This is almost like unchartered waters for myself. The last time we had a change in the captaincy was at the end of 2008, when Adam Simpson handed the reins down (literally) to Brent Harvey, who has given North Melbourne three fantastic years of leadership, exuberant play and a familiar face in the media. Back [Read more]
What about the footy?!
January 31, 2012 by 27 Comments
Scanning the pages of this lovely website I begin to think that while you have all gone cricket mad (I now know what a golden duck is lol) the tennis, Australian Open was kinda ignored and umm…there’s this other thing called FOOTY…. Where were the Federer pieces? (Don’t go there Gigs! Lol) Sure he [Read more]
From Purgatory to Redemption
January 18, 2012 by 5 Comments
From Purgatory to Redemption: Dear Saints, Bulldogs and Demons, ‘For those people destined never to experience joy, happiness and fulfilment in their lives, God created the Geelong Football Club’ Couldabeen Champions,1996 At the end of the 1995 season I felt like you do. My wounds were raw and my football team had [Read more]
The birth of the UWS Giants
January 17, 2012 by 16 Comments
by Rod Gillett When Sydney University play the UWS Giants in the eastern conference of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) this season it won’t actually pit two uni teams against each other. The UWS Giants are not necessarily representing the University of Western Sydney, they’re just playing under their name. That’s because [Read more]
Almanac Tributes: Remembering ‘The Horse’ Harry Kernahan
January 15, 2012 by 31 Comments
At the timeof Harry Kernahan’s death in 2012, Mike Sexton paid tribute to him by telling the story of a brilliant night honouring the twentieth anniversary of Glenelg’s 1985 premiership.
The cost of free speech
January 13, 2012 by 9 Comments
I can’t remember the exact season, but suspect it was 1993. The game had barely begun when a stick-like bloke a couple of rows in front and a few seats to the left started, and virtually didn’t stop. Every play the Cats made was loudly criticised, and every Cats player demeaned, and all with a [Read more]
Purgatory
January 12, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Simon Dalton November, 1995 This is my first attempt at confronting the devil since the last Saturday in September, 1995. He has been chiding me and probably kindred souls of the same ilk. Come April he will undoubtedly crank it up. The worst insult has been implanting in my subconscious a song, not unlike [Read more]
Who Gets the Footy Team?
January 12, 2012 by 6 Comments
The off season of footy (otherwise known as “are we there yet”) is filled with Rugby, Cycling, pre-Olympic meets and of course, currently, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, and Cricket (in all its forms). All wonderful events, which help one to be meaningfully distracted from the ordinariness of life. If you are doubly lucky, these things form [Read more]
A Magpie Life
January 9, 2012 by 29 Comments
So here’s my story. I heard FootyAlmanac.com.au being plugged on SEN 1116 and thought “this is for me”. I love my footy and with my great mate Chubba I started a parenting resource, a blog with a sporting flavour, called TackleNappy.com. I’m a tragic Collingwood supporter. I once stood next to Lee Walker at [Read more]
Why the hoops?
January 9, 2012 by 4 Comments
‘WE ARE GEELONG, THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL…’ Now this, for so long the most ‘cringeworthy’ line in any AFL team song, finally rang true at the end of the 2011 Grand Final when we were able to belt it out with gusto and conviction. Beautiful! Dear Family, In light of this magnificent [Read more]
The Bomb
January 6, 2012 by 13 Comments
Broken Creek in Numurkah, Northern Victoria, was where I learned to swim. Graduating from the fenced-in concrete-bottomed beginners pool, Dad took me into the deep where the bottom was unfathomable, for a five year old, and promised to look after me, but kept moving further away, forcing me to continue my stroke to just stay [Read more]
Detrimental as anything
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
from Troy Thompson Thought this sounded very familiar – but of course it is about gaelic football rather than Aussie rules. http://www.kerryman.ie/sport/gaelic-football/influence-of-afl-and-rugby-is-having-a-detrimental-effect-on-gaelic-football-2969859.html
The other Gary Ablett
January 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Hamish Cameron On Monday, a Gary Ablett of a different kind passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was 46, played for Liverpool and was later controversially transferred to Everton. Ablett scored in his first match and won two championships and the FA Cup during his spell with Liverpool, and became [Read more]
If i was an AFL coach….
December 31, 2011 by 7 Comments
In all honesty i can’t see the day where there will be a female AFL coach. Just look at the other codes as proof. Soccer has the balding/salt and pepper haired, red faced animated males who look like they are about to explode on the sidelines from stress. Same goes for tennis, majority of coaches [Read more]
Standing on the outside looking in
December 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by Tony Robb Greetings to all. The past 12 months have seen a change of career for your Canberra correspondent. It has resulted in an increase in writing output but sadly in the form of reports about injured workers and not about sport. There are only so many ways one can describe the ebbs [Read more]
Spotted
December 24, 2011 by 6 Comments
I’d just like to say a word or two about the Christmas rush, if I may, keeping in mind that I am an eighteen-year-old check-out chick so it might be a little tainted. Just a little. I wish I could say I rub my hands with glee and watch and wait for that first customer [Read more]
Thai-king Footy
December 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
THAI-king Footy Sawasdee Mister Floreat Picans and Mister Almanackers. The last place I expected to be talking footy with the locals was in the faraway tropical land known for its sporting pursuits of Soccer, Boxing and a derivation of the game we know as Table Tennis! But, you could have knocked me down with a [Read more]
Lion to Demon
December 22, 2011 by 6 Comments
With Fitzroy’s existence under threat for most of my childhood, being a supporter of the Roys was never easy. But when the end came, it still felt like someone had died. The mourning period lasted a long time.
Now THAT’S entertainment!
December 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
by Andrew Fithall Solved! I now get it! Finally I understand why the AFL keeps scheduling such crap pre-game and half-time entertainment. They don’t have sufficient confidence in the quality of their own product that they can put on the same program something that might compete with the actual game in providing a benefit [Read more]
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