Gary Jnr, Maria and Cameron
January 28th, 2010My lovely lady said she saw Gary Jnr on the plasma last night - watching the big game at the tennis. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t with Maria, and I’m very sure he didn’t have a crop of hair. Regardless, we couldn’t resist sharing this snap with the faithful. With all respect to the little master, do you think he looks like Martin Bryant in this photo? Hmmmmm…judge for yourself.
Oh, by the way, great news about Captain Ling hey? We couldn’t think of a more fitting man for the job. Maybe they’ll finally hang our ‘Ling of Fire’ portrait in the hallowed halls of KP? Unlikely…but we can live in hope.
Yours lovlingly,
The Terrace
No CommentsThat was the premiership year that was…
December 30th, 2009Here at The Terrace, we’ve all had a bumper inaugural year…here’s our top 10 memories from 2009.
1. We discovered that David Mensch is no David Dench - nor a indeed a Mensch.
2. We found a special bound between Anthony Rocca and Whitney Houston.
3. We introduced you to the glorious portrait of John “Olden days’” Scarlett.
4. We left the unwinnable match early – and then we won.
5. We unveiled commemorative marketing genius in its purest form.
6. We found Gary and the sax lounging on the floral couch.
7. We admired the Cameron Ling portrait (aka Ling of Fire).
8. We shared our unique and twisted sense of Coccyx humour.
9. We remembered Bodhi (aka Patrick Swayze) and his special link to the surf coast.
10. We got ROI @ LOI.
Thanking youse for your unwavering love and support throughout the year.
Yours 2010ingly,
The Terrace
No CommentsAnd the winner is Sydeney!
December 17th, 2009The winner really isn’t Sydeney, but it would have been nice to see if Juan Antonio Samaranch got the gist of our rhyming slangfest. Unlikely. Speaking of presidents, did anyone read the article about Edwardo McGuire and the torrent of abuse at the latest Collingwood AGM? Great stuff.
And is it really true that Cameron Cloke is the key to port power’s premiership campaign for 2010? Ho ho.
Anyhow, on a more serious note, Harmsy has been poring over the swag of slangathon entries in an attempt to pick a diamond from what he described as “a superb field”. Some of the better entries were:
Jamie Lamb - (Christmas) Ham
Jimmy Bartel – (Cosy) cartel
James Kelly – (New York) deli
Scratcher Neal – (Potato) Peel
Cameroon Mooney – (Psychotic) Looney
Billy Goggin – (Kid’s) Toboggan
Rod Blake – (Well-done) steak
James McLure – (Salmon) Lure
Dwayne Russell – (Love) Muscle
Andrew Bews – (Geelong) News
Paul Couch – (Money) Pouch
David Mensch - Bench
Joel Corey – (Morning) Glory
Reg Hickey – Sicky
Spiro Malakellis - Well, that’s just too hard.
Matthew Scarlett – (Toe-poke) starlet
Micky Turner – (Slow) learner
Brett Spinks - (Round of) drinks
And the winner is…’Jimmy’ with: “i don’t know about you - but I was a bit Ian Nankervis (nervous) when she was all tied up in the last quarter on Sept 26……”. Great work, Jimmy. It was a tough call and you got extra credit for your fine sentence construct. Your Almanac will be in the post - once you tell us where you live!
For anyone who wants a special Terrace deal on the Almanac (we can’t remember the discount but it was a sweet deal!), contact the Footy Almanac @ footyalmanac@bigpond.com for more details.
Yours christmasfully,
The Terrace
No CommentsSlangathon
December 8th, 2009Here at The Terrace, we’ve decided it’s time one of our valued and loyal readers get something back for nothing. Not that anyone pays to read this, but that’s another story. We’re offering you the chance to win the very popular 2009 Footy Almanac. Courtesy of editors John Harms and Paul Daffey, it’s the ideal companion for a mojito on Corio Bay beach during the festive season. You can relive the glory of our Grand Final victory no less than 5 times (there are five reviews of the game).
Don't judge the book by its cover - we all know he is a knob.
Here’s a teaser to get you salivating:
“Saturday. Early arvo. I am having a couple of nerve-settlers in the cricketers Bar at the Windsor. It’s full of Geelong supporters. We farewell a bloke in his motorised wheelchair about to make his way down Spring Street. Cheers. It’s like Albany in 1914. I walk. A Japanese tourist, a beautiful women in her mid-twenties, has unwittingly worn a clinging blue-and-white hooped top. Geelong fans are stopping to have their photo taken with her. She is utterly, uttlery perplexed…”
To WIN, all you need to do is leave a comment at the bottom of this post with some rhyming slang that ties in with Geelong FC (player, place, anything). Here are a couple to get you started:
- Buddha Hocking - Christmas stocking
- Gary Ablett - Panadol tablet
- Max Rook - Rookery nook
- Austin McCrabb - VB slab
The winning slang, judged by Harmsy this Friday (we haven’t asked him but are hoping he’ll do us a favour!), will take home the bacon. Or Footy Almanac. Well, you know what we mean.
