Tag: 2009
The Case for a Summer League of League
Every summer, the sun burning my Jew nose and time ticking over slower than if I was forced to watch the Melbourne Victory take on the Perth Glory, I usually reach the conclusion that boredom is eating away at me like ringworms on the skin of a cat-wife. No matter how I may try to […]
When You Need a Pig Gutted You Go To a Butcher and When You Need A Statesman You Go To John Howard
There are few things as cringeworthy as watching Kevin Rudd in a Brisbane Broncos jersey or Brisbane Lions scarf, jumping up and down from the good seats at the big games with the accountant’s haircut, pretending to comprehend what is playing out before him. Perhaps yet another pathetic skit from those dopey attention molesters at […]
The List: The Second Annual Top 50 NRL Players
After the rousing success of last year’s list, where Kurt Gidley led the rankings of the top fifty players in the NRL, that saw a steady stream of hate mail arrive in my letter box until Christmas, it has been decided high in the Punting Ace offices that the NRL Top 50 will become an […]
The Trendsetter
It was with great amusement and a significant degree of sniggering that I found out this week a whole industry exists in predicting food trends. Apparently there are foods that the cool kids eat and foods that they wouldn’t touch even if it was served on a sterling tray from Tiffany’s. This is not a […]
The Ghost of Jim Thorpe Rests Easily
King Gustav V of Sweden was an odd chap, an apparent Nazi sympathiser who fought against the democratic movement and threatened to abdicate when the government of the day would not assist Hitler in the movement of troops through Scandinavia. He was, however, right on the money when he said to Jim Thorpe as he […]
Old Drunks in the Mumbil Tavern
Last Sunday, I played the role of the prophet. I converted a girl whose sensibilities are more food and fashion and taxidermied foxes to the world of football. Louise, a lady friend in the biblical sense, attended her first game of Australian Rules football, her first professional match of any sport as a matter of […]
Fear the Reaper
One of the most amusing scenes one can pay witness to is to see someone with masklophobia grabbed from behind by a mascot on a calm and pleasant Sunday afternoon. I was fortunate enough to see this one day at Canberra Stadium a number of winters ago and laughed myself to tears as the grown […]
Preparing for the First Sunday in October, Preparing for a Bulldogs Win: The NRL Midseason Review (Part Two)
The hammer is coming down, dear reader, the deadline draws near. After a four day consumption binge following Origin I where old favourites and new associates flew in from across the country to partake in the festivities of a rugby league carnival, time has been against your author. So we will get straight into it….part […]
Prophets Down South: State of Origin in Melbourne and Part One of the 2009 Midseason Review
Melbourne is in the throes of rugby league fever. It is a condition that will last no longer than 24 hours but it is an illness I have been trying to unleash into a pandemic unsuccessfully for nearly a year. It has taken one of rugby league’s showcase events to cripple people with interest in […]
Thoughts on a Midseason NRL Transfer System
Australians have always prized loyalty far more in their sports than those in other areas of the world. It is equal part values, history, the role of sports in relation to community and the perception of the athlete that has led to loyalty being treated as the most noble of personal characteristics. Even winning, at […]
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