Category Archive: AUSTRALIANIA
Don’t Cook Tonight, Call Chicken Delight
Glenelg Tigers v North Adelaide Roosters at Prospect Oval, 5 August 2018 If only we’d won a couple more close ones. Be that as it may, the Tigers are still a Very Silly Chance for finals, and perhaps more sensibly (and more importantly), seem to be developing the cohesion and application that all good sides have. In wet and windy conditions at the notorious lop-sided ground, Glenelg held its nerve and out-lasted a more fancied opponent by maintaining consistent scoreboard pressure, a factor lacking in previous years. The Milera boys were up and about, but Lachlan Hosie, on a bad…
Continue Reading →The Tigers Get Home (Again)
Glenelg v West Adelaide, Glenelg Oval, 29 July 2018 Another sunny winter’s day at Glenelg with a stiff breeze from the south, heading NNE. West kicked with it in the first quarter but the Tigers, using the western side of the oval which gave some shelter from the wind, tacked and defended superbly, holding a narrow lead at the break. We were helped by a great soccer goal from Lachlan Hosie, and Luke Reynolds (another decisive 5-goal haul) got the benefit of a goal from a downfield free (awarded against a Blood who tried to draw some blood with his fist)….
Continue Reading →Tigers Taste…Victory
"Cheer, cheer, beat the black and the white..."
Glenelg v Port Adelaide (Alberton Oval) July 21, 2018 On one level, it’s all about kicking straight…23 shots each, but Glenelg hit more than missed and won by just under 6 goals. Ex-magpie Luke Reynolds was sensational, bagging 6 in a best-on-ground performance (4 of those coming in the last quarter, against the breeze), well supported by Josh Scott and Lachlan Hosie with 3 goals apiece. And down back, the old firm of Proud, Curran and Bradley smothered the more-fancied Port attacking unit. The Maggies are slipping: this has to be the first time in years Andrew Bradley has left…
Continue Reading →A Win is in the Wind
Glenelg v South Adelaide, 14 July, 2018 Indigenous Round brought a Welcome to Country and a very stiff nor-westerly that rendered any smoking ceremony out of the question. Who conquered the breeze would likely get the points. The Tigers kicked with the breeze and started like champions, getting on the board within a minute. Three goals to Lachlan Hosie, one to Reynolds and Scott, plus stout defence led by Bradley, Curran and Proud, had us 5 goals to nil at quarter time. South almost carved out a goal against the gale, but Andrew Bradley replicated Jim Rawson’s 1973 smother and kept…
Continue Reading →A Further Sign of Decline
The downfall is not limited to the pale people of the West. It has infected aboriginal art as well… Here is a piece by Enos Namatjira: Compare it to this: Perhaps we’ve done our dash and now the cycle spirals ever downward? Has prurience played a part?
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