Keiran Croker is convening a new Swans forum on the Almanac site called The red and the White. Here’s the invitation to be involved. [Excellent idea KBC – JTH]
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life: 2018 ‘The Year of the Pie’
March 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Will 2018 be one for the True Believers asks Cam Hooke.
AFL Player Previews 2018
March 20, 2018 by 1 Comment
Who’s the one player that could make all the difference for your side in 2018? Anna Pavlou shares her take for each club
1981 – 2016: These Should Not Be Forgotten Years
March 20, 2018 by 3 Comments
Richmond starts a new ascent of Everest, from Base Camp, competing alongside 17 other hungry, ambitious mountaineers says Stainless Steele. All start equal and expect no special favours. But for once, the Tigers begin their climb with the certain knowledge that they’ve achieved it before.
AFLW 2018 Spoon Gongs: And the award goes to…
March 19, 2018 by 4 Comments
Dave Henricus gives his spoon gongs to the moments of AFLW2 that truly deserve them, most involving his Blue Bagger’s disappointing season but also some travelling highlights.
Ross Dillon: Dees and Redleg royalty
March 18, 2018 by 49 Comments
Rulebook reviews the career of one of Norwood’s finest. And Kyabram’s. And Melbourne’s.
Re-recordings of team songs by the AFL
March 18, 2018 by 8 Comments
Re-recording club songs; Dalby gives us his view and invites your opinion.
Women’s Footy – Bud Breakfasts and the Shifting Horizons of Girls
March 17, 2018 by 11 Comments
Saturday morning breakfast at the Wilson’s. In 2014 and 2018. The newspaper is a constant. The conversation, and the back page, have changed. E.regnans with a poignant piece on the growing stature of Women’s footy. Especially in the eyes of his two daughters.
Politics and Sport – SANFL Clubs v Nick Xenophon
March 16, 2018 by 20 Comments
The SANFL has encouraged its fans to ‘vote wisely’ in the state election when it comes to poker machine policy. Dave Brown pulls at the threads of the statement in a way that 280 characters could not.
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life: A better few days than last week
March 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Cam Hooke’s latest Collingwood musings as the AFLW side goes into the final round of their season. The AFL and VFL men are preparing for theirs to get underway after some recent positive signs but alas one big injury in Tyson Goldsack.
The Gang of Five
March 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
George Smith looks at the years (a couple of decades) when a total of five clubs won the VFL flag.
Peter Temple and the Royboys of Doom
March 16, 2018 by 15 Comments
This is a remarkable piece, one of the Almanac’s finest. Adam Muyt has transcribed his 2003 interview with the late Peter Temple. It was conducted 15 years or so ago when Adam was writing his fine book Maroon & Blue. Tremendous observations about footy and Melbourne life.
Almanac AFL Footy Tipping for 2018 – Join Now
March 15, 2018 by 7 Comments
Join in our tipping comps in season 2018.
The standard Almanac comp.
The Tip the Top 8. (You have until the bounce in the Rich-Carl game on the night of March 22 on this one)
Explained in this post.
All welcome.
Pride and Passion: The Growth of Women’s Footy in Greater Western Sydney
March 13, 2018 by 7 Comments
El Gibbs, co-presenter of BAFL Radio, a weekly radio show and podcast about AFL in Western Sydney, provides an insight into the growth of women’s football in the Greater Western Sydney region and how the passion for footy is a lot more prevalent there than you may think.
Almanac Footy Teams: Opening Round Debutants
March 12, 2018 by 21 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis picks a side of Round 1 debutants, many of whom you will remember well, while others faded away.
41000 Watch a ‘Strenuous’ Match of Girls’ Football (1929)
March 8, 2018 by 6 Comments
The recent Fremantle v Collingwood AFLW game broke the record for attendance at a female Australian sporting event. But what of the little known game that previously held the record? Damien Morgan investigates.
Almanac Satire – AFL Executive interview: Tasmania, AFLX, AFLW
March 7, 2018 by 12 Comments
David Wilson’s character Des Troyer is again joined by our anonymous up-and-coming AFL Executive to discuss all the latest AFL hot topics.
Almanac Memoir – The Tracks of my Tears
March 7, 2018 by 4 Comments
“I buried my face in the pages of the Football Record and I cried as frustration washed through me. If you think the disappointment of being bundled out of the finals in 2013, 14 and 15 was bad then you didn’t experience the disappointment of the last round of the 1966 season. The gut-wrenching emotion of that last game had me in tears.”
The Commoners Guide To AFL Commentary
Matt Quartermaine unravels some footy commentator lingo for us. Do you have any of your own?