Won’t someone think of Mr & Mrs Football and all the Little Footballs? And Chris Scott’s blood pressure? After round 15, The Wrap is on Maggot Watch.
AFL Round 15 – Pre-Wrap: Entering the home straight round
July 5, 2013 by 2 Comments
The Wrap is pondering significant questions, significant absences and smoke signals as he lights the way in a challenging round for punters.
AFL Round 14 – Review: Booing – why?
July 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
The Pharmacology College Cup, Magpies v Magpies and Sheedy goes basic: Paul Thomson suggests that the AFL face reality as he wraps up the week in football.
AFL Round 10 – Sydney v Essendon: Sydney strong, Goodes good.
June 2, 2013 by 1 Comment
The upsetting week in footy prompts Rod Oaten to remember one of the VFL’s earliest Aboriginal players as he watches the Swans do battle with his Dons in rainy Tinsel Town.
VFL – Collingwood v Essendon: Return to Vic Park
May 27, 2013 by 3 Comments
Rod Oaten heads off to Victoria Park. What was once an act of bravery is now more like a timeless picnic.
AFL Round 8 – Essendon v Brisbane: A footy love triangle
May 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
The circus surrounding Brisbane’s inception swayed Cliff Bingham to follow Essendon instead of the Bears. Meetings between the two have been awkward since and he can’t help thinking, What If?
AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: I went to the footy with George Foreman and saw a great Geelong victory
May 17, 2013 by 9 Comments
JTH has a day out, as do his Cats.
AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: Geelong Time.
May 17, 2013 by 37 Comments
P. Flynn braves the desert zephyr, quenches his thirst with a wine of the desert, and takes in some Geelong Time. [Now with a copy of John Burke’s Footy Record from the day]
AFL Round 5 – Essendon v Collingwood: When landing a ticket is a dubious windfall
April 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Pies man Luke Reynolds has one win for the day as the Dons give his boys a touch-up.
AFL Round 3 – Fremantle v Essendon: What a big week its been in football
April 14, 2013 by 5 Comments
It was an emotional win for the Essendon Football Club. You couldn’t help but feel it.
AFL Round 3 – Fremantle v Essendon: One night, two games.
April 13, 2013 by 5 Comments
Les Everett takes a surprisingly dispassionate look at his Dockers performance in what turned into a thriller at Subiaco.
AFL Round 2 – Essendon v Melbourne: Avert your eyes
April 7, 2013 by 2 Comments
It’s bloody hard to know how to start a summary of this game. Being a one-eyed Don you always hope that you come away from a game with a win, and usually the bigger the win the better. But I don’t know, this game was not so much a win but a series of training [Read more]
NAB Cup – GWS v Essendon: Brushing off the cobwebs
March 10, 2013 by 4 Comments
After a lazy summer, Pam Sherpa gets back into it with a match at Manuka Oval in Canberra which, serendipitously features who two footy teams.
Middle Australia: Which way is up for Essendon?
February 11, 2013 by 5 Comments
Who’d have thought such rigorous, reasoned thinking would come from Middle Australia (and that The Editor of The Middle Australia Report is a Bombers fan is a nice complication).
A question for fans
February 9, 2013 by 8 Comments
Barry Levinson asks the question that many footy fans are asking at the moment.
AFL Grand Final: Breakfast in the park
September 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
The Carlton Four caught up with me the other morning on our regular walk/plod around Princes Park and invited me to their Annual Grand Final Bar B Q Breakfast. Now this is not your ordinary run of the mill breakfast in the park. A table was selected by Michael in the dark at quarter [Read more]
A Tribute to Norm McDonald
September 20, 2012 by 24 Comments
Max Watson, aged 11, wrote this profile as a project at Merri Creek Primary School.
The Middle Australia Report: Oscar and other curiosities
September 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
Does anyone else see the irony in Oscar Pistorius claim that the 200m race at the Paralympics was unfair because the bloke who beat him, Brazilian Alain Oliveira, had different prosthetics to him? What would have happened if Pistorius had won the 400m at the Olympics and an ablebodied athlete had complained? I dare say there would have been an outrage from the PC community.
AFL Round 22 – Richmond v Essendon: Schadenfreude
August 25, 2012 by 6 Comments
The German term “schadenfreude” is beautifully efficient – a single word when in English we need seven (taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others). Richmond was hardly efficient last night but the ease with which the Bombers were brushed aside was breathtaking. And enjoyable. As Essendon’s abortive 2012 campaign played out its last dismal rites, the schadenfreude flowed [Read more]
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