MIGHTY, MIGHTY ST GEORGE!!!!

It's been 30 something years in the making, but the mighty Dragons have finally won the rugby league Grand Final. Although some might say if the Storm were able to score points this year, who knows if they would've achieved such success....but who cares I've lived my whole life and never seen my team win it so we'll take it!

Much criticism was given to the ref's for calling some crazy decisions, and calling some decisions that werent even there to begin with. Regardless the Dragons were dominant in the 2nd half, after an extremely even 1st half. The Roosters missed they shots at goal which would have given them some psychological edge going into the break.

The Dragons looked spooked in the first half, with all the momentum and pressure with the Roosters. Some Strong advice from the experienced coach Wayne Bennet would have settled their nerves, to bring them home for the Premiership.
Gettin it done, when it counts:

People say that St George arer the Collingwood of the AFL, with a dominant supporter base and successful record in the early days, but if thats the case, then I never would have picked them as my team! :-P I write on the black board every day like Bart Simpson: 'i will never, ever, ever,ever barrack for Collingwood...ever'. If a team can go over 30 years without winning it, they are humble when they do, much unlike the Pies supporters ;-).

After a heart breaking loss to the storm in the late 90's, they finally get the gold!:

That being said, we have no choice but to talk about Collingwood now as they are the Premiers of the AFL this year *shiver*. It was a scary place to be in melbourne on the first Saturday in October, but it would have been just as scary being out on the last Saturday night in September, if we had an actual result then!

For only the 2nd or third time in history, there was a drawn grand final in the AFL! And much unlike the other finals in our series, we do not go to extra time to get a winner...we play the whole thing over again the next week! It's serious football dee ja voo! When you don't go for either team playing though, and you call out 'football is the real winner on the day' with five minutes to go in the game, chances are you're gonna get bashed by a toothless Pies supporter ;-).

The feeling of not knowing how to feel:

This is basically once in a lifetime stuff! You always joke about the draw, but it's not untill it happens that you are completely hit for 6, confused, dissoriented, and have to wait another week for the result you have already waited all year for.

The Pies were on top all day, but the Saints didn't give up. And with the help of some bad kicking from the Pies, the Saints faught back to close the gap at 3 quarter time to under 20 points. The Pies were tired from missing their shots at goal, the Saints looking stronger. In the final quarter with not long to go, Brendan Goddard took a screamer for the Saints, right in front of goal, and kicked the goal to put them in front for the first time all game!

They then missed more shots at goal with Milne not following the bounce of the ball, and Nick Maxwell diving to touch what would have been the match winning goal by Nick Riewoldt, with only minutes to go. With only one minute left, the ball was all in the Saints 50, but they just couldn't score. Kossi dropped a match winning mark, and even thought they only had to toe poke the ball in for a point to win, they just couldn't do it! You can't script this s*&t! It's the Hamlet of football! We said we didn't want the Pies to win the Grand final, and we almost got our wish! As it turned out, this was StKildas big chance to beat the highly favoured Pies, their won chance at luck. Cause what happened the next week, was just ugly!:

There was a thrashing at the MCG that following week, that would have destroyed StKilda's hopes and dreams! The Saints had already lost a close Grand final to the Cats the previous year, and were driven by the hurt of this to win it in 2010. Unfortunately hurt is not enough to win you the big game, you need the talent to back it up to. And this 2nd day and this year, the Pies had it!

The week before in Grand final 1, Scott Pendlebury (COllingwoods best player and the player that has been carrying them for years) played like s#$t! It was revealed, after winning the medal for best on ground in the 2nd game, that he had food poisoning and decided not to tell the coach. Anybody who knows Mick Malthouse, knows that if you like to him, he will burn a hole in your retina with his pissed off eyes. It's a good thing Pendles won the medal, might've saved his life!

Dane Swan didn't get the Brownlow, but he got something better. And now he has time to finish his ink:

Harry came from a down and out childhood, to become a premiership player:

You saved my life!!!!!, make love to me:

The two scariest, I mean most powerful men in football embrace. the coach and president of Collingwoood:

Dale Thomas is just a bit too excited about the Pies win...disturbing:

The banner at the start of the game rang true 'side by side we stick together' , rather than StKildas modo 'far apart we stick together':

Lionel Ritchie adds to the memorable occaision of the Grand final replay:

Stkilda's only goal chance in the first quarter was lost as the captain unnecessarily plays on and a diving Heath shore smothers to save a goal:

IT wouldn't have mattered anyway, they were smashedThe Pies are premiers and we must deal with this farce.

