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South claim WNPL title over Geelong Galaxy in dramatic grand final
Despite the senior men starting pre-season in late November 2016, the 2017 South season just doesn't end, and so we - the few, the proud, the geeky - found ourselves out at Broadmeadows for WNPL grand...
View ArticleOdds and ends leading into our FFA Cup semi-final
There's news things which I could link to, but you're all pretty tech savvy individuals, so this is more of a filler piece, with some general advice about what to expect on Wednesday.If you believe...
View ArticleAn impossible situation - South Melbourne 1 Sydney FC 5
As usual, forgive the unnecessarily elegiac tone.Yesterday there were people trying to convince me - or perhaps more so themselves - that I looked happy. Some of those people were at the ground, others...
View ArticleSouth of the Border Awards 2017
Player of the year: Nick Epifano. The People's Champ missed the first five games, but was one of the two catalysts - along with Michael Eagar - for our turnaround in form after the poor start to the...
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South Melbourne Soccer Club Stadium permit artefact Wednesday
This post is more to keep up radio contact than anything, a sort of New Horizons green light to let everyone know we're still alive during this mostly dormant stage.This is a planning permit (click the...
View ArticleAn important message for users of smfcfans.com
This is just a quick post to note that at some indeterminate point in the next two weeks, the smfcfans.com forum will be migrated to a new server.When this occurs, the forum will be offline for a short...
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October 2017 digest
Whinge, whine, woe is me, thesis writing is hard, blah, blah, blah. Did you know that I took 100 cases of the word 'not' (from around 600) from my thesis in order to make it come across as more...
View ArticleMigration of smfcfans.com complete
The migration of smfcfans.com to a new server is now complete. There's some added functionality for users, who can choose between 'forums' and 'discussions' tabs in how they view the threads. There may...
View ArticlePoint - Counterpoint: The AAFC's 'The Championship' proposal
A week or so ago, after the AAFC released its sort of plan for a national second division, I remarked on Twitter that because I was busy and because I didn't particularly want to write on the topic,...
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Help us make a Ferenc Puskas documentary
Here's something to get excited about.Filmmakers Tony Wilson, Rob Heath and Cam Fink are in the early stages of making a film about Ferenc Puskas' time in Australia. Naturally this will mostly be...
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November 2017 Digest
I hope you'll all forgive the very slow pace of the blog during the off-season. Even though there's so much I could talk about, being at the pointy end of the thesis project means that by the end of...
View ArticleAllentown
All the way back in the blog's earliest days, when part of the ethos was to have new content uploaded every day - how quaint! - I posted this South Melbourne Hellas oriented reworking of an AC/DC lyric...
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Book review, sorta - Walk Alone: The Craig Johnston Story, by Craig Johnston...
I'll be clear on this. I skimmed/speed read through much of this some time in late 2016, so don't treat this review as some sort of gospel truth. I was mostly interested in particular aspects of this...
View Article2018 memberships now out
How about this for a surprising turn of events? The new year isn't here, we haven't even had the AGM (well, actually that's not so strange...), and yet somehow the South Melbourne 2018 memberships are...
View ArticleFriendly tomorrow vs Sunshine George Cross
Well, turns out the rumours of minimal activity before the Christmas/New Year period have turned out to be a little bit premature. The senior squad started its pre-season training programme last week,...
View ArticleCobwebs - South Melbourne 3 Sunshine George Cross 0
So, here we go again, brushing away the cobwebs and assessing the decay accumulated in the couple of months spent away from the place.I'm not going to say that the club's in chaos, but there was a...
View ArticleSnippets of news from far off places - Langwarrin 2 South Melbourne 3
I wasn't there, don't ask me for any details other than what already exists in the public domain - namely the scorers, Epifano, Lujic and triallist Amir Osmancevic. Maybe a friendly against Gully on...
View ArticleThanks to everyone for this year, and the ten years so far
I would like to take a moment, as I always do at this time of year, to thank those who have contributed to the blog or otherwise made my South Melbourne experience more enjoyable. Thanks to:Pavlaki and...
View ArticleDecember 2017 digest
Puskas documentaryRemember the Puskas documentary that Tony Wilson and friends were making? Well the crew managed to get their most important interview subject on tape!Interviewed Ange for our @smfc...
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Book review - David Hill's The Fair and the Foul
Let's cut right to the chase: no one needs to buy David Hill's The Fair and the Foul, and no one needs to read it either. I can only think of two kinds of people who would end up reading this...
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