Tag: Orange Tsunami

Orange Tsunami & Demon Spirit Youth

On the field today at the MCG, we saw Australian footy at its hard fought, free flowing best.

The magnificent Orange Tsunami almost beaten by a team with 5 debutantes.

But on the other side of the fence, only 23,278 people attended. In the three previous days at the same stadium, crowds of 80,000 twice and then 60,000 showed far more support for other clubs.

Meanwhile today, on Sunday, 131,000 went to see a car race.

The magnificent idea of Jim’s Game, honouring an Irishman who was not born into the game but came to be a true legend, had no traction.

As someone who was a health professional for thirty years, what I see in Melbourne Football Club is a lot of very decent, very good people bullied and ignored in a very cruel society.

Delighted by the footy, but deeply worried about the beautiful Dees.

Bullying. By the media.

So sad.

Geoff Fox, March 16, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

A Good Day For Freedom

l started barracking for Collingwood in 1967.

In December 2023, I met Angus Brayshaw and his profound human decency was overwhelmingly obvious. Also I got a sad sense that he wasn’t quite functioning at full capacity.

After much soul searching and agonising over the following 6 months, on King’s Birthday 2024, I found myself barracking against Collingwood for the first time in my life and for Melbourne. So recently I have seen a few Melbourne games.

I love the theme song and it’s American origins. The caring people I have met at Melbourne leave entrenched systemic Collingwood bullying for dead.

Gus was the start of that but Trac and Gawny are also profoundly decent people.

My other favourite Melbourne players are in AFLw: Tay, Banno and Fitzy. To my photographer’s eyes there is no better sight in footy now than Fitzy on the fly.

The club of John Wren, Duncan Wright, Stan Magro, Brayden Maynard and Darcy Moore got what was coming to it today in 2025’s Opening Round against Greater Western Sydney. Score doubled. Too slow. Too old. And far too much recent blatant physical and psychological violence on and off the field for me to support them.

Go Dees.

Goodbye Pies.

Football free of systemic bullying and violence is the only footy I want to support.

Geoff Fox, March 9, 2025, Melbourne, Australia.