Choosing two good rucks for your Supercoach side is one of the most crucial things you’ll do when it comes to Fantasy Football. A ruckman’s job is to win the hitout around the ground, but in Supercoach, if you pick a ruckman that does that, and just that, then you won’t go far. You need [Read more]
Supercoach Midfields 2010
January 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This is where a big chunk of your Supercoach weekly score will come from. The midfield is where some of the best and biggest scorers do their best work, and it is critical to pick some of the best players going around, but to also invest in some youngsters who’s value will rise as the [Read more]
Super DreamTeam Coach – 2011: Defence
January 19, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Josh Barnstable The countdown has started. In two weeks time, all Supercoaches and Dream Teamers will get their first look at the 2011 version of the fantasy side of AFL. People will pick mock squads; people will make their team during the first hour, making minor adjustments up until the eve of Round One. [Read more]
Recent AFL Rookie Drafts
January 16, 2011 by 4 Comments
It must be a terrible feeling on the National Draft day, when your name doesn’t get called out by any of the officials representing the 16 (now 18) clubs. There is hope a month later though, in the form of the Pre-Season and Rookie drafts. The fact is, most players taken in the latter draft [Read more]
NAB Cup Questions
December 31, 2010 by 5 Comments
The NAB Cup is only 43 days away, not long to go at all. Finally we’ll see some football action instead of the insipid Cricket that’s been on lately. Watching Cricket doesn’t work for me, especially when we’re being toyed with by England. But I’m having trouble with the normal, bubbling enthusiasm I have for [Read more]
North Melbourne 2011 Preview
December 13, 2010 by 4 Comments
Being a North Melbourne supporter, the off-season is usually full of unwanted press about the Roos relocating, folding, not having enough money, relying on AFL/government handouts etc. It’s not a good time for anyone associated with the blue and white stripes. But this year, despite the Victorian election and the Hobart push for North to [Read more]
Another year over…
December 2, 2010 by 13 Comments
by Josh Barnstable Wheeling the orange bin over to my locker, I carefully squeezed into the small space along with the bin, in front of a tower of lockers. I opened the top locker on the right, next to the greystone wall. Cobwebs had covered my locker, and a few Daddy-Long Legs had occupied a [Read more]
Footy Almanac Melbourne Launch 2010
November 12, 2010 by 9 Comments
Spraying the mist onto my face and arms, I could feel the soothe of the sunburn I acquired umpiring cricket all day. Stupid me, I should’ve applied more sunscreen. Now I’ll face the consequences. And it didn’t help that it was a stinking hot night. It felt like Christmas Eve, the warm air of the [Read more]
Radio One
November 5, 2010 by 11 Comments
For some of you that have met me at the Almanac launch last year and various lunches throughout 2010, you would know by now that I’m a shy kid, I keep to myself mostly, and am pretty terrible at keeping my end of the deal in conversation. So it may take many of you by [Read more]
Magpies looming already
October 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Sweating furiously, I looked around in every direction. I needed eyes in the back of my head. Was that it up there? No, definitely not. Is that it? Nope, my imagination getting to me again. I started walking slowly again, keeping an eye on the big tree 20m in front of me. WHOOSH! I ducked [Read more]
Season Review: Adelaide Crows 2010
October 17, 2010 by 11 Comments
Highlights: Not a lot of highlights in a dark year for the Adelaide Crows, but the Round 11 game against the Fremantle Dockers sticks out as perhaps the moment of the decade for Adelaide. In Tyson Edwards 321st and last game, the Crows came up against an in-form Freo side at AAMI Stadium. It was [Read more]
Season Review: Port Adelaide 2010
October 17, 2010 by 5 Comments
Highlights: Port Adelaide started the season in a bright manner, winning the first two games against North Melbourne at home and West Coast at Subiaco Oval. The match against the Eagles was full of fight and courage, with Jason Davenport scoring four goals in the final quarter to lift his side to a narrow three [Read more]
Leigh Harding Tribute
October 16, 2010 by 2 Comments
As a North Melbourne supporter, I’m disgusted at the weight of publicity regarding Max Rooke’s retirement. No disrespect to Rooke intended, but on the same day, another player called it a day. And nothing has been made of it. Nothing at all. Once again, the journalists and news reporters around Australia think that reporting on [Read more]
Resounding end to an eerie week
October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Collingwood v St Kilda Grand Final Replay It’s been an eerie week. Ever since that final siren sounded last Saturday, plans were thrown in the air, weddings were postponed, holidays were cancelled, and more money was spent on a Grand Final ticket. It was the first Grand Final draw I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and [Read more]
Syd Barker Medal 2010
September 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
Everyone is talking about the draw, the tie, whatever you want to call it. Sure, there’s some uproar about it, but in the end, you just couldn’t split them. Two great competitors having great seasons and it all climaxing in a draw. How fitting. Josh Barnstable21 year old North Melbourne supporter from country Victoria. Currently [Read more]
Football the winner
September 25, 2010 by 4 Comments
This was it. After 25 long weeks of pain, sweat and tears, the Grand Final was today. The premiership cup was going to either Collingwood or St Kilda, and it was being decided today. It felt like yesterday that I was telling my teachers to hurry up and finish with parent/teacher interviews so I could [Read more]
2010 Almanac Grand Final Lunch
September 25, 2010 by 7 Comments
It’s not a drive to Melbourne without seeing a bit of roadkill on the way. And on this particular trip, just one day out from that One Day In September (ODIS), isn’t if fitting that Dad and I see a couple of dead magpies on the side of the roads? An omen perhaps? Of course, [Read more]
Faith Tested and Restored
September 22, 2010 by 3 Comments
There was once a time when my loyalty and trust had ebbed to an extreme low. My faith in the North Melbourne Football Club was severely tested, and I thought it was time for me to cut ties with the team I’d grown up loving. I needed a new club. March 2007, the Roos played [Read more]
Prelim jinx claims Dogs again
September 19, 2010 by 1 Comment
I apologise to all Footscray supporters. I am truly sorry. Blame me for the loss, don’t blame the players, it is all on me. After a fairly taxing day sitting in the studio of One FM (yes, it can be tiring), I walked through the dying sunlight towards my sister Hayley’s house. It’s not a [Read more]
The Empire doesn’t strike back
September 18, 2010 by 4 Comments
Sniffling and coughing, I woke to a bed that was completely burning me alive. I quickly got up, wrote a note on the table for Dad, saying I was staying home from school, and turned my electric blanket down, way down. Things finally started to cool off, and I drifted back off to sleep, enjoying [Read more]
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