The Commonwealth games was also a farce with roofs and buildings collapsing at the weightlifting centre, and a cobra being found in their Tennis centre! Jeeesus, are you sure its safe! The games might be in India but the buildings were definitely made in China. OR they mightve got them out of a cereal box! It's hard enough lifting a heavy weight up, the last thing you need is the roof falling on your head!

They were also having monkey issues over there and had to emply a team of super monkeys, to help rid them of the regular monkeys. Some of the super mokeys got into fights with the regular monkeys and were killed though. Jeesus talk about drama, you'll get more over there than at the Glasshouse on a Saturday nigt :-s...and thats a lot:

all that and more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.


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Its a turf war, on a global scale...

AFL...It's been approaching for a long time, but the AFLPA has finally had enough of the Etihad stadium surface. In recent weeks, each game has resembled scenes from the three stooges. With some of the leagues finest slipping and sliding all over the show, as chunks of dirt and grass became uprooted from its concrete foundations. If teams wish to withdraw their matches from the dome, then they must do so mid week, but who will be first to step up and call off the game? Inspections of the surface are made on the morning of the game, and if it is decided that the ground is unfit for playing, the game must be moved.....but how do you warn 50,000 people a few hours before kick off :-S.
On the field, injuries were happening all round, with Judd seriously damaging his pecs, and Gumbleton damaging his ribs and puncturing a lung. Surprisingly, he pulled a Dermie and kept playing! And he will miss the end of the season now. Wellingham has knee soreness and may miss the big cats game this week. Half the Cats had injury scares against the Swans, causing mini heart attacks throughout the night for the reigning premiers. during the night Chappy, Lingy, Josh Hunt, and Joel Corey went off for short spells. Despite this, they still won by a ridiculous margin.
In upsets The Dons beat the Saints and Port (who can't even beat themselves) managed to knock off the Hawks. In thrashings, Freo won the derby, and the Bulldogs and Barry Hall gave North a spanking with 7 goals. Ever since Aka left the team, the Dogs have excelled into premiership form. mouthing off has never been so effective, they should send him flowers and a thank you card every week. The Pies embarrassed the blues, but who hasn't lately??


At least they are keeping the PM in a good mood:


And of course the Tigers get a mention for scoring a win, even if it was against Adelaide...it still counts!


NRL...The Storm are back again with a convincing win over the Canberra Milk Raiders. The Dragons have been defeated again, this time by the Baby Bronco's. Again their from drops of dangerously at the pointy end of the season, raising and dropping hopes like a bad relationship. The Panthers are not having such issues, winning their big match against the Titans, and settling into 2nd spot on the ladder.


UNION...The Bledisloe cup is on but we will only mention it briefly cause we lost. NZ are looking strong, and the Aussies were never in with a chance...Bring back CAMPO!



F1...Mark Webber has won the Hungarian GP and is now back on top of the Championship table! After the Dramas of last weeks technical faults, and Massa being told to pull over and let Alonso pass, this time the luck was with our man. He pulled a Bradbury, with half the field going down with technical faults and penalties. Yipee kya, we'll take it anyway!

Shu is in trouble for driving old team mate Rubens almost into a wall, ouch!.

we think he's happy??:

THE GAY GAMES...The games kick off this week with an opening ceremony of your favourite sporting Gays. Matthew Mitcham and Michelle Ferris from Australia will be representing the Aussies, and it seems unfortunately for Germany, Taylor Dane is representing Cologne.

all that and more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.


Peace out*.


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The sport of Kings Queens, Kings and really top class tracksuits

Tennis...This week, tennis royalty met real royalty, as the Queen visited Wimbledon for the first time in about 30 years. She stopped to meet Federer, Serena and Jokovic, who was so overcome by the momentus occaision, he decided to dress up. And by dress up we mean wear a tracksuit! At least Roger and Serena looked nice. And Serena's not exactly known for her manners. Oh well, we should at least be grate full he didnt fake a sicky like usual, and cancel on the Queen.
Ahh yes theres nothin on earth like a genuine, bonified, electrified 60-70 game tennis match! This years Wimbledon has welcomed the longest match in history, which broke more than that record! The most aces, the most games in a match and set, and the longest time at about 11 hours and 3 days! As the two player will never have the talent to win a grand slam, there is speculation that they both kept the game going for so long in order to make history in some way! But if so, they couldve stopped at about 58 to 60 games, or even about 36 to 38. But at 68 to 70, even they didnt need to wrok that hard to be famous!

If you're like me, you would've sat down at the TV on the first night of the match, and thought you were looking at a record of 55 to 57 unforced errors. It took about 10 minutes to register that that was actually the score! The umpire must've felt like a cat trapped in a tree, perched up in his seat all day. In the end, Isner was the winner. Yet another record for America to add to their trophy cabinet.

