I’ve Been Cotched

In a week where people are piling off the Tigers bandwagon, Kate finds herself jumping on.

Q: Leunig, the Richmond list and American Hustle. A: Things that are massively over-rated

Sean Curtain has a list of things that we waste our time talking about and doing. Richmond are just the tip of his iceberg.

Scoreboard pressure: why is it so?

Attention at the back. Today we’ll cover scoreboard pressure and Newton’s second law of motion. Mr Gleeson is only going to explain this once.

South FIDA take the points in Under 21 game

Vin Maskell keeps us up to date with the happenings in footy for the disabled.

Almost forgotten (but not anymore): why the Suns will make the eight

John Harms sees a guaranteed place in the finals for the Gold Coast Suns. History and the draw matter, but not as much as the quality of the emerging team and its cast of talent.

The Post-Wrap (Round 9): The Thanks for the Memories Round

This came in headed “The Weap” from “The Wrap”. Don’t know how much more they can take down at Punt Road, but as ever Mr Wrap finds some plastic soldiers in the corn flakes box of weekend sport.

Fitzroy v the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

On a windy day at Central Reserve, the Roy Boys obturate a late Mazenod fight back in one of their best performances of the year. [Ed’s note – nope, I didn’t know ‘obturate’ was a word, either. Thanks, Phil!]

WAFL Round 9 – Swans on top; Thunder on the board

Les gives his wrap of the WAFL Round 9. An eighteen-game losing streak has to end some time, right?

SANFL – Norwood vs Crows – the Aaron Keating Cup

Dave Brown has divided loyalties (for 5 minutes) when his Norwood Redlegs line up against the Crows seconds in the SANFL. In a happy ending – good triumphs over greed.

What’s in a name, sport?

Jamie Elliot’s mark sets thefootybogan thinking.

New book: Miracle Match

Ken Piesse’s latest book Miracle Match, the story of Fitzroy’s win over Geelong in 1963, is out and available.

Tom Hafey: the heroes’ hero

Jeff Dowsing celebrates Tommy Hafey at Collingwood and how his passion inspired Hafey’s Heroes to always overachieve, but fall short at the final hurdle.

Blood-blisters to the Blacks, a Richmond Oval reverie

‘On the field of play you know whose side you are on’. The Bloods are in the blood. So are the Blacks. Tom Martin describes living, playing, being footy – with thanks to his parents.

Poetry: A Difficult Birth

Simon Wilcox has something he’d like to say bout the ’19th Man’

The World Game: from Paris to Brunswick Street

Neat little observation from Rob Heath; when cultures cross, happily.

Tommy

Matt Zurbo chatted with Tommy Hafey a number of times. Here’s what he found. [Brilliant story of Matt’s dad – and of how Tommy recognised it as a brilliant story – Ed]

Giddy-Up Gill

They told me this bloke (Nank) had a turn of phrase on him. And they were right. Here Paul Nankivell casts his eye on what we can expect from the regime of Giddy-Up Gillon.

Tribute to Tommy

Dave Chettle is a Magpie man whose passion for footy was ignited by Tommy Hafey.

AFL Round 8: Reports

All the Almanac reports from Round 8 of the 2014 AFL season.

Is Pavlich really the greatest ever Docker?

Scientific proof that maybe Pav is not the greatest living Docker…or maybe he is.