An AFL petition calling for a supporters’ election

Paul Spinks has had enough. He is calling for a supporters’ advocate to take the grass roots message to city hall. Will you join him?

Almanac Rugby League – NRL Round 25: Melbourne v Cronulla – Storm rises like Lazarus – again

You know things are going bad when the team’s padre can be seen leaving the ground before the final siren. Apologies to Father Bob for giving up on the Melbourne Storm in their round 25 match against Cronulla, but seriously, who leaves a game when you have three of the game’s finest in your line-up?

AFL Round 22 – West Coast v Collingwood (Floreat Pica): Pies midfield needs to get hands dirty

By Rory Adams A visit to Subiaco is like a throw back to the old surburban grounds in Melbourne. Facilities are adequate as long as a quick beer or coffee is not needed as these amenities feel quite archaic compared to the MCG or the Docklands. Once seated however the ground has a much better [Read more]

Jordan Childs chases first win at Tatura

Shane Goss travels to Tatura to watch New Zealand hoop Greg Childs’s son, Jordan, looking for his first win.

Top Four Battle

By Cody Lane The top four battle has been intriguing all year, but never as much as now. As a Hawks supporter, I looked at this round as the round where the Hawkers could move into the top 2. In my opinion finishing top four is vital for us so that we get home finals. [Read more]

AFL Round 21 – Western Bulldogs v Sydney: The Appetizer

By Jake ‘Cobba’ Stevens The restaurant was busy that time of night. Like other Springvale eateries, the décor was simple, but the flavour was strong. Again, I was the only person with white hair in sight. A mixture of languages filled the air, and the waiters had a sense of urgency. On the worn, cream-coloured [Read more]

Floreat Pica: Reality Bites

By John Ramsdale Some coaches talk about winning quarters. We won an eighth. In my previous report it was mentioned that it was very long. I was tempted to write. “We was ordinary” and send the votes to Steve and be done with it. After reading this you may say, you should have.

City continues where it left off

By Tom Clarke Fans have barely regained their breath from the extraordinary ending to last season. But it is back again. Tom Clarke makes his Almanac debut as the EPL kicks off for Season 2012/13. He’ll keep us up to date with the world’s most popular League and invites comments and questions from readers. If [Read more]

Canberra’s Own

By Carl Murphy Canberra is a crossroads of the football civilisations. It has its own Rugby League and Rugby Union teams, and even had its own soccer team in the national competition for many years until continued failure meant everyone gave up and went home. But despite a flourishing local competition, it had never really [Read more]

Sydney’s rich Australian football history

 By Miles Wilks It is a commonly held belief that Sydneysiders have had an almost non-existent role in the game at the top level, yet the fact is that as many as 80 players have been recruited from Sydney to the VFL/AFL.  Amongst the “no-name” players recruited from Sydney is a player who kicked the [Read more]

A superior draft system

By Peter Zitterschlager Recently, under the auspices of a … ahem … sports company I formed, I proposed a draft system to the AFL. The system was developed by my associate (with enhancements by myself), and believing we had a winner, we were confident the AFL would be interested. Unfortunately, after repeated efforts to catch [Read more]

Seagulls fail to bring home the hot chips!

Well, the big day had come. Saturday morning arrived with a southerly breeze and the promise of mainly sunny conditions. Drew couldn’t believe how quiet and tranquil it was. I told him that had he been here during the week he would of experienced the roaring forties in all their glory trying to blow anything [Read more]

Sir Trent Cotchin

by Ben Lannen.   Richmond vs Bulldogs Round 20 2012 It’s not often I commend an AFL decision, but a 3:15pm start allowed me to attend the footy after an horrendous weekend shift, to see my beloved ‘Yellow and Black’ cubs take on our somewhat ‘rivals’; the ever significant football club, Footscray… sorry, Western Bulldogs. At [Read more]

2012 Reclink Grand Finals

The alternate Reclink Australia AFL Grand Final Day Reclink Australia football was born on the streets of St Kilda in 1989 when Reclink founder Peter Cullen A.M started inviting people to kick to kick who were in St Kilda at the time including street kids and street people, male and female arriving in St Kilda [Read more]

Boomer rises to the occasion – again

 By Glenn Sullivan The usually friendly stadium is hostile tonight.  They have given us a tiny section for the cheer squad behind the goals but otherwise there are only smatterings of the royal blue in amongst the sea of red and black all around the stadium.

Dummy spitters

By Anson Cameron To gamble your life on a millimeter and a moment is foolhardy brave. But, being an Olympic hurdler, that’s what you’re called to do. You train ten thousand hours to shed a second and gain a hair’s-breadth so when the gun goes you can shape space and time marginally better than the [Read more]

Floreat Pica: Sydney v Collingwood

By Bangkok correspondent Paul McKay The train trip from central Sydney out to ANZ stadium was one of those entertaining footy crowd train journeys. Lots of cheery footy fans bubbling away at the anticipation of a big game, with first playing second on the ladder. Of particular note were two tall Sydney fans in bright [Read more]

Invisible Cloke

TRAVIS CLOKE’S FORM AND FUTURE IS NOW IN HIS OWN HANDS By Jessica Landy The public is sick and tired of hearing about Travis Cloke. Questions concerning his poor form and his future in the AFL are making the public restless. It is known by most of the AFL community that the power forward’s contract [Read more]

Sid Waddell

John Harms, P.J. Flynn and all lovers of fine sports commentary mourn the passing of Sid Waddell, son of a coal-miner, Cambridge history graduate, novelist and lover of language. Darts will never be the same. Here is a tribute: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2187467/Sid-Waddell-dies-Tribute.html?ito=feeds-newsxml and from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/12/sid-waddell

It takes two to tanko – a McLean pas de deux

By Neil Anderson Just a few rounds to go which makes it interesting to see how teams will cope ‘dancing’ around the ‘T’ word.Bulldogs verses Tigers on Sunday will give an early indication of which company has put in the hard yards at rehearsals to prepare for season 2013. On the face of it, the Bulldogs [Read more]