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Story headlines from 2001Help for ex coaches 27 October 2001 I still call Hawthorn home by Rick Kane Kane looks back on that Hawk season. And tries not to mention the CROAD word ... 15 October 2001 Wiz a Docker ... 11 October 2001 Bell towers CLUB champions ... 7 October 2001 $Loyalty is everything DARREN Gaspar is staying at Richmond ... 5 October 2001 A week in football by Les Everett AS I write the AFL trading week is still in progress. IT'S a week when footy fans should just turn away. It's horrible but we're drawn to it ... 4 October 2001 Let's get little by Rick Kane THE BIG Channel Seven is going. Big 9&10 are coming. Kane suggest we go for little TVs ... 28 September 2001 Lunch by Bloody Idiot THE Idiot has bloody been there before on that one lunch in September ... 27 September 2001 Mission accomplished by Les Everett IT took a little while for East Perth to mould last Saturday's WAFL grand final into the required shape ... 27 September 2001 Winning streak by Bloody Idiot IT has taken ages for this footy season to unfold. It has been depressing and enlightening. It's been up and down. It's been a long time coming, but I finally won ... 18 September 2001 Wrap up Blues by Little Boy Blue ALL season, when Carlton have been favourites in big games, they have lost; when underdogs, they have won. So the signs were bad when Carlton were so heavily favoured by the tipsters to beat Richmond. It had to mean trouble ... 18 September 2001 Fletcher sacked CAMERON Schwab has made his first tough decision at Fremantle ... 8 September 2001 A Demon year by Bill Legge THERE are shit years and there are shithouse years. 1996 was an example of the former ... 16 September 2001 Anatomy of a season by Les Everett THE veil was lifted at Subiaco Oval last Saturday night. We waited for the Dockers to falter but they didn't, and by night's end we were thinking about football again - not bloody reports, not bloody directors, not bloody Andrew Demetriou. But we'd better not bask in our Fremantle glory. Let's have a look at the players who made up the list in 2001 ... 8 September 2001 Respectfully, some coaching tips for Schwab by Rick Kane RECENTLY, the Mighty Hawks, to be fair, have been far from mighty ... 6 September 2001 The end of another great year by Oroton BEING a Geelong supporter is certainly a wonderful way to experience the many and varied pleasures of life in the 21st century ... 3 September 2001 Black weekend by Little Boy Blue IF there have been a more tragic 24 hours for Carlton than those between Friday and Saturday nights, I can't remember them ... 3 September 2001 Whatever happended to the revolution by Les Everett THE talk around town last week was that the long awaited Crawford "constitutional review of the West Australian Football Commission" was going to hit the local footy world hard. SOME thought WAFC boss Jeff Ovens would lose his job, or at least a couple of fingers ... 1 September 2001 Idiot responds to Kane Dear Rick, YOU are a truly insightful gentleman! I will disregard your remarks about my eager Tigers, in favour of your accurate thesis about ... THE PEOPLE'S GROUND ... 1 September 2001 The MCG - The People's Ground by Rick Kane A FEW Saturdays ago I was at the MCG, which, incidentally, is known as 'The People's Ground'. I guess this means that this place is for the people. I know it's 'The People's Ground' because they advertise it on the ticket you purchase before you enter the stadium. To enter, you must scan the ticket bar code across a sterile machine while a human quality assures the process ... 30 August 2001 Ideas by Bloody Idiot IT'S official. I'm on the burners and Richo drove me to them. He is an enigma, an outsider, a champion, a True Tiger and most importantly a ... 29 August 2001 Dear BI WHILE sitting in a well known Legian bar (Bali) a few weeks ago kicking back sipping on one of the establishments coldest ... 24 August 2001 Smokers by Bloody Idiot IT'S been a nervous lead up to the finals for all the Tiger Faithful but now after a win over the Weagles the season's end looks promising. With two more rounds to go we can all rest easy before the "Stats -Men" kick in ... 17 August 2001 Paris e les victory by Les Everett IT wasn't even the main story on the AFL website. It took a moment for it to sink in. 'Dockers break the ice' it read. My first urge was to run screaming into the cobbled streets but I needed to be calm, there were considerations. 