Collingwood v St Kilda Grand Final Replay It’s been an eerie week. Ever since that final siren sounded last Saturday, plans were thrown in the air, weddings were postponed, holidays were cancelled, and more money was spent on a Grand Final ticket. It was the first Grand Final draw I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and [Read more]
And now… The Happy Ending!
October 3, 2010 by 19 Comments
I guess I must be older than I feel because I have lived through three drawn Grand Finals and their replays. I don’t remember anything about the first. I was less than eighteen months old and besides my team wasn’t playing. I was thirty years old when the next drawn Grand Final occurred and I [Read more]
Collingwood: The Most Effective Spread Since Vegemite
October 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
Collingwood have claimed the elusive Premiership pennant for the first time in two decades with a comfortable 56 point victory as the spread of pressure, effectiveness and intimidation within the Magpie camp became as prominent as ever. The annihilation initiated by the Magpies has no doubt sent the vast Collingwood army into raptures as they [Read more]
2010 Grand Final- Part II: Discussion
October 1, 2010 by 36 Comments
By now the nerves of all Saints and Magpies supporters have received an extended shredding. The teams have been selected- heartache for some, delight for others. After a week of huge football stories, the biggest one of all will now be played out. How is everyone feeling? What do we expect tomorrow? Let ‘er rip [Read more]
Grand Final 2. The sequel is never as good.
September 30, 2010 by 4 Comments
As those inside AFL House rub their hands with glee and dive, Scrooge McDuck-like into piles of gold, the rest of us are left with the emotionally draining prospect of another four quarters of nerve-jangling Grand Final football. Collingwood was brilliant but wasteful in the first half last Saturday. St Kilda were strong and brave [Read more]
What a day!
September 29, 2010 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Starkie Wednesday of preliminary final week, a line of eight chairs is roped to the back fence of Reservoir Ticketek. Sticky-taped, scribbled signs warn: ‘Collingwood member. Don’t touch!’ The chairs are like sentries. Or night club bouncers. I brace myself for a Collingwood grand final. At the 11 minute mark, second quarter of [Read more]
The Real Experience from the Great Southern Stand
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Lucas Garth OK. My review, having not watched any TV replay or listened to the game on radio. Literally just watched the game live without input from any analyst which I though was hard to do but made for a gripping “real” experience. First quarter Collingwood played very well early, could have had 6 [Read more]
Smells like team spirit
September 28, 2010 by 4 Comments
Cheyenne’s first impressions inside the G eerily echoed the end of the day. (Cheyenne and Running Dear had purposely avoided the horrible INXS coverband, sitting on the lawn outside the ground, only entering the Shrine at 2.10pm. The real INXS were bad enough, but this reincarnation had to be missed.) Our seats were near where [Read more]
’77 revisited
September 28, 2010 by 5 Comments
by Darren Dawson Last Saturday’s epic draw brought the memories flooding back. I had not revisited the 1977 game either via my old VHS tape in the cupboard or the fuzzy images in my mind for some time. But as an impartial supporter watching the confused reactions as the siren blared to signal the 2010 [Read more]
THE FINALS WRAP – WEEK IV
September 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL What a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. As Collingwood prepare for their 3rd GF in a row in 2010, down at Moorabbin they’re getting ready for Round XXVII. But for all those who believe in the Devine Nature of Our Great Game, the Football Gods have spoken. The Collywobbles are [Read more]
The View From Shepparton: Grand Final Pt 1
September 27, 2010 by 2 Comments
The human mind is fallible of course for example, I reckon that this has been the coldest spring in a decade, but it probably hasn’t been. The Grand Final is the social event of the year in our household. Largely because of this I recently purchased a 63 inch 3D TV. Pity that the arrival [Read more]
Suffering in Silence at the Bowl.
September 27, 2010 by 5 Comments
TO FOLLOW COLLINGWOOD IS TO SUFFER; it is to make friends with a person who keeps on letting you down; it is to have grief as a constant companion. All week I repeat the same mantra to my wife Melissa the Saint- “If we win it will be by a lot, if you win it [Read more]
Haiku Bob: grand final draw – nowhere to be seen
September 27, 2010 by 7 Comments
September morning – a magpie’s song pierces my brain Spring clouds – the teams gather in their huddles first warm day players clutching and spilling a hot ball blood pouring from the full-back’s nose – spring heat glare of the sun – the path to goal nowhere to be seen Spring breeze – Davis goals [Read more]
Grand Final: Collingwood vs St Kilda – The greatest game I’ve ever seen
September 26, 2010 by 3 Comments
I’m normally pumped for Grand Final day; absolutely pumped and excited for the game, but today a different feeling has taken over. This feeling has been with me since Friday night’s preliminary final and has not gone away. It’s fear. Fear that Collingwood will actually win the premiership. All year I conceded Collingwood had the [Read more]
In the Year of Waiting, we await a result
September 26, 2010 by 17 Comments
weird a 1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. 2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. 3. Archaic Of or relating to fate or the Fates (this one unnerves me a bit). In a world in which everything and everyone seems to be in a hurry, surely 2010 will [Read more]
Everyone is being nice
September 26, 2010 by 1 Comment
That’s what I’ve come away with from yesterday’s Grand Final draw. Both St.Kilda and Collingwood players and fans were so stunned at the result, that it was quiet, reserved, polite. Collingwood fans and St.Kilda fans TALKED to each other, shared their shock and disbelief, shook their heads at each other, laughed. Said “See you next [Read more]
Extra time is the way to go
September 26, 2010 by 20 Comments
Imagine epic music, TV preview style, in the background as you read this paragraph. The anticipation builds in the moments leading up to the first bounce in the last match of 2010. In just under 3 hours, we will know who will hold aloft the premiership cup at the end of this long, grueling 2010 [Read more]
Football the winner
September 25, 2010 by 4 Comments
This was it. After 25 long weeks of pain, sweat and tears, the Grand Final was today. The premiership cup was going to either Collingwood or St Kilda, and it was being decided today. It felt like yesterday that I was telling my teachers to hurry up and finish with parent/teacher interviews so I could [Read more]
The Draw
September 25, 2010 by 27 Comments
Seeing as the grand final did not have a traditional ending, a rather awkward one infact. I have decided not to bore you with the details but provide you with what I saw as the good parts. First off, I woke up feeling rather ill, not sure if it was from nerves of the three [Read more]
2010 Grand Final- Part 1
September 25, 2010 by 52 Comments
Cooligwood 9.14.68 St Kilda 10.8.68 The Grand Final has been drawn for the 3rd time in history. In a truly epic encounter, Collingwood led for the majority of the game, only to see St Kilda snatch the lead late. The Magpies then regained the lead, only for a St Kilda point to tie the scores. [Read more]
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