If you think he's frustrated at 38 games to 40...:

Dudes can hardly stand at this point...the net is holding Mahut up:

Thank God I won...how embarrassing if I didn't...oh sorry dude:

Well at least we are famous for something now:

In an angrier note. Hanescu was fined for spitting at the crowd this week during his match. He obviously started to feel the guilt, and foot faulted his way deliberately to the end of the match. He then tried to end the game by shaking the umpires hand, but the umpire said he cant do that. So he pretended to have a hammy injury so he could leave...good idea!...In an unrelated incident, 4 men were arrested in the crowd of the same match. Who knew one match could provide the next series of Underbelly with so much material :-S.

2 Aussies made it into week 2 of Wimbledon. The amazing Lleyton Hewitt...yes you heard right!....and Jarmilla 'Grothy' Groth. Commmmonnn! Lleyton plays Jokovic, tennis's favourite hypochondriac, and Grothy faces Venus, ouch!

AFL...The largest pumishment in AFL/VFL history was handed out today to steven Baker from the Saints. No it wasnt Barry Hall, or Plugga. And he didnt do one really bad thing, just a whole bunch of stupid/dumb things that accumulated to 12 weeks suspension! 9 with an early guilty plea. His idiotic behaviour involved hitting Johnsons broken hand, elbowing and punching. Basically being the worlds largest pest. Except for that guy who plays full back for North. By the looks of him he already copped his punishment when Johno turned around and whaked him in the face with an elbow, hrmmm, well if you poke a bear, what do you expect really? That'll learn 'im! But the Saints won the big Grand Final re-match against the Saints, and with Riewoldt to return soon, they probably could care less about this incident.

New guy Steven kicked a lazy 3 goals for the winners, as the Saints flooding tactics take yet another victim. The biggest scalp of all!

The Pies easily took care of the Swans in Sydney, despite some fight back by the home team. They were no match for Harry O, and Steel Sidebottom who can play footy, but might want to rethink his celebrity name. And with one as laughable as 'Sidebottom', whose parents would be dumb enough to make his first name an adjective?? There hasn't been a title that absurd since Olympic swimmer: Misty Hymen....Either way the Pies can smash the crap teams, can they knock off a top one? StKilda are on the menu soon.

Adelaides home ground has been turned into a victory fortress over the last. few weeks. They have even beaten Fremantle over there. It's the new bermuda triangle of footy. This week, the Demons copped a hidding, and lost their mo-jo Hawthorn style. It will be harder to get it back with such a young side thiough.

F1...It was all looking good with Webber starting 2nd on the grid, then he slowly slips back to ninth in the field, suggesting something was wrong with his Red Bull car. As we know our boy is an awesome driver. Then suddenly, the crappy/slow Lotus car in front of him braked, and not being used to amateur pace, Mark has run straight into the back of him! He then flipped up into the air in the most spectacular crash ever. And then landed on his head. Thanks to the safety of the cars, he walked away without a scratch! But knowing Mark he would be more concerned about walking away without any championship points.

Cricket...Lets just mention it quickly and get it out the way. We played about 3 games against England this week, we lost about 3 games against England this week. Does'nt matter that we came really close in one of them, the Ashes are right around the corner, and the Aussies are running out of practice time! Lets hope they are just foxing or we are screwwwweeed.

Soccer....The World cup rolls on, but without the Aussies :-S...The whole team has been red carded so there is nobody left to play anyway. The Psychic octopus should stop predicting match the winners, and start calling all the red cards, now that would be a talent. Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are all looking strong.

Back home, Tim Cahil has said he is proud of their efforts at the World cup. Harry Kewell doesnt quite agree. Last thing we need is fighting. Hey boys, lesh time talking, more time soccering!

all that and more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.



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If you don't have anything nice to say.......

AFL...After the NRL/State of Origin racism scandal, you'd think that everyone would have learnt a lesson in whats right and whats wrong, and to not say anything really, really stupid...right? What a surprise that it was quite the opposite, and that this one comment sent off a chain reaction of equally stupid or more stupid comments about race in sport.

The Racism jumped codes to the AFL with Mal Brown referring to indigenous players as 'cannibals'. And he almost got away with it cause he's old and the comment was almost passed off as purely uneducated. Then just when you thought it was over, Dipper thought he'd chime in and call Gavin Wanganeen 'not bad for an Abo'. He claimed his comment was taken out of context, but either way, after the week we've had, keep you trap shut!

