I wasn’t expecting much, to be honest. I’d been at Manuka Oval last year, the last time we played this mob – the game where we’d kicked one solitary goal to half time, and scored our lowest score in over a half a century. I travelled up with the Capital Tigers. We’ve been featured on these pages before and our regular trips to Sydney games have covered the best of times (two hundred point … –>
With a couple of minutes to go in the third quarter, I left the top deck of the Ponsford Stand and walked down the stairs. I heard some cheering as I reached the second level and then some angry shouting. A goal had been denied. I reached the exit and started walking around the southern concourse to go and sit on the ground level, behind the goals at the Punt Road End. I recognised a fan from … –>
Votes, notes and photo this week from Malcolm McKinnon Lightning strikes twice David Mundy is an unprepossessing kind of footballer. He’s not very flashy. No visible tatts. No man-bun. But unfortunately for Tiger fans, he’s a champion exponent of the crunch kick at the end of a game. It’s twice now he’s done this to us; once after Bachar Houli snatched defeat from the jaws of … –>
Votes and notes this week from hard workin’ shiraz drinkin’ sports coachin’ Joe Crawford of Launceston. I took a lot of notes while watching the Tiges/Dogs game on Saturday night with the intention of writing a Benny report full of super-accurate reportage based on my Flanagan-like scribbling. The notes were on our kitchen table…and then they weren’t. So, apologies for what follows as it will … –>
I look at games in Adelaide with both excitement, nostalgia and fear. It is the city in which I got to see my all time favourite Tiger in Joel Bowden play his 250th game in 2008. It is a memory that I hold in high regard despite the ten goal loss we suffered that day. When I look at Adelaide as a football landmark I see the contrast between the ecstasy and agony involved in our great game. To me, … –>
