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AFL Grand Final Pre Game Entertainment Triumphs

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Mickey Gee

footballAll public performances are triumphs – of talent, will, even audacity. Check out these nuggets in the class continuum that is AFL Grand Final Pre-Game entertainment. Allow our intros to serve simply to set the context by which you be … Continue reading →

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Crackajack Tweets from the 2014 Brownlow Medal

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Gonna be a long night.. "You want something to help you stay awake?" #Brownlow2014 pic.twitter.com/HlJClc6b2n — Titus O'Reily (@TitusOReily) September 22, 2014 All hail the winner… If that doesn't make the kids eat their fucking crusts……nothing will. #priddis #Brownlow — Malted … Continue reading →

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Brownlow Magnificence Continuum

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Enjoy our top moments in Brownlow infamy. The heart wrenching, rendering, and stopping moments that will live on for ever as chosen by Mick’s Footy Blog. Hover your mouse over each moment to take it the magnificence.

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Merger Part 2 – Final fateful game

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Someone in the AFL in 1996 must have been obsessed with the idea of wholesale dispensing of history by brokering unions, takeovers and mergers of Melbourne clubs, presumably to ease the load in supporting loss making teams in Sydney and … 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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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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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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Gifts that refuse to stop giving

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Mickey Gee

The new season is almost upon us! Not too late to get some terrific new fan merchandise for yourself that tells it like it is. Here’s a selection that have caught our eye. “Time is the fire in which we … Continue reading →

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A spoonful of sugar

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Mickey Gee

The art of the spectacular mark compels us to suspend our understanding of gravity. As a child I internalised the notion of the bird man and came to the realisation that I wanted to be an action man. Permanently steeped … Continue reading →

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Peter Hudson induced Stockholm Syndrome

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Mickey Gee

Injury to players has a debilitating effect on all concerned. They can also cruel the imagination of the humble supporter. One such injury – and it’s amazing yellow brick road aftermath – to my Hawthorn hero Peter Hudson in 1972 … Continue reading →

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