Port Adelaide has opened its doors to the white shoe brigade, led by a Sydney-based TV celebrity, says John Kingsmill.
AFL Grand Final: The View from Shepparton
October 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Peter Schumacher nominated the winner, margin and Norm Smith Winner on Saturday, as for putting a wager on the trifecta….
The Footy Almanac Grand Final Lunch
October 3, 2012 by 11 Comments
Yvette Wroby captures the annual pre-Grand Final warm-up at the All Nations Hotel.
Memoir: Melbourne’s good fortune
October 1, 2012 by 18 Comments
I live in Yarraville, work in Parkville, and study in Hawthorn. I ride my bike, drive a car and use public transport. On any given day, it is not unusual for me to travel past half a dozen footy grounds ‘home’ to current AFL clubs. On a welcome spring day, with only one lecture scheduled in the mid afternoon, I set off on my bike to stop and visit these places.
AFL Grand Final: The Wrap
September 30, 2012 by 29 Comments
THE GRAND FINAL WRAP WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a Grand Finalé to a Grand Season it’s been Eddie. Just in case you’re not sure of the words of The Tinseltowners’ song we’ve printed them out so we can all sing along with The Loyal Sons & Daughters. Cheer, Cheer the Red and the [Read more]
AFL Grand Final: Breakfast in the park
September 30, 2012 by 3 Comments
The Carlton Four caught up with me the other morning on our regular walk/plod around Princes Park and invited me to their Annual Grand Final Bar B Q Breakfast. Now this is not your ordinary run of the mill breakfast in the park. A table was selected by Michael in the dark at quarter [Read more]
Grand Final Preview: The Pre-Wrap
September 28, 2012 by 19 Comments
The Wrapster gives his two cents on Jobe, Juddy, Swan, a twilight Grand Final and the Tigers….and he’s just getting started.
Grass roots and blond tips…footy’s range of play from Akerfeldie to Dermie
September 27, 2012 by 2 Comments
Stephen Alomes draws from his new book, Australian Football: The People’s Game 1958-2058, to examine Jason Akermanis and Dermott Brereton’s place in the game – now and then.
The Footygods: Mt Olympus
September 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
And then there were four. The swans got to take on the pies and the hawks got the crows. And both pairs fought over the right to get into the big one; the right to play for a silver cup at the MCG. And there is nothing bigger and nothing more special than the G [Read more]
Morals v Medals: Who comes out on top?
September 27, 2012 by 4 Comments
Hannah Kuhar raises the issue of playing to win at the cost of participation in junior sport.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 24: Addictions
September 27, 2012 by 9 Comments
Jesse’s Aboriginal. Light, like his Mum, who he grew up with down south, in the bush where I’m from. He’s gone to work with his Dad, who is full-blood, on the Central NSW Coast. It’s been ages and is great to see him. He’s nineteen now, but, due to his height, still looks [Read more]
Cycling through the eras
September 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
Premierships are the benchmark of successful teams. Geelong had been starved of real success since 1963. A founding member of the league as we know it, influential on the rules as we know them, the once powerful Geelong had become mediocre. A spate of losing efforts in Grand Finals dating back to 1967 against Richmond, 1989 against [Read more]
Brownlow Bolognese
September 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
Earlier this year, my 11 year old daughter, Anna wrote an article for the Footy Almanac. It was all about footy tradition. Tradition is a key word in our house. Much to my wife Jenni’s chagrin, I spend just as much of my time looking back as I do looking forward. She is a very [Read more]
The Brownlow Medal: Brownlow Thoughts?
September 26, 2012 by 9 Comments
Brownlow Thoughts? Well done Jobe! You are a jet! A superstar! All those other fancy words. A Brownlow winner! A Brownlow! Hell, yeah. And, I thought, a damn worthy one! I loved watching you play this year, your hardness. Your want! Geez, you have want! And you seem like a top bloke! Anyone else [Read more]
Cause-infested footy
September 26, 2012 by 29 Comments
Footy is becoming cause infested. It is involving itself where it need not be; where it should not be. Like a movie star who suddenly acquires the wisdom to resolve the Middle East conflict, the AFL is becoming a slave to its own hubris, says Dips O’Donnell.
The Brownlow winner
September 26, 2012 by 3 Comments
We re-visit John Harms’s tribute to Jobe Watson after an unlikely Bombers win one Sunday evening in 2009..
1980 – A Personal Footy Almanac: Grand Final – Richmond v Collingwood
September 26, 2012 by 22 Comments
Richmond tragic Stainless reaches the final stop of his nostalgic journey through the 1980 season – the Grand Final against Collingwood.
People and Memories – Part 6: Joan Etherington, Melbourne FC
September 25, 2012 by 4 Comments
Joan Etherington has her feet up in front of the TV when I arrive at her Blackburn unit, in Melbourne’s east. Her Melbourne scarf hangs on the coat stand and the living room walls are covered with family photos. Beautiful grand-daughters smile out at her from exotic European and African settings. Over cups of [Read more]
Dear Bruce, stop the stats!
Sean Curtain makes an impassioned plea to Bruce McAvaney before the Grand Final – Enough of the Stats already!