What a week it’s been in life and footy, Eddie. Sorry, I’m suffering from Wrap Deprivation Syndrome. Who would have thought that he’d desert TLSWRF* and take the $1.5 million a season from GWS to ghost write Sheeds’ column for the Blacktown Bugle? (*The Long Suffering Wrap Reader Faithful).
Good sumps mean good footy
May 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
Match 2 Coober Pedy Saints vs Hornridge Football Club 12.30pm Saturday 5th May 2012 Roxby Downs Oval. by George Laslett This week has been an insight into the life of a football club committeeman, organiser and run-around man. After last Saturday’s debacle of the coach going troppo at the boys and the last half [Read more]
Victoria Park’s retro reno
May 4, 2012 by 4 Comments
In the final instalment of my nostalgic Collingwood-Victoria Park trilogy, I take a look at the Victoria Park redevelopment. It’s ironic something that once united and defined Collingwood supporters has become a source of angst and division. Especially at a time which could be considered the club’s high noon.
What’s in a name?
May 4, 2012 by 16 Comments
“What’s in a name?” Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” So said Juliet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on finding out Romeo was “on the other team”, a Collingwood member to Juliet’s “Carlton” or any other AFL team with [Read more]
Stripes of survival
May 3, 2012 by 16 Comments
It was THE DAY, we the Sport Reporting students were going to temporarily take the place of journalists in a presser. The coach in question was Michael Malthouse. The room was set up so well you’d think it was the real deal, from the microphones on the table, to the glass of water. My mission [Read more]
Ode to the Fat Boy
May 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
Ode to the Fat Boy. Some sad news came to me recently. A friend from my sporting past had left us after a long illness. I had lost touch with him, and whilst I knew of the illness the finality of it all shocked me. I passed on the news to my brother up north [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Round 6, Saturday 3 May, v Geelong, VFL Park
May 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
Saturday 3 May, 4.30pm, Monash University Music Department. The date, time and place of my clarinet exam. It had been in the diary for weeks but as the day approached, I felt a growing frustration that I’d be so close yet so far from the event going on a bit further down Wellington Road: Geelong [Read more]
Playing for the Brisbane Lions reserves
May 3, 2012 by 9 Comments
Playing for the Brisbane Lions reserves may not mean much for some, but at the time it meant the world to me and I could barely contain my excitement in the lead up to the match. At the time I was 16 years old and training with the NT Thunder, hoping to get selected in [Read more]
The View from Shepparton – Round 5
May 2, 2012 by 8 Comments
What a round we have just had, again a fantastic advertisement for our code. Unfortunately I, as is, and ever has been, barracked for the wrong side and was on the receiving end of the the Tomahawk’s 6 straight goals. Get that, Buddy et al!!! 6 STRAIGHT GOALS IN ATROCIOUS CONDITIONS. It was bad luck [Read more]
It’s footy, Jim, but not as we know it
May 1, 2012 by 17 Comments
(AFL Quebec Preseason Cup: Concordia University, Loyola Campus, Montreal, Saturday April 28) A few things I’d never encountered in over 40 years of footy-going: snow en route to a game; a bagpipe medley of Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda; a rule forbidding goals kicked from beyond the 30-yard line; a field of artificial turf; [Read more]
The 2012 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Five
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greetings Tipsters That was one bloody long weekend of football. It seems like an age since Perky Girl and I woke up, stumbled to the loungeroom to flick on the big screen and catch Collingwood and Essendon going at it hammer and tongs. It was a cracker of a game, struck me that the 4&20s [Read more]
WAFL Round 7
April 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Les Everett A disappointing Freo derby had Les heading home early to beat the rain. Read about the rest of the round below: http://australianrules.com.au/news/982/78/Oh-what-a-horrible-derby
Migrants and the footy experience
April 30, 2012 by 7 Comments
Dear Almanackers, I’m looking for 30-40 writers who may be first or second generation migrants to share stories about their relationship with footy. The idea is to publish a book that will reflect the authentic multicultural fan base of the AFL. This does not only include people from non-English speaking backgrounds. Indeed, there would be [Read more]
Sixteenth, broke and shizenhousen
April 30, 2012 by 17 Comments
In lieu of a Sensational Games precursor to the Magpies – Bulldogs clash, here’s a personal account of a game that for ‘Pie fans was anything but sensational. They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn. Well by 5pm on 28 August 1999, it was so dark in Collingwood town that to quote [Read more]
Why do we glorify Anzac Day?
April 30, 2012 by 2 Comments
What do North Hobart and the Adelaide Crows have in common? Well they happen to be the only two clubs in Australia who have club footballs in the primary school at Villers Bretonneau. There are three other footballs there – all the mighty Sherrin. Other significant features such as the Victoria Café, Rue de Melbourne, [Read more]
Tiger Torment
April 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
BY – JACKSON CLARK One word springs to mind when describing the Richmond Football Club – passion. We have had a couple of passionate albeit erratic key forwards and there is little doubt we supporters are passionate. There have been plenty of ups and downs during my time barracking for Richmond. Unfortunately there have been [Read more]
footy players and the flirty threat they pose to females
April 30, 2012 by 11 Comments
You know what we young ladies love about our Collingwood boys? We love the way they treat us fans. I am not just talking a photo opportunity here and there, the tweet replies or the autographs, no im talking about how they really let lose around the fans, especially the baby Magpies. Now readers, especially [Read more]
So painfully, agonisingly and tigerishly close
April 29, 2012 by 16 Comments
If today has taught me anything, it’s this: don’t sit in an area cluttered with fragile objects when you’re watching the football – especially if you happen to follow a team like Richmond. Just don’t. Remove yourself from the area as things start to get heated. Go for a walk with the radio or, better [Read more]
ANZAC Day at Loxton North
April 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
LOXTON NORTH V WAIKERIE RFL – ROUND ONE 2012, Wed April 25th By Nick Kossatch at Loxton North Waikerie withstood a stern fight back from last year’s premiers Loxton North to defeat them by five points in a pulsating Anzac Day RFL round one match at Loxton North. Tanunda recruit Craig Underwood made his return [Read more]
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