Happy slanging,
The Terrace
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Spiro Malakellis - What the fuck’s he trying to tell us?
It’s a Mark Blake - It’s a fake!
He’s a Micky Turner - A slow learner
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Coiffed with bling – Cameron Ling
Never tacky – Andrew Mackie
Toe-poke starlet – Matthew Scarlett
Always ends right – Corel Enright
Hunky dory – Joel Corey
Never chokes – Matthew StokesAh well .. it was a few …
And, one blast from the past ….
Pre “age-of-blogger” – Sam was Nogger
JA
Great Chappy snappy
December 3rd, 2009We couldn’t resist sharing this grand-final photo (click here for a closer look) from one anonymous punter. What a great snap (pun most definitely intended)!
Next week: our very first, very special Terrace Christmas competition/giveaway. How exciting!
Happy Friday,
The Terrace
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Hey there,
I posted this on the bigfooty forum a couple of weeks after the granny. It was taken by my uncle David Wadelton who sat in my seat at the GF when my wife having a baby took precedence! No idea how he kept his composure to take it! Perhaps because he’s one of Australia’s best artists. He even won the ngv “Spirit of the Game” prize a few years ago. Shane Crawford interviewed him about it on The Footy Show.
Can’t tell you how many people think it’s the photo of the year!
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I remember them saying this year that stats wise Chappy actually has the best Snap record in the AFL. Which really would not surprise any Cats fan. I would chose that Chappy snap over Bartel having a ping - no offense to the Brownlow medalist but Chappy thrives on these momments game.
He plays exactly like what he is - a boy who learnt his footy on the pavements of Coburg. If Australia had select a side to play agianst a real opponent, he would of been selected for five years now. This is a point that all opposition supporters acknowledge as well.
That and the fact that I was on the wing side of the terrace in last term agianst Adelaide this year when with a stuffed hammy - the Chapster used that forward flank to defeat the fast coming crows all by himself with six goals.
Hiberbliss
November 25th, 2009Here at The Terrace, it’s been a long time between premiership drinks. We’ve just awoken from almost two months of post-premiership hiberbliss and, we’re delighted to say, we’ve still got that special tingle inside. So much so we’re looking forward to reliving the glory again, and again and again. Did someone say glory again?
Today, it’s the second biggest day (after Monday night football day, if you know what we mean) in the football calendar: draft day. Yawn. We might just head back to the cat cave to enjoy a few more weeks of hiberbliss before we wake to the magic of Christmas and find the special premiership DVD pack - rumour has it the KROCK commentary is worth the wait, Cats y-fronts and Harmsy and Paul Daffey’s 2009 Footy Almanac inside our premiership garry hocking…ummm…I mean stocking.
In the meantime, enjoy reading this cracking article about Bill McMaster and Stephen Wells, Geelong’s recruiting officers from the last 36 years. I think you’ll agree they’ve done a fine job. Unfortunately one of our favourite finds, the ‘Mummy’ Mumford, won’t be with us to celebrate back to back in ‘10. On that note, who has been, in your opinion, the most anticipated but ultimately disappointing recruit or draft pick in recent times? Brett Spinks? Steven Hooper? Brian Peake? Gary Ayres? Stephen O’Reilly? Brent Grgic?
Zzzzzzz……….
The Terrace
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It was just before my time, but until a Fighter-Jet lands at the Cattery Brian Peake will always take the cake with his helicopter entrance to the Cats faithful.
As a Dual Geelong/East Freo supporter lets just say Harry Taylor’s instant success has made feel a lot better about Peake’s time (Or soap opera if you will) with the Cats.
A piece of class and speed with WA and the Sharks, Peake was awarded “Player of the State Carnival”. He was refered to often as “The Best Player in Australia”.
He then came to Sleepy Hollow and promptly slept. He showed next to nothing but lazy inconsistency and spent many a game playing like a wounded kitten for a small number of seasons at the Cats.
Finally Geelong threw him even the Captaincy in final season to see if that might jolt him in to a third of the player he was in the West. In fairness to Peake it was the only thing that saw him play some decent football.
