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02 July 2023

TAR : This Annual Repost

This Annual Repost is first from 2021 then 2022 and now 2023 after last night's loss by The Bombers to top side Port Adelaide from a 55m kick delivered by Dan Houston after the siren.

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28 May 2023

TAR presents The Ascendant Reversed

This is the “mark” that set off this MARK OF THE YEAR sequence of posts. In Australian Rules Football, it is usually the reach-for-the-stars “screamer” or spectacular “specie” that wins this annual award, Mark of the Year ... even as the player often then “crashes back to earth”.

This, however, on Friday night (Carlton v Sydney) is Blues star Charlie Curnow reversing that Triumph of Ascendency. Appropriate to the Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round, Charlie takes his mark (“makes his mark”) at full stretch downward, groundward, sealing it upon the ground, “on country”.

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Tweaking Aussie Rules :
The Ascendant Reversed

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25 September 2022

0.0.0 v 0.0.0 1st Q 19min 27sec TAR 100.024 Dom Sheed angle ...

In the opening minute of the Cats v Swans Grand Final at the MCG yesterday, one hundred thousand-plus TARists hold their breath as Tom Hawkins lines up a Dom Sheed angle to goal. It's a faction to the right for one point only. Hawkins then kicks the opening two goals and it's Cats all the way to the finish.

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10 October 2020

Venit ex nusquam.

Hayden Crozier (born 24 December 1993) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club from 2012 to 2017. Wikipedia

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21 June 2020

day by day

Friday night footy in the time of COVID-19 is played with no paying spectators present. Tonight on TV, western suburbs Sydney (The Giants) v western suburbs Melbourne (Western Bulldogs). Therefore, melee!

After the game Ch 7 commentaTAR Brian Taylor praises the "off the outside of the non-preferred boot" kicking skill of Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontompelli.

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Saturday morning RAGE over breakfast. Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized and the xlent false start addressed to us :
"I'm in the wrong video!"

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Son of 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson, 1969,

is 21st Century (Digital Boy) by Bad Religion, 1990, with another fine ntrance scene. Raaaaaaaaage!

(see also Ring, 1998)

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Over late morning coffee, the Coodabeen Champions on ABC radio pay tribute to WW2 popular culture hero Dame Vera Lynn who died this week aged 103. She sang to wartime Britain; the Coodabeens sing to the one-eyed COVID-19 pandemic locked-out footy fans at the Boo Factory in WA. "Sue in Perth has requested 'We'll Boo Again'...

First verse :
We'll boo again
In our Optus grandstand
But I know we'll boo again one fine Perth day.
( rooty tooty )
There'll be a free
Paid against Josh Kennedy
And we'll boo until more Eagle frees are paid.

Final verse :
We'll boo again
Every chance that we can
We will boo even when we don't know what for.
( rooty tooty )
We'll boo again
When the visitors score
We will boo until we cannot boo no more.

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08 September 2019

® The ResisTARance

Dusty Martin demonstrates the fend-off aka 'the don't argue'

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28 September 2018

AFL TARminoLOGOS/HA HA

terminology

ˌtəːmɪˈnɒlədʒi/

noun

the body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, theory, profession, sport etc.

AFL TARminoLOGOS/HA HA

AFLˌTARːmɪˈnɒlədʒi/

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the body of terms used with a Theatre of the Actors of Regard application to Aussie Rules Football

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Lowering The Eyes – See : intent

Intent – Term of dubious provenance and application used with great flourish and emphasis by football people to mean more or less whatever they feel like at the time. Conspicuously fails to correspond to identical-looking expression in the dictionary.

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... this year it's lower the eyes used to tell a player running forward to look to closer options rather than bombing it long. Once again, I have never heard the saying prior to this year. Listen tonight fellas, you'll hear it at least twice a qtr.

I've tried it, playing footy with my 9 & 6 year old sons about 3 weeks ago. Left the "fat side" of the park, starting "running the lines", looked up to see that there wasn't any "plus 1's", (there wasn't), I thought, shit is there a closer option, so I lowered the eyes and fell flat on my stupid ******* face. Give it a try, stop what you're doing, trying running a half a dozen paces and then actually lower your eyes. There's a fair chance you'll be head-butting the floor.

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The term lace out has generally been used by commentators in the past to describe a perfect foot pass to a leading forward. The kick used is generally a drop punt, which spins backwards, the ball is kicked to a leading forward who marks it on his chest lace out, referring hypothetically to the main laces at the area where the ball is pumped up. (Not the stitches that connect the four pieces of the ball but the main laces at the top centre.) So, when the forward has marked this ball on his chest, the back of the ball is hugged to him and theoretically the laces of the ball are facing outwards... it's not anything that is ever practised or realistically is aimed for, it is just a piece of verbal hyperbole used by the commentators when they say, "Look at that, delivered lace out to the forward" ...

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23 September 2018

World of Sport

Australian Geographic

A wedge-tailed eagle is driven out of a magpie’s territory with
some aggressive dive-bombing. photo Scott Turner

Here's one for our older Melbourne sports fans as Uncle Doug on World Of Sport (Channel 7) looks to next weekend's footy final between the Magpies (Collingwood) and the Eagles (West Coast).

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20 August 2018

Mark of the Year!

On a similar theme to the previous post, here's
third man up from nowhere.

We imagine Yves Klein being somehow involved :
all of a sudden reappearing, coming off the bench
all these years later to take a screamer from nowhere.

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Yves Klein/ Easton Wood/ Shunk-Kender/ FIAPCE/ TAR/ AFL

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24 March 2018

AFL Men | AFL Women | AFL Zen

AFL Men : Congratulations to the Bombers on their first round win against the Crows last night.
see : the bombers fly up, up...

Essendon Football Club

AFL Women : Congratulations also to the AFLW Western Bulldogs for their 2018 Grand Final victory against the Brisbane Lions this afternoon.

Ellie Blackburn and Katie Brennan raise the premiership cup.

AFL Zen : Call of the Round, so far, goes to the exuberant broadcaster who turned out this beaut at today's AFLZ season opener.

Basho,

goes the banana

- goal!

FIAPCE

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25 September 2017

Like the Tigers of Old

Now we know : it's the Crows (Adelaide) to play the Tigers (Richmond) in next weekend's AFL Grand Final at the MCG.

Time to summon the ancients :

Dad barracked for the Tigers. So, this year, in his memory, we ride the Tiger.

The warriors of the past - none greater than Jack Dyer, Captain Blood.

Richmond City Hall (photo : Philip T)

The warriors of today, pillars of the Tiger tribe (l-r) Trent Cotchin (Capt.), Alex Rantz, 'Dusty' Martin, Jack Riewoldt. All hero descendents of the Athens Football League (AFL).

Tiger Caryatids of the Erechtheion, The Acropolis of Athens

Then, when the strong and the bold are victorious, Trout will again raise his yellow and black banner. When THE LOGOS HAS SPOKEN

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11 September 2017

Special Concept (red + black)

Fifty years ago, 1967, Lucio Fontana named one of his classic slashed Sherrin Spatial Concept football oval ovoids "Pillola", in honour of The Pill. True!

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See the Bombers fly up, up!

09 September 2017

Break Through (Yellow + Black)

We loved the Tiger Cheer Squad's Theatre of the Actors of Regard meta-banner at the MCG last night. In the presence of 95,000 footy fans, their Tigers run-through banner acknowledged the Yellow + Black barrackers of the ages.