17 August 2001 On the grass by Bloody Idiot THIS week BloodyIdiot is off to the Tigers verses the Weagles clash at my favourite stadium, Colonial. It may not be general knowledge to the readers of Australianrules.combut Melbourne's biggest lemon ... 17 August 2001 Blues bounce back (for now) by Little Boy Blue IF I was harsh last week, commenting on Carlton's failure to win close games,then it seems Wayne Brittain is even harsher than I am. He claimed that they hadn't deserved to win the close ones they'd lost and although I agree with himon most counts, I thought ... 6 August 2001 Blues reality check by Little Boy Blue UNLIKE Bloody Idiot, whose Richmond optimism is amazing (given the past twenty years) and the correspondent on the official Carlton website, expected to put a silver lining on even the most threatening cumulo-nimbus, I don't own a pair of rose-coloured glasses ... 30 July 2001 Ringside by Bloody Idiot LAST weeks win by the Mighty Tigers was a sweet victory. On Friday night Bloody Idiot had infiltrated the MCC Members. Sitting there surrounded by cashmere, tweed, lawyers and lads fresh from The Rowing Club I felt a little out of my depth. Some may say I felt like a ... 27 July 2001 HEY HEY IT'S Bloody Idiot WELL the game on Saturday didn't go to plan. I guess once in a while the Mighty Tigers just aren't that mighty. However my journalistic career is starting to have some fringe benefits. On Saturday Bloody Idiot got into some ... 13 July 2001 Umpires please by Little Boy Blue NOTHING like taking a good look at the umpiring after an unexpected defeat, although, given history, no Carlton supporter has a right to expect victory at the SCG. All year, I've feared that ... 10 July 2001 Those great ex-Dockers by Les Everett AS we watched our old mate Matthew Burton toy with the Dockers at Docklands a few weeks back our thoughts, no doubt, turned once again to that familiar subject. The ones that got away ... 7 July 2001 Don't stand in Wilson's way by Les Everett PLAYING football against Troy Wilson must be a bit like being a pedestrian in Rome ... 7 July 2001 Looking ahead with Fremantle by Neil Belford WHEN you haven't won a game all year you can start taking consolation where you can get it. Fremantle comprehensively won the ruck against Essendon, with Simon Eastaugh providing solid support to an increasingly impressive Justin Longmuir ... 5 July 2001 Smacked by Bloody Idiot IT was a beautiful night for football ... 28 June 2001 Let's stand for parliament by Damo Suziki MY maiden speech was going to be a pearler, the best yet. It was going to cover the state of the nation - from health care to the VFL to power limits for motorbikes ... 26 June 2001 Making it with marketing by Rick Kane WHEN it comes to gun sides of the AFL - oh, and here I'm referring to marketing, the only game in town - invariably talk goes to Collingwood ... 25 June 2001 Any Port in a storm by Little Boy Blue ON Sunday, I attended my first match at Football Park for 10 years. I had been warned ... 25 June 2001 THE top four teams played in the completion of WAFL round 12 on Saturday ... 24 June 2001 Demand for Docker democracy by Les Everett Fremantle Herald THERE'S a new footy team in Fremantle ... 22 June 2001 Bi-curious by Bloody Idiot GREETINGS Aussie Footy Heads ... 21 June 2001 What's in a name? by Michael Steven WHAT'S in a name, you may well ask ... 19 June 2001 West woes in perspective by Damo Suziki THE late 1980s were dark days for WA, late night doner-kebab outlets were getting unreliable and ... 18 June 2001 Heartbreak Hotel and the old school tie by Oroton HEARTBREAK Hotel is the bar where all the Cats fans gather to drink. And wouldn't it have been a lonely place on Saturday night ... 18 June 2001 Where's the level playing field? by Little Boy Blue ON 17 June, Melbourne played a "home" game against Brisbane ... 18 June 2001 Attention to detail by Neil Belford NAMING Rights Available Football Theatre saw a very engrossing first act last Sunday ... 17 June 2001 Bulldogs cop a Royal thrashing by Les Everett 17 June 2001 Flooding by Bloody Idiot FLOODING my arse. Bloody Idiot is out of his mind with the newest crap to appear in the tabloids ... 13 June 2001 Game theory by Rick Kane LATE in the season last year, Daniel Bradshaw, an AFL footballer, made the decision to be with his partner at the birth of their child rather than play in a semi final for his club. That is, he chose one team over the other ... 