By Michael Rees After 8 rounds – what’s it all about? At the completion of next weekends hostilities all 16 AFL teams will have completed a little over one third of their home and away campaign. What have Rounds 1-8 told us in seasons past? The 1970 season saw the opening of the League’s new [Read more]
AFL Teams: Go the Tricolours!
April 29, 2010 by 19 Comments
In the lead-up to the Footy Almanac lunch at the Clyde Hotel on Friday 30 April, a lunch with a Saints v Bulldogs theme, Michael Rees has selected a team of players to have played for both clubs. Go the Tricolours! B: Dean Chiron, Alby Smedts, Michael Ford HB: Mick Frost, Mark Kellett, Anthony Darcy [Read more]
General Footy Writing: You want great clashes? You’ll have to look beyond Saints and Dogs matches
April 27, 2010 by 4 Comments
This Friday evening the Dogs take on the Saints in what shapes as a potential preview to a September showdown. Maybe. The battle of these tri-colours was once an entry on the fixture that hardly set pulses racing. Times change. As one of the many long suffering members/supporters of one of these trophy-starved teams, here [Read more]
Footy: New VFL season prompts review of a classic grand final
April 8, 2010 by 35 Comments
By Michael Rees The Victorian Football League, formerly the Victorian Football Association, kicks off its 133rd season this weekend. Perhaps the most intriguing clash on opening weekend will see the newest member of the league Gold Coast locking horns with old stager Port Melbourne at Southport. At a time when the competition is suffering an [Read more]
AFL: What’s your team’s election day approval rating
March 27, 2010 by 8 Comments
by Michael Rees Following the state elections in South Australia & Tasmania last weekend and the commencement of the “faux” campaign earlier this week with Rudd & Abbott debating the issue of health care, speculation is rife that a July/August federal election is a distinct possibility. This would result in Australians voting in a “Winter” [Read more]
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