It's only March, but Mike Sheahan is already a lock for 2009's Most Pompous Footy Writing Award with this great, steaming paragraph of wank:
TONIGHT we regroup. Tonight we renew. Tonight we rejoice. The footy's back.
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Tonight we throw up.
"More than one million Victorians can't be wrong" -- by this logic, does it mean those Germans who supported Hitler before the second world war were about 40 times more right than the Victorians?
Perhaps the worst pre-season hype sice wordsmith Thomas Kenneally came up with the gem for rugby league acolytes, "I love my footie".
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 26 March 2009 at 19:41
"Tonight we throw up."
Perfect, Prof. Les mots juste.
Posted by: Tony T | 26 March 2009 at 20:54
Well...at least he's sticking to a sport he knows something about, unlike this effort some time ago.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21175250-5000117,00.html
Posted by: Guido | 27 March 2009 at 11:37
Goodwin's Law in the first post. First time I've ever seen it happen.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 27 March 2009 at 14:25
Simon Goodwin has his own law now?
It's Sheahan's last year so he's turning into a self-indulgent, self-congratulatory, self-proclaimed poet, kind of a cross between Martin Flanagan and Barry Dickins. If he starts including pencil drawings that look like Picasso with the DTs, we'll know he's gone all the way into Dickinsian flagellatory senescence.
Posted by: m0nty | 27 March 2009 at 14:32
Good Win's Law: "The better the opponent, the better the victory."
Named after Good Win Astin, second tallest mountain in the Addams Family.
Posted by: Tony | 27 March 2009 at 14:56
Thomas Kenneally loves RL????? I almost missed that bit. Yeah, and Kevin Rudd loves cricket. Let me guess. Rabbitohs?
Reminds me of my ex - still love her to bits, so no malice intended now or then - reckoned she was a HUGE Dragons fan. So one day I asked her: "Name me 10 players."
Answer went: "Nathan Brown... erm... um..."
Good doogs to her for fooling me all those years, I say!
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 27 March 2009 at 14:59
The bluebaggers have gone hard and early. I've had blokes today claiming the current midfield heirachy as Carlton first, daylight second and then..."maybe Geelong" on the strength of last night. FFS.
How long till Plough is moving to a different furrow? I give him till Rd7.
Posted by: Bruce | 27 March 2009 at 18:22
Plough-lotto!
Round 9.
Posted by: Tony T | 27 March 2009 at 19:49
I'm with Bruce - after getting slaughtered in Round 6 up at the SCG against the Swannies, Plough cannot get to training on the Monday due to his car being buried under a ton of chicken shit, so decides to do the in-thing and texts in his resignation.
Posted by: Adsy | 27 March 2009 at 20:35
In the first three weeks the Tiges play the Visys, Geelong at K. Park and the Bullies at Jihad Stadium.
But round four is against Melbourne... tell me that won't be a big game for Wallace.
Posted by: Tony | 29 March 2009 at 12:05
Watched the Dees yesterday against the Shinboners Tone. Very good considering who you had out. Non-functioning forward line aside, they are a bloody good show of downing the Tiges in the aforementioned game.
Posted by: Adsy | 30 March 2009 at 19:19
Big Ramifications, sorry about the delay in responding, but 'tis true that Thomas Kenneally follows rugby league. I think he's a northern beaches boy, so I'm not sure why he didn't follow rugger, but perhaps the good Catholic Brothers beat a love of league into him, in the days when league was a bastion of Catholicism and vice versa. I think he supports Manly, the team every fan hates.
I hear that he also supports (shudder) Aussie Rules, namely South Melbourne -- sorry, the Sydney Swans.
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 31 March 2009 at 19:19