Good Friday – we discuss who ought to be culled Easter Saturday – we enter the game without our leader a shot at goal brings howls from the crowd – full moon no wind missed kicks still the crowd autumn night nothing much going on except Pendlebury dusk – Daisy splits the night into [Read more]
Nobody hates us anymore
April 9, 2012 by 9 Comments
The problem for Richmond is that we don’t rate at all on the football hatred scale. No-one even tells jokes about us. I am with my Magpie-supporting mate, Grant, on a crowded express train jetting past Victoria Park on the way to the MCG for the Collingwood-Richmond clash. The voice of the train driver is [Read more]
A lil bit of Essendon and a whole lotta Collingwood
April 8, 2012 by 6 Comments
What started as Father-Daughter Footyday became Father-Daughter-Uncle Footyday :) First we hit Etihad Stadium to watch my uncle John’s Bombers beat Port Adelaide. Danielle EidIm 23, cute and most importantly im the Collingwood Football Club’s very own PRINCESS!! :) A Latrobe Uni graduate from Bachelor of Journalism. Admirer of Samantha Lane and Jon Ralph. [Read more]
A push and a rush and the game is ours
April 6, 2012 by 12 Comments
Collingwood’s 50 Most Sensational Games Round 4, 1987 Collingwood 2.4.16 4.10.34 7.11.53 16.14.110 Richmond 3.5.23 7.7.49 14.8.92 15.10.100 VENUE: VFL Park DATE: Saturday 20 April CROWD: 36,749 UMPIRES: Robinson, Forster COLLINGWOOD B Christian Gayfer Kerrison HB Brown Manson Keays C Millane Turner Bradbury HF Fielke Starcevich Rizonico F Banks Taylor Croall FOLL Cloke, Atkins, Ryan [Read more]
down another falling
April 4, 2012 by 5 Comments
new season starts at the 10 minute mark I catch my breath first quarter the umpire plucks the ball from the clinging pack dusk deepens one more missed goal the debutant’s first shot at goal straight through the middle MCG in March Buddy’s skied hook post-high Cloke drags down another falling leaves alone inside fifty [Read more]
Lethal or Mick? A hypothetical
April 3, 2012 by 5 Comments
by Jeff Dowsing If you flat out refuse to deal in hypotheticals, then by all means click the ‘back’ button now. Fair enough too, I’m not usually one for hypotheticals either, it’s a bit too Bruce McAvaney for my liking. Actually Bruce, or more so his employer, lead me to my subject. Seven has certainly [Read more]
Round 1 – Hawks, Magpies, Grass and Mud
April 3, 2012 by 5 Comments
by Paul Campbell Mint Bar – two Vodkas in -I tell Cat woman I must leave. “It’s Five forty five”, Cat woman observes. “I know”, I respond, “I want to get to the ‘G and look at the grass a while”. It’s been 6 months and 7 days since Collingwood shattered a dream, in [Read more]
Round 1: Crowd Behavior – The Six Golden Rules
April 1, 2012 by 34 Comments
So footy in Melbourne has kicked off and we could not have asked for any better games to kick us off. Richmond looked competitive against Carlton, Hawthorn just had the edge over Collingwood with incredible goals to Franklin and Gunston in the last quarter, and last night Hamish MacIntosh missed a shot after the siren to cost North Melbourne [Read more]
Gallant Pies run out of legs and class as Buddy and Cyril bite us on the ass
March 31, 2012 by 5 Comments
Footy came back with a huge bang as we went down to the Hawks in an epic opening round encounter that deserves a record length heading for a Floreat Pica Society match report. The biggest question going into the game was how well our bottom six would handle the blowtorch heat of the Hawks’ [Read more]
Round one for Collingwood, only the start for Buckley
March 31, 2012 by 22 Comments
5, 4, 3, 2 ,1! With the count down round one of the 2012 season had officially begun! Don’t bother with the- “but GWS played Sydney last week” line, nobody cared! Even the people in Sydney didn’t care! I’d know, I was in Sydney at my cousin’s 21st. So anyway my boys went up against [Read more]
Hawthorn v Collingwood
March 30, 2012 by 2 Comments
Term one down. Two more to go. That’s how long I have left for school in my life. It feels just like a couple of weeks ago that I started Year 12, although the floods in Northern Victoria disrupted that for a week and a bit with all schools in the district closed. A nice [Read more]
Footy’s home away from ‘drome
March 28, 2012 by 4 Comments
by Jeff Dowsing Since Roy Cazaly was a boy, a perennial issue facing football has been access to suitable venues to play and train. If it’s not a war between football and the local council, it’s a barney amongst the club’s pigskin punters and their ship of flannelled fools. The latest is the Kangaroos jettisoning the cricket club [Read more]
Collingwood TV – An Idea For The Ages
March 22, 2012 by 62 Comments
So they’re seriously considering a dedicated Collingwood channel. I don’t doubt this idea is manna from heaven for many. People will suddenly realise what’s been missing from their lives all these years. Myself? My reaction is rather more like Alex in his maximum security ward in A Clockwork Orange: strapped to a gurney, eyes [Read more]
A strange scene
March 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
by Steve Merry It is a strange scene. Thirteen thousand fans have rated this event worthy of their attendance. Worthy of donning their team’s colours. Worthy of coordinating plans with friends or family. But to show that one might actually care about the result tonight is another matter. Only a brave few seem prepared [Read more]
Standin’ on the Outside Lookin’ in
March 5, 2012 by 17 Comments
Well, it has been an interesting couple of weeks. They have just removed the warning signs from the Manuka precinct alerting passers by to the higher than average level of lobbyists in the area and the café patrons now have faces. There is no greater sport in Canberra than politics and the imminent arrival of [Read more]
Why Collingwood will win the premiership
February 28, 2012 by 19 Comments
THE OPTIMIST’S GUIDE TO SEASON 2012. By Alex Wadelton WHY COLLINGWOOD WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP As Eddie McGuire is fond of saying, Collingwood were thirty minutes short of being the best team last year. If only captain Nick Maxwell could have figured how to play to play on the wing instead of third man up [Read more]
The Future of the Caringbush
February 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Here’s something I wrote in December 2009. Some interesting predictions here, some of which were pretty damn close. Hope you like it. -Bucky So it’s like this, I love the Collingwood Football Club whether we’re riding the ladder from the top, or propping up 15, 16 or 17 other AFL teams. I’ve sat back [Read more]
Floret Pica NAB Cup Week 1
February 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
For those either without Foxtel or with a better offer on a warm February night, I offer a few thoughts on the Pies’ opening NAB Cup games. The Fahey family lounge was full of black and white jumpers as we settled in for the first instalment of the year, this time from the grandiosely named [Read more]
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