AFL Round 20

[Booney]

Friday night :
Flagpies v Baggers - MCG

Sat'dee :
Tabbys v Painters and - GMHBA
Foot-a-scray v The Orange Team - Mars
Not good Queensland Team v Better Queensland Team - Somewhere
Essington v Sydney Wankers - Marvel
Crom v Pear - AO

Sundee :
Mayblooms v 'Ainters - Marvel
Focus on Footy v Gutniks - MCG
Pick 1 v Picks 2 - Optus

[Corona Man]

Some history on the back of the "Mayblooms"..

The known Origins of the word ‘Mayblooms’
In 1943, Hawthorn was given a new nickname - the ‘Hawks’. This new moniker has since has become the much-loved mascot of the ‘Mighty Fighting Hawks’, replacing the more sedate term, the ‘Mayblooms’.

The origins of the term ‘Mayblooms’ is shrouded in mystery. It has been thought to be associated with Hawthorn in a local, almost family sense from its early VFA days, after its colours, brown and gold were adopted.

Former Club President, Geoff Lord recalled that his grandmother, who had a florist shop in Glenferrie Road, told him that early in the VFA era, prior to WW1, she would make up sprigs of the Hawthorn flowers that she and her friends would wear pinned to their coat collars to show their support for Hawthorn when they attended games at Glenferrie.

Harry Gordon in The Hard Way tells us that the explanation was simple enough; the Hawthorn bush was also known as the May bush or May tree, and both its flowers and the plant itself were referred to, first in England and later in Australia, as ‘Mayblooms’. The Club’s brown and gold guernsey reinforced the link; in hedges growing around Hawthorn and other parts of Melbourne. The Hawthorn plant was in full bloom at the start of winter, when it was covered in the gold of the yellowing fruit and the brown of the bronzed foliage. It did not take local fans long to observe and joke amongst themselves that the footballing ‘Mayblooms’ tended to also bloom in May, at the start of the football season and fade as the season progressed.

To add to the puzzle, the term ‘Mayblooms’ did not appear in match reports in the newspapers of the day till 1927. By the mid 1930’s the word ‘Mayblooms’ featured proximately in the press but adding to the intrigue, it was a name that the Club virtually did not acknowledge in its own publications.

In the mid-1980s, when the Hawks Museum was interviewing former players, Albert Hyde (1925-35), Dick Logan (1926-30), Leo Murphy (1930-40) and Stan Spinks (1931-41) they were asked about the term ‘Mayblooms’. They expressed a view that they recalled the term ‘Mayblooms’ as a name given to the 2nd 18 players who may improve sufficiently to gain selection for the senior side as the season progressed.

The Hawks Museum would like to hear from anyone who has any memorabilia with the wording, ‘Mayblooms’ or ‘Mustard Pots’, a nickname of the Club from 1933 when the Club’s Guernsey colours were reversed, to a gold Guernsey with a brown ‘V’.

[Corona Man]

No sign yet of the predicted rain here in Melbourne, may get dry conditions for tonight's game at the G.

[tigerpie]

Flagpies. I like the sound of that.

However there's a long way to go.
You blokes are right in it if Dixon can stay fit.

[MW]

Flagpies. I like the sound of that.

However there's a long way to go.
You blokes are right in it if Dixon can get fit.

EFA

[Corona Man]

Are Collingwood wearing their home or away guernsey tonight?

[locky801]

Are Collingwood wearing their home or away guernsey tonight?

who knows but they all looked awfully cocky running out onto the ground

[PatowalongaPirate]

Are Collingwood wearing their home or away guernsey tonight?

who knows but they all looked awfully cocky running out onto the ground

Clear top at round 20, what they're doing is working.

[tigerpie]

Getting a pretty good run with the umpires.
But wow Carlton are killing us in general play
Martin and Cera are having night out.

Stay tuned folks here comes another close finish.

[PatowalongaPirate]

Carlton getting a ride tonight.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Blues are home

[Corona Man]

4 leg SGM, Pies win from here and I’m home.

[Brodlach]

Carlton’s premiership to lose

[Corona Man]

**** off Carlton.

[amber_fluid]

EAD Flagpies!

[amber_fluid]

Carlton’s premiership to lose

Get on board big fella!
Get on board!!

[amber_fluid]

Yeah baby!
How good!

[tigerpie]

Blues very good tonight.
I felt a bit of complacency tonight.
A few blokes maybe feeling a bit too comfortable after signing deals during the week.
Poor kicking is poor footy.

[Armchair expert]

Tipped Carlton by 52 so a 17 point win is a little disappointing

[tigerpie]

Tipped Carlton by 52 so a 17 point win is a little disappointing

Balls of steel mate!