I admit it! I was cheering for Trinidad

Cricket....So NSW's knocked Victoria out of the finals in the 20/20 Domestic Champions league and we wanted revenge. We were hoping Trinidad and Tobago would beat NSW's in the Final on Friday night....It didn't happen. And I have to admit it, NSW were outstanding in the field. And yes I admit it, I started cheering for the Blues. The Patriot came out. They were absolutely gone after their batting line-up collapsed, when who came in to save the day for the batsmen? It was bloody Brett Lee! The magnificent glorious bastard hit 48 from 31 balls, including 5 6's! He's a fricken bowler! He can't do that!..He did.

The strongest man alive:



Then after saving the batting line-up, he thought he would stroll in and take a couple of wickets on top of that.

Kieron Pollard came in for Trinidad and Tobago and hit some of the biggest 6's you have ever seen. Nearly knocking half the top bay in the stands unconscious. But when Pollard miss hit and sent the ball straight up in the air, Brett Lee was underneath it to take the match winning catch. And with their number one man out, T & T were as good as gone. NSW bowlers all shared in the wickets, and a guy names Moses took one of the best catches you have ever seen.

The match was then followed by the longest presentation you have ever seen, with every umpire, official and player in the history of the game awarded a medal...Hey, why the f#*k not? This was before every team and player in the history of the game was awarded a giant novelty cheque. How many rainforests had to die for this tournament???After some massive hitting Pollard was asked what he had for breakfast? He replied: 'i missed breakfast man'... The guys an enigma! But a good one.

And to cap it all off, more recently Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson picked up the wicket of Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir during the first one-day international cricket match against India. The Aussies won by four runs in a thriller. Weeeee'rrrrrrrrree baaaaaaaacccccckkkkk!

AFL...The NSW Blues might have been successful in the cricket, but the Carlton Blues have bombed out in the Race for the Lions Daniel Bradshaw. D-Brad has decided he would prefer to play for Sydney. While it is tempting to play at a club that no longer has Fev, it's not tempting enough.

Well It's official, Greater West Sydney are going to slaughter everyone as they officially recieve 9 out of the top 15 pics in the NAB 2011 draft. In a matter of a few years, the team could become equivalent to a race of genetically engineered super creatures. Not to be confused with the proposed Tasmianian team which will have players that have not been genetically engineerd, but still have two heads anyway.

It's a bitter sweet month for the Cats. Premierships, but they lose their duel Premiership captain Tom Harley. Not the greatest player by his own admission, Toms leadership skills have redefined the role of a club captain. They are more than a talented player who leads on the field, they are also the face of the club and contribute to the administration of the entire Organisation. He was an extension of the coach, players and the staff. But his body had had enough. Thanks for the Premiership's Tomahar ;-)...plural.

Not a bad resume:

Interviews....We talk to Fitness Expert Rocco Sorace about his new fitness and recipe book, and find out the quickest way to lose that gut n ass.
Alex has prepared a great interview from the Justin Fashanu Cup (gay soccer) with the Sydney Rangers. We talk to Jason Assalin about where the Cup and gay soccer in Australia is headed.

Soccer...Melbourne coach Ernie Merrick has described Saturday's 3-1 win over Adelaide as his team's best 90-minute performance of the year and a shining example of the depth the club has at its disposal. And after Adelaide knocked off powerhouse Sydney FC!

Sydney FC has moved to the top of the Hyundai A-League table after surviving a late scare to see off a gallant but outclassed Brisbane 2-1 at the SFS on Sunday.

Horse Racing...Bart Cummings picked up his fourth Cox Plate - and probably his first kiss from jockey Glen Boss when his colt 'So You Think' scored a remarkable win in the great race at Moonee Valley. With the most inexperienced and least-credentialled horse in the Cox Plate's 88-year history, he transformed 'So You Think', from a promising but wayward colt into the winner of the best race in Australasia.

