Grand Final Footy Fever with Tom of Melbourne!
He’s back! The irrepressible Tom of Melbourne presents a “Grand Final Footy Preview Extravaganza…!”
What a week it’s been in the important tussle between the forces of darkness and light!
At every opportunity the old timers dust themselves off, get themselves in front of a camera and damn, with faint praise, the current regime.
…and it’s not limited to Lindsay Tanner mopping the floor with the previously respected interviewer Leigh Sales.
In the serious side of society we have an AFL Grand Final. Has-been Dermot Brereton is getting his fake tanned face in front of a camera at every opportunity.
Brereton is a former Hawthorn footballer who humiliating, ingloriously and ungraciously finished his career with Collingwood, which followed by a completely lame effort with the Swans.
An appropriate whimpering end to a vigorous career, which I think, reflects the Hawthorn character.
Fair minded football fans dislike Hawthorn with an intensity usually reserved for the likes of union hack/factional warlord Paul Howes (particularly in the aftermath of his announcement on our very own 7.30 Report, that PM Rudd was finished).
Hawthorn people are oddly placed in a leafy suburb, they should live on the Gold Coast, 25 years ago, such is their unabashed love of real estate over development and shady deals.
Sydney Swans are inoffensive, or at least they were last time I looked.
In a close tussle, Sydney is preferred by 4 goals.
In the NRL we have salary cap cheats Melbourne Storm up against salary cap cheats Canterbury Bulldogs.
Good taste requires a Canterbury win, because purple just isn’t a colour for men’s sport.
theguttertrash.com 
What, no bullet points…..????!!!!!
er … 😯 …
Incisive sporting analysis!
Incisive sporting analysis!
It is?
I’d prefer to see both Sydney teams humiliated.
Fair minded football fans dislike Collingwood with an intensity usually reserved for the likes of union hack/factional warlord Paul Howes or Eddie McGuire
Sydney Swans are much less gay now Warrick Caper is gone
EXCLUSIVE
The good taste table, AFL teams in order of loathing-
1. West Coast
2. Hawthorn
3. St Kilda
4. Collingwood
5. Carlton
6. Essendon
7. Richmond
8. Adelaide
9. Geelong
10. Port Adelaide
11. North
12. Melbourne
13. Fremantle
14. Equal – Sydney, Brisbane, Bulldogs, Gold Coast , GWS
err, that was me, in case you hadn’t guessed…
Bloods and Bulldogs to win.
On a road-trip to Melbourne to see Weddings Parties Anything’s annual grand final eve gig. Not staying around for the footy though – don’t really understand it and wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much.
‘Sydney’s turnaround in the second quarter was astounding. It started in the middle with O’Keefe and Kennedy getting touches, but the most critical factor was John Longmire’s decision to go man on man, rather than permitting a loose man behind the ball’
Jake’s Take
Congratulations to Ol’Sancty. The Bloods were very good today. (You don’t want to be any where near where they go in Melbourne tonight. 😉 )
Are the Swans nicknamed “bloods”?
Yes, TB.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~nickname/afl.html#south
Bloods.
Noice, James .. (is he pissed? don’t tell me he drinking with, sreb!)
Shiraz all round, I’m shouting.
Re “bloods” … I remember when they Swans moved/began to Sydney and the vicious nonsense (bit like the Lions) … they wanted a “national” league but only in Melbourne (lol) …
… like NRL and Sydney League … how dare Queensland challenge ..
I’m surprised that the Swans aren’t nicknamed Scabs (y’know dried blood) … chuckle …
As for NRL … wait till next year for me …
Shiraz all round, I’m shouting. But I’m drinking SSB!
Not pissed. Don’t drink at footy. Incompatible with a naturally smart mouth. But give me an hour.
Okay, you’ve got an hour to get pissed, but no longer. 😯
Incompatible with a naturally smart mouth
Have you met, Wally? You can contact him here …
http://www.egosanonymous.com.au
By way of compromise .. for Wally
The team songs are a big part of the tradition of AFL. But most of the songs are derived from elsewhere. For example, the Swans song . . .
compared to the Notre dame fight song . . .
The Brisbane Lions tune . . .
was pinched from a national anthem . . .
FMD!
Even the game isn’t original! And not ‘alf as excoiting as the reel gaamel!
(confession {’cause it me maykes me one of yoouse} I Ioved at! when oi were a laaad … ) You dh’s!
Does toiletboss know his beloved Crows song . . .
is derived from the US Marines Anthem? 😯
Great. Someone else has already looked into this, apparently, so I’ll leave the rest to him . . . 😐
‘Various forms of football were played in Australia during the Victorian gold rush, from which emerged a distinct and locally popular sport. While these origins are still the subject of much debate the popularisation of the code that is known today as Australian Rules Football is currently attributed to Tom Wills.
‘Wills wrote a letter to Bell’s Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle, on July 10, 1858, calling for a “foot-ball club” with a “code of laws” to keep cricketers fit during winter. This is considered by historians to be a defining moment in the creation of the new sport. Through publicity and personal contacts Wills was able to co-ordinate football matches in Melbourne that experimented with various rules, the first recorded of which occurred on July 31, 1858. On 7 August 1858, Wills umpired a relatively well documented schoolboys match between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College. Following these matches, organised football matches rapidly increased in popularity.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Australian_rules
Hmmm, the first game of “AFL” was in 1858. And yet the Gaelic Athletic Association was not established until 1884. Which came first, the chicken-ball or the egg-game?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Gaelic_football
Swans proved good taste wins over the Victorian version of the white shoe brigade.
***hic***
So…… How about them FKN BLOODS!!
LOL! James!
Hmmm, the first game of “AFL” was in 1858. And yet the Gaelic Athletic Association was not established until 1884
Mmmm I’ve heard that tale before … however Gaelic football as a game was played for centuries before someone decided it was a good way to make money … hence the association …
Bit like rugby, soccer and league … AFL was a mismash of other football games (some going back to Roman times) … it was certainly not “new” …
Better than those filthy earbiters in the NRL. 😯
Ideally, Kurt Tippet will never kick another goal.