However, it never matched his pre-helicopter form or arguably the form he showed the next year back across the desert at East Fremantle Oval.I heard him interviewed on the radio once and he said “His inconsistency was Geelong’s fault for playing him out of postion, also that he only chose Geelong out of the ten VFL club’s after him cause they told him he could surf there.. and that despite being so hardly done by he still supported us”.
Great to know after all those tough things we made him do: such as what we can safely presume was giving him the largest amount money ever for a VFL player at the time. And then handing him the captaincy after seeing such little value for that cash, to see if it would maybe help his confidence and the club could save some face…
Yet he can still find it in his heart to support The Hoops.. what a trooper!
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Dear Buddha
For my money it is undoubtedly G Ayres who I believe to this day was a Hawthorn spy sent to destroy us. And for quite some time he did just that including ending the career of GOD. Never let us forget that it was Ayres who singlehandedly in the face of overwhelming pressure cut down possibly our greatest ever player by calling an end to Gazza’s brilliant efforts. Would you believe in the ‘two’s’ at the G against Richmond (of all teams). What a DISGRACE! Damn you Ayres…Damn you I say…but for you we would have been the greatest team of all MUCH sooner!
Swap
PS: NEVER EVER let a former Hawthorn player coach Geelong again for they cannot be trusted!
The vid
October 9th, 2009For our email subscribers, in case you missed the vid in our ROI@LOI post today, here ’tis!!!
Yours forgetfully,
The Terrace
No CommentsYouTube Friday: ROI @ LOI
October 8th, 2009Are you still getting those waves of spontaneous pride and excitement that come with re-remembering that we are Premiers? Here at the Terrace, we are too. Although it’s fair to say that, at times, we’ve felt the downside. Like when the Olympics leave town - that sinking feeling when the euphoria subsides and you return to the normality of normality. But normality is quickly boosted by a quick premiership boost me up, whether it be in the form of Scarlo toe-pokes, Chappy snappies, Leo Harry marks – or shining premiership cup flashbacks. Either way, it’s a nice feeling. Much nicer than last year, that’s for sure.
Little drummer boy...
It would be futile trying to count the hugs, renditions of the song or re-enactments of the toe-poke. It was particularly hard not to smear the face paint with tears at the Premiership love in at KP Sunday week ago; the sea of blue and white, Maxy in slippers, merchandise lines longer than a Benny Graham barrel and junior on the drums.
Following the festivities, The Terrace wandered riverward on La Trobe Terrace for a few crisp ones over the boards at the Lord of the Isles (LOI). Within moments our perpetusmiles grew even larger as we panned the room and realised the bar was dripping with GFC royalty, including three members of the Rangatheon.
The Terrace was in awe and wonder, realising that whether you wore the hoops in the past, on the GF or in your dreams, we were all in it together. The hugs, the renditions of the song and the re-enactments did not discriminate. As a Cats fan never has a few hours seen a greater return on the investment of time, passion, tears, energy and face paint. It was pure ROI @ LOI.
Yours Baskingly,
The Terrace
No CommentsToe-poke Thursday
October 1st, 2009Here at The Terrace, if someone had said to us that, in the dying minutes of the Grand Final, with the scores level, that Scarlo would toe-poke the ball into the hands of one G. Ablett, who would then kick long to the square, where Chappy would crumb and kick a match-winning goal, we would have said: “Scaaaarrrrrrrllllllooooooooooooooooooooo, Scaaaarrrrrrrlllllloooooooooooooooooooooo, Scaaaarrrrrrrlllllloooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”
How good was the toe poke - aka the ’stab of brilliance’!? How good is Matthew Scarlett?
Your Scarlettfully,
The Terrace
p.s. we still feel good!
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Not Steve Johnson’s best day but it was his centring kick that set up the play. Scarlett also didn’t just do the toe poke, he kept running with Ablett and you can see the hesitation in the two St Kilda players as they realised that should they interfere with Ablett it would be sometime before their remains would be excavated from where Scarlett buried them. Next Mad Max dives into the pack momentarily unbalancing the St Kilda defenders whose access to the ball is then blocked from one side by Byrnes allowing Varcoe to do a lightning gather and perfect handpass to the perefectly positioned Chapman. (Varcoe had executed a similar gather and handpass previously allowing Geelong to clear after what was Riewoldt’s final attempt to mark in the goal square.)
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So do I boys! Just returned to Holland with my Max Rooke badge still proudly pinned on the left breast. Gee they were good.
Keep up the great work in 2010.
Someone just e-mailed me the link to this. Not a cat fan, either. You’ve broken into the mainstream.
Can you do a hawk jumper in similar style. You know, yellow background with the brown stripes freshly dropped on it?
Pre-season predictions?