Baseball....It's getting down to the wire in American Major League baseball, and we really have no idea what we are on about, or how the finals work. So we Will present you with a genuine New Yorker, Eric Williams, who does know what he's talking about, and find out who is going to take the World series.

All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.

Peace out*.

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You bought him...now you can't have him!

AFL....It has been revealed this week that Fev really wanted to be traded to the Saints or the Pies, instead of the Lions. Apparently when the Rischatelli deal fell through, Fev practically begged Eddie Maguire to take him at the Pies, but surprise surprise, Collingwood wanted nothing to do with Carlton. Who would have thought?...And just when the Lions were licking their lips with the idea of having the coleman medalist, the AFL might just decide he can't play at all. Might as well give him a holiday while he's already in sunny Queensland. We are still waiting for the rest of his Brownlow tapes to surface so we can send them into Australias classiest home videos.

But nothing can repair the damage Fev has done to Carlton. After all the club had such an amazing reputation to uphold. Last year Setanta O'Hailpin kicked one of his teamates in the head while he was unconscious, and of course half the characters portrayed in Underbelly used to hold their meetings at Carltons home ground...Yes Fev has truly damaged the classy brand....pfffffffft.

The Season has only been over a few weeks and already the AFL is looking at new rules for 2010. The umpires have decided they might pay free kicks for obvious staging. Emergency umpires will also be watching from the boundary line to hand out Academy awards for the most realistic dive.

It has been a week of Culling all around Australia. Adelaide lets go Robert Shirly, a player praised by Gary Ablett and Chris Judd for being extremely challenging. Way to take out the trash Corws ;-).

Carlton cut Hartlet, Banister, Bentick and Edwards in a clearance sale. Making way for new stock, everything must go!

Brisbane coach Michael Voss shows just how much of a Hard asss he is by hiring Brendon Fevola and axeing half the team. Too many names to mention in this blog...eek is there anyone left?, Guess they don't need anyone else now that they have the Coleman medalist. Looks like Fev will be kicking to himself this year, which he probably wouldn't mind.

The biggest shock of the week was Brisbanes Daniel Bradshaw rejecting a two year deal. The Lion has been adament that he wishes to return to Melbourne in a pilrimage much like Juddy's a few years ago. So far the number one contender is Sydney. What better way to move to Melbourne by living in NSW :-S .

Moto GP.... After taking Pole Australias Casey Stoner has won his third straight Grand Prix at Phillip Island on Sunday. His Rival Rossi came in a close second. Lorenzo crashed out early in the race causing dramas such as drive through penalty's. Pedrosa came third.

F1........There were also dramas in Brazil as the track was drenched in qualifying on Saturday. The night before Vettel was trying to out wit Button with some trash talk, ala Mick Malthouse and Mark Thompson in the AFL. Vettel said that all the pressure was on Button to win the Championship. Button said 'the pressure is on all of us'. And much like Mickeys Pies, Vettel bombed out after the first lap and will likely start last on the Grid. Barrichello has pole and Mark Webber is set for a nice race, starting from second on the Grid.

Cricket....... Susses and the Eagles went into overtime this week. The eagles needed a 6 to win and a 4 to draw. They got the 4 off the last ball and 6 extra balls were bowled each way. In the end Devilliers knocked the Poms stumps out of the ground twice in the first two balls and it was all over.

Just when you thought there wasn't enough drama, a bomb threat was called in at the stadium where the Bush Rangers were playing on the weekend. The Vics were scared out of their wits, and a win, and we don't blame them.

In the Blues match, a man named Pollard stepped up for Trinidad and Tobago hitting an amazing 54 off 19 Balls! Is was clearly enough to beat NSW who looked in the box seat, and to earn him player of the match, and player of the Century! Davey Warner eat your heart out.

Soccer......Sydney FC striker John Aloisi denies his side has Mark Rudan-envy after the Adelaide United defender thwarted the Sky Blues' hopes of an away victory at Hindmarsh Stadium on Friday night. It was a shock loss with Adelaide beating the top of the table Sydney team.

