Fanatic of the Week no. 4 - Nicholas Haddad
This is an interesting one - one where a little kid has been roped into the segment. This one actually had a photo as well, though we'll refrain from publishing it.Welcome to 'Fanatic of the Week'.This...
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Typical - South Melbourne 2 Eastern Lions 0
Even with a four o'clock kickoff, the heat of the day tended towards being oppressive. Quite why anyone was dumb enough to spend any time out in the sun, including but not limited to Clarendon Corner...
View ArticleFanatic of the Week no. 5 - Marshall Sayer
This is the last one of these I could find that was still in working order. Maybe some more digging another eight years time from now will unearth some more of these. If you would like to add your name...
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Life During Wartime - Oakleigh Cannons 1 South Melbourne 0
It was a week that started off badly, and ended much, much worse. In between those things, there was a soccer match of a moderately pleasing quality, at least in the first half.The whole of the ball?...
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We won! How awful! Monbulk Rangers 0 South Melbourne 4
Mongol General: What is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.Conan the Barbarian (1982) Fun fact! That movie stole that...
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All over the bloody shop - Green Gully 4 South Melbourne 4
Let us begin with some wisdom gleaned from a psalm.Blessed is the one  who arrives with low expectationsor who does not expect sudden turns of form  or who can endure the company of mockers,but...
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What, how dare you disturb us during nap time!
Some people are waiting for a new post, even at this late hour. Well, it's not coming. I'm tired. Maybe sometime on Tuesday morning, but even then... also this is a neat way to test the subscriber...
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Nothing to write home about - South Melbourne 2 North Geelong 1
After the joys of experiencing the social club, and then watching the women's team steal a win (5-4 over Bulleen) right at the death thanks to Lisa De Vanna, the only thing which could have ruined...
View ArticleSMFCBOARD IS DEAD - December 1998 - April 2017.
A piece which with its straight-faced seriousness, fittingly harks back to the kinds of crap I used to write in my early forum days.On Monday smfcboard.com was shut down, after the forum's owner had...
View ArticleDetails for today's fixture
As seen on the official website, as re-interpreted by me.For reasons that I have not investigated in order to remain suitably perplexed, the under 20s are not fixtured as the curtain raiser. In fact...
View ArticleThe ensuing hilarity - South Melbourne 2 Melbourne Knights 0
It's the day after, and I'm still laughing.Granted, a lot of that is due to the fact that we won this game. And while I would have liked to have read some more online saltiness from our erstwhile...
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Making up ground - South Melbourne 1 Hume City 0
Leigh Minopoulos had a good game on Sunday. Photo: Hume City.Such has been the season thus far that I don't know what to expect from South Melbourne in any given game. Most surprisingly, in this game...
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Four-Six-Zero - South Melbourne 2 Box Hill United 1
If you wanted to take a glimpse into what it would be like to watch South Melbourne 2017 (or 2016, or 2015) sans its only two forwards of any note, this was the game to be at.There was no Milos Lujic...
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Is this form? South Melbourne 3 Pascoe Vale 0
OK, so just about no-one was there to see it for who knows what reasons, but those who were there saw it and were pleased by it. Well, maybe - but who wants to go deep into the hearts of Hellas...
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Composure - Bentleigh Greens 0 South Melbourne 0
First things first. The journey up to the ground did not take as long as it usually does, because we (me, Gains and surprise guest Chris Egan, whom I bumped into at Flinders Street while I was walking...
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Scattered thoughts on something I skimmed through, in order to pass the time...
This isn't here to be coherent. This is filler to make up for the fact that I didn't get to finish the thing that I wanted to put up in this space, which was in itself not going to be remarkable in any...
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Monday night football still sucks - Kingston City 1 South Melbourne 2
Like last week, the collective amorphous 'we' chose some less than ideal spots to watch this game from, the second half less worse than the first because at least it had some elevation. But, and this...
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Less important than you'd like it to be - South Melbourne 3 Bulleen Lions 0
No. 98: Milos Lujic opens the scoring against Bulleen Lions.Photo: Cindy Nitsos, who was chuffed that she actually captured the momentJust a short post for this game in lieu of something more...
View Article'Write that', he said...
Anyone expecting me to stay up into the wee hours of the morning crafting a post which makes sense of what happened tonight - you're out of luck.First, it is already way past my bedtime, and second,...
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Broken down and rebuilt from scratch - South Melbourne 5 Dandenong City 4
We have optionsFor a well balanced review of last night's game, read the Corner Flag's story on the match.For a professional report, see David Davutovic's Herald Sun piece.The short version...you will...
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