by Andrew Starkie Western Bulldogs versus North Melbourne 2.10pm, Sunday, August 1 Etihad Stadium, Melbourne During half-time, a craggy old Northerner wobbles up beside me and rests on the railing. He’s wearing a Kangaroo beanie and needs a walking stick to stay upright. We get to talking and his voice is like a firecracker as [Read more]
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THE WRAP – ROUND XVIII
August 2, 2010 by 5 Comments
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Feeling Faints slip dramatically in the polls as Tony Abbott becomes the Number 1 ticket holder at John Pascoe Fawkner Reserve. The Miseries can expect some comings and goings around at Visy Park after The Magpies, with the Whole Football World looking [Read more]
Numbers just don’t add up for the Blues
August 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Tony Reed Like most of you out there, I just love my footy, especially the anticipated leading up to the first bounce. It’s even better when you have a big game against traditional enemies, and it just so happens that over the next 3 weeks, Carlton plays what I consider our traditional rivals. It [Read more]
Karma Curses Carlton
August 1, 2010 by 10 Comments
“Arrghhhh F*cking Collingwood!!!! OH-MY GOSHH LIKE I sweeear Carlton better f*cking win this time! F*cking Collingwood are on top of the laddaaahh…” Ahh, what a great start to my Monday morning. This is exactly what I want to hear. Not one to normally take a cheap shot like that I decide to let it go, [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVIII
July 30, 2010 by 2 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. It’s hardly been a slow news year has it? This week’s no different. But you’d have to wonder at the wisdom of Handy Andy’s Great Big New Tax wouldn’t you? We all saw what happened to the last bloke who tried to [Read more]
The Scourge of ICPS
July 29, 2010 by 4 Comments
Eric Ellis, Bangkok I NOW KNOW that I first developed symptoms during the 1994 World Cup, waiting for a plane at Chengdu airport in central China. What I didn’t know is that I was catching ICPS, International Couch Potato Syndrome, an exotic lurgy that has infected so many road warriors – usually blokes – in [Read more]
Oh, the pain
July 28, 2010 by 2 Comments
North Melbourne versus Essendon 7.10pm, Saturday, July 24 Etihad Stadium, Melbourne My mate MOC (his initials are M.O’C.) has been tormenting me our whole lives. He’s a typically boastful Bomber and has been shoving the perpetual success of his football club – and the relatively humble trophy cabinet of mine – down my throat since [Read more]
Italian Team of the Century – Peter Bevilacqua
July 27, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Tony De Bolfo Peter Bevilacqua The Carlton Football Club has long been linked with Melbourne’s vibrant Italian community. The old Princes Park ground flanks what was once a tight-knit enclave of Italian migrants, who lugged their suitcases from the weather-beaten wharfs of Victoria Dock and Station Pier to the old boarding houses dotted in [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XVII
July 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Hawks and The Saints split the difference in an absolute thriller on Friday Night. Collingwood & The Pussies improved their percentage at the expense of the respective Jungle Cats they were drawn to play. Carlton & Essendon both broke losing runs against [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVII
July 22, 2010 by 6 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. The invertebrates at the Star Chamber are in the news again. Tigerland midfielder Cotchin gets four weeks for doing what Bomberland’s David Hille did three times for three reprieves earlier in the season. In the same round, Carlton’s Andrew Walker laid a [Read more]
A victory worth celebrating
July 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Tom Being turfed out of a Fitzroy pub early Sunday morning for ‘excessive celebrations’ over a pool game win did not bode well for the long awaited matchup between Sydney and The Enemy that afternoon. How would Etihad’s ground staff respond to my antics when the Swans won? Would I be tarred and feathered [Read more]
A Collingwood High Road?
July 19, 2010 by 5 Comments
By Suzy Lewis Collingwood versus St Kilda – Saturday 17 July 2010 “…In retrospect we sort of seemed to have it for most of the second half, but you never know, do you, what can happen. It’s just been part of my football upbringing, I don’t expect anything until it’s there and in reality and [Read more]
THE WRAP – ROUND XVI
July 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. The Chardonnays popped their cork and sent The Sleepy Hollow Millionaires home from the City of Churches with a hangover. The Boilovers continued on the Saturday. The Mighty Maggies monstered The Decidedly Feeling Faints and The Gliders were shot down in flames over [Read more]
Changes at the Crows vs Cats
July 18, 2010 by 5 Comments
Changes – sometimes good, sometimes bad, always inevitable.
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games- Rd. 16
July 18, 2010 by 2 Comments
Round 16 Essendon versus West Coast Eagles Saturday, July 17th., Etihad Stadium (N) Tommy’s made a batch of cumquat marmalade, 14 recycled bottles’ worth, courtesy of the bounty from a tree on the lower terrace. (He’s a clever little vegemite.) It’s a lot easier to do a post mortem of the football when he eats [Read more]
Insipid Dons Leave Fans Riled
July 18, 2010 by 3 Comments
It’s been a puzzling few weeks for us Don supporters. Just a short time ago , well six weeks actually, we had strung a few wins on the run against some pretty good opposition sides and looked like we might even be pushing to stay in the top eight, then the wheels fell off. Listening [Read more]
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND XVI
July 16, 2010 by 4 Comments
FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. What goes around, comes around. In a scene that would be familiar from his playing days at Tigerland when La Geisha was coaching, the Playing Group fronted the Essendon Coach with a few items that they felt was tearing at the fabric [Read more]
Racing Almanac- Winter Finals
July 9, 2010 by 8 Comments
Easily dismissed as irrelevant to those outside of the Racing Industry, winter racing still offers opportunity and income to thousands and, despite meetings often denounced as “lacklustre” or even dismissed as “poor”, authorities work hard at providing incentives to keep business vibrant. Here in Victoria the VRC co-operates with other Metropolitan Clubs and with Country [Read more]
Geoff Sinclair’s Home and Away Games- Rd 13 cont.
June 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND 13 (continued) Hawthorn versus Essendon June 18th., M.C.G. The week disappears faster than the smile on Mrs Averling’s face when I tell her she can’t have the swimming pool hotter than 34 degrees. I keep the lid on my immediate thought, which is, then go and have a bath, darling. At Wednesday’s morning tea [Read more]
Slippery Saints Subdue Cranky Cats
June 26, 2010 by 34 Comments
In some ways this was going to be a Grand Final replay; just some. Certainly, a lot of the usual suspects were there; but a lot weren’t. It was wet just like last Grand Final day; but the lights were on, and it was Friday. Most importantly, it was Round 13, not Grand Final day. [Read more]
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