Is it just me or is anyone else struggling for the usual enormous enthusiasm usually experienced a few days out before the start of the season? I mean don't get me wrong, I am getting there and looking forward to it but there has just been something
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I Want The Buzz Back
Hope Springs Freman-tal
Well, this is it. My season of purple pilgrimage is about to begin - and it's proving hard to pin down my emotional state leading into Round 1.
Previous seasons have either been greeted by wild hope (very wild hope in the Drum years) or satisfied
The Big Fixture
I remember the days when you could tuck a fixtures card into your wallet or slip it into the glove box of your car for safe keeping throughout the year. Nice and compact and easy to read.
The great challenge was choosing which one to keep. You
Sunshine, Rainbows, Lollipops
One week out from season 08 and I'm glad to see The Brow has managed to whip footy into top shape, just in the nick of time. Except for Caaarlton. Bastards. They have to go and spoil things.
But there's still a week left, plenty of time to sort out
AFL Power Rankings Week 0
Well it's that time folks. The season is about to start. The NAB Meaningless Garbage games have been rigged and run and the real stuff is about to enter our lives again. Praise be to the Purple Jesus
As such, I thought it was time to push out the
Gabriel
No... not the angel. I mean Peter.
I'm scratching around in this great cosmic inbreath before the season gets underway wondering about things like Paul Hasleby's knee ligament and the player I saw at the radiography clinic the other day and that
Harvey's Odyssey II: The Cyclops
Startled by the heavy slam of the door behind him, the coach turns quickly, his dress shoes spinning on the sweaty white tiles. The shouts that lured him in die quickly to a murmur, and quicker again to nothing. Twenty-five pairs of taps screech,
Citizenship Test
In October last year the Federal Government introduced a Citizenship Test so that prospective new Aussies could test how Aussie they really were before they went down to their local Council Hall to have "the operation."
On the official Citizenship
Experimental Rules
Dare I say it, but a theme is forming among these pages.. And Drubbing is so on the money.
Been meaning to do some venting about this pre-season hoo-haa nonsense since what feels like the late 12th Century, and in light of Hase's predicament have
The Difference
Facebook... now I'll go on record as saying I'm not the biggest fan. It's pretty impossible to deny your work colleagues "friend request" when they are sitting opposite you staring and asking, "Have you got it yet?" And as soon as you hit that
