Jack Banister felt the excitement as Richmond beat Adelaide. But as a true Tigers fan, he isn’t getting too sure of his team. He definitely wasn’t sure of Maric having the ball deep in defence and selling some candy.
AFLW Round 4 – Fremantle v Adelaide: First Quarter Blackout
February 27, 2017 by 2 Comments
Anne Cahill Lambert reflects on a game of ‘three quarters’ between the Dockers and Crows, as well as the effects of the infamous Fremantle Doctor.
Photo Gallery – Whitsunday Sea Eagles scoreboard
February 27, 2017 by 7 Comments
Sasha Lennon visited the Whitsundays and took great shots of the Whitsunday Sea Eagles scoreboard. What are your favourite community footy club scoreboards?
Almanac Footy History: Bendigo Footy League greats inducted into AFL Halls of Fame
February 24, 2017 by 2 Comments
Richard Jones, who has a great feel for the game wherever it has been played, looks at those champion footballers who have made their respective Halls of Fame having started life in the Bendigo Footy League.
Book launch: Reading Australian Rules Football
February 22, 2017 by 1 Comment
Tim Hogan has a new book about our great game called Reading Australian Rules Football launching in early March.
Memoir: A Life Following the Dogs
February 22, 2017 by 4 Comments
Les Currie has spent his life supporting his beloved Bulldogs. Motivated by a spirit of rejoicing, he tells his story. [Great stuff Les – JTH]
Local Footy: Sponsorship deals – always a thorny problem
February 21, 2017 by 1 Comment
Richard Jones looks back at the sponsors involved in the Bendigo Football League and the colourful names that have been given to football grounds as a result of the deals.
AFLW Round 3 – GWS v Fremantle: Sharp plays key role in 43-all draw
February 21, 2017 by 1 Comment
After the first AFLW draw, Jack Banister reflects on the similarities between the GWS-Freo game, and the first VFL/AFL men’s draw in 1897.
AFLW Round 3 – GWS v Fremantle: Sharp plays key role in 43-all draw
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AFLW Round 3 – Western Bulldogs v Melbourne: Red and Blue Night
February 19, 2017 by 1 Comment
While the rest of the city was white, it was all red and blue at the Western Oval as Alan Stewart watched the Dees beat the doggies in the AFLW
Local Footy: Friar Mick’s introduction to footy
February 17, 2017 by 1 Comment
Friar Mick Power tells the story of his recruitment to the UQAFC and his first game. Who’d have thought the RE Beer Garden was such a rich breeding ground for footballers.
Almanac Women’s Footy: New sport, new team and new boots
February 17, 2017 by 9 Comments
Inspired by AFL Women’s, Sarah Black commences her footy career with a new pair of boots and a new set of footballers to be like
AKA: The Blue and White Easybeats
February 14, 2017 by 5 Comments
Glen spent 30 years tearing his hair out on the sidelines and is now paying the price. Here are the players he blames for his thinning top.
Almanac Footy History: The Games that Murdered Football
February 12, 2017 by 2 Comments
George Smith tells the story of some blowouts – which are memorable for the wrong reasons Yet, he says, football bounced back in an instant.
Almanac Local Footy: Calling all Uni of Queensland Red Lions past players
February 10, 2017 by 1 Comment
As a former player of the Uni of Qld Red Lions (half a dozen games, one point v Strathpine FC) I would like to introduce president Tom Lonergan to everyone. Tom’s doing a few things at the moment: creating a database of past players (please contact him), recruiting players for a season of winter sunshine and footy this season, and letting you know about the club. [There’s a section on the club in Loose Men Everywhere
Almanac Yarn: Davo pulled it to the left.
February 9, 2017 by 1 Comment
This may or may not be true. But, in his debut piece for the Almanac, Curtis de Mar tells the tale of Davo, footballer and lateral thinker who was always late for games.
Girl footy – Don’t You Dare Laugh
February 8, 2017 by 7 Comments
The success of the weekend has Matt Watson reaching back to his primary school days and his involvement with girls’ footy.
It’s a New Dawn
February 7, 2017 by 7 Comments
Neil Anderson takes a look back at the decades of watching rival football teams success while his Bulldogs suffered. All making the 2016 premiership all the more sweeter.
At long last, over 100 years of women’s footy has finally been recognised!
February 4, 2017 by 6 Comments
Historian and friend of the Almanac, Rob Hess, wrote an excellent piece on the long history of women’s footy which was published on The Conversation. Jan Courtin has based this article on that piece.
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