Long-time Centralian and great character, Paul Fitzy Fitzsimons reflects on the significance of the Round 11 game at Traeger Park.
AFL Round 11 – Melbourne v Port Adelaide: A game for points, or the point of the game
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A brother’s jumper
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Vin Maskell clings to the memory of a football jumper he will never see or touch again.
Coleraine Football Club: Bill Bailey
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Wool-grower Bill Bailey played for the Maroons in the late ’60s, and his woollen footy jumper still serves him well.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 6-Hot Stuttgart Nights (2006)
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It is the 2006 World Cup, and the Socceroos overcome some familiar Croatian faces to reach the last 16.
AFL Round 12 – GWS v Essendon: Sluggish
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Sun-bathing Sam Laffy summons the energy to file a match report from a beach in Split, Croatia. Of course.
AFL Round 12 – Melbourne v Collingwood: Rivalry runs deep
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A dull game gets Luke Reynolds to thinking about the extent of the Melbourne-Collingwood rivalry, and how it even impacted on the selection of the AFL’s Team of the Century. In response he has picked his own team, and is calling for the Percy Beames Bar to be re-named the Dayne Beams Bar. Luke has also picked a superb alternative Team of the Century. [Discussion welcome. Additional suggestions encouraged – Ed]
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: We’ve been Tealed but it’s still a good week
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Yvette Wroby finds joy in the simple things of improving young St Kilda footballers, and good times with family and new friends.
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?
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.