Tag: footy
I hate Collingwood. I don’t deny it and after seeing them play recently, I am proud of it. Having said that, I recently watched a Collingwood game on TV and found myself cheering for every goal that Scott Pendlebury kicked! Why? Well that’s an easy question to answer. I had Pendlebury as my Dream Team captain and my opponent had Dane Swan.
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Most recently, there has been talk of the ABC cutting back on their arts and sports coverage. If this happens, I can see the demise of the now humble state footy league.
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You, or someone you know, is a Weekend Warrior. The men and women who, five days a week, are respectable members of the community. However, Saturday comes and this all changes. They swap their suits and coffees for skins and Powerade. They stuff down Weetbixs and Subway preparing for the battle ahead, regardless of grade, sport, or skill level.
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Craigy, finally... this is like when Omar was clipped on The Wire; we all knew it was going to happen, we just didn’t know when. Craigy and Triggy have also broken the previously held world record of “clichés used by a coach and football department prior to and during a resignationâ€. The record was previously held by Plough Wallace and Greg Miller at Richmond.
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After months of making Ricky Nixon's life near unbearable, Kim Duthie, dubbed the "Saint Kilda schoolgirl" after continuous juvenile attempts to attract the media's attention in a pregnancy scandal last year, made a public apology to Nixon on the back of a tormenting start to 2011.Duthie was caught on camera on Channel 10's The 7PM Project saying that her accusations were false, leading to an impromptu confession from the 17-year-old.
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After a tough start to the season, the Bombers finally had some easy games on the horizon. West Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne and Richmond sounded like four games they should win easily. Unfortunately, everything came crashing down against Richmond and didn't improve following the bye.The reason is quite simple - the Bombers didn't learn from the mistakes of the Richmond match. If they don't, every team will play them the same way and Bomber fans may be in for another long season.
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When did the football vernacular change? If you have a moment, watch some footage from the 80s, 90s and even mid way through the 2000s, and pay attention to the style of commentary and the terms used to portray the action.The way a game is currently described now is merely a collection of clichés, borrowed mainly from American sports, with a hint of describers being rented from a collection of other pass times, terms that would not have been uttered 15 years ago.
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I was rubbing my hands together when I heard of the latest scandal rocking the AFL as I sat down to watch some footy on a calm Saturday night. There's nothing like a juicy story to get the public going and I was ready to crack out an almighty "oooooh" in disapproval.Little did I know that this alleged 'scandal' would turn out to be one of the biggest farcical stories I've ever come across.
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Remember the days when 2000 was the number? The 2000 Sydney Olympics, Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 and walking to school or work on Monday with a smile when you battled it out from Friday to Sunday to score 2000 in Dream Team. Now the 30 minute unfold of your weekend Dream Team weekend is interrupted by something worse than Eric the Eel's lap times and Voldermort."I scored 2000 in SuperCoach this week."
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The Australian Football League is a competition which has endured numerous major events since the competition's inception. Like most sports, Australian Rules was part of the discrimination of dark-skinned people that plagued the world during the 20th century. Although the triumph of equal rights for both coloured and white people is a huge advancement in both sport and society, another social issue has made its way into the AFL.
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Video: STORM 2012 DEPTH CHART
