In the dying seconds of the 1977 Grand Final, Collingwood’s Ross ‘Twiggy’ Dunne prepared to kick, requiring a goal to level the scores. Despite being only twenty metres out, he chose the kick usually reserved for the long distance roost: the technically difficult and notoriously inaccurate torpedo punt. Continue reading “Goalkicking: The Art and Desire Lost In the Modern Game”
Month: May 2015
Dead Meat
I am not a vegetarian. But I’m trying to be because the killing of animals bothers me.
As a city-bred child the first time I was confronted with an animal being slaughtered was while seeing the film Apocalypse Now, and I had trouble coping with watching something die. “At what exact point did its life end?”, I remember thinking.
The Issue of the Tissue
Wondering – as I vigorously shake every item of a load of freshly washed and still wet laundry – how a single, small 20cm x 20cm tissue as thin as a … well, a tissue can smuggle itself into a washing machine and by the end of the cycle have managed to spread over and adhere itself to 10 sq. metres of clothing
What are the chances of that? The Thoughts of Andrew Sutherland 