A poignant memoir from Yvette Wroby about the passing of a beloved uncle, and how footy teams like people move from flakiness to triumph to gratitude. Her Saints turn will come.
AFL Round 9 – St.Kilda v Gold Coast Suns: Kenny Whiffen Will Live Forever in our Hearts
May 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
On Sunday St Kilda honoured a man who has served the club for 50 years and never missed a game. Yvette Wroby tells the story of Kenny Whiffen who was the runner on ‘that day’ in 1966.
AFL Round 8 – St Kilda v Carlton: Surrounded by the Blues and Funny Stories
May 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The verb “to Yvette” refers to the random and frequent engaging of strangers. Particularly on trains, or in cafes, or on the way to the footy. Yvette Wroby reveals her adventures on the way to Monday night’s game (her Saints lost but it barely matters).
You have to laugh and you have to wonder….
May 9, 2014 by 5 Comments
Yvette Wroby looks at the long injury list for her Saints, and surveys the injury rate across the competition. Is this getting worse, or have injuries always been this prevalent?
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v St Kilda: Remember This….
May 4, 2014 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby takes the lemons from her Saints heavy defeat by the Hawks, and makes typically “Yvettian” lemonade. E Regnans has now elevated “doing an Yvette” to proper noun status among all Almanackers.
Best chicken soup ever; depletion; replenishment.
April 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
Long live the delicious sustenance of chicken soup, grandchildren, art, footy and meeting others who love to talk about footy, writes Yvette Wroby.
AFL Round 5 – Essendon v St Kilda: Bathing in the glory of unexpected happiness
April 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
“We had to sit up with the gods, and it was OK because tonight they were on our side,” writes Sainter Yvette Wroby.
AFL Round 4 – St Kilda v Adelaide: Looking at life another way
April 14, 2014 by 5 Comments
Yvette Wroby tells how sometimes even a thrashing for your team is a welcome diversion from the realities of life. Her indomitable spirit and love of life shines through.
The Universe says that it’s more than a game.
April 7, 2014 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby is at it again, having stories to tell about sports supporters even when in difficult circumstances. Finding another Sainter will always make the world a better place, and finding other sports nuts is an added benefit.
AFL Round 2 – SK v GWS, WB v NM: My Favourite Things
April 3, 2014 by 2 Comments
The Saints have a 100% winning record after two rounds and rather than getting ahead of herself, Yvette just floats along for the ride. Between art, footy, baseball and family, her life continues to be full to the brim.
AFL Round 1- St Kilda v Melbourne: NICE
March 24, 2014 by 1 Comment
All is good and NICE with the world in Yvette Wroby’s heart following the Saints fighting win over the Demons.
More than a Football Club
March 19, 2014 by 7 Comments
The St Kilda Football Club has a new Strategic Framework, and so has Yvette. Taking the positives and going into the future, Yvette and her beloved Saints hold their heads up high.
Very Excellent Adventures Remembered.
March 10, 2014 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby is back from six months travel in the USA. Here she covers the four major sports and everything else in her excellent adventure, which she shares with her Almanac family.
Yvette does the Celtics and meets the Aussie Brigade
February 16, 2014 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby’s Excellent American Adventure continues. This time it’s beer and pies with Boston’s Aussie Brigade, and taking in the Celtics and the Spurs at the Gardens.
Yvette Does Cooperstown
February 7, 2014 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby visits the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York and meets a Springbok champion battling adversity. “We have to take every opportunity in life, life is way too short to store it away for tomorrow.”
Yvette’s Very Excellent Adventure Chapter 64: World Series Baseball
November 1, 2013 by 9 Comments
The Curse of the Wrobino has been broken. Yvette Wroby reports from Massachusetts (cue Bee Gees) where she has just cheered her beloved Red Sox to World Series Baseball victory.
Yvette’s Very Excellent Adventure Chapter 53: A Night of Football
October 27, 2013 by 2 Comments
Two Almanackers meet on the other side of the globe as Yvette Wroby goes to her first game of American football. Great seats, an open roof and millions watching. It’s a whole new world of security, scale and timing, topped off by the perfect storm of a game.
A Red, White and Black World
October 12, 2013 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby has found the Holy Trinity. The Louisville Cardinals; The Boston Red Sox and The Saints (in that order). All is right with her world.
The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live
October 5, 2013 by 18 Comments
Our international correspondent Yvette Wroby lets us into the secrets of the world’s greatest sporting events. What, no St Kilda premiership dance?
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