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]
No,No,No
July 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is my first report in a long time. Over the past two weeks, I have been busy playing tennis tournaments and I went up to Queensland for a week. I have had very successful holidays getting a dozen ranking points and three trophies! In my first tournament, I defeated four people before coming unstuck [Read more]
Alternative Strip – Grow Up
July 15, 2012 by 3 Comments
Sunday Morning Coming Down. Those grey shorts Essendon wore last week reminded me of the ones I used to wear to primary school. Odd looking on an adult. Essendon’s problem is not that it has developed an alternative strip, it is having developed the worst effort at an alternative strip ever seen in any competition [Read more]
My First Footy Match
June 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Constance Iliadis After numerous years of watching the odd footy game on TV and watching my dad and sisters go berserk over what I thought was a bunch of silly men chasing around a leather ball full of air and occasionally kicking it through some poles, they invited me to the footy. I have [Read more]
Just to pass the time away
June 7, 2012 by 5 Comments
I love football, the real version, the round-ball game. The game the world is devoted to. The one which sees players from each continent playing side-by-side, while fans around the globe tune in at all times of night and day. At the game, there’s the singing, whistling, chanting, dancing, trumpets, drums and vuvuezelas willing the [Read more]
The Miracle of Geoff Leak (Leek)
May 9, 2012 by 12 Comments
By Barry Dickins Many torps ago there was Geoff Leek whom my father knew and played cricket with down at our local church. It was the unhappiest land of them all. Known as The Reservoir Baptist Church it approved of capital punishment and its sententious Sunday School teachers knocked [Read more]
Mosquito fleet helps Bombers soar
May 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
The “refugee” from Jersey rang me up earlier in the week to see if I was free to go and see the Dons take on Brisbane. Not a lot was on for me, so the answer was a quick yes. Now I don’t have a lot of love for the Emptyhead Stadium behind Spencer Street [Read more]
Essendon win twice
April 21, 2012 by 8 Comments
Today was the first tennis match of the season. We were versing old rivals on a cold wet Saturday morning. As I am number one in my team, I play the first singles and don’t get the luxury of warming up in the doubles especially with my sore shoulder. The courts were wet under foot [Read more]
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