By Bill Walker Summer Sojourn The summer break is always a challenging time for small footy clubs. The game day business is finished but book balancing is daunting, annual dinner and AGM loom and coaching review and recruitment are pivotal to player recruitment. Every aspect of our club’s administration is undertaken by volunteers. They [Read more]
Tigers put the foot down
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
WAFL round five By Les Everett THE WAFL ladder has a neat look to it after round five. Each team has won a game, only Subiaco are undefeated and nobody is out of contention. When he spoke to his players at three quarter time at Fremantle Oval on Sunday Bulldogs coach Paul Hasleby made an [Read more]
Fev’s North Eastern Saga
April 17, 2012 by 5 Comments
by Andrew Walker Since Yarrawonga announced that Fev may be playing with them during the 2012 Ovens and Murray season there has been no shortage of Fev news. First came rumours that other O & M clubs were also talking to the talented but incident prone player. Once Fev’s arrangements with the Yarrawonga [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick
April 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Bill Walker Preamble Wynyard is a sleepy little seaside town on the North West Coast of Tasmania. It has three pubs, one set of traffic lights, an annual tulip festival, an airport, basketball, cricket and footy clubs, a writers group whose leader is aspiring to Colleen McCulloch dizzy heights, numerous stray cats and [Read more]
From the BFL: 60 Years Ago
April 5, 2012 by 8 Comments
From the Bendigo Football League Records 1952 A reflection on how much things have, or haven’t changed in 60 years Season start April 26 1952, Editorial- B.F.L football made an auspicious start for 1952-the total revenue of 534 pounds set a new high for the opening round; the weather was kind after threatening wet conditions [Read more]
CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE CANTEEN IS COOKING?
March 30, 2012 by 7 Comments
With the AFL starting their season with a cracking opening round of games, that seems in many cases to have divided tipsters, and other leagues around the country in full swing, it is worth sparing a thought for where all this begins, especially playing careers. This weekend sees the start of junior football, at least [Read more]
NTFL Season Review
March 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By – JACKSON CLARK Tiwi Bombers won its first premiership since inception into the competition to culminate a fantastic season of football in the Northern Territory Football League. Commiserations must go to Nightcliff as the club fought its way back from bottom place to fall agonisingly short of its first premiership title in 47 years. [Read more]
Sandhurst All-Stars
March 25, 2012 by 16 Comments
As relayed by Richard Jones. As authored by Darren Lewis. Rich
Riverland Superdogs v Broken Hill Shinglebacks
March 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AFL MASTERS – ROUND ONE SATURDAY 24TH OF MARCH 2012, LYRUP OVAL By Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs broke their winless drought against the Broken Hill Shinglebacks, coming back from five goals down at quarter time to defeat the visitors by 11 points in round one of SA AFL Masters at Lyrup Oval [Read more]
Preview of the NT Thunder side for the upcoming NEAFL season
March 25, 2012 by 5 Comments
BY – JACKSON CLARK The Northern Territory Football League season is done and dusted but the NT Thunder side is back in action with its first game of the season on the weekend. Thunder faces Morningside at TIO Stadium on Saturday in round one of the NEAFL season to kick of its premiership defence. It [Read more]
Officiating Tiwi Style
March 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Photo by Peter Argent. Things are a little more relaxed up north. Almanac Admin
Brothers Brothers Brothers, Oi Oi Oi!
March 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Mick Jeffrey So it’s all started yet again……no folks I’m not talking about the big boys down in the capitals and the South. I’m talking about the footy Central Queensland style. The regular season doesn’t start until April 14 (which by then we’ll see a new Government continue to wreck Queensland in a [Read more]
Bombers take the Top End
March 19, 2012 by 9 Comments
If Spain played the ‘beautiful game’ with the round ball to win the World Cup, the Tiwi Bombers played it last Saturday night with the oval ball to win the Northern Territory Football League premiership for the first time. Not that it was perfect footy. The Bomber defence took nearly half the game to get [Read more]
Pre-Season Promise
March 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Start Level 1……..BEEP…. Don’t exert too much. Just get to the line. It’s almost a walk at the start It’s probably not a ‘beep’, to be fair. It isn’t high-pitched enough to warrant an ‘ee’. More like a ‘duuurrrrt’. It is the calling of the legendary ‘beep test’ and it is but one facet of [Read more]
Eureka!
March 14, 2012 by 30 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Yes, it’s true, Josh Barnstable has already given us a wonderful summary of last Sunday’s game, but I’m prepared to risk being labelled a copycat from North Ballarat. I think our views will be different enough. Josh is a North man; I’m a Dog. He travelled south to get to Ballarat; I [Read more]
50 years on – Square and Rochy resume the rivalry
March 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
by Rod Gillett Last year the Golden Square Football Club went through the Bendigo Football League unbeaten to win the premiership. It matched the feat of the Rochester “Invincibles” who were premiers and champions in the same league in 1962. Rochy beat Golden Square in the grand final that year. Both clubs are understandably [Read more]
Welcome to the new Coach
March 12, 2012 by 4 Comments
With less than three weeks to go to the start of the football season, there are a number of new coaches anxiously counting the hours until Round 1. For some of them, this time will be one of either confidence that they have inherited a well-managed list with great potential, or a realisation that there’s [Read more]
Dragons prepare for big season in 150th year
March 8, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Richard Jones SANDHURST Football and Netball Club, one of the Bendigo league’s oldest, is gearing up for a big 2012 as the Dragons prepare for their 150th year. With ex-Dragon Joel Selwood now anointed as captain of reigning AFL premiers Geelong, Sandhurst hopes to have as many former players, members and officials as possible [Read more]
The local footy book
March 2, 2012 by 9 Comments
Hi all, Yes! The local footy book lives! Malarkey Publications, publisher of The Footy Almanac, should soon be in a position to revive the local footy book of essays that went into abeyance last year. We have a dozen completed pieces and several others in the editing stage (see list below) but [Read more]
A unique life member
February 15, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Andrew Weiss In sporting clubs around Australia on honour boards within clubrooms there are names of people who have been given life membership at that particular sporting club. For some the achievement of becoming a life member may have been because of playing so many games at a particular level or playing for [Read more]
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