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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 03:54 am

Traceeee Hutchison kicks a goal during a charity football match, and the whole world changes:

In one brief shining moment on a football field, I felt as if I could do anything. Felt I was part of a community that gave a damn. And it was a good, proud feeling that – together – people can, and do, make a difference.

Via Imre Salusinszky, who writes: “Imagine how Tony Lockett must have felt!”

UPDATE. Another media professional emails: “I’d like to nominate the following sentence as one of the least. elegant. ever.”:

Not the crisis in some indigenous communities the PM’s finally decided to acknowledge exists.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/02/2007 at 02:16 AM
    1. mmmh, interesting article.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 02 at 02:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. And it’s hard to keep a lid on it. For I am still dining out — as I will be for years — on the premise that I am a better kick for goal than Matthew Richardson.

      If you ever mention Richo’s name again you stupid bint, I will track you down and hack your freaking head off with a blunt butter knife.

      /Richmond Rage Boy

      I have it on good authority that the coach wanted to pull Traceeee off at half time, but she was just too darn ugly.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 02 at 02:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’d been gifted the kick, it was true. My 3RRR/PBS Megahertz team-mate, John Orriglasso, had landed heavily after a strong pack mark on the goal line. Maybe it was the way I looked at him so admiringly as he brought the pigskin back to earth. Maybe it was my red-ribboned pigtails that called out for a chance at glory. Maybe he really had twanged a hammy as he said he had when he handed me the ball in front of more deserving team-mates. Who knows? But I had the pill smack bang in front of goal and everyone was watching.

      Whatever she’s smokin’, surely it’s not legal?

      An admiring look from Traceeee would make me give the ball to anyone else. Including players on the other team.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 02:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. Ah yes, the Community Cup.  Quite the event down here in Melbourne.  They got 15k people there last year.  It’s all for fun of course.

      They have a ladies lounge in the centre square where only women and kids are allowed.  On air people, cult figures and musicians running around and getting muddy all in the name of charity (the Sacred Heart Mission).  Lotsa food, drinks and bands make up the bill.

      Sorry I missed it.

      Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 07 02 at 02:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’ll give her credit for knowing about Richo’s brain fades five metres out directly in front.

      I suppose I’d be happy too – I’ve never kicked a goal in front of 15,000 people.

      Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 07 02 at 02:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. Imagine how Tony Lockett must have felt!

      That’s Tonyyyyyy to you, Imreeee.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 07 02 at 02:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. All those idiots in the one place at the one time and not one Merc or Jeep with an Al Queda Adherent at the wheel in sight.

      And those who are religious wonder why I am an Atheist.

      Posted by Razor on 2007 07 02 at 02:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. Traceeee Hutchison kicks a goal during a charity football match

      It wasn’t an own goal by any chance?

      Posted by Bonmot on 2007 07 02 at 02:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. So she spends hundreds of words tlking about HOW SHE FELT and HOW GREAT she is and WHAT A CHAMPION she is, and about a fair dozen on the charity.

      She is just sooooo giving – it never ends.  Like my dislike of her – it just never ends.

      Posted by peter m on 2007 07 02 at 02:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. Adele Horin would love to have played, but had a French friend around to lecture her on Australia’s short comings.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 02 at 02:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. For once in her pathetic life Traceeeeee has been a winner, even if it is some asanine aerial pingpong feelgood fest; next Traceeeeeeeeeee’s going to be buying up big on the ASX industrials, taking delivery of some fume-belching behemoth and getting pissed on Kristal while swallowing canapes made from the reporductive organs of endangered critters- Traceeeeee’s been infected by the RWDB bug!

      Posted by Habib on 2007 07 02 at 02:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. ‘There’s a lot about this country and this world right now that tells us we are small and powerless and ineffectual.’

      Speak for yourself, you humourless slag. I’m kicking goals (and asses) everyday of the week.

      Posted by CB on 2007 07 02 at 02:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Does anyone get the feeling that Traceeee doesn’t get out much?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. How am I to get rid of the image of someone pumping up her goal kicking tyres?

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 07 02 at 03:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. #14 Much easier than the possible mental images from ”…willing that ball to fly off my boot and into the sweet spot between the big sticks.”, Blogstrop.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Just for the record you rectum faced slaphead, Matthew Richardson kicked 3 goals on the weekend and over 700 in his career.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 02 at 03:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Give her some credit.  At least she’s not trying to claim that John Howard made an angry phone call demanding that the goal be disallowed.

      Posted by Vexorg on 2007 07 02 at 03:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. #16 IT, the only thing more tiresome than a Richmond supporter would be a Collingwood supporter.

      Posted by entropy on 2007 07 02 at 03:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. #18, actually, make that “mind-sodomisingly anodyne”

      Posted by entropy on 2007 07 02 at 03:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. Traceeeee is a legend in her own lunchtime.

      Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 02 at 03:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. #18 – Fair suck of the sauce bottle!

      Being a Richmond supporter is like spending a summer holiday with Algore, you hope for the best, but you just know it’s going to be long and gloomy. Richo has been the one sunny spot for the last 25 years.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 02 at 03:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. #21 At least Richmond supporters are optimists, Infidel.

