A really thoughtful (and magnanimous) report of a tense match. Trucker Slim casts a mature Hawthorn eye on yesterday’s thrilling struggle.
AFL Round 5 – Geelong v Hawthorn: Cats Take the Chocolates
April 22, 2014 by 4 Comments
Hawks fans are used to the Cats winning these, and they don’t seem too concerned.
AFL Round 9 – Port Adelaide v Geelong: True Believers
May 28, 2013 by 3 Comments
Despite Geelong extending their winning streak against Port to 10 games since the 2007 Grand Final, John Proeve remains a True Believer.
Success breeds success
March 3, 2013 by 7 Comments
It’s the mixture of young and old that has Cats fan Tim McBain most excited about 2013.
Just a man with a ball
August 9, 2012 by 23 Comments
AFL Round 19 Hawthorn v Geelong By Susie Giese They were packing up. Mum getting ready to leave bang on the siren, Darren wanting to go now, now, NOW! “I’m not leaving early,” I said, gritting my teeth. “We’re staying ’til the end.” One fifth of my reasoning was never giving those worst-examples-of-their-kind Hawks [Read more]
Round 19 Winners and Losers
August 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
Round 19 gave us another Geelong v Hawthorn classic, some tremendous individual performances, and an unexpected but not unsurprising result at the Sydney Showgrounds. Winners Tom Hawkins What a man. It now seems eons ago when people were questioning if he had what it takes to fulfill his AFL potential. Hawkins delivered in spades once [Read more]
The song remains the same
August 5, 2012 by 19 Comments
We’re sitting in the All Nations Hotel on Friday afternoon. Yeatesy is leaning on the fireplace telling us about the 1989 Grand Final; about the day he knocked The Kid on his arse, bruised his spleen in fact. Yeatesy is a beauty; a raw boned country footballer made-good, the quintessential six foot three and three [Read more]
Hawkins pips Hawks in match of the year
August 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
GEELONG 9.3 10.5 14.9 18.10 (118) HAWTHORN 2.0 7.6 11.8 17.14 (116) 3 Hawkins, 2 Sewell, 1 Mitchell For a Geelong fan, beating Hawthorn with a goal after the siren is one of the sweetest tastes life offers. Only a big finals win beats it. There’s no point building it up. Tonight the Cats won [Read more]
Friday footy is a beautiful thing
August 4, 2012 by 7 Comments
Friday Footy is a Beautiful Thing. I finished work not long after sunset, watching the moon wobble up from, then across, the mountains. It was almost full, but not, as if someone had dropped it on its head. As I came down the logging tracks into the valley, towards the nearest farms, that lead [Read more]
Collingwood less gone this week
July 16, 2012 by 56 Comments
The Collingwood Football Club might not be as gone for the 2012 season as it was last week. However, if you are brave enough to announce a renaissance based on one good quarter of Carringbush footy, where the opponent (the mighty Cats) virtually handed goals out like strip club cards at an Adelaide Oval Test, [Read more]
You’d take magic over grind
May 29, 2012 by 4 Comments
I love a deft tap on the footy field, as much as I love a good footy brain. You can’t have one without the other. Tom Hawkins, he loves the deft tap. Whenever he flicks his wrist to guide the footy to a teammate in the clear, I press rewind on the foxtel control. Look [Read more]
Carey v Hawkins? No contest.
November 17, 2011 by 15 Comments
by Alex Wadelton There has been a lot of discussion lately about the Global Financial Crisis. This will not add to the debate. Rather it will prove once and for all that two-time premiership centre half forward Tom Hawkins is a far superior player to that other two time premiership centre half forward Wayne [Read more]
Cats victorious
September 12, 2011 by 20 Comments
“Victory,” said my mad-Catter brother, Mick, substantial piece of Lygon Street Special (no pineapple) in hand, at about 1.30 Saturday morning, “is not as important as defeat.” Crumbs, I thought to myself. That’s so 2006. We won it in `07, and `09, and we’ve just had a ripper win over the arch-rivals, Hawthorn, and we’re [Read more]
An open letter to Tom Hawkins
June 3, 2011 by 4 Comments
Dear Tom, As a Geelong supporter who hasn’t played a game of football since primary school and thought that Henry Playfair could gave been anything, I think I am highly qualified to give advice to you on how to get the best out of yourself on a football field. When you burst onto the scene [Read more]
Tom Hawkins’ greatest fear
February 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
“Tom Lonergan’s public speaking.” …from the Geelong Football Club website Almanac Admin
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