by Sasha Lennon Travelling home along Milton Road past the spot where John Oxley arguably ‘discovered’ this town some 185 years ago, I reflected on this warm November evening in West Toowong, where a northern passion for all things Aussie Rules was fully illuminated in the glow of a retreating moon. With much aplomb, Professor [Read more]
Zephi Skinner leaps tall buildings, and an Almanac correspondent
November 23, 2010 by 8 Comments
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to play a couple of games for the NT Thunder side this year. They compete in the QAFL and unfortunately for them they were scraping the bottom of the barrel, player wise. I happened to be in town and they reluctantly decided they had no alternative but [Read more]
Social Networking in Footy
November 19, 2010 by 7 Comments
Scan the crowd at your local AFL match at half time and chances are you’ll see a myriad of fans ‘tweeting’ or ‘Facebooking’ on their phones. Social networking took the Australian Football League by storm in 2010 and the majority of clubs eagerly hopped onboard the new phenomenon. Fans can now access their favourite team [Read more]
SHORT DRAFT MEMORY (Must have a…..)
November 19, 2010 by 1 Comment
[I]”Conquistadors of Peel Thunder, West Adelaide and Northern Knights The Young Falcons of Old Geelong SHORT DRAFT MEMORY Young hopeful from Tasmania, a project player from Canberra Your club’s 2 minute deadline’s up SHORT DRAFT MEMORY Short draft memory must be a shoorrrt draft memory”[/I] Sorry, getting a little carried away with it all, or [Read more]
Giant Name Leaves Little Room for Inspiration
November 18, 2010 by 18 Comments
By Sasha Lennon I knew this would happen. It’s taken me ten years or more to accept ‘The Dockers’. I still can’t digest ‘The Power’, and I can’t even say ‘The Suns’ out loud but now we have the GWS Giants! What happened to all the animals? Have we run out of good names? Surely [Read more]
Where did you get the ‘Nac?
November 17, 2010 by 18 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Last week’s Melbourne launch of the fourth Footy Almanac was, sadly, the first one I’ve not attended. A pre-arranged junket to New Zealand meant that I was holed up in an Auckland hotel at the time Gerard Whateley was unleashing the 2010 Almanac onto passionate Pies, sorrowful Saints, flummoxed Footscray fans and [Read more]
littledocker
November 15, 2010 by 4 Comments
Okay so I was thinking about, the whole Jack might be going to Freo thing and I guess maybe it’s not THAT bad. While I know it means that id have to kinda-sorta adopt Freo as my second team, a photo I found of myself kinda made me realise that it’s not going to be [Read more]
Australian Football Versus Tackleball and Stoppageball
November 15, 2010 by 12 Comments
THE ‘GREAT GAME’ OF 2009–10 This is a story of the state of Australian Football — with implications for the character of other invasion/?eld games in the commercial, professional, corporate era of sport — in three parts. This more speci?c study is set in an era of the corruption of contemporary sports (from corporate club [Read more]
Canberra now a western suburb
November 12, 2010 by 8 Comments
The ACT Government has signed a 10 year, 4 games per year contract with GWS. The deal worth approximately $26M will have the new boys from the ‘burbs playing one pre season and three competition games each year. While I struggle to embrace anything relating to Kevin Sheedy, it is a big boost for footie [Read more]
Footy Almanac Melbourne Launch 2010
November 12, 2010 by 9 Comments
Spraying the mist onto my face and arms, I could feel the soothe of the sunburn I acquired umpiring cricket all day. Stupid me, I should’ve applied more sunscreen. Now I’ll face the consequences. And it didn’t help that it was a stinking hot night. It felt like Christmas Eve, the warm air of the [Read more]
The Almanac 1950
November 11, 2010 by 1 Comment
I came across Mullen’s Australasian Footballers’ Almanac during a tidy-up of my footy bookshelf. It was part of a collection of treasures given to me by my cousin Gil Farmer a couple of years ago. Gil was making room on his shelves and I was happy to take possession of copies of Ross Elliot’s West [Read more]
Blues in Strife
November 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Carlton Football Club was thrown into a state of high uncertainty after this week’s release of the BRW 100 richest Australian business people. There was a glaring omission of the Blue’s redeemer, Richard Pratt, from the list as well as concern over the rising number of claims against his estate by aggrieved mistresses. A [Read more]
Wood On You
November 9, 2010 by 4 Comments
A few weeks ago, I had an idea. I want to find out some things about wood. Not wood as in Colling – wood. I know all about that ‘cos I’m one of them. No, I’m talking about the other kind of footy wood. I ran my idea past Daff and he asked me to [Read more]
TOP CATS ALL CLASS AND BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING
November 9, 2010 by 2 Comments
It isn’t often that one gets the opportunity to spend time with some of the top people in the AFL. Fortunately my trip to Ireland with the International Team gave me a rare treat As a 60years plus Pivotonian man I was delighted to spend time with two of the top cats in Geelong’s great [Read more]
Collingwood Newsletter
November 9, 2010 by 8 Comments
Well Magpie fans, can you believe it’s already been 38 days since our glorious victory. Incredible as it seems we are already beginning to mount the premiership defence for 2011 with the players recently returning from altitude training in the penthouse at Crown. The excitement amongst the group in palpable and there seems to be [Read more]
Jack Anthony leaves Danni (and Collingwood)
November 6, 2010 by 36 Comments
Sat –Nov 6th 11:26PM- a confirmation on the Herald Sun website reveals Jack Anthony has left Collingwood and will nominate for the pre-season draft. — Take a glass, throw it to the floor and smash to a billion pieces- that’s what happened to my heart. I had no awareness of anything around me, Jack left, [Read more]
2011 AFL Fixture Discussion
October 29, 2010 by 17 Comments
The AFL have just released the full fixture for next season. Fuller examination will doubtless reveal many sub-plots and sub-texts, but initial points to catch the eye: As usual, Collingwood have less opportunity to accumulate frequent flyer points than other teams- cue traditional arguments over this issue. West Coast and Freo will now be playing [Read more]
Footy hasn’t finished for the Year. It’s just starting up … in the Middle East!
October 29, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Russell Yule Sure, most of the football community is depressed with the thought of facing the next four months with Collingwood as Premiers. Well here is an opportunity to move on. Get on board the AFL-Middle East bandwagon. Be amongst those up the front driving it, rather than on the wagon part! Your humble [Read more]
And so it begins…
October 28, 2010 by 4 Comments
It’s been a little over three weeks since the last AFL game, and I’m already missing the hustle and bustle of the AFL. Richmond began their pre-season training today, with the first to third year players stepping back out on to the field of battle in preparation for the 2011 season. Holidays are over, its [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Quotes that capture the moment
October 26, 2010 by 43 Comments
by Chris Riordan “I wipe my feet before I get on him” Steve Arnold found a great phrase to describe the joy and satisfaction of riding So You Think when interviewed after the Caulfield Stakes. Bruce Clark, on TVN, checked with him after Saturday’s emphatic Cox Plate pageant…”Did you wipe your feet?” The usually taciturn [Read more]
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