Individual excellence in footy is great to watch but it is more often team efforts that produce success.
In this footage the two are combined.
One North Footscray player (red and white) smothers the kick of his Albanvale opponent allowing a teammate to take possession of the ball and goal.
Geoff Fox, 11th March, 2025, Australia
For people like me, the Australia I was born into, was a meritocracy where one wage could get a family a home.
Times have changed.
The forty hour week is gone for far too many people.
But endeavour still inspires me.
Youth brings me hope.
As in my above poeticised image from a Maribyrnong Park Football Club match last Saturday.
Today we need young men to be lions.
But we don’t make it easy.
Reminds me of Shakespeare:
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: ………”
I love to see young guys having a go.
But my heart bleeds for them, and young women, when I see what they are up against in modern Australia.
Geoff Fox May 2, 2025, Melbourne Australia.
Cody Brand is a key forward with Keilor Football Club.
He topped the club’s goal kicking last year in a premiership team.
He did a great job to connect the bottom of his boot with the football for a goal under pressure in the goalsquare in a match last Friday against Strathmore.
Geoff Fox, 20th April, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
I have been watching Aussie Rules Footy seriously since 1967.
It astonishes me now just how much fun it can be to watch local football. Now that there is no free to air football from the AFL professionals on Saturdays, I urge other people in Australia to consider shifting their allegiances to local clubs. Its cheaper, its friendlier and it can be just as good to watch.
For instance, I cannot remember seeing more scintillating evasion of tackles in any code of football at any level than the play of number 68 for North Footscray in yesterday’s game against Wyndham Vale.
First of all a “Don’t Argue.” when not in possession of the ball. Then four blind turns in four seconds. 180 degrees clockwise. 90 degrees clockwise. 90 degrees clockwise again.. Then 90 degrees anticlockwise.
Geoff Fox, Melbourne, Sunday, April 13th, 2025
FOOTY FOR FREEDOM 