The_Guardian_-_2016-12-29

North Queensland Cowboys for egging cars. We’re just glad the club brought an end to the schoolboy
hijinks before any innocent party received an atomic wedgie.
The Arthur Tunstall award for public oratory
Yes, Eddie McGuire has effortlessly scooped this prize again, doubling down on his rank stupidity of
previous years by joking that the AFL journalist Caroline Wilson should be held under water and
drowned. Turns out that was an image instilled in McGuire as a young boy, when his older brother
Frank’s friends used to try to hold him under the water at the local pool. Paging Dr Freud.
‘Perfumed excrement’: Sam Newman weighs in on the Eddie McGuire controversy. Photograph: AFL
Footy Show
In the aftermath, The Footy Show’s leery bozy-in-residence Sam Newman fumed at the “second-tier
media” types and “perfumed excrement” always seeking to bring him and his friend down, which
perhaps didn’t say much for the emotional resilience of either. Regardless, Newman’s hateful outburst
was at least an insight into the thoughts clanging around inside the vast chasm of his mind – it has
been many years since his mood could be read from facial expressions alone.
The Coach Taylor perpetual windbreaker for inspirational
coaching gestures
When Luke Beveridge draped his Jock McHale medal over the shoulders of the injured Bulldogs
captain, Bob Murphy, he not only honoured a champion and a long-suffering club, he put his muscular
arm around the entire game and told us that we can occasionally put aside petty sniping and give each
other a hug.
The Mile Jedinak golden microphone for unfortunate gaffes