13 June 2001 ABC lift your game by Little Boy Blue I SHOULD make clear that these comments are only about ABC radio. I never listen to football descriptions on the commercials, having learnt years ago that the bulk of these so-called experts were hysterical, ranting egomaniacs more intent on promoting themselves than describing the action ... 12 June 2001 Idiot attacked. Dear Idiot ... 10 June 2001 WAFL winners UPDATED! Searching for four quarters by Les Everett IF Dockers, Eagles, Sharks and Bulldogs games were crime fiction novels they'd have titles like "Don't worry, the butler did it" ... 8 June 2001 What's Your Decision? 4 by Umpire Head HI everyone! Well I've got to admit I'm feeling a bit yucky today ... 8 June 2001 Observations from the North/Footscray game by Rick Kane ON Thursday's 'Footy Show' Trev Marmalade made a crack about Joe Gutnick ... 8 June 2001 Dear Oroton by Michael Steven LET'S get this clear. Garry Hocking is not an enigma. He is clearly a major reason why Geelong is one of those teams that never quite made it ... 7 June 2001 Player speak by Bloody Idiot GREETINGS Freaks, here is a little bit of inside info for you all. It's a translation of "Player-Speak" ... 6 June 2001 The enigma that is Garry Hocking by Oroton HARD to believe, but Garry Hocking is a trained hairdresser ... 6 June 2001 Hi everyone! People keep asking me what it's like to be famous and is there any chance of it going to me head. Well, as Damian Drum would say if he was still around, it's all just part of the caper ... 1 June 2001 A ground fit for television by Rick Kane WHAT was that fuss with the Hawks/Bombers match being played at 'The Which Bank' stadium or the MCG about anyway? From the moment the plans for the new stadium were being drawn up we all knew what was going on. Didn't we? ... 1 June 2001 Thank you St Kilda by Michael Steven COLLINGWOOD were flat after the week before and should have lost the game. But fortunately they were playing St Kilda who are probably the least fit team in the competition ... 1 June 2001 Docker fiasco by Les Everett "THIS is not the Freo way," an angry Dockers supporter said as tension mounted at Fremantle Oval on Wednesday ... 31 May 2001 The worst ever by Leighton Beach THERE are only two venues left. Football Park and the Gabba. I've crossed all the others off. I'm collecting footy grounds ... 29 May 2001 Is life complicated? by Bloody Idiot I'll be short and sharp this week as I need to get a refund for my Richmond Football Club membership (and that may get ugly). I don't consider myself to be a coach, but I do consider myself to be a fan ... 28 May 2001 It's the size of your balls that counts by Brett Woodward I FIRMLY believe that I was sacked from my job as a boundary umpire for being TOO fair ... 26 May 2001 Put up and shut up by Les Everett Fremantle Herald UNDER different circumstances last Sunday's events at Subiaco Oval would have been viewed as a joyous celebration of WA football. It had almost everything ... < 25 May 2001 What's your decision with Umpire Head HI everyone ... 25 May 2001 Blowing by Bloody Idiot I HAVE been forced to break away from my regular weekly observations of our beloved Tigers and jump on a bandwagon. I need to address a much more serious issue. More serious than the current form of the Richmond Football Club. More serious than The Duck's price tag. More serious than Richo's thinning hair. UMPIRES ... 24 May 2001 The umpire problem by Esmond Pitt CAROLINE WILSON suggested in The Age last Sunday that our current problem with umpires only started when Peter Schwab left the AFL in 1997 Esmond Pitt reckons the maliase has been around a bit longer than that ... 23 May 2001 Comments we can do without by Michael Steven IN Australia ignorance is no excuse. Those of us in Melbourne will know that Dwayne Russell has quickly become one of the higher profile AFL callers and commentators. But why? His overly dramatic calling is more suited to 3AW and his after match comments seem to show why he never actually made it as a player. He doesn't understand the game ... 23 May 2001 Two tribes by Little Boy Blue OBVIOUSLY, Brisbane don't travel that well, but the game served to remind me that there are essentially two groups in the AFL: those teams with a realistic chance of ever winning a premiership and who play to that end, and the rest ... 22 May 2001 Not all gloom in the west by Les Everett IF you're reading this in one of the eastern states you may have picked the wrong vibes from over here in the west ... 