5 June 2011 205.2 – The Professor talks soccer and the Socceroos with Mark Fiorenti and the upcoming friendlies against New Zealand & Serbia. He says it will give Holger Osieck a chance to look at the young players and what they can do. Paul Dalligan comes on to talk NRL and also the recent production meeting at the Great Western Hotel. Showing he is an all rounder when it comes to sport, he also gives an opinion on tennis and the French Open. Sean Callanan discusses the sale of the Detroit Pistons and NRL players getting themselves into strife using Twitter. He believes that the Tout app may be the next big thing as far as sports people are concerned in making short 15 second videos.
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Sportzfan Radio #205.1
Gelding’s tips for 11 June 2011
The Gelding’s attention turns to Flemington and Creswick Stakes day today. With the weather improving toward the end of the week, the track should be in very good condition for the front runners.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Flemington
Race 2 Horse 1 – Limerock (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 4 Horse 4 – Big Spirit (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 5 Horse 6- Epic Dragon
Race 8 Horse 4 – Euphoric Realm
You can hear the Gelding discuss racing with the Professor every Sunday on Sportzfan Radio at 12.30pm on 88.3 Southern FM. The Gelding’s segment is sponsored by the Great Western Hotel.
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Professor’s teams……
On Sunday’s edition of Sportzfan Radio, Daniel Eade discussed the many teams that the Professor supports and asked for them to be put up on the website. Here goes…we’ll add more if we forget any!
AFL – Melbourne, VFL – Casey, A League – Melbourne Victory, NBL – Melbourne Tigers, NRL – Canterbury Bankstown, SANFL – Norwood, WAFL – West Perth, AFL Canberra – Ainslie, AFL Qld – Southport, AFL NSW – East Coast Eagles, GL – Traralgon, MGFL – Morwell East, Omeo FL – Bruthen, NGFL – Gormandale, Ovens & Murray FL – North Albury, Goulburn Valley FL – Shepparton, Hampden FL – Warrnambool, Ellinbank FL – Garfield, NFL- Green Bay Packers, MLB – New York Mets, NHL – Vancouver Canucks, NBA – New York Knicks, NCAA – Air Force Academy, Premier League – Arsenal, Scottish Premier League – Rangers, Dutch League – Ajax of Amsterdam, German League – Bayern Munich, Spanish
League – Real Madrid, Italian League (Serie A) – Inter Milan, ANZ Netball – Melbourne Vixens, Super 15’s – Melbourne Rebels, ABL – Melbourne Aces, AIHL – Melbourne Mustangs, Sheffield Shield – Victorian Bushrangers, District Cricket – Melbourne CC, …
That makes a total of 35 that I can think of so far.
Gelding’s tips for 4 June 2011
The Gelding’s attention turns to the Lakeside track at Sandown today. The sun is shining at present so look for runners to be on the pace if they are to be successful today.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Sandown
Race 2 Horse 4 – Shylock’s Daughter (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 4 Horse 4 – Our Aristocrat
Race 5 Horse 5 – Roulettes
Race 6 Horse 3 – Elumino
Race 8 Horse 2 – Delivered the Dream (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
You can hear the Gelding discuss racing with the Professor every Sunday on Sportzfan Radio at
12.30pm on 88.3 Southern FM. The Gelding’s segment is sponsored by the Great Western Hotel.
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
Gelding’s tips for 28 May 2011
The Gelding’s attention returns to his home track at Caulfield tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will hold without too much more rain.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Caulfield
Race 1 Horse 1 – Population
Race 2 Horse 4 – Volando
Race 6 Horse 2 – Shadowfax (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 2 – Boom ‘n’ Zoom
Race 8 Horse 1 – About Ready (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
You can hear the Gelding discuss racing with the Professor every Sunday on Sportzfan Radio at 12.30pm on 88.3 Southern FM. The Gelding’s segment is sponsored by the Great Western Hotel.
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Professor in the USA #3
One of the main points of interest on this trip for me would be the visit to Green Bay to see the home of
the Packers, Lambeau Field. Having been a Packers fan since the 1970’s it has been a long time coming and one that I was looking forward to.
Let me say that I was not disappointed! The high point of the stadium tour was the chance to run out of the player’s tunnel onto the hallowed turf and to be able to stand and soak up the incredible history that has been made there….Curly Lambeau, Vince Lombardi, Paul Hornung, Bart Starr, Brett Favre, Reggie White, Aaron Rodgers, Donald Driver, Mike Holmgren, Mike McCarthy….I could go on forever.
A trip to the Packers Hall of Fame followed which included a meeting with three Lombardi trophies. (the fourth was out on a ‘Meet the Fans’ tour around Wisconsin) and an opportunity to follow the storied history through the decades.
Visiting the city of Green Bay also allows consideration of just what the people of this town of just over 100,000 people has managed to achieve. 13 NFL Championships, 4 Super Bowl wins….something that the larger populations centres in the USA can only dream of! How have they done that…focus! Green 
Bay is football with Lambeau Field the centre of a lot of the activity in the city.
