2011 PREMIERSHIP CUP IN ADELAIDE The Lion Hotel in Adelaide is holding a function ahead of the Round 7 match to celebrate the Geelong Cats. Enjoy a cocktail style function with drinks at bar prices and party with the 2011 Premiership Cup. This is a rare opportunity for Cats fans living in Adelaide. The function will be held [Read more]
Gideon Haigh book launch with John Clarke
May 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Good sumps mean good footy
May 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
Match 2 Coober Pedy Saints vs Hornridge Football Club 12.30pm Saturday 5th May 2012 Roxby Downs Oval. by George Laslett This week has been an insight into the life of a football club committeeman, organiser and run-around man. After last Saturday’s debacle of the coach going troppo at the boys and the last half [Read more]
Almanacker short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award
May 3, 2012 by 5 Comments
G’day Folks Great news: Writer Tony Birch, who is best-known around the world for his Almanac pieces on Carlton, has been short-listed for Australia’s premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, for his novel, Blood. Congratulations Tony. We hope you are kicking with the breeze in the final quarter, and get the four points. (Tony also [Read more]
Please explain!
April 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
by Medium Dazza Smith I try not to be one-eyed, I really do! I even applauded a couple of good Melbourne grabs on Sat night, but enough is enough! Can someone please provide me with a plausible, metaphorical, meaningful or even meteorological explanation as to how L. Montagna is likely to be missing [Read more]
Europe @ 2.4km/h
April 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
1pm on Sunday,May 6. John Harms interviews Ken Haley. The venue is the Supper Room at the Williamstown Town Hall, 104 Ferguson St, Williamstown. A part of the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Write Line Fever
April 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Discussions on sports writing. 8 – 9:30pm on Wednesday May 2, with Gideon Haigh, John Harms and Vin Maskell, at Williamstown CYMS Sporting Club, Fearon Reserve, Gardiner St Williamstown. A part of the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Post-Postecoglou
April 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Lee Hugh McGowan Brisbane is a city where fleeting greatness too frequently spills into something bigger, where legendary status can be achieved on the purchase of the next round of schooners and a bronzed statue of your favourite local star is stood at the end of your street before the final whistle of their [Read more]
ANZAC XVIII: A great great day
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Mark O’Connell ANZAC day 2012 marked the 10th anniversary of one of the best days of all time. ANZAC day 2002 was the first year my cousin Noel and I ventured to the Dawn Service as part of the occasion which would also involve much eating, drinking, laughing and a game of Australian Rules [Read more]
From the Terrace at the Horse Shoe
April 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
by David Buckley It was great to see John Harms and the others on the Terrace again watching a team unfurl their flag. The stadium at present looks much like a horse shoe, or a face with it’s front teeth knocked out. Standing room on the terrace trimmed again… for more seating. It was [Read more]
Heaven
April 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Bernie Tuck As we get older we start thinking about what Heaven is like. Topless angels serving boutique beers and the like . I have now discovered Heaven: Saturday afternoon at the MCG. With your son. Fine day. Essendon supporters. Playing Carlton. Three quarter time. Essendon seven goals up. At the back of [Read more]
Any Port in a storm
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Paul Harkin The morning of the match was a bit of a haze, after my 60th birthday party the night before. I hope everyone received their invitations, because only a few of you attended. The journey to the ground was uneventful, as it was hard to find a single person in Port colours [Read more]
The World Game
April 22, 2012 by 13 Comments
The World Game My disenchantment has been growing, slowly but surely, for a number of years. For very sublime Messi chip, curling Ronaldo spot kick, witty song from the terraces and gut busting run through the midfield, there has been the choleric complaining of managers whenever a point is dropped (you know who [Read more]
I know the feeling, the Blues have arrived
April 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
It is a beautiful feeling. A feeling that we believe will never arrive. Many fans have yet to feel it. But whilst it is such a rare personal occurrence, it happens to at least one group of supporters most seasons. It’s that rush of the heart, a sudden realisation, such a fast realisation that it [Read more]
Tuesday @ The Almanac
Chris Shinners takes readers on a 50km walk to visit
every VFL ground in Melbourne within a day HERE
Collingwood 15.3.93 drew with Hawthorn 13.15.93
Western Bulldogs 15.12.102 d by Fremantle 17.12.114
Adelaide 11.10.76 d Port Adelaide 11.9.75
Essendon 11.13.79 d by Brisbane 22.11.143
West Coast 13.10.88 d by Richmond 15.9.99
Geelong 21.9.135 d North Melbourne 13.8.86
Carlton 9.15.69 d by St Kilda 16.12.108
Sydney 19.17.131 d Melbourne 17.12.114
Gold Coast 11.17.83 d GWS 8.15.63
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Tony Birch seminar on the involvement of Indigenous players in the AFL
April 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
EVENT: Thursday, April 26 6-8pm at the Jika Jika Community Centre, corner of Union and Plant Streets, Northcote (very near Westgarth Station). FREE Dr Tony Birch, writer and university lecturer, looks at the issues surrounding the participation of Indigenous Australians in football, and the way that Indigenous footballers are portrayed in the day-to-day reporting of [Read more]
Purple patch
April 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Round 2 Collingwood vs. Richmond: Easter Saturday 8th May 2012 by John Ramsdale Purple Patch: “An exceptional period of time when someone experiences success, good fortune or luck.” Vaudeville performers from the early 1900’s allegedly had a saying, “Never follow an animal or a child act.” This was supposedly on the grounds that these [Read more]
Preseason pretence
April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Jamie Gault As we approach round three of the AFL season and start to, as the fans, settle into the 24/7 football bubble that encapsulates the community at this time of year, let’s take a moment to reflect on what has come and gone and how we got sucked in yet again. Getting [Read more]
Footy on Eurosport
April 9, 2012 by 9 Comments
By Jim Newkirk It is 8am on a fabulously beautiful Sunday, spring morning – no clouds, no wind, 19 degrees. It promises to be a great day, and I’m off to the footy. It feels a bit like those times 20 or so years ago when the boys and I would head out to the [Read more]
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