Category: FOOTBALL as RELIGION

Hawkfest Of Goals – Keeping The Faith

Hawthorn’s VFL team kicked 20 goals yesterday in a dominant win over the bombers.

Mitch Lewis was magnificent:

Too Strong.

Lewy’s goal kicking master class:

And a great clearance for a great mark:

For another Lewy goal:

Deary channels Elvis Presley in his goal kicking celebration:

Ben Cavarra backs himself and uses an old fashioned drop punt perfectly from the pocket:

When we have freedom and faith in ourselves, we are at our best, as Ethan Stanley proves:

Geoff Fox, July 13, 2025, Melbourne

(I am a refugee from Collingwood Football Club. Maybe I will follow my playing heroes Ginny and Jack Frost to Hawthorn.)

LOTUS FOCUS – GEORGIA and TAY

The day I took this photo of Melbourne ruckwoman Georgia Campbell being tackled at training by key forward Tayla Harris, the configuration of elbows, heads and hands caught my eye as something special.

Together, the two players looked like a Lotus Flower – the Buddhist symbol of purity, spiritual enlightenment and rebirth.

I asked Tay if she’d like a song to be written about it and she said she’d prefer a rap. So I tried (without huge ability in the art form) to make one. (click here)

In Melbourne, Aussie Rules football is often called a religion.

Could the game become more Buddhist ?

And could that help to make a better world ?

Geoff Fox, May 15, 2025, Melbourne, Australia