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Author Archives: Mickey Gee

Arden Street – what the hell is goin’ on?

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Mickey Gee

It’s a long way to the top…of Etihad Stadium when you’re on the general admission gravy train. Last on the fan revenue food chain, no one in authority there really knows where you can sit except a vague generic insight … Continue reading →

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If I wasn’t in front of the heater, I’d hate Round 15

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Mickey Gee

John Lennon and Mick Malthouse on the same page? As artists they’ve looked into that deep dark truthful mirror on occasion, often to question the very essence of their life long passion. So let’s compare their lyrics. Firstly, Lennon’s Yer … Continue reading →

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A day in the life of the back pocket player

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Coldest I’ve ever been? Try sitting up in the back pocket back in ’74 against an opponent that hasn’t had an inside 50 since the Gippy hills echoed with that first steam train on the newly opened Great Southern Railway. … Continue reading →

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Micks Big Round 14 moments

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Mickey Gee

To reflect there was enjoyment to be had out of the Richmond Sydney clash was like saying you watch “Embarrassing Bodies” for the medical insights. A low scoring battle, the match a continual scrag of bodies moving randomly under it’s … Continue reading →

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Bucks outwitted

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Regular readers will recall my previous failed attempts to bring order and civility to the interpersonal conduct during the game where my partner Erin’s Magpies lines up against my Hawks. Earlier in the week there’s talk of going down to … Continue reading →

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Chip Gut

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Mickey Gee

A rapidly expanding waist line is the compromise required to collect AFL Tazos packed into potato chips. I was a fit middle aged man running up to 25 games a week refereeing basketball yet I was carrying a gut. Well … Continue reading →

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Mick’s Big Round 13 Upsets

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Amongst the predictable beltings this round, came a rich seam of match day beauty producing alluvial contested gold. We begin by musing on the notion that if St Kilda was a grape we’d be collectively quaffing them after Geelong’s savage … Continue reading →

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Leave your Pets at home

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Collingwood purport to have over 70,000 paid up members yet only 28,339 fans in toto made it into Etihad stadium for this game. The game had a late start but really you’d reckon a few more of the faithful would show … Continue reading →

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Round 12 Mid Season Review

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Half way through the season and we’ve just about shut the gate on the final 8. About 10, maybe 12 teams remain in the hunt for Red September, the rest just making up the TV numbers as inevitably season tickets … Continue reading →

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Dead Men Walking

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Mental disintegration in an AFL side is a tragedy unfolding in the form of the Richmond Football Club, the classic metaphor for a lack of global action in the face of an impending rise of terrestrial temperatures that threatens to … Continue reading →

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