech [Read more]
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