From: John Kingsmill JTH Don’t want to be a sourpuss but 36 quick responses to your grumpy rave doesn’t suggest a disconnect at all between cricket fans and the CA product. It suggests the complete opposite. Disconnect is not caring at all. Second point. Real cricket people. I have some difficulty with that concept. It [Read more]
Crows: Capable of Obstruction but not Government
August 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
I tipped Western Bulldogs to beat Adelaide yesterday and bet on them to get over the line. And they did, but, sitting in the rain in that lonely park I only wanted Adelaide to find a method, any method, to kick a couple of goals in the last quarter and to stay in front. In [Read more]
Framing the bets
November 2, 2009 by 2 Comments
by John Kingsmill My new Adelaide Review editor only gave me 250 words on the Melbourne Cup this year. I filed this last week when there were still 39 hats in the ring: Alcopop took SA country form to Melbourne, won the JRA and Herbert Power and went straight to the Cup. Skip the premarket [Read more]
General Footy Writing: All over, bar the weeping
October 8, 2009 by 17 Comments
By John Kingsmill Every year fifteen teams run out of air. Some are shot early in the season; coaches walk, players have operations, fans think about a second team or go back to reading books. Two teams exit in the first week of the finals. Two others tease their fans only to experience a ruder [Read more]
General Footy Writing: Birdman’s mark ranks as high as any in my mind
September 2, 2009 by 7 Comments
By John Kingsmill Late in the third quarter of the Round 22 game between Adelaide and Carlton at Etihad, Brett Burton took what Channel Ten described as the Mark of the Century. Jason Dunstall said: “During the third quarter break, I think we will probably show this mark maybe twenty times. That won’t be enough [Read more]
General Footy Writing: A gap in the script
August 28, 2009 by 1 Comment
By John Kingsmill 5.20pm, Monday 24 August 2009 5AA drivetime sport radio -o- Graham Cornes: An email from John Kingsmill: “Every night, now, you two have a domestic squabble on air.” Stephen Rowe: Yeah? What about? GC: Oh, because you said something off air about Port Adelaide and I said… SR: Because I said it [Read more]
General Footy Writing: An open letter to Neil Craig (after a slap to the editors)
August 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
John Kingsmill On the City of Churches, Adelaide Pubs, Why Neil Craig is Obstinate, and How the Adelaide Fans Have Got It Wrong for Five Long Years PREAMBLE First, more things Footy Almanac readers don’t need to know. Or perhaps they do. Not colonised by convicts but by free settlers, South Australia offered another attraction [Read more]
General Footy Writing: Bells are ringing in City of Churches
August 14, 2009 by 11 Comments
On warbling magpies, Adelaide’s wheels, Didak’s revenge, Burton’s orthodoxy and Port’s head jobs … JOHN KINGSMILL Here are some things you don’t need to know. If you hear magpies warbling at 3am, it’s the female of the species on heat. She’s saying that she’s fed and fat and ready to propagate the species. The warble [Read more]
AFL Round 12: Adelaide v North Melbourne: Crows’ win more impressive than you might think
June 15, 2009 by 5 Comments
By John Kingsmill I sat in the winter rain with my red Rocky Mountaineer fold-down beanie over my ears; my Kathmandu lightweight altica mountain top, with a fold-up zippered collar that reached the beanie; a $2 plastic poncho over all of that; a waterproof rug over my 56-year-old denim knees; a Crows cushion on the [Read more]
Coach speculation: On Mark Williams
June 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
John Kingsmill One of the curious aspects of the Port Adelaide/Mark Williams engagement is that the more victories Power stacks up this year, the harder it will be for Port to afford to retain him. If, for example, the Alberton waters split asunder and Power wins the 2009 premiership, suddenly Williams will [Read more]
It’s SimCity Time!
May 4, 2009 by 2 Comments
by John Kingsmill In the current SimCity Adelaide Stadium Debate, I hope that the Advertiser’s report of State Treasurer Kevin Foley’s plan to move AFL from AAMI Stadium to Victoria Park and to couple footy with car-racing was flippant. I hope that Kevin Foley was only thinking aloud, exploring the last thing that someone [Read more]
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