:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.
Dear God,
We seek your forgiveness for all our on-field sins and ask for your help in getting us into the finals this year. We have repented for our mid-season foolishness and need you to guide us to September. Just as you sacrificed your only son […]

Tags: A. Ray, A. Waddell, A. Wu, G. Tsiotras, L. Hopkins, P. Grundy, Uni Blacks

:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.

Some players lost their e-Tag, some lost their way, but most of us left our form at home against Old Essendon.

And by the time we found it again after quarter-time we were staring down the barrel of a 26-point deficit.
That we managed to outscore Essendon from that point […]

Tags: A. Ray, A. Wu, Essendon Grammar, G. Tsiotras, J. Dixon, P. Grundy, T. Code

:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.
To butcher a classic ACDC number, “it’s a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll”, but the OMs 2s were trying to find short cuts on Saturday.
Pitted against a Melbourne High side which, on paper, we were expected to beat comfortably, the OMs did […]

Tags: A. Ray, A. Wu, G. Tsiotras, M. Wright, MHSOB, S. Galbraith, T. Horne

:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.
If footballers are creatures of habit, then the pre-match preparation for Saturday’s game sounded an ominous warning.
The only positive from having the start of the match delayed by more than half an hour was that all the players were at the ground on time.
While the […]

Tags: A. Wu, D. Osmond, J. Dixon, Marcellin, O. Webb, P. Grundy, T. Bennison

:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.
What do pyrite, chalcopyrite, weathered biotite mica and the OMs Magoos have in common? On Saturday morning, they all resembled fool’s gold, especially at quarter time.
Had there not been a scoreboard, any neutral observer would have thought St Kevins were in control. However our better conversion saw us […]

Tags: A. Wu, C. Jenkins, G. Pratt, J. Dixon, P. Grundy, St Kevins, T. Bachet