In an extensive list of moments, people and ideas that ranges from Shane Warne to garfish, Mickey Randall’s list of things he likes is entertaining to follow.
AFLW Round 1 – Richmond v Brisbane: Normal Service Resumed
February 3, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Michael Nichols reports on the AFLW Round 1 match between Richmond and Brisbane that saw an easy win to the Lions.
Almanac Teams: Mambo Number 5s (1980- )
February 1, 2021 by 2 Comments
The best players to wear the Number 5 jumper since 1980? Rodney Boyd makes his selection and invites your contributions.
Almanac Memoir (and Music): Fool For You Anyway
January 29, 2021 by 1 Comment
Patrick White Award-winning novelist, short story writer and essayist, Carmel Bird described this autobiographical KD piece about youthful love as ‘a beautiful story. So simple, so sad, so true’.
Almanac Footy Tipping: AFLW 2021 (all welcome)
January 28, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Crikey, AFLW starts tonight, so you better nominate quick smart the Footy Almanac AFLW 2021 tipping comp. Details in this post. All welcome of course. Spread the word.
Almanac Footy History – The Crapp Chronicles Part 7: A Crapp Excuse
January 25, 2021 by 3 Comments
At the turn of the last century, VFL representative sides played exhibition games against regional powerhouse Ballarat. Ivo Crapp was slated to umpire, but he came to miss the match in contested circumstances. Tim Ghys shares a few theories of the day.
Almanac Teams: More Fours (1980- )
January 22, 2021 by 7 Comments
Rodney Boyd follows up his best ever team of players who wore Number 4 with a slightly more obscure selection to play in the same number.
Almanac Footy: Jim Krakouer – the magic
January 22, 2021 by 4 Comments
Matt Watson looks back at the career of Jim Krakouer, who with his brother Phil was a trailblazer for indigenous footballers in the VFL of the 1980’s.
North Melbourne’s 15 top Home and Away victories 1997-2020
January 21, 2021 by 5 Comments
In his latest monumental effort, Phil Mendes recounts the matches he considers to be North Melbourne’s 15 greatest triumphs since he started following them in 1997.
The Trivia in the Travesty: 10 Things to Appreciate About the 1990 AFL Grand Final
January 21, 2021 by 8 Comments
Adam Fox revisits the 1990 Grand Final between Collingwood and Essendon, taking the time to point out any number of oddities about those times in general and that game in particular.
Comparing the VFL and the AFL: 1978 v 2021
January 18, 2021 by 21 Comments
There haven’t been many footballs kicked with passion in 2021, but Philip Mendes has jumped the gun to ponder what the season ahead will look like compared to the nature of the game in 1978 when he was just 13 years old.
Grand Final – Dreams of 1967, Flashbacks of 1992
January 18, 2021 by 5 Comments
After what many have deemed a ‘historic’ 2020 season due to the circumstances around it, Adam Fox leans into Grand Final history to add context to his own experience of the Tigers’ victory over his favoured Cats.
Almanac Teams: Fab Fours (1980- )
January 18, 2021 by 10 Comments
It’s an unlucky number in some cultures, but Rodney Boyd’s team of the best Number 4s is so packed with talent, you’d think it more than lucky to be given the jumper.
Heroes of Footy
January 18, 2021 by 11 Comments
Old Dog has a New Year’s hope: that the Otway Districts Footy and Netball Club will have an Under 18s again and that the young people of the area will have a chance to feel what it is to be part of this club and community and to get to really know the people at the heart and soul of it all and fully understand what it all means.
Almanac Teams: A Real Bushrangers’ Australian Rules “Twenty”
January 15, 2021 by 17 Comments
This week, KD supplies an Australian Rules bushrangers’ “Twenty”, made up of actual bushrangers. You know it’s a strong side when ‘Bold Jack’ Donohue, ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’, just scrapes in on a half-back flank!
Almanac Football: Vale Graham Arthur – Hawthorn’s first premiership captain
January 12, 2021 by 6 Comments
Hawthorn’s first premiership captain Graham Arthur passed away earlier this week. Rod Gillett pays a fitting tribute to the man known as ‘Mort’.
Almanac Life: Summer Trip
January 10, 2021 by 9 Comments
Kate Birrell remembers the joys of a summer trip with her family of eight piled snugly in the Ford Fairmont to visit her grandparents in Albury in the 70s.
Switching football loyalties: Transitioning from the Fitzroy Lions to the North Melbourne Kangaroos, 1997
January 6, 2021 by 4 Comments
Following Fitzroy’s demise at the end of 1996, Philip Mendes switched allegiances. Here he gives a round-by-round account of his first season supporting the Kangaroos.
Almanac Footy History: The Crapp Chronicles Part 6 – Ivo Crapp v Dick Condon
January 5, 2021 by 1 Comment
Tim Ghys presents The Crapp Chronicles Part 6 which looks at the story behind the conflict between Ivo Crapp and Dick Condon.
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