Officiating Tiwi Style

Photo by Peter Argent. Things are a little more relaxed up north.

RIP Jim Stynes 1966-2012

Jim Stynes has finally succumbed to cancer. It is a loss the whole football and broader community will feel. If you wish to leave any thoughts, please do so below. Martin Flanagan has paid eloquent tribute over at The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/melbourne-demons/more-than-a-great-sportsman-20120320-1vgjg.html

Uni Blacks Breakfast

Tip the Top 8 Comp

Tip the Top 8 Comp   Each year fans are invited to tip their Top 8 in order. That is the top 8 at the end of the home and away season. The winner is announced after the (riveting and rather amusing) count at The Footy Almanac Grand Final lunch on Grand Final eve. Tallying [Read more]

Ed Cowan on his Test summer

Ed Cowan on his summer of Test cricket. http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/555688.html    

Clint McKay

Photos and words by Peter Argent He’s big, he’s Victorian and naturally Bill Lawry loves him. After his performance in the last ODI on Thursday in Adelaide, so does Australia it seams – Clint McKay bowled the Aussies to victory with a five-wicket haul and celebrated. He also produced a important and handy cameo with [Read more]

Perth Footy Almanac Evening

Perth Footy Almanac Evening Details here.

Manning Clark Cricket Dinner and Lecture 2012

 

The Malinga Kiss

Photo and words by Peter Argent. Is Lasith Malinga’s unique habit of kissing the ball (refer image) as he starts his run up the most unusual habit in world cricket?

Obituary – Hank Nelson

  by Gavan Daws (Peter Temple read it and thought it would be of interest to readers…and he was dead right) From Peter: here is a link to a great obit for Hank Nelson, a much-loved prof at the ANU, written by a colleague and lifelong friend, Gavan Daws. Hank was such a quintessential Aussie [Read more]

‘Big Red’ Bows Out

Popular Warrnambool figure Chris “Big Red” Jennings has passed away, aged just 47. The Warrnambool Standard reports: http://www.standard.net.au/news/local/news/general/big-red-bows-out-a-shark-forever/2475584.aspx

FOOTY ALMANAC TRIP ACROSS THE DITCH

Friday 1 June to Sunday 3 June Join John Harms and other intrepid Almanackers for a weekend in North West Tasmania  

PLENTY OF THEATRE AT ADELAIDE OVAL

By Peter Argent While the famed Festival Fringe had many acts playing around the Adelaide CBD on Saturday evening, February 25, at the home of SA sport, there was plenty of theatre as well. For South Australia they had a Doctor who was trying prove he still had what it takes to impact for his [Read more]

Winners Are Grinners

Photos supplied by K Carroll Tim Lane at K. Carroll’s Test breakfast. “I’ve finally got one,” said Tim, wishing the Carlton reports had been written differently.

Sydney Reclink Community Cup

 

Trumper Charge

Photo by Peter Argent Do we see any resemblance? Photo by George Beldam

Using the old noggin’

Here’s one of the more unusual “caught behind”s you’re ever likely to see. Thanks to Luke Ridgwell for passing on the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCO3ik4Px2Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player        

Doug Wade’s Apple

After 41.5 years, the identity of the apple-thrower who might have cost Geelong a finals berth in 1970 has been solved. Courtesy of the Geelong Advertiser. http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2012/02/20/308511_news.html

The role of the skunk in the evolutionary development of football

by Clint Rule As I get more feeble in my footballing forties I feel the need to have something lateral additives to keep up with the new bloods. Functional ideas. You know the Bob Neil Volley Hybrids. I like explorer socks – comfy, thick and warm but short so they don’t fill up with water in the [Read more]

Almanac Rugby League – Hope is all we have

  by Paul Connolly     “Hope is necessary in every condition,” Samuel ‘Magic’ Johnson once wrote. “The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, of being a Sharks fan, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”   Keen scholars will realise that I added the bit about being a Sharks fan. (After all, there’s about a [Read more]