I can say that there are a number of other activities that were enjoyed on the tour including a trip to Nala’s Fromagerie to sample the various cheeses of the region and Captain’s Walk Winery.
Gelding’s tips for 14 May 2011
The Gelding’s attention this week is on his home track at Caulfield where the track will be very heavy and make winners hard to select. More rain today will just serve to complicate matters, but the Gelding thinks he has got it right.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Caulfield
Race 1 Horse 2 – Royal Bender (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 3 Horse 3 – Aspinal
Race 5 Horse 1 – Shylock’s Daughter
Race 7 Horse 1 – Curtana (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Back Caviar is running in Queensland and should salute for win number 13.
You can hear the Gelding discuss racing with the Professor every Sunday on Sportzfan Radio at 12.30pm on 88.3 Southern FM. The Gelding’s segment is sponsored by the Great Western Hotel.
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Professor in the USA #2
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday (and for that matter every day since I have been in Denver),
was sunny and warm leaving my Melbourne friends full of envy with their temperatures in single digits. Contrast that with overnight and this morning…..rain, hail, snow and everything that Colorado is known for. If the temperature gets past 5C today we’ll all be very happy!
The ball game between the New York Mets and Colorado Rockies that Dan Butterly and I are slated to attend today is in jeopardy at this stage. Hoping for the weather to clear but it would appear to be a forlorn hope at this stage. Fingers crossed.
Yesterday, I caught up with Dan and another friend, Russ Laney for lunch. A great time with plenty of stories being exchanged especially about the first time Russ and I met at the US Air Force Academy when I was a member of the visiting Western Bulldogs study tour led by the incomparable Murray Herron. Needless to say that led to stories of Murray and the visit to the Indianapolis Colts (& Peyton Manning’s car), Murray and the visit to Colorado State, Murray and the visit to the Colorado Rockies, Murray and the first class seats on Air Canada, Murray and the Quality Hotel…..the list goes on with each one a gem. I really should complete that TV sports/comedy series script!
Purchase of the day – the Miller Lite baseball cap with the bottle opener under the brim for just $3.00 at Wal-Mart.
Would 11 Championships save a coach from the axe?
We all joke on Sportzfan Radio about resident panelist Sportzfan Stan being quick to suggest sports
coaches, administrators, teams & players being sacked. Most recently he called for the sacking of Melbourne Football Club coach Dean Bailey (podcast #200.1). This despite the Demons being in the top eight and with the best start to a season for many seasons. By the way the Demons have since beaten Adelaide by more than 90 points!
My feeling is that we are too quick to pull the trigger in today’s sporting world. Even having excellent records in the recent past is not enough to save a coach or player. One only needs to look at the way the Melbourne Tigers behaved after their season didn’t 
turn out the way they thought it should. Two NBL Championships and four trips to the playoffs in as many seasons couldn’t save long time servant and coach of the club, Al Westover. On our show, Daniel Eade urged restraint and argued a case for Westover’s retention. History tells us that Al was sacked mid season. If one compares Westover’s coaching record to that of Lindsay Gaze, Westover had more success in a much shorter time but even that comparison couldn’t save him.
It seems that today’s ‘must have now’ phenomenon pervades all areas of sport. Being in the USA now and with the NBA finals series in full flight, I am amazed at the reaction of the media to the LA Lakers whitewash at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks. Let’s remember that the Lakers were the two time defending champion and have been one of the most successful franchises of all time with 11 championships (5 since 2000 and runners-up twice). Yet today, we are greeted with the media saying the Lakers are a ‘train wreck’…’the locker room needs massive repair’…’fractured franchise’. There have been calls to trade anyone but Kobe…meaning one of last season’s best players, Pau Gasol is on the block because the Lakers failed to win for a third time in a row. Reality check – the NBA is one of the most competitive competitions in all of sport and the Lakers have been to the big dance in each of the last three seasons. Is there really a need for ‘massive’ change?
Memo to the sports media of the world….have some patience. I find support for this proposition in the
example provided by my fellow Sportzfan Radio panelist, Mark Fiorenti when he spoke recently of Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United fame. Early on in his tenure and with not much success, the media and fans were calling for his sacking (a la Sportzfan Stan). The club, to their credit, and eternal satisfaction, stayed the executioner’s hand and one only needs to look at the stellar record since, that has put United at the forefront of soccer in not only Europe, but the world. They are in line this season for the Premier League/Champions League double.
One lucky person is the former coach of the Lakers, Phil Jackson. His retirement after the Lakers last loss at least means we won’t have calls for him to be sacked by all and sundry including Sportzfan Stan. Goodness knows his 11 NBA championships may not have saved him in this ‘need it now’ world.
Restraint is what I will be preaching on Sportzfan Radio from now on!