Dipper...Would you take anything this man says seriously??:

The split round provided some shock upsets, with the Tigers winning again! And away in Brisbane!...The Lions are so riddled with injury the team is almost unrecognisable, but the Tig's are counting it anyway!

Oohhh etihad, your next victim is Matthew Kreuzer with an ACL season ending injury. As much as all the non Carlton fans are grateful, we are aware our teams will still ahve to play there, and are scared. But it probably wasnt the surface that caused his injury, afterall, he is a big clumsy dinosaur.

The Bulldogs have passed the tough test over in Perth with a convincing 60 point thrashing.

Crad Johnson back was a welcome sign for the Dogs, who are yet to take a big scalp this season. Next week against the Hawks will be a real test of whether they are a top four team, or just an outfit that knows how to thrash the crap teams :-S.

North look like they are gettin it in, with 3 wins in a row! Hanson got 5 goals in a winning side, and Shulz did ok with 7 in a losing side for Port! Bizarrely it was a home game for North, even though it was played in Adelaide :-S....mmm your home away from home.

Moment of the round goes to one man, who is now almost 'the man!" Buddy was running towards goal from the wing , and rather than heading towards the centre, he was running into the pocket. he got as close to the boundary line as he could then dribbled it through along the ground. Five minutes later, the same thing was happening, only this time he decided to give us a bit more variety. He ran as close as he could to the bounday line in the pocket, and curved it through in the air on the most impossible angle you have ever seen! As much as we hate to admit it, its goal of the year, and possible goal of the century! Buddy was good enough to admit it might have been a fluke, but after twice in 5 minutes, he has a good case for skill!

Buddy magic

Soccer...It's fair to say Australia are slightly screwed in the World Cup. Brett Holman was pumped after scoring for the Socceroos against Ghana. But after Kewell was sent off, Ghana equalised for a 1 all draw! The victory would have meant a safer passage for the Aussies, but with this draw, the team was sent into a mini crisis. And after the second red card to our best players in only a few games, we're starting to get suspicious with a conspiracy theory! There is a facebook group you can join: 'oh you're Australia...heres a red card!', and even Serena Williams was tweeting that our treatment by the reff was unfair. So unlike her to be having a go at umpires :-S, but we are glad she is on our side. We don't want a soccer ball in the throat eek. Would hurt more than a tennis ball.

New Zealand have done well too, drawing with Italy 1 all. But our Aussies need a big win over Serbia to stay in the running, 4 zip to be exact. Miracles can happen. All the big names are still in it, as the comp approaches the finals.

NRL...Greg Ingliss says he's not ready to forgive Andrew Johns for his racial slur last week. We don't really blame him, but most of the rugby world are still relieved its not Matthew Johns for a change making a twat of himself.

In State of origin game two, Queensland were thrashing the Blues, and then a dangerous spear tackle on Darius Boyd set off the biff!

From that moment on every tackle on the Maroons was a spitful one, with little elbows and knees into them when they got the chance. What else can you do when nothings happening on the scoreboard *shrug*. Greg Ingliss and Folau showed off their AFL skills with spectacular high kicks and marks. It's a shame they are leaving when they are so good at Rugby, but the dollars are calling!

In the regular round the Gold Coast had a narrow one point win over the Bulldogs, The Storm thrashed North Queensland, and in Monday night football the Knights have just knocked off the Eels 6 to 4 in a low scoring affair. Penrith have ended the baby Broncos run of amazing wins. Time for Alfie to get back on the table!

Cricket...Australia and England have decided to play 5 one day cricket matches in the middle of the year for some reason??..But before they do Australia had a 5 wicket win over Middlesex at Lords. White score 100 off 120 balls and Hussy got a respecatble 72 to save the day...few. Would have been embarrassing to lose to a division of England, when we have to face the whole Country soon. Bollinger picked up 3 for 24 for the Aussies, and Murtagh 3 for 45 for the home side. Shah also chimed in with 92 form Middlesex.

Netball...The team with the longest name in the business: the "Waikato Bay of Plenty magic", are into the playoffs aftter a 53-44 win over Adelaide. The Pulse almost had a cardiac arrest when they came close to winning over our Melbourne Vixens...thank God the girls held our dignity in tact, it was too close for comfort :-S.

Golf..Yes he alwasy gets his face into our blog somehow. This time for his golf...Tiger Woods has charged into contention, and was was five strokes behind leader Dustin Johnson after the US Opens third round. Lets see if he can get through this tournament without a sex scandal!

*We would like to dedicate the show to our friend Addam Stobbs who sadly passed away. Our Joy radio Guru, and teacher of 'taste of radio' courses and 'certicifate III in broadcasting'. RIP Addam.*


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