Part three of Paddy Suggests, Richmond’s incredible, euphoric and, yes, emotional win over Sydney in Round 23, 2014 was one of the best examples of Australian Football of all time, while Callum O’Connor’s report of the game, a rollicking tale of three Tigers following every twist and turn at the Sporting Globe, made the win all the more sweet. This was also the Almanac’s 10,000th piece (and a bloody good one, I might add).
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Richmond: Miracle at the Sporting Globe (this is the Almanac’s 10,000th piece)
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AFL Round 23 – Collingwood v Hawthorn: All Over
May 30, 2015 by 11 Comments
Luke Reynolds looks at the Magpies final thrust at a finals birth and watches hard-nut Luke Ball give it one last crack.
Yoshi’s Ten Biggest Sporting Upsets : February 2014 – January 2015
January 26, 2015 by 15 Comments
Yoshi lists his 10 biggest sporting upsets that have occurred between February 2014 to January 2015. There’s a healthy smattering of AFL surprises, but also some shocks from the World Game and on the tennis courts, too.
AFL Round 23 – Carlton v Essendon: Time Travel
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Pamela Sherpa has a 30 year reunion with old Bombers friends to celebrate their ’84 flag, and takes in the last home and away game for the year at the MCG against the Blues.
AFL Round 23 – Carlton v Essendon: the trigomometry of a draw
September 4, 2014 by 2 Comments
Max Wiggins had maths homework. He had trigonometry homework. He had the Bombers playing the Blues. What to do?
AFL Round 23: Sydney v Richmond – reasons to believe
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For Swans fan Ian Latham ANZ Stadium is like an old glass of tonic water on a train to Cairns; flat and spiritless with an unstable surface. Fortunately the Swans Round23 game against the Tigers had a lot more fizz in it.
AFL Round 23 – Western Bulldogs v GWS: The Grim Fairy Tale
September 4, 2014 by 3 Comments
Another gripping tale of the Giants battle by the water in Melbourne. [Loving the existence of isolytes in the days of yore – Ed],
AFL Round 23 – Review: Believe in Fairytales
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Fearless enjoyed the final round of the home and away season.
AFL Round 23 – Adelaide v St Kilda: In Enemy Territory
September 3, 2014 by 3 Comments
Crows tragic Anne Fedorowytsch offers advice to the lovelorn (expecially St Kilda ones) about how to preserve your relationship when attending games with an opposition supporting partner.
An Inconvenient Truth?
September 3, 2014 by 6 Comments
Tigers fan Stainless Steele wonders whether this is a classic case of premature jubilation.
Using Everything You’ve Got to Win a Premiership
September 2, 2014 by 4 Comments
Anne Cahill Lambert explains the Tigers rise from the doldrums. They have a woman as President and more women in leadership roles than any other AFL club.
The Tigers are good for football: discuss.
September 2, 2014 by 15 Comments
JTH has spent a life-time in footy (like many of us).
He once despised the Tigers. He now believes they are good for football. He explains why.
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Richmond: The one we had to lose?
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Tom Bally watches his Swans dish up an appalling, yet somewhat expected result against a hungrier Tigers outfit.
AFL Round 23 – Carlton v Essendon: The Perfect Ending
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Jill Scanlon finds that a draw was somehow the appropriate ending for her Carlton Blues season.
AFL Round 23 – Adelaide v St Kilda: farewell in the City of Churches
September 2, 2014 by 1 Comment
After a hell of a Saints season, Braham Dabscheck says farewell to some seasoned Saints.
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Richmond: A box full of surprises
September 2, 2014 by 1 Comment
Haje Halabi is unpacking. But a surf and a night with the Tigers dominate priorities. What could be inside that last box..?
AFL Round 23 – Sydney v Richmond: Finals Birth; the Agony
September 1, 2014 by 9 Comments
For those of who who didn’t watch Sydney v Richmond, here’s the next best thing: a spectator’s script with image of the crew at the pub.
AFL Round 23- Adelaide v St Kilda: Mr Squiggle and Dr Smith, trapped aboard the Jupiter 2.
September 1, 2014 by 22 Comments
CSI Almanac: Mickey Randall conducts a post-mortem on Adelaide’s 2014 season and finds only questions.
AFL Round 23 – Adelaide v St Kilda: The Fat Lady and the Crows are the only ones left singing
August 31, 2014 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby signs off on a St Kilda season of tears and torment, but she hopes that the young players have learned lessons in effort and character from the retiring Lenny Hayes.
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