Some Carlos Hernandez magic has helped Melbourne come from behind to register a 3-1 win over the Newcastle Jets in their Round 11 A-League fixture at EnergyAustralia Stadium on Sunday. Here come the Victory!



Horse Racing... Viewed has charged home to win the Caufield cup by two lengths to Roman Emperor and Vigor. This makes seven Caulfield Cups and two quinellas, 12 Melbourne Cups and five quinellas, and three Cox Plates for Bart Cummings. It's a staggering Melbourne spring majors roll call spanning 43 years for the greatest racehorse trainer in our history, Bart Cummings.
And not even those numbers can fully tell the story of what a monumental training performance yesterday's BMW Caulfield Cup quinella with Viewed and Roman Emperor represented.

Mr Ed Interview update....We managed to hunt down the number for Ed's Manager and gave him a call this week. We expressed our interest but Wilbur insisted his client was not ready for comment at this point in time. A list of our potential questions has been requested by Mr Ed.

Interviews......This week we chat to the 'What the Deuce Tennis club' about their new new gay friendly tennis venture. We also chat to Alpha Magazines Anthony Sharwood about their October and Novermber issues. They have the real scoup on the 89 Grand final, and just how much planning went into smashing Dermy?

All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.



Peace out*


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It's trade time!

AFL...Well it only took about 2 weeks, but with my never say die attitude, I refused to believe I couldn't find myself in a crowd of 100,000 people at the Grand final. So close to the action I thought it was possible. I knew I was somewhere by the race where the players come out, but did we have the honour of making it into 397 of the AFL websites finest photos? Yes we can! I also knew I was sitting near a guy wearing a red white and black beanie (two places to the right), and would you believe he was a Geelong Supporter? I found this out in the dieing minutes of the game when scores were level, we were all tense as f#$k and I abused him for it; 'who are you going for man?' I asked confused, 'Geelong' he said, as if I should know, as to which I said: 'your beanies throwing me off!', 'Im Sorry, sorry', he cowered. But its ok cause by the end we were high fiving. He was actually sitting next to me at the end of the match but as you can see by the beer in his hand, he had more important matters to attend to.

Me in green... I swear:
The players go in at half time

After half time the players returned. I decided to give them a pep talk, spur them on. I leaned over the race and told them all StKilda's goals were charity and yelled 'you can take em!'...Scarlo and a few of the boys stood upright, with a determined look on their faces. And at the end of the game Tom Harly referred to his supporters and how passionately they supported and got the Cats over the line. Even as only 1 in 100,000, ill take my piece of that pie.

Trade time......And after resistance from the hostiles (Bradshaw and Rischitelli) Carlton have ended up with the biggest rip off trade in history. They gave away the coleman medalist Brendan Fevola, for the famous....drum roll.......Lachlan Hendersen...WHO????????????????????

Yep thats right, its true. Fev wants a fresh start after the consequences of his Brownlow antics finally hit home...a month later.


Surprisingly nobody wants to be you right now either. You can't hold your booze, and you have just traded in your eventful Melbourne lifestyle for the exciting nightlife of the patronisingly named: Bris-Vegas, and a pair of Brisbane thongs matey. Enjoy!


Carlton arent the only ones that got a raw deal though. Geelong traded in superior ruckman Shane Mumford, for the best of Freo's bargain basement bin. It couldn't have been a better deal if it was Richmonds factory seconds. The footy Gods have decided Geelong don't need anymore Premierships.

But the most confusing deal of the week by far was the Burgoyne deal. In order for him to go to Hawthorn trades from Essendon and Geelong also became a part of the deal?? Don't ask us to expalin it cause it'll do your head in. Mark Williams ended up at Essendon and then then was talk that Campbell Brown too might leave the Hawks. But Jeff Kennett would have none of it as he staunchly stated 'we will not lose any of our Premiership players'. He was then tapped on the shoulder and reminded that they had already lost Premiership player Mark Williams. He really knows his shiz.