21 May 2001 (It's never) The year of the Cats by Oroton THIS column is based on the simple premise well known to all Geelong fans: each victory brings us one step closer to ignominious failure ... 21 May 2001 Peel has a win 20 May 2001 WAFL winners round eight 19 May 2001 A clear message from the AFL by Les Everett THE dust has settled. Adrian Fletcher's appeal has been dismissed and after more than a decade of fair play he now has a record ... 18 May 2001 What's your decision by Umpire Head HI everyone. SINCE that Adrian Fletcher hit me with a full body slam last week I reckon I've been able to show everyone just how difficult umpiring is ... 18 May 2001 A look at the WAFL by Les Everett SEVEN rounds into the new season and you can just about pick the teams to play off in the grand final already. Claremont, coached by former Dockers assistant Mark Riley, is undefeated while South Fremantle, under Peter Sumich, has thrashed everyone except the Tigers ... 18 May 2001 Australianise the Magpie constitution by Michael Steven THE Collingwood Football Club was founded nine years before Federation. For 109 years the Australian magpie has been the Collingwood Football Club's emblem ... 17 May 2001 A Patrick Smith story by Les Everett PATRICK SMITH makes me laugh. Bloke writes short sentences. In The Australian ... 16 May 2001 A tribute to Tony Shaw by Michael Steven IT was explained to me, and rightly so, that my previous story on Tony Shaw was unbalanced ... 16 May 2001 The frightened Tigers by Bloody Idiot THERE was an omen early in the day that things may turn out bad (but I didn't pick it). It was when the wife left for the game equipped with four kilograms of the Saturday Age. I had no idea that by half time the Tiger fans around us would be asking to read the Real Estate section ... 14 May 2001 An inglorious Collingwood supporter by Michael Steven HE was big but not fit. He may have played footy 10 years ago but there is no way now. Each of his friends slapped him on the back as they arrived. He sat there satisfied. A big group of big men. All happy. All keen to taste their first drop before the first bounce ... 12 May 2001 The Legacy of Tony Shaw by Michael Steven IT dawned on me at last year's AGM. Damian Monkhorst was receiving his life membership. He had returned to his club after spending his last year with St Kilda. He was emotional and happy to be back. Monky was thanking just about everyone - his under 16 coach at Woori Yallock, the bootstudder in the under 19s, the property steward, Keith Burns, Leigh Matthews, Crackers Keenan and many, many more ... 11 May 2001 Biffo by Bloody Idiot THERE is nothing better that a game of footy with a bit of BIFFO! Blood, guts, broken limbs, broken teeth, broken jaws, knees, sore heads, bent fingers, strange hair styles and nightclub indiscretions are all part of Australian Rules Football ... May 2001 The true nature of sport? by Sudhir RECENTLY I went to see the Fremantle Dockers play the Brisbane Lions. What a heart rending experience the beloved Dockers are. How many times have I sat there in the outer, or on my lounge chair and watched them so nearly get it together, only to be methodically dismantled in the last twenty minutes ... 4 May 2001 Behind the Gasometer Shovel to shovel and pick to pick on the North Melbourne ground we'll stick like shit. WHAT can you say? Great players, and when things are tough, great fighters. And always have been ... April 2001 Confessions of a new recruit by Les Everett THE invitation to train with the Dockers didn't come as a complete surprise. I'd been around the club for a while, quietly putting my hand up - footy people notice these things ... April 2001 Gabba Gabba HEY ! A man needs a hat IN an inspired piece of pre-season psychology Leigh Matthews, interviewed in The Hun, has rated the 2001 Lions better than his 1990 drought-breaking premiership Pies. If a week is a long time in football, then 21 years is more than enough time for full blown dementia to set in ... April 2001 The Dockers: Roll on summer TRADITIONALLY December and January are Fremantle's best months. The piss weak end to the previous season has been forgotten, there's been some inspired trading, creative delistings, great youngsters have been picked up in the draft and we've snapped up the pick of the bunch in the the hack draft ... April 2001 |
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