AGB Footy

TIP BITS

Well, the new year starts today, not on March 25th as it used to:

In Great Britain and the North American colonies, March 25th was the beginning of the new year up until 1751, when the adoption of the Gregorian calendar changed the beginning of the year to January 1 the start of the football season.

which means it's tip time:

1 - 4:
Adelaide
St Kilda
Geelong
Melbourne (You're right, I have no idea.)

5 - 8:
Sydney
Wet Toast
Essendon
Richmond

9 - 12:
Fremantle
Brisbane
North Melbourne
Collingwood

13 - 16:
Port Adelaide
Hawthorn
Western Footscray Bulldogs
Carlton

Each group of four is in no particular order. Adelaide's a monty for the flag, though, as is Chris Judd for the Brownlow, and Matthew Lloyd for the Coleman. Misc: Umpire Gareth Parker to move from reporting the news, to making it when he punches a player in the WAFL. (Oooo, that hurts.)

Did anyone see last night's all new, bells and whistles, garnished with a dead dog Footy Show? No? In a nutshell, then. All new: the hosts - they were a little nervous, but they should work out OK. Bells & whistles: the set & format - the set was fine but the format needs tweaking. Dead dog: the Ben Cousins/Michael Jackson skit. Live & Kicking, anyone. I went to bed when that rancid soap skit started.

BIALYSTOCK BLOOMS

The Vauxhall and Vespa Fantasy Football League draft was held today and Bialystock, my team of super, mega and supermegastars is picked and ready to rumble. Cop an eyeful of the sheer blinding talent on display here. What a machine!

Our motto says it all, really: There is no i in Bialystock.

1. Steven King
2. Luke Ball
3. Andrew Embley
4. Tyson Edwards
5. Dean Brogan
6. Cameron Bruce
7. Andrew Krakour
8. Cameron Mooney
9. James McDonald
10. Chris Johnston (Brizroy)
11. Luke McPharlin
12. Dean Rioli
13. Clint Bizzell
14. Travis Cloke (Picked only after intense negotiations with his father Damir Cloke.)
15. Nathan Lovett-Marray
16. Paul Medhurst
17. Mark Jamar
18. Xavier Clarke
19. Andrew Walker
20. Matthew Egan
21. Daniel Motlop
22. Daniel Gilmore
23. Paul Chambers
24. Nathan Jones
25. Danny Meyer

BALL ... THERE!!

Stroll over to the excellent Football Invective. Can't say I agree with everything there. I mean - Rex Hunt? Sure, he used to be funny. Then he started to wallow in all that sucking up from Clunt Grabarse, Madame Healy and Bleedin' Obvious Walls. No matter, FI is still a cack. Here's a taster:

Channel Seven:

Channel 7's idea of how to present football is the like some kind of Griswald Family Football Special - you know, the sort of boring, uncreative "family" type genre of show that is so lame and inoffensive that it appeals to no one.

Andy Demetriou:

It’s time for the people to rise up and overthrow the regime of Comrade Demetriou, who might be more gainfully employed as a Greens campaign manager instead. Just like Nicolai Caucescu being put up against the wall in 1989, its time for this rich socialist despot to be swept from office by the winds of freedom.

Last year's Grand Final:

Poultry in motion: more tension than an ALP caucus meeting in the Latham era, more drama than a Cheryl Kernot book launch, more controversy than umpire Steve Randall at a kindergarten fete.