Yvette Wroby finds joy in the simple things of improving young St Kilda footballers, and good times with family and new friends.
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: We’ve been Tealed but it’s still a good week
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Crio’s Question: “What windsock?”
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Air-conditioning? Windsocks? Watering/drying the pitch? Crio asks: what scams have been used to gain an edge?
WAFL Round 11: Royals go to the top, Lions return to form, Sharks stay in the four
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Les covers Round 11 of WAFL games. It’s East Perth on top from Swan Districts. Former AFL players and relations are bobbing up.
AFL Round 12 – Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions: Family Ties
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Jonathon Sloan tells how he defied the maternal Tiger side of the family to follow his dad as a Brisbane Lions supporter. Loyalty was rewarded against the Bulldogs on Saturday night.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 7-The Iran Disaster (1997)
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As we count down to Number 1 Dennis Gedling recalls the first leg heroics in Tehran 1997, which were followed by the disastrous events at the MCG.
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: Saints overpowered
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Footy is sometimes very simple: you get overpowered by a better team on the day.
AFL Round 12 – Western Bulldogs v Brisbane: How do I hate thee…let me count the ways
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Neil Anderson explores his feelings for the enemy as he considers the lot of the Old Fitzroy and what his own Doggies haven’t been able to do.
AFL Round 12 – North Melbourne v Richmond: I’ve been to the mountain top and there is nothing to see
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John Green is at a low ebb. (The lowest?) His kids have abandoned him. He’s doubting the notion of The Promised Land.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 8-West Germany Halt ‘The Clockwork Orange’ (1974)
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Dennis Gedling recalls the ’74 World Cup final when the Dutch ‘total football’ wilted under relentless West German pressure.
Lance Franklin: a freak. Not a champion.
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If he can’t stand up and deliver in front of goal, a forward can never be a champion. Even if he is 6’6″, ridiculously talented and a joy to watch.
AFL Round 12: Western Bulldogs v Brisbane: A day in the life of a Lost Dog
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On the road at a gig in Stockholm, Carl Coleman can spot a disappointing performance, hangover and all.
Happy Hawkers Lunch – June 13 (All welcome)
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Lunch with Ross Stevenson and Graham Arthur.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 9-Italy Ends The Party (2006)
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Dennis Gedling recalls the brightest and darkest moment in Australian World Cup history. Guus Hiddink led us to a last 16 clash with the Azzurri in 2006. Denied by the ref?
Looking for a win
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Facing crisis, Edvard Munch chose oils and gave us The Scream. When Dante explored the ramifications of the Inferno, he turned to poetry. Both used art in times of crisis. Here Gigs follows Dante’s path for his Dogs.
A Twilight Samurai Rediscovers Thunder
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Gregor Lewis takes us through the background and the characters who vied this weekend for the WBC Middleweight Championship of the World. It was Sergio Martinez versus Miguel Cotto in New York; the victor seizing “it with the fierceness of a slavering mastiff…”
Losers are Winners too
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Drop Kick reminds us that winners need losers while making a point about his judged Tigers.
Rules of the game – Chapter 1: OOF and DOB
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Charlie Krebs fears that the average footy fan (and most commentators) are wilfully and woefully ignorant of the rules of the game. The Footy Bogan sets out on a journey of enlightenment.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 10-The Unforgettable Farewell of Zinedine Zidane (2006)
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Zinedine Zidane red carded in his final game as France take on Italy in the 2006 World Cup Final. Dennis Gedling tells the tale of Italy’s 4th World Cup triumph at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
The Great Un-washed
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Geoff Lockhart remembers the basic facilities and good times of the Leven Football Association in Northern Tasmania in the 70’s. Hot showers were rare; cold beer plentiful.
AFL Round 12 – Melbourne v Collingwood: Hunting Woozles
There is something about the deification of Paul Roos by the commentariat that reminds David Wilson of Winnie the Pooh’s gloriously muddled thinking.