Local legend Max Brown chats with John Harms at the Wynyard footy club rooms. Dips and Pamela Sherpa selling truck loads of books to the Wynyard crowd. The Alamanac touring party at the local footy oval. Wynyard gets up – and didn’t they need the win.
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round 10
June 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
Greetings Tipsters Upset. The Oxford online defines upset as: Verb 1 – make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried; 2 – knock (something) over; 3 – cause disorder in; disrupt: 4 – shorten and thicken the end or edge of (a metal bar, wheel rim, or other object), especially by hammering or pressure when heated; Noun [Read more]
The View From Shepparton – Round 10
June 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
James Polkinghorne, (James Polkinghorne?, yes well I had never heard of him either), you bloody ripper. Forget Buddy’s 13, forget Melbourne getting over Essendon, forget the Richmond St Kilda epic…… Well OK I’ll grant that that is asking for an awful lot of forgetfulness but all the same that goal which I am sure was [Read more]
University v Lockyer Valley
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Scott Sowerby The University Cougars inconsistent form continued last Saturday at the Gatton Showgrounds when they returned to the winners’ list, falling over the line against the Demons of Lockyer Valley by 208 points. In a major surprise, the 33-17-215 to 1-1-7 triumph was played on a green playing surface, mostly devoid of [Read more]
The Wrap – Round X
June 4, 2012 by 9 Comments
THE WRAP – ROUND X WHERE LIFE IMITATES FOOTBALL And what a round it’s been in Footy Eddie. Competition Leaders and Flag Favourites humbled and humiliated. Yes Bomberland Faithful, a loss by one straight kick is an humiliation when it’s delivered by a winless team with a scoring percentage lower than Julia Gilliard’s approval rating. [Read more]
Write for the Junior Almanac
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to the Junior Almanac page. We publish the words of keen young writers. You can write about footy. But really, we just want to see kids learning to love stories and words, and to become published writers and enthusiastic readers. So we’d love you to write about your passion, whether it be footy or [Read more]
Going to the footy
June 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Daniel Taranto Sitting on a plastic chair, in a stadium which makes it colder indoors than out (How does Docklands manage to achieve that?), with 35,000 fellow Carlton Blues supporters on a Saturday afternoon is one of the things in life that I love doing. It gives me a sense of [Read more]
Do we have the greatest game of all?
June 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
Dear Fellow Football Fans, I need your help. The game of Australian Rules football, and in particular, the AFL, has changed dramatically over the last two and a half decades. At the end of the 1986 season the Christopher Skase owned Seven Network purchased the rights to broadcast the VFL for just $6 million. Many [Read more]
Suns, Demons Roos, we’re all the same
June 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Forgive me Almanackers for I have sinned, it has been 2 months since my last publication. It has been a hectic 2 months as well, but the results have been sadly lacking on the field across the board. From a combined 36 matches across the competitive grades and genders, there have been 3 wins across [Read more]
Hawthorn: the myth is solidified
June 1, 2012 by 1 Comment
This is the second in a multi-part series on the building of the current Hawthorn team. To see part one go to: http://footyalmanac.com.au/?p=38530 As the 2002 season dawned there was a lot of optimism from Hawthorn fans, still bitter over the loss of Croad the fan base still reasoned, with some justification, that he was [Read more]
Footy date today
May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s a date! Australian Rules aficionados, trivia tragics and numeric numbskulls look forward with great anticipation to the first official day of winter on Friday written as a date, Australian style, namely 1/6/12. Enjoy it while you can because this is the last year until 2107 that the calendar provides us with just the one [Read more]
Going Scarlett with Rage
May 31, 2012 by 21 Comments
I can’t take it anymore. This has been bubbling inside me for a number of years. The tipping point almost came a few weeks back, and the breaking point has now been reached. I’ve heard one too many comments regarding one full back, and way too many of another. In differing ways On the first day [Read more]
Footy through the eyes of a father
May 31, 2012 by 7 Comments
Football as I know it changed during round 2 on April 7th as Jack William Dodson came into the world. As fish and chip shop owners were playing their grand final on Good Friday and I was pondering if Ross Lyon instilled structure and process into doing the dishes and lovemaking or if he was [Read more]
In the West, Channel 7’s approach beyond a joke
May 30, 2012 by 26 Comments
I’ve read a number of complaints in football magazines lately about Channel 7 and their decision to ‘conveniently’ only show the teams for the games which they are televising on their Thursday night news program. Well not only are they excluding the teams they don’t show on the news on Thursday night, they’re shunning these [Read more]
Feeling Hird, but looking Neeld
May 30, 2012 by 5 Comments
There’s a line Chris Cornell sings in a Soundgarden song that goes “I’m looking California, but feeling Minnesota.” Well, right now, I am trying to look James Hird but I’m feeling more Mark Neeld. My first year of junior football coaching has yielded an 0 and 9 start, and I fear the boys have forgotten [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 10, Saturday 31 May, v North Melbourne, MCG
May 30, 2012 by 12 Comments
In 1980, Ron Barassi was still the biggest name in football. Looking back three decades, it’s easy to snigger at the temper tantrums and the wide lapels and see the caricature rather than the substance of the man. However, without doubt, Barassi had the single greatest influence in changing the way football was played during [Read more]
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Nine
May 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greetings Tipsters Working long hours at strange times of the day does not make for an environment conducive to watching three hours of football four times a weekend. This could also make it difficult to write a football column, but being clueless has never stopped me from doing anything before.
A love affair rekindled
May 29, 2012 by 29 Comments
By Scott Rankin At times it had seemed to be the headiest of love affairs. Grand final appearances, a ‘minor premiership’ (what psychopath coined that phrase?) and 18-zip starts to seasons can do that to a man. As can Ross Lyon’s endearing, laconic style. He rang me one day. It was mid week in the [Read more]
The View from Shepparton
May 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Went to the footy on Satdy, first time in yonks. Went to see the Guns v the Powerless. Don’t go to live footy very often, which is a bummer because I don’t recognise a lot of the players and certainly didn’t recognise most of the Guns or for that matter most of the Port players.
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