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Almanac (Swimming) Poetry: The Slow Lane

Campbell Bairstow has moved to the slow lane of the pool it seems. Willingly? Happily?

Almanac (Swimming) Poetry: Old blokes in black budgie smugglers

In his Almanac debut, Campbell Bairstow explores the mind, body and soul of swimming laps (especially during Covid isolation)

Almanac Lunches: John Craven at The Petrel in Geelong

A cracking Footy Almanac lunch was held with John Craven as the special guest speaker in Geelong last Friday. Col was there and thoroughly enjoyed his day.

The Footy Almanac Manning Clark Cricket Lecture delivered by Dan Brettig.

Dan Brettig delivered the Manning Clark Cricket Lecture at the Clyde Hotel last night. Here is the speech (which was followed by a lively q and a on cricket in Australia over the past decade.)

Scenes from the Manning Clark Cricket Dinner and Lecture 2012

Photos by Yvette Wroby    

Another Photo Quiz: Name these three sportsmen

Three fine chaps. Can you name them?

Almanac Teams: Zero Tests, only ODIs

With the battle between the Australian men and the West Indies now shifted from Tests to ODIs, Rodney Boyd outlines his chosen team of players who donned the yellow and green PJs on at least one occasion but never made an Aussie Test team.

Almanac Teams: Round 1 debuts since 1980 (Part 1 – 1980 to 1989)

In the first of four parts, Rodney Boyd looks back at the players who made their debut in Round 1 of the VFL/AFL season from 1980 up to 2022. This section features 1980-1989, an era that saw an uptick in professionalism and towards the end the introduction of the draft.