Bill Putt, bass player with Spectrum, Indelible Murtceps and Ariel, died on 7 August of a heart attack. A gentle giant, with a distinctive walrus moustache, Bill Putt will be forever linked with the song I’ll be Gone, Spectrum’s number one 1971 hit, written by Bill’s long-time friend Mike Rudd.
AFL Round 20 – Preview: The Crunch Time Round
August 9, 2013 by 12 Comments
While everyone involved in the Essendon drugs scandal start reaching for their lawyers, there’s also a round of footy to be played. The Wrap gives his predictions.
Vic Country wins first FIDA National Championships
August 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Vic Country, captained by Williamstown’s Sifa Kuila, have emerged undefeated in the first FIDA National Championships. [Well done lads – Ed, from the Mallee]
Carn the NAFFS
August 8, 2013 by 3 Comments
Non-aligned footy footy fans (or NAFFs) may seem funny to most, but surely its not as funny as seeing the world in black and white.
My Swans Family
August 7, 2013 by 16 Comments
William Pascoe is part of a very happy Swans family. He tells the story of his grandmother and the tribe of uncles and aunties and grandchildren who have followed the Bloods with great passion. The 2005 premiership was a special moment for them all.
“Springsteen & I”
August 6, 2013 by 5 Comments
The film Springsteen & I depicts the community Bruce Springsteen has created around the world, much like the community that has evolved around the Footy Almanac, writes Yvette Wroby, who felt the full support of that community last week.
AFL Round 19 – Review: The View from Shepparton
August 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Peter Schumacher is not one for hyperbole, so there must be some truth his claim that Sunday’s Showdown was one of the greatest matches in AFL history.
AFL Round 19 – Review: The Wrap
August 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
Have you ever thought about the profile of the Footy Fan? The Wrapster has. Take those Sleepy Hollow Faithful – please! (Boom Tish.)
WAFL Round 20: Tigers win again but Royals show something
August 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Royals show form but Claremont has all the answers as Les Everett wraps up another good week for the WAFL.
The Decider
August 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
Peter Baulderstone eyes off team politics. If political parties were footy teams who do you reckon they’d be?
The joy of not knowing
August 5, 2013 by 11 Comments
Against all advice, John Kingsmill has looked into the future and predicted the season’s final standings and this year’s premier. (Warning: This could prove uncomfortable reading for many fans.)
Ammos – VAFA B Section: Fitzroy v. St Kevins
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Phil Hill has that feeling in his gut.
Where Are The Forces of Good?
August 4, 2013 by 10 Comments
The Fremantle Boa Constrictor may well win a premiership with this joyless, clinical suffocation of its prey – but is it worth the price?
AFL Round 19 – The Pre-Wrap: The Farewell Shoeless Jim Round (and the drawing up of our own drug code)
August 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
More musings from the Wrap-cave including some of the clearest analysis of recent happenings you will read.
Ceteris paribus (All things being equal…)
August 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
On their ‘equalisation investigation’ jaunt, Sam Steele suggests the AFL should have dropped in on the Ford Motor Company for lessons on how to deal with Melbourne. Is there room for sentiment in a competition that now proclaims itself “an industry”?
Opening sentence: the work of Mark Doyle
August 2, 2013 by 34 Comments
Les Everett becomes a student of Mark Doyle and identifies Mark’s place in the scheme of Almanac things. [You haven’t arrived until you’ve been Doyled? – Ed]
[Mark Doyle is good for football. He is also real. – JTH]
The 49th Parallel Cup
August 2, 2013 by 2 Comments
Troy Thompson previews the 49th Parallel Cup. [Check out the details of the on-line streaming of these matches explained further in Troy’s comment at the bottom – Ed]
The Essendon Issue: We have shamefully neglected the players in all this.
August 1, 2013 by 26 Comments
Sean Curtain says it is shameful that Essendon cannot answer the questions of its own players on what they had injected.
Eastlake Football Club book launch
August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Eastlake Football Club is holding a book launch over lunch on Friday, August 9.
To Call or to Comment?
John Tait observes contemporary football telecasts and concludes that the commentators have forgotten their role.