John Harms gives an overview of the forewords and Grand Final pieces which feature in The Footy Almanac 2012. And then there’s 200 match reports.
Third Test – Preview: Too tough to pick
November 30, 2012 by 10 Comments
Some thoughts on Perth. Watto’s back so the Most Run Outs: Australia market is looking very attractive.
First Test – Day 1: South Africa takes the advantage
November 13, 2012 by 8 Comments
John Harms looks at the first day from the Gabba, and calls for the Australians to find their inner-Hoggy.
“It’s like the extremeties of the Bell curve of emotion have been lopped off – a little more each season in the interest of process and control. I want madmen playing this game. Crazies like Rodney Hogg and D.K. Lillee.”
The Mug Punter: Big upset looms in brilliant Caulfield Cup
October 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Mug returns with his value quinella in the Caulfield Cup. Please continue the racing conversation where it is currently happening: at Crio’s preview.
Almanac Rugby League: Yes, Virginia, there is meaning in rugby league
October 5, 2012 by 26 Comments
John Harms delivered the George Lovejoy Memorial Lecture in Brisbane.
AFL Grand Final: Barracking for football in general, and banjos in particular
September 28, 2012 by 18 Comments
My mate Biddsy bought a banjo, and a banjo manual, so he could learn that brilliant solo from the Swans theme song, from first principles. He barracks for Richmond. I am thinking of Biddsy and banjos because we have heard a lot of the Swans theme song in our house over the past few days. [Read more]
The Brownlow winner
September 26, 2012 by 3 Comments
We re-visit John Harms’s tribute to Jobe Watson after an unlikely Bombers win one Sunday evening in 2009..
AFL Finals Week 1 – Geelong v Fremantle: Is that it?
September 13, 2012 by 36 Comments
Last Sunday morning a pall of melancholy settled over the Harms household. Nothing could assuage it: not the morning sun through the north window, not the sound of little feet running from the front bedroom, not the smell of raisin toast. Not even the reassuring voice of Barrie Cassidy. “Rainbow,” said young Evie, pointing at [Read more]
AFL Round 23 – Geelong v Sydney: In the balance
September 4, 2012 by 17 Comments
It is Saturday afternoon. I am driving down the Geelong Road. Peter J. Flynn is in the passenger’s seat. As we look to the south and the west P. Flynn claims he hasn’t seen skies like this since being in Western Australia. Big sky and a warm afternoon. Good for footy. We are running late, [Read more]
Rivalry
August 2, 2012 by 25 Comments
This all goes back a couple of decades, perhaps to 1989. Or even earlier. The story so far: the Hawks are too good for Geelong during the late 80s and early 90s. The Cats have a terrific team of characters who play the game with their own flair and are encouraged by the creative [Read more]
Olympic sadness
July 31, 2012 by 69 Comments
I woke this morning (a small victory in itself) to a couple of the sadder images I have seen in sport. Initially the sound was down on the TV so I don’t know what happened to the fencer. I don’t know her name. I think she was Korean. I just saw her sitting on her [Read more]
Steve Hooker the Olympic highlight for Harms
July 30, 2012 by 109 Comments
Harms set tongues wagging with his comment on Offsiders that Steve Hooker was his Olympics highlight, saying instead of withdrawing with “injury”, Hooker faced his demons in the glare of the world spotlight, showing a “magnificent nobility”. Some words from Harms: I knew this choice of moment was FWD (fraught with danger). And the two [Read more]
Moe and Me: Encounters with Moe Norman, Golf’s Mysterious Genius
July 20, 2012 by 6 Comments
A couple of years ago I was playing golf with Robert O’Callaghan for a small wager, a box of Footy Almanacs to three bottles of Rockford wines (a bounty that was incentive enough). We’d had huge overnight rain in Canberra and Robert was out of the blocks quickly to go two up. Golf can be [Read more]
Collingwood less gone this week
July 16, 2012 by 56 Comments
The Collingwood Football Club might not be as gone for the 2012 season as it was last week. However, if you are brave enough to announce a renaissance based on one good quarter of Carringbush footy, where the opponent (the mighty Cats) virtually handed goals out like strip club cards at an Adelaide Oval Test, [Read more]
Some thoughts on making some pizza money from Round 16.
July 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
JTH arguing the case for the Swans – yet again. Here he tries to find a winner in Round 16. http://tatts.com/news/2012/7/9/afl-round-16
Worrying signs at Collingwood.
July 9, 2012 by 36 Comments
Friday afternoon. I don’t think there was a tip of which I was more certain in the history football, as I caught the tram down to the North Fitzroy Arms, than Collingwood to win Friday night’s game. They would win by a stack, and the doof-doof boys of Lygon Street would be calling for Ratten’s [Read more]
Round 15 preview
July 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Harms, coming off a 9 from 9, tries to find a winner for Round 15. http://tatts.com/news/2012/7/3/afl-round-15
Desire in old Geelong
July 2, 2012 by 14 Comments
There was something timeless about the football in Geelong yesterday. Like the weather has been coming out of the south-west since God put breath into Adam, and the Geelong faithful have been rugging up, and turning up, since the Saturday after that. It’s wild, that weather. The Shipwreck Coast looks like it does for a [Read more]
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