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Consecutive Home Wins: Building a culture

Consecutive Home Wins: Building a culture

On a promisingly sunny and clear afternoon, my tram rattled along its track, edging closer to AAMI Park. The ever increasing swell of people outside the ground was encouraging, would this be the day we drew another 10,000 + crowd? I waited for a mate to purchase his ticket and quickly scanned ... 20 Sep 2010
With friends like these

With friends like these

No doubt the anti-football mafia thinks they've landed a few body blows over the years. Amateurs. When it comes to carving up the A-League with near surgical precision the Rebecca Wilsons of this world are playing with plastic spoons. No one does over football like those who profess to have its ... 20 Sep 2010
Reasons to be cheerful - part 6

Reasons to be cheerful - part 6

"The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot A little drop of claret - anything that rocks Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty, Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox" (Reasons to be Cheerful - Part 3, Ian Dury and the Blockheads) Polio victim and punk-rock legend Ian Dury ... 20 Sep 2010
What did I tell you?

What did I tell you?

Finals football: the Jets will be there (finances permitting). They made Perth look average on the weekend. Simon Hill and Robbie Slater were discussing at the start of Friday's game how Perth were the "real deal". You spoke too early lads! Perth ARE a solid side. They just didn't look like it. ... 20 Sep 2010
Defensive Delight, Attacking Concern

Defensive Delight, Attacking Concern

Three games, six days, three goals scored, zero goals conceded, five points. Whilst it's not exactly the perfect set of numbers, if someone had offered me them before last Sunday's match against Brisbane I may very well have taken them up on the offer. There is however two sets of those numbers ... 20 Sep 2010
A-League Awards - Round 7

A-League Awards - Round 7

JUST seven goals in five games combined with uninspiring numbers in the stands made for a terribly average weekend of A-League football - especially in comparison to recent weeks. For what it's worth, much has been made of the Jets' crowd numbers, and while 6,977 attendees won't do in the ... 19 Sep 2010
2010 Homeless World Cup Draw Announced

2010 Homeless World Cup Draw Announced

Neither rain nor poor Portuguese (apparently pairing the word 'Copacabana' with the English or Portuguese for 'beach' wasn't sufficient to direct my taxi driver to discern precisely where it was I wanted to go) were enough to prevent me from making it to one of the most anticipated Homeless ... 19 Sep 2010
Win with A-League draws

Win with A-League draws

Welcome to the first of our monthly betting blogs, bought to you with our chums from Sporting Bet. Hopefully this yarn every four weeks will give you the inside track on what's worth betting on, plus why you should be punting your hard earned on it. Below are a few bets worth keeping an eye on ... 17 Sep 2010
A tribute to the F-Troop, and other green musings

A tribute to the F-Troop, and other green musings

Many people call me a nerd. Just look at my beautiful blog picture: glasses, reasonably dorky haircut, ears slightly too large for my head, goofy smile. This extends to how I like to watch my football irrespective of the level it's played at. I don't generally get too animated, and my singing is ... 16 Sep 2010
Dose of Reality

Dose of Reality

At about 1pm last Sunday, I caught myself wondering what blog topic would emerge from the match against Gold Coast United.  Would it be an appropriate time to discuss Todd Howarth's emergence from middling local league recruit into genuine A-League threat?  Perhaps a discussion of ... 15 Sep 2010
Why the Jets will be in the finals.

Why the Jets will be in the finals.

I know what you're thinking. "Yeah right, you one-eyed Jets blogger, you're having yourself on". But follow my logic and let's see where we get. Now, the Jets haven't actually won a game yet this season. But, due to the vagaries of the draw and the byes, they have ended up playing the ... 15 Sep 2010
Local players are gold

Local players are gold

With Chris Broadfoot making a promising debut in United's 1-0 win over Perth Glory, I decided to do some research on top players that have all signed from local leagues or the lower tiers in their footballing leagues. Jermaine Beckford Although he is sometimes called the ‘most over-rated ... 14 Sep 2010
Old Habits...

Old Habits...

Finally back in England and settled, I opened the laptop Sunday morning in anticipation of another good game from the new-and-improved Perth Glory. That’s right - this isn’t the old A-League Glory who play in fits and starts, show promise but never deliver, and are coached by a ... 14 Sep 2010
Not good enough

Not good enough

When everything is going well the best and the brightest know it's the time to work on your weaknesses. Let's face it, better to fix your roof in summer rather than wait for winter downpour to remind you that wet carpets don't make for happy houses. In Adelaide this is a great time for the ... 13 Sep 2010
On paper...

On paper...

On Paper Gold Coast couldn't match Perth... On paper this could have been a nightmare.... On paper we had just lost the league's reigning golden boot. On paper it was our second game in a 30 day period. On paper our marquee was flying in from Europe two days before kick off after playing ... 13 Sep 2010
In appreciation of Clint Bolton...

In appreciation of Clint Bolton...

One of Australia's most reliable and entertaining shot stoppers, Clint Bolton has been a standout figure for the red and white in our opening six matches. A brilliant shot stopper, Bolton has kept us alive on a number of occasions by producing remarkable saves which have prevented certain ... 13 Sep 2010
Happy Monday

Happy Monday

Happiness has officially returned to Bluetongue Stadium. It's a weird feeling after so much disappointment, but it's a feeling I've been craving for far too long. In fact it's hard to remember when I last felt this happy on a Monday morning.  Weekends can be frantically busy or ... 12 Sep 2010
Defending symmetry

Defending symmetry

As I have alluded to in a previous blog, during non-football hours I pass myself off as an architect and thus I am often looking for patterns, sequences, symmetry and asymmetry. This often translates to my thinking about football and this weekend provided me with some prime examples. It also ... 12 Sep 2010
A-League Awards - Round 6

A-League Awards - Round 6

IF A-League round 6 was a cartoon, onomatopoeic adjectives such as "KA-POW!", "BAMM!", "BIFF!" and "WHOOSH!" would not have been out of place. I make the comparison because some of the super special moments dished up over the weekend seem more likely to have been penned in fiction rather than ... 12 Sep 2010
A Marriage of Inconvenience (a modern farce)

A Marriage of Inconvenience (a modern farce)

The elegantly attired master Wedding Planner is standing in a slightly dilapidated banquet room surrounded by glum men in ill-fitting suits with their pockets turned out. Three men - Con, Schip and Vitja - are running in circles trying to beat off monkeys. Chicken Little sits calmly up the back ... 12 Sep 2010
Cassio, don't go!

Cassio, don't go!

Every club has its champions. Some of them are the highly paid, celebrity footballers. Some are young, up-and-comers who you know you're never going to keep. Then there are the players the fans love because they wear the colours with pride and never give less than 110% for the team. These are ... 10 Sep 2010

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