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LUNCH: Lions/Crows/Saints ruckman, Matthew Clarke, at All Nations Hotel, Richmond, Friday, May 24, 12.30pm. All welcome. RSVP essential: rsvp@footyalmanac.com.au
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Be it Richo, Caroline Wilson or Catherine Durkin, a Richmond supporter’s pessimism never dies, even against the Demons.
Anne Fedorowytsch is doing her bit for mixed relationships everywhere, compiling a list of key strategies on what to do when your other half supports the opposition. Her research was compiled during the recent Saints-Crows game.
The hubris of the Essendon fans before the game made victory even sweeter for Lions fan Peter Schumacher.
The young gun Sun, Jaeger O’Meara, is laying serious claim to Joel Selwood’s title of “best first year player in recent times”, writes Adam Ritchie in another entertaining Winners and Losers.
Enjoy this excerpt of Murray Bird’s story, The Swine, from Footy Town.
Footy Town: Stories of Australia’s Game is out now.
Read the blurb and Daff’s foreword to this collection of 48 local footy yarns.
Malcolm Allbrook expects both Fremantle and Sydney to figure prominently in September after this hard- fought, tight encounter.
Despite the media’s indulgence of the coach’s preachings, Bulldogs supporters are worried. Have they bottomed out or has the bottom fallen out?
Can someone warn Terry Daniher that Earl O’Neill is looking for him. He has a score to settle from the 1920s when Terry’s granddad gave Earl’s a broken nose in an interstate carnival.
Once, not so long ago, Nathan Foley was a young tiger on the rise. But his career has also been scarred by injuries – his own, and others. Now we watch as an older, wiser Foley works his way back from the brink.
Haiku with Simon Willcox.
Sleepless nights for Neil Kimpton last week. Anxiety on Sunday morning. What’s happening to these Blues fans? Where’s the swagger?
Tony Robb poses the questions that need to be asked. To quote a former North Melbourne ruckman – you know it makes sense.
The circus surrounding Brisbane’s inception swayed Cliff Bingham to follow Essendon instead of the Bears. Meetings between the two have been awkward since and he can’t help thinking, What If?
Matt Zurbo (who has played over 500 games of local footy) has picked his Team of the Century of blokes who haven’t had a run in the AFL. He invites you to nominate a few champions you know, have played with, have seen. Today he’s after mid-fielders.
Tigers fan Cheryl Critchley sinks the boot into Melbourne fans. Where are they in their team’s time of need? [Methinks the author is hoping to be corrected, but I suspect her husband isn't - Ed]
View Melbourne and the Pies-Cats clash through the eyes of those from Darwin. As their host says, they think that little bit differently in the Top End.
A reversed Darwinian evolutionary chart would best illustrate Footscray fan’s footballing journey. Ever increasing slumped shoulders, and in the end the only thing you are left with is a rather rudimentary club.
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