by Saintly The Hawks are gone for 2011 so I just want to see some good footy and have ale or two with my mates! Here’s my account, a diary if you will. This is the first Saturday in October for the second year in a row that the Holy Grail may be decided. So [Read more]
Post GF Floreat Pica thoughts
October 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
In hindsight, I’m not sure that the strategy to kick it long to thegeelongdefender was such a great strategy – just a thought. Go Pies, 2012, PS How bad was the ch 10 commentary? Two injured players cost us big time!! The worst game Reid has ever played!! Who would have replaced him. [Read more]
The Men from Sleepy Hollow
October 5, 2011 by 8 Comments
by Rhys Howells There is nothing so euphoric when you barrack for Geelong And the team from Sleepy Hollow is on fire They have joined the champs eternal – they can surely do no wrong When they’ve roasted magpies on the funeral pyre. And all the mighty players wearing hoops of blue and white [Read more]
A short history of Geelong
October 4, 2011 by 29 Comments
The narrow yet convincing triumph over the Magpie juggernaut in round 8 instilled a belief in Cats fans that Collingwood could do a ‘Devon Loch’. Geelong’s final round devouring of the Pies was surely make-believe. Watching it in Galle, Sri Lanka, I thought it was a fix. And I reckon this anomalous result muddied pre-Grand [Read more]
Knowing the Unknowable
October 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by Sam Steele Twenty minute mark of the 3rd Quarter. Collingwood is five points ahead. I sense they’re going the better. I used to refer to it as the D’Amico Moment, but over the years have renamed it (more chastely) the Matera Moment, the Ellen Moment and the Dew Moment. Here was my big [Read more]
The GF, not quite Doggie or Qld style
October 4, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Mick Jeffrey What a week it has been in football was the opening line to many a Footy Show when a certain president oversaw the Melbourne ratings phenomena. For me it proved there certainly was a first time for everything as this was my first true Grand Final experience from inside the MCG. [Read more]
The Chorus and the Agon: The Blue and White Chorus Played a Role
October 4, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Stephen Alomes At most footy matches, cries of “Ball!”, exclamations about free kicks rightly or wrongly awarded and even Bronx cheers for ‘richly deserved’ points (rather than goals) don’t add up to very much. They allow us to get things off our chests and to play to the peanut gallery, usually [Read more]
The sweetest one of all
October 4, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Marcus Holt I’ve lived in exile in WA since I was 12 but my love for Geelong has never waned. I got a ticket to the 07 Grand Final by Divine intervention. In 08 my number came up in the ballot but I sent my son, The Heir, in my place. In 09 [Read more]
A Players Victory
October 3, 2011 by 16 Comments
Geelong and Collingwood. A classic case of starting from a similar spot and ending up in very different places. Two communities who in their own ways felt wronged. Who sought approval from others to compensate for a sense of inferiority. Who burned at ambitions thwarted. Two football clubs who came to represent a means of [Read more]
Footy Symmetry
October 3, 2011 by 2 Comments
Shortly after Geelong beat Collingwood in R 24 i commented on a posting, reminiscing back to 1980, my focus being on the First Division of the VFA. That year Coburg finished top of the ladder losing only 2 home and away games, not too dissimilar to Collingwood in the 2011 AFL season. I drew an anology [Read more]
An Anniversary to Remember
October 3, 2011 by 1 Comment
This year has changed me. The constant in my life has always been football. Something new, something just as important, dare I even breathe the words, more important, has crept into my every day living. No longer do I live, breathe and eat football. In fact, it is more of a pleasant delicacy that I [Read more]
Cats Dressed to Kill
October 3, 2011 by 18 Comments
By Dips O’Donnell I could do no more. I’d planned it for weeks. The rest was up to the boys. First the socks. Not so much lucky socks, but unassuming socks; socks that have a hint of navy blue around the heel and toe. Yes, they would do just fine. I buried them deep down [Read more]
STAND UP AND FIGHT LIKE HELL!
October 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Primarily a rugby league follower from Queensland, a stint in Adelaide in the 70s and 80s educated me in the attractions of footy, southern style. I became a Bombers supporter. Today, I watch the GF in my Scarborough lounge, 1600kms from the G. The final scoreboard shows that Geelong defeated Collingwood by 38 points in [Read more]
And there they were
October 2, 2011 by 2 Comments
The head defies the heart. It was the second quarter of an Afl Grand Final against the archetypal foe, the Magpies. It was clear that The Pod’s arm was shot, and a crestfallen Harry Taylor was being taken to the bench. The heart, mine own, was beating with less and less vigor. This fabled swarm [Read more]
Happy Cats and Cheshire Grins:
October 2, 2011 by 4 Comments
Prelude How can I, as a mad Sainter, not begin this piece with reference to the last two years. It’s not just me, blasted Channel 10 kept showing the highlights of this years contenders last premiership battles, and the Saints happen to be the patsies that were beaten in their path to glory. The [Read more]
Old Unwelcome Memories
October 2, 2011 by 13 Comments
Collingwood v Geelong Grand Final 2011 By Phil Dimitriadis Nothing ends well that starts with a Meat Loaf ‘Kiss’. The omens were there from the beginning and I chose to ignore them. Even as a seven year old the lyrics of ‘Hot Summer Night’: “You took the words right out of my mouth” had [Read more]
The Emptiest Bandwagon(s) in History
October 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Disclaimer: I am a big Cats fan. For this post, I am donning my Analyst cap. I am quite stunned at how rapid the sift in sentiment for the Flag has been. Throughout the year the Pies have been wild favorites, as the Cats rolled relatively umimpeeded on, finishing second by one game. I was [Read more]
The Great Black and White Schadenfreude
October 1, 2011 by 3 Comments
They’ve been worming out of the woodwork for weeks; Disenchanted Dees, Beaten Dogs and, more recently, Hard-done-by Hawks. Everyone’s lining up to have a crack. Like spectators watching a stranger withdrawing the fateful skewer in a game of Kerplunk, or misplacing a block in Jenga. They know the price of failure. It’s written all over [Read more]
Can the Cats win without Stevie J?
September 30, 2011 by 2 Comments
Everything points to this Grand Final being a cracker. Even the weather. As the Friday dawn is breaking over the People’s Republic of Northcote I can see small patches of blue sky. The morning paper tells me that Beams is out for Collingwood and young Fasolo is in, and that there is no change in [Read more]
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