Luke Ball just can't seem to wait to leave the Saints. He continues to knock back all their offers. But his trade to the Pies has hit a snag. And now the Saints have withdrawn their offers. He will now float around in a sea of draft waters. Xav Clarke also leaves the Saints for the BL. It's not looking like the Saints are out to make up for last years Grand Final, as half the team will be missing. They have however scored Andrew Lovett from the Bombers.

cricket... After the Poms claimed to be a whole new team upon arriving in South Africa, The Aussies decided to put them back in their place and march into the final of the Champions Trophy. Against our other main rival New Zealand, the Aussies marched home for Victory. Watson scored 105 and took a couple of wickets. The star was Brett Lee with a 5 for. New Zealands figures were so poor it's not even worth a mention, honestly. It's not quite the Ashes but we will take our trophy.

captain Ricky Ponting said he was "ecstatic" about winning a second successive Champions Trophy

Bathurst .. A new generation of Holden heroes wrote a fresh chapter in history at Mt Panorama yesterday. Holden drivers Garth Tander and Will Davison have won the Bathurst 1000, overcoming various weather conditions to win Australia's best-known V8 Supercar race, and knocking Ford completely off the podium.

Tennis...The Tomic Hewitt feud heats up, with Tomic claiming he rejected Hewitts offer to practice hit with him becuase he had 'Swine flu'...hrrm, the ol swine flu excuse ey. Tomic claims he did not want to infect our Leyts. He did however try to practice his with Ferero at the time, so obviously he didn't mind giving swine flu to him :-s.

Horse racing.... Starspangledbanner pulled off an upset win in the Caufield Guineas on Saturday. Winning jockey Dan Nikolic celebates with his father John after a successful ride on the winnner:

We will follow the reast of the program coming up including thousand Guineas day and Caulfield cup day.

Mr Ed Interview update....After trailing Ed last week, we lost him on the Freeway. But we heard a whisper this week he was guest appearing at a surfing contest in Hawaii. After the event he managed to give us the slip yet again in the change rooms.

Interviews: We chat to Jason Asselin about the 2009 Justin Fanashu cup coming up (Gay Soccer). We also talk with Tim Hewitson about the Melbourne Aronauts upcoming 'learn to row' session.

All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.



Peace out*


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NRL Grand Final: The mighty mighty Melbourne Storm!

NRL....You beauty! A sport usually dominated by Queensland and NSW has been dominated for the last 3 or 4 years by a Melbourne club! the only Victorian/Melbourne club! The mighty Storm! It was hard for the biased commentators to admit that their beloved sport has strayed so heavily South of the border...but the truth hurts. And after last years poor performance in the final, the Storm were determined to create a better memory, like the Cats in the AFL. Ahhh Redemption:

Melbounre started with the first try, and had 2 by the end of the Half. The Eeels on zero were sweating it out. Billy Slater was used as a decoy while his team mates scored. Going into half time it was the Storm 10-0.

After half time Paramatta finally broke through with their first, but the comeback didn't last very long before Ingliss scored again. Storm 16-6.



The NRL managed to get some quality International half time entertainment in 'The Script'....Hrrm I was wondering why the AFl could'nt bag them on Grand Final Day, guess Rugby Aus. are more on top of things....The Storm pulled away again and it looked to be over.

Then once more the Eels came charging home, and got within 6 points! with 5 minutes to go!
The ball spilled free from an Eels player and the Storm pounced. Seconds later an interesting tackle forced the ball free from Billy Slaters arms. It looked to be a penalty to the Eeels, but Billy Slaters acting was convincing enough as a dubious penalty was payed in favour of the Storm. The Ref decided the ball was knocked from Billy's arms after the tackle was completed. The Storm went forward instead and scored a field goal to put the game out of the Eels reach. They would now have to score twice to win. Let the celebrations begin:

Victory confetti

Traditional Gatorade drenching for the coach:
Why don't we do this in the AFL huh? Don't tell me we're too civilised?

