Posted by ham_d_cam on 13th August 2010
From my blog, www.theterrace.com.au
forsake |f?r?s?k; fôr-|
verb ( past -sook |-?so?k|; past part. -saken |-?s?k?n|) [ trans. ] chiefly poetic/literary
abandon (someone or something) : he would never forsake The Gary Ablett Terrace | [as adj. ] ( forsaken) figurative a piece of concrete at Kardinia Park.
renounce or give up (something valued or pleasant) : I won’t forsake my standing room principles.
Here at The Terrace we’re not sure how we feel about the $36 million federal Liberal Party pledge hullabaloo. I mean, we don’t really care where the money comes from. And what’s a few million when it’s not a billion? A blatant splash of tax-payer cash in a marginal seat that happens to prop-up our chance of long and eternal football (and world) domination is a good thing for the hoops. But, most importantly, does this bucket of blue-blood cash (or the inevitable Labor return volley that will follow) represent the end of The Gary Ablett Terrace as we know it? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Geelong, politics, standing room
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Posted by ham_d_cam on 28th April 2010
Rugby league isn’t my game of choice. In fact, I can honestly say I’ve never been to one solitary game in any of my 33 years. My first real sense of association with it was at an unlikely event on a glorious spring day in 1999. North Melbourne had won the flag the day before, and I joined a mass of Brunswick-street-festival punters at the Rose Hotel in Fitzroy where, for the very first time, we spontaneously rode the ebb and flow of the Melbourne Storm bandwagon. It was an unusual but real sense of parochial excitement as we watched Glenn Lazarus (and Molly Meldrum) lead the Melbourne Storm in Sin City and win an extraordinary flag in their second year.
Since that fateful day, I’ve followed the fortunes (and now rather large misfortunes) of the Storm from a distance, focusing most of my sporting energy on the competing Victorian code. Being a Geelong fan my football life has, for the last three years in particular, seemed to run in parallel with that of a Storm supporter. We are both ‘one club’ towns. We were both 2007 premiers. In 2008 we were unlikely losers. In 2009 we found sweet, sweet redemption. These are tenuous links, but there’s a bond all the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Geelong, melbourne storm
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Posted by ham_d_cam on 17th September 2009
By Hamish Cameron
Last Sunday, Bonnie Doon went back-to-back winning the final Benalla and District league premiership by 15 goals against Swanpool. After more than 60 years in existence, the league will now disband, leaving five clubs to go their separate ways. For posterity’s sake, now is a good time to reflect on playing for a club in Victorian’s smallest football league.
I grew up outside of Longwood, a town of about 150 people in north-east Victoria, an hour-and-a-half up the Hume freeway. It’s a typical country town with one great pub, a simple shop and a couple of churches. Not surprisingly, it also has a football-netball club. Growing up watching the Longwood Redlegs compete in the Benalla & District league is a cherished memory: seeing my older cousins play, ordering square pies from the familiar canteen ladies, navigating around bearded men who guzzled cans of beer beside a flaming 44-gallon drum, and, where possible, manning the ageing scoreboard. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: country footy
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Posted by ham_d_cam on 8th September 2009
By Hamish Cameron
This September, spare a thought for Victoria’s smallest football league. After years of conjecture and a recent review by the Victorian Country Football League administration, the Benalla and District Football League has been deemed unsustainable. Therefore, following the finals, the league will disband – after more than 60 years of blood, sweat, tears and cheers in Victoria’s north-east. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: country footy
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