So, last week I booked some tickets to the SCG for the Cats v Swans match in a couple of Fridays time. It’s a pretty big game now. One of those famed ‘8 point games’. The Swannies are flying, and my Cats are starting to gather some momentum themselves. A win for either team could [Read more]
What happens when two (or more) clubs merge?
June 12, 2012 by 30 Comments
John Harms from ABC Grandstand and footyalmanac.com.au here. I do a segment with Walshy and the boys on ABC SA each Saturday. This week Walshy has set me some homework. He wants to hear stories of club mergers and is especially keen to find out what has happened to The naming of the new club [Read more]
Your most frustrating sporting moment
June 12, 2012 by 43 Comments
Tell me dear reader, what is your most frustrating sporting moment? The underarm delivery? Jim Stynes running across the mark against Hawthorn’s Gary Buckenara in the 1987 Preliminary Final? Milne seemingly hanging back near the goal square in the drawn 2010 Grand Final only to see the ball jag the wrong way? For Adelaide Crows [Read more]
Part of the tribe
June 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
The experience of being a football supporter is surprisingly unique. You never actually sit down and think it thorough, until you do…and then you end up writing a blog about it. By unique, I am referring to the way you belong to a certain football club. It is a tribal, parochial association that finds you [Read more]
A better way to raise the curtain on young talent
June 9, 2012 by 5 Comments
The AFL’s recent merchandising masterstroke – footy cards of kids, for kids, was delivered a pretty swift kicking by the media last weekend. Besides psychological concerns around the pressure on the 78 youngsters featured, and that few will actually ‘make it’ in any case, one does struggle to grasp the business case for a [Read more]
The bottom of the record
June 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is a tribute to all the players who have played a senior VFL/AFL game wearing a guernsey number of 50 and above. The players whose names appear just above the omnipresent Mr “Rushed” at the foot of the player list in the Record, and who have used (in some cases temporarily) a locker that [Read more]
Kicking a bag
June 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
It’s the 60th anniversary of a bag of 12 goals from Doody McGillivray, uncle of Knacker Pamela Sherpa. Pamela dug out this report from an old Bendigo Football League record. ECHUCA EXCERPTS We are still slightly dazed in Echuca concerning Monday’s game. After seeing a junior match on Saturday on the park Oval, no one [Read more]
I think we’ve got a live one!
June 8, 2012 by 2 Comments
Where: the small community hall at Breakfast Point (which looks remarkably like a church, but isn’t). When: Thursday, 17/5/12, sometime between 6pm 10:15pm (most likely around 9ish) Why: making the GWS banner for the game in Brisbane, featuring a tribute to Luke Power on the occasion of his return to his original club, where he [Read more]
Blockbuster Fatigue
June 8, 2012 by 19 Comments
When I was growing up, I used to really hate Essendon fans. I still do hate them, but when I was growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s, they were unbearable. They stood head and shoulders above all other clubs supporters on my most hated hit parade. Smug as bugs in rugs they were; [Read more]
Thank You Ma’am
June 7, 2012 by 2 Comments
Thank you Ma’am It is one of the lesser known achievements of the 60 year reign of Your Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth that you are responsible for my addiction. To be fair to Your Majesty as a [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 11, Saturday 7 June, Richmond v South Melbourne, VFL Park
June 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
As we get off the train at Nunawading, I can already see the queue for the bus snaking along the side street behind the station. There are plenty of bright red and white scarves dotted among the yellow and black. And no wonder. South Melbourne hit peak form last week with a 14 goal thumping [Read more]
Vin remembers his tips
June 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
Half-way through his 45th season of following footy a jaded Vin Maskell finally remembers to put in his tips for the week. Here they are: Nine teams will win, some by a lot. Nine teams will lose, some by a little. A star player will get injured. Another star player will not get injured.
Richmond and the “F” word
June 6, 2012 by 16 Comments
by Cheryl Critchley THE “F” word is rearing its head at Richmond. Not the “F” word we usually yell after yet another miss from point blank range or loss to the Gold Coast Suns: This time it’s “finals”. After 32 years of frustration and finishing ninth, Tiger fans are daring to dream. Some are even [Read more]
Vale Charlie Sutton (1924-2012)…Bulldog through and through
June 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Talking about the Talkback
June 6, 2012 by 15 Comments
It was my old man that infected me with a love of the Geelong Football Club. A childhood decade watching Gary Ablett Snr every weekend would probably conform most any young lad to the club. The old man loved the Cats – he loved them until he could love them no more. After a third [Read more]
John Kingsmill’s Footy Diary
June 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
ROUND ELEVEN The dilemma of hope Three weeks of byes rips the supercoach teams to shreds. The balance of personal bias against common sense comes to the fore in the month of June. There’s no sense in backing a winning team in these comps if huge portions of them go surfing in Week Eleven, or [Read more]
Almanackers do Wynyard while Tigers do Saints
June 5, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Yvette Wroby The Journey: Getting onto a small REX airline 30 seater plane at Tullamarine was a relief after a big week of helping my eldest daughter shift into her flat. Being super mum to three kids meant that a weekend away made the before and after very busy. But once I’m on [Read more]
A Life with Footy and Kids
June 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
During the first half of the Round 6 night game against the Crows, I looked along Row U and realised that none of the O’Reilly boys nor I had our children in attendance. (The Cygnet was with us, but he was down on the concourse waiting to play with the Under 8s). I can’t remember [Read more]
Weekend at Burnie’s Neighbour (Wynyard)
June 5, 2012 by 10 Comments
Five brave blokes, and two even braver women, met up at Melbourne Airport last Friday morning with one aim in mind. To cross the ditch between Victoria and Tasmania, and track down a legendary beast said to have roamed Van Diemen’s Land for many a long year but which hadn’t been seen for almost as [Read more]
Loose Thylacines Everywhere
June 5, 2012 by 18 Comments
Last Friday night we were driving back to Bill (The Phantom) Walker’s weekend shack in the Rocky Cape National Park on the northwest coast of Tasmania. It was about 9.15pm. We’d been to the Tasmanian launch of the 2011 Footy Almanac at the Wynyard Football Club and were taking things easy, this being our first [Read more]
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