Jarryd Haynes mother is clearly not happy with the loss. She lets him know with a post game strangling:

Oh the trophy of Champions:

Billy and little Billy. *chew on this n tell me if its real bub*:

Hayney recovering from mothers clutches, or maybe just the loss:

Share it with the fans Storm:

*Who cares about court? woo hoo*:

AFL....Ooh its trade time again and it's shaping up to be the most aggressive trade period in History. Everyone is trying to sink their claws into everyone, as they have to get in before the Gold Coast steals any player that isnt nailed down. GC has declared their intentions to go after Gary Ablett Jnr. I will personally chain myself to Gary in protest if they try to touch him.

Carlton have bigger problems at the moment though as Brendan Fevola has been told to Vacate the premisis! After his classy drunken behaviour at the Brownlow, Fev is now on the market! At first it looked to be an empty threat, but the club has even offered to pay half Fev's salary at his new home. Carlton supportes are proetesting in disgust outside Blues Headquarters as they want Fev to stay, knowing full well they wont score any goals without him. Carlton are slowly coming to this realisiation, and the realisation that nobod'y else is showing any interest, so they just might be forced to keep him.

*D'oh!.. my only friends now are shoes*:

Carlton have already snatched Melbourne captain Brock McLean. Gibson looks set to leave the Roo's, and Melbourne look set to take Tom Scully in the draft even though he is injured and can't prove he is the best at this moment in time at camp. Blake Caracella will fill Ken Hinkleys shoes as assistant coach at the Cats. Barry Hall may not join the Bulldogs for sure, stay tuned...

Oh and did we mention Geelong won the Premiersip?

Just in case:

Cricket....Australia has signed off on three months of combat against England with the most emphatic of victories to march into the final of the Champions Trophy. After a narrow win against Pakistan to get into the Semi we were a bit nervous. Mike Hussey hit 64 but it all came down to the last ball with Hauritz and Lee making a diving run off a leg by.

The Poms started bragging that they were a new team in South Africa....they were wrong. Watson 136, and Ponting 111 off 155 saw to it easily. And Mitch chipped in with 3 wickets.
We now wait on Pakistan and New Zealnd to play on Monday.

F1....Mark Webbers bad luck continued as he was ruled out of Japanese Grand Prix qualifying after a crash in final practice.

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel brought his world championship hopes alive again with a superb victory in Japan on Sunday afternoon, winning as he pleased and leading Jarno Trulli's Toyota home by 4.8s despite a late safety car intervention. Lewis Hamilton was third for McLaren, another 1.5s adrift, after losing out to Trulli in the second pit stops.

Seventh for Rubens Barrichello, just ahead of Brawn team mate Jenson Button, leaves the points table as Button 85, Barrichello 71, Vettel 69 with two races remaining. Can Vettel knock off what he calls' those white guys' (German accent), to win the Championship!...Stay tuned.

Racing....The Spring Carnival kicks off with Effiecient making a big return, winning the Turnbull stakes at Flemington. The quality of the horses this year could be the best ever. Speed Gifted won the Metropolitan and Randwick on Saturday and should be assured of a Caulfield cup start.

Mr Ed Interview update:

It's been a while since we have caught up with Ed. We followed him earlier in the year after he left his table tennis Tournament in Peru. Still trying to get that elusive interview

Ed leaving the tournament:

We think we are close...Stay tuned.

Soccer...We will check in with Andrew for all the latest in the A leauge and Australia's friendly's with Holland and Oman. Oman is a must win game for the Aussies.

All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.

Peace out*


.*Disclaimer: The Sports Lounge may contain 2/3 of your daily fibre intake. No this does not mean we will give you the shits. Warning this last paragraph may not be accurate. Conditions apply and portions of this blog have been edited for your discomfort. Spoken by Tan for the Sports Lounge Party Melbourne (say that last sentance really fast).All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.