      Us Carlton supporters, well, we try to have hope, but it doesn’t work.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oh dear. I think my TV is broken.

      Up in the top-right corner is a hollow circle with “LIVE EARTH” written under it. Next to it it says “ANSWER THE CALL – PRESS [Green Circle – which is a button on the Foxtel remote]

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. #23 Well, either that, or complete idiots have taken over.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. #23 – Ash, there is nothing wrong with your set, please fiddle with all the buttons at will, normal viewing will recommence when you hit the right one, (or run over a greenie, whichever comes first).

      Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 02 at 03:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. #25 But how can something be wrong with my set when The Simpsons are on?!

      Best I go get the car and run over a greenie.

      I hear that I’m living in one of the top 10 electorates to choose Green, so I shouldn’t have far to drive.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 02 at 03:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hey, Infidel Tiger, I think Richo’s great (the 700 goals speak for themselves).  But if you don’t have your heart in your mouth when he’s taking a shot from inside the goal square you’re kidding yourself.

      Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2007 07 02 at 04:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sounds to me like she wants to enlist.

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 02 at 04:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. O/T – Andrew English in The Telegraph puts the boot into the Prius and Prius owners:

      Here.

      Quick to point the finger at others, some use their Prius as public proof of a caring and moral “lifestyle” and put the moan into sanctimonious, as I have discovered in recent weeks….If you’ve got a Prius, fine, but please spare the rest of us your pious condescension.

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 07 02 at 04:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. ’Scuse me if someone has already said it,

      “Own goal, Traceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”

      (ahh, Bonmot, I’m late to the party…)

      Posted by kae on 2007 07 02 at 04:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. #29 “If you’ve got a Prius fine…” but why do they have to be so damn butt ugly?

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 02 at 04:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Have faith, old Infidel Tiger.  As a Hawthorn supporter these last 39 years, I can assure you that miracles do happen.  You’ve just got to wait out the lean years.  Or decades.

      Posted by Olrence on 2007 07 02 at 05:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. Well, I’ve not paid attention to the footy in years, but the last match I went to was, of course, a Richmond one.

      They are the only team worth following, so if I ever get around to seeing what the teams are doing, the Tiges are the ones to watch.

      Other than that, I really couldn’t give a toss. I think cricket’s a much better game.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 07 02 at 06:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. Being a Richmond supporter is like spending a summer holiday with Algore, you hope for the best, but you just know it’s going to be long and gloomy.

      You should try following Footscray. (Yes, yes, I know they’re called something else now… I don’t care.)

      One premiership, more than fifty years ago. Season after season which sees early success and promise fade away into another middling position on the ladder.
      Not good enough to be premiers. Not bad enough to claim at least a little glamour from spectacular failure.
      I’m lucky I’m only a follower (by birth). Genuine go-every-week supporters must wonder which god they’ve offended that he so blights their existence.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 02 at 07:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. Well, it makes a change from Traceee’s usual own goals. Too bad she couldn’t have played for the Iraqi squad when Uday and Qusay were still around. Now that’s a community that wants to win together rather than hang together.

      Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 02 at 08:05 AM • permalink

 

    1. #30 Shoot! I knew I should have refreshed the page before posting #35.

      Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 02 at 08:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. They say that some are never destined to experience happiness or fulfillment in life. For them is created the Geelong Football Club.
      Such is my lot. 😀

      She carries on a fair bit for kicking a goal; if I did that, they might cut off my beer in the changerooms after the game.

      Did get a feeling like what she described last weekend, though, when we beat the top side (us being the bottom side) and I played in a win for the first time ever in any sport. Bit better sensation when it is the team feeling it, rather than simply a single goalkicker in a charity game.

      Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 07 02 at 09:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. #22

      Us Carlton supporters, well, we try to have hope, but it doesn’t work.

      Makes you pine for the good old days, when John Elliott was president of both Carlton and the Liberal Party. Things weren’t always great, but they were always interesting!

      Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 07 02 at 09:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. I don’t know anything about Trace Hutchinson except from her occasional column. It appears to be about her empty life.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 02 at 09:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. Traceeee really needs a hobby, or a pet.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 02 at 09:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. In one brief shining moment on a football field, I felt as if I could do anything. Felt I was part of a community that gave a damn. And it was a good, proud feeling that – together – people can, and do, make a difference.

      Then she ripped off her jersey and went running around the field and turned 10,000 drunken bogans gay.

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 02 at 10:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. #41
      Goal to Richard Mc !

      Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 02 at 03:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. Traccee is a rolled-gold narcissist, and getting paid for it by idiots.

      Research Department: US code footballs are made from pigskin, but are Australian footballs made from it too?
      Not when I played 40 years ago.
      If so, that new Essendon Moslem recruit may have a problem.

      Posted by Barrie on 2007 07 02 at 07:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. #43. Australian Rules footballs are made from the soft, tender skin of hand-raised milkfed baby goats*, raised on a diet of crushed wheats, corn and oats. Once the little creatures are 3 months of age, they are sacrificed to a greater cause, with their beautiful shining hides sewn, tanned and cured into leather to KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF!!!

      *May or may not be factual. All compelling evidence is incontravertible until contraverted.

      Posted by CB on 2007 07 02 at 10:20 PM • permalink

 

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