The AFL finals are our World Cup. This year we have Adelaide exuberance, West Coast alacrity, Fremantle relentlessness, North Melbourne randomness, Hawthorn force and Sydney graft. We have particular styles of play played by each team. We have stereotyped characteristics of each team and club, all playing the same game, governed by exactly the same rules. And E. Regnans says footy is now, not next year, but right now.
57 Mt Pleasant Street (part 5): World Cup Australian Football (The Now)
September 16, 2015 by 5 Comments
100% For 100 Minutes
September 16, 2015 by 5 Comments
The Almanac’s Farrer League correspondent, Josh “The Hot Gospeller” Pinn brings us all of the heartache of the East Wagga-Kooringal Hawks tilt at a long-awaited flag.
Richmond, you breaks my heart, but I still love you
September 15, 2015 by 4 Comments
DrCruel73 is down but not out, in this open letter to Old Tiger.
This is Australia: Melrose footy ground and surrounds
September 15, 2015 by Leave a Comment
This is Cameron McCallum’s drone video taken at the Northern Areas Football League Grand Final at Melrose FC in the Southern Flinders in South Australia.
That’s Mt Remarkable in the background.
They’ve had rain. The season looks promising. Check the canola (yellow) in the background. And the colour of the grass generally. God bless `em.
Dudley Street Doggies – All The President’s Men
September 15, 2015 by 8 Comments
What a year it’s been for Clem, Quang and their Bullydogs.
Citrus Bob’s Football Dictionary
September 15, 2015 by 12 Comments
New styles of football on display, new hope brimming in hearts. Citrus Bob Utber recognises the time for some new vocabulary, stemming from AFL finals week 1.
This is Australia: Country Grand Final
September 14, 2015 by 3 Comments
This is Australia alright. Check out this superb photo. James Lang’s yarn is arriving on the afternoon train at which point we will acknowledge the photographer. Maybe it was you James? We’re told a few SA Greatest Wool Team members were in attendance too.
WAFL – Semi Finals weekend: Subi and the Royals too good
September 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Lions book themselves a spot in the 2015 WAFL Grand Final with a convincing win over the Falcons, while the royals end Peel Thunder’s first ever finals campaign.
An Affair To Remember
September 13, 2015 by 10 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis analyses the Stevens-Carey issue by looking at the way it was represented in the media and the way it was considered and understood by the public. [This piece was first published in 2012 but has become popular over the last few days in the light of the forthcoming Open Mike with Anthony Stevens.]
The Statistical Premiership Window 2015: The Eagles to Deny Hawthorn A Three-Peat
September 11, 2015 by 16 Comments
Damien Little has done all the work, so that you don’t have to. Back by popular demand, here is DJ Litsa’s Statistical Premiership Window for 2015. Hawthorn fans might want to look away…
Injustice: Port was done over
September 11, 2015 by 6 Comments
Port supporter Peter Fuller on reviewing Port’s season has come to the conclusion that the fixture influenced the ladder order.
The Pre Wrap – The Finals Week I
September 11, 2015 by 5 Comments
Mr Wrap previews the first week of the finals and compares two former number 1 draft picks.
Carlton Drought; a brew for the ages
September 11, 2015 by 1 Comment
As we prepare to get the 2015 finals series off to a fly tonight at Subi, Jeff Dowsing takes a look at the AFL’s wheel of fortune. It might turn slowly, but when it does, it turns with some pretty hefty force – viz: Carlton, Essendon, Brisbane, Melbourne and Collingwood (in the wake of 1990). [Shouldn’t have too much trouble getting on the course on GF Day if the need should arise old mate! – Ed]
1993-2015: Candy Stripe Legs (and Jumpers)
September 10, 2015 by 13 Comments
Brilliant memoir from Swish Schwerdt who recalls The Cure’s Disintegration album on high rotation as the Adelaide Crows’ made their first finals series in 1993 (not necessarily related). The pain of the ’93 Prelim loss was later erased by victory in 1997 and then sharing the 1998 back-to-back triumph with Swishter #1.
2015: The Dogs and Our Unfinished Journey. In Bevo we trust.
September 10, 2015 by 4 Comments
Hoping that there’s still more footy to come after Saturday night’s Elimination Final against the Crows, Simon McInerney looks back on the Bulldogs’ 2015 season to date. It’s fair to say that Simon doesn’t write the material for the Coodabeen Champions’ Dan from Droop Street.
Footy philosophy: Australian Rules v AFL, sport v business, Plato
September 10, 2015 by 14 Comments
David Wilson hears the angst around tanking/ fixturing/ drugs/ booing/ trade rules/ the place of the maverick footballer and offers up Plato. Maybe the Australian Rules football ideal is incompatible with the AFL and its clubs..?
Kids4: Empty Nights
September 10, 2015 by 6 Comments
What does Matt Zurbo suggest when hardly any players turn up for training?
Kids 3. Body Language
September 9, 2015 by 4 Comments
Matt Zurbo’s writings on coaching kids continues. Part three is about body language; “Coaching kids who are losing each week is the best challenge there is in football… You have to speak from your ribs. You have to believe, or there’s no point at all.”
The Smile Says It All: We’re Into The Granny!
September 9, 2015 by 5 Comments
Toowong’s Wests Juniors U13 girls have made it through to the Grand Final in their first year. How much sleep will Sasha Lennon get this week?
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