Michael Gorey

It was good to see both Haydyn Buntons honored in Subiaco Football Club’s team of the century.
The senior Bunton (pictured) was an automatic selection, winning three Brownlow medals and three Sandovers. He is arguably the greatest player ever.
His son was a good player too. He coached with success and was selected as coach of the [...]

I watched part of the WAFL game at Boulder yesterday between Subiaco and Peel. It’s probably the only WAFL game I will ever see.
For those who don’t know, WAFL is the West Australian Football League; it’s the premier Aussie rules competition in the state and arguably the fourth best in the country after the AFL, [...]

I’ve just listened to Hawthorn defeat Fremantle in the AFL on ABC Radio. The Hawks theme song blared out across the ground and on national radio after the game.
That’s been the case for a few years, that the winning team has its song played regardless of the venue.
For the record, winning away teams didn’t always [...]

Oh dear! You Tube has taken over the world. It was one of the saddest days of my life when Myrtleford lost the 2005 grand final by one point to Lavington.
For international visitors, this is the Ovens and Murray Football League in North East Victoria/southern NSW. The grand final was played at Lavington (Albury) in [...]

The Australian Football League stages a pre-season competition named after the sponsor: variously Ansett, Wizard, NAB, etc.
The league uses the competition to experiment with various rules. For the past few years, goals kicked from outside 50 metres have been worth extra and rushed behinds register three points instead of one.
As my brother-in-law noted, they’ve been [...]

I don’t barrack for either of these teams, but have a lot of respect for both and can’t choose who I will support in the grand final.
Geelong was my “second team” when I was younger and living in Victoria. I saw them play Hawthorn at Kardinia Park once and respected the passion of the Cats [...]

The football season has begun. Here in WA the supporters of West Coast and Fremantle are strutting and fretting as the case may be.
Delayed coverage from Victoria and South Australia tells me the Lions are in demise, the Kangaroos are jumping and the Cats are looking good. Do I care? Not really.
2006 is the 10th [...]

The Alpine Shire election campaign has entered its next stage, which is about 12 days of limbo before the ballot packs are mailed out.
Candidates had until 4pm this afternoon to submit preference cards if they wished to do so. There was a lot of horse trading during the week, and I know it was a [...]

Writing my Fitzroy memories has shown me how faulty the old memory can be. Fortunately the web has come to my aid through the discovery of a wonderful site called All the Stats.
It records the scores for every VFL/AFL game since 1897!

Rugby is totally off the radar for Channel Seven in Victoria, it seems. Instead of showing the Bledisloe Cup test match live tonight we’re getting an animated movie instead!
I think this reflects the station’s belief they will regain the AFL rights, so they can treat rugby fans like dirt. Shame on them.