Aker-mania came to Hobart on the weekend. A ground record crowd of 8,400 turned up see Aker debut for the Glenorchy Magpies at KGV Oval against reigning TFL premiers, Clarence on Saturday evening in the season opener. For the demographically and statistically inclined, that’s around 4% of Hobart’s population or 1.6% of Tassie’s total populace. [Read more]
1946 Marrawah v Richmond Cubs
April 4, 2011 by 5 Comments
Extract from ‘The Circular Head Chronicle in 1946. Circular Head is centred around Smithton in north west Tasmania and to the west is Marrawah (pronounced Marra war by the locals) Was this the beginning of a pattern for the Tigers? Phantom
Willaston Dreams
March 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Pictures by Almanacker Peter Argent It’s a great time of the year for footballers around the country. Wherever they might be. Some have been hard at it all summer. Running with squinted eyes through the shimmery white heat, loving and hating (at once) the beads of sweat which trickle between their shoulder blades, down the [Read more]
Sid Myers rewards
March 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
It was raining hard on a mid-winter Tuesday night; the oval full of water and mud; everything well dark. The club had fallen hard. We were in what, D-division? Something involving knuckles and no hope. We’d won one game, they’d sacked the coach. Eight of us had bothered to show up. We milled around the [Read more]
Fifteen
March 11, 2011 by 7 Comments
In answer to your question, a story… Fifteen. I never played junior footy. I was 15, skinny, and went straight to the tatts and knuckles league of a suburb that is now gone. The oval is still there, but it is now a smooth, green thing. The creek at the city end is no-longer toxic. [Read more]
Vale Wunghnu Football Club
March 2, 2011 by 17 Comments
by Josh Barnstable I can imagine the downfall and the final game ever played for the Fitzroy Football Club was the one of the saddest days in the VFL/AFL history, for players and supporters of any team. It isn’t right to see a proud club like the Lions, who were around for 100 years having [Read more]
The white Mullock heaps
March 2, 2011 by 4 Comments
Here is your intrepid sports correspondent reporting in from the white Mullock heaps. by George Laslett Just got back from the footy in Coober Pedy where Mimili Falcons (their reserve side); main team Mimili Blue beat Coober Pedy 20:14 to 14:12. We’d better keep practicing. Looks like Ali will have the pictures up soon. Mimili [Read more]
RON CAWTHAN: A LIFETIME’S SERVICE TO CASTLEMAINE
February 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
RON started playing footy at the tender age of eight when he turned out for the Wesley Hill club in the Castlemaine District Junior Football league. It wasn’t until 1971 that he first wore the Castemaine colors when he played for the Magpie under-18 side. He spent two seasons with the Thirds, finishing runner-up in [Read more]
Teammates
February 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
by Matt Zurbo I was dragged out of retirement early this year. All up I missed three gloriously injury-free games. The memory of them and my total playing absence, was sweet. But, before long I was back playing my 25th year of adult footy for the not so mighty Otway Districts Reserves. (Second last on [Read more]
Tony Kelly: An icon of the Kyneton Football Club
February 8, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Richard Jones TO SAY that Tony Kelly is one of the enduring characters of the Kyneton and Bendigo football communities is to state the obvious. He is one of the BFNL’s genuine larger-than-life personalities and richly deserved his elevation to BFNL Hall of Fame status last October. Kelly was a fearless ball-getter on the [Read more]
Maryborough’s proud history dates back to 1872
January 25, 2011 by 10 Comments
by Richard Jones MARYBOROUGH has had an established football club since mid-1872 when three matches were played against neighbouring Avoca. Actually, an attempt was made to start up a club in June 1869 but it was unsuccessful. Nothing was done until 1872 when 30 men gathered at the Bull and Mouth Hotel and adopted rules [Read more]
Where The Seagulls Nest
December 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In 2009 Jesse Maskell made a ten-minute documentary called Where The Seagulls Nest, as part of his VCE media studies. The documentary is a short history of the Williamstown football ground featuring archival footage and interviews with a handful of diehard long-time fans. Where The Seagulls Nest: http://vimeo.com/9752058 Almanac Admin
Home is where the grandstand is
December 23, 2010 by 9 Comments
VFL club Williamstown won’t be playing at home next year due to major works on the 80 year old grandstand, and on the playing surface.The Seagulls ‘home’ ground for next year, for six games, is at arch-rival Werribee’s ground. The three other ‘home’ games will be at Torquay (vs Geelong), Keilor (vs North Ballarat) and [Read more]
THE ELCHO BOYS LOVE THEIR FOOTY!
November 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
I’ve lived in the remote aboriginal community of Galiwinku, Elcho Island for well over a year now and am still astounded by how much they love their AFL. Last year we had a really successful senior season, with 7 teams competing in a gripping battle for the premiership. With 3 rounds to go all 7 [Read more]
Radio One
November 5, 2010 by 11 Comments
For some of you that have met me at the Almanac launch last year and various lunches throughout 2010, you would know by now that I’m a shy kid, I keep to myself mostly, and am pretty terrible at keeping my end of the deal in conversation. So it may take many of you by [Read more]
AGONISING LOWS ERASED BY GLORY
October 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
You may need to excuse me for this entry. It has been a long few weeks trying to overcome a roller coaster of emotion that in some ways is still riding out. But as the recent rainfall approaches a record for September (and October), here is my efforts to try to describe the last couple [Read more]
Letter from JezzaOWNZ
September 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by George Callum Jones-Kennedy Dear Almanackers, Great to see Rocket writing about the Glory days at UNE. One of the Greats was Julian Morison who penned this classic piece for the booklet produced for the reunion a few years ago that I would like to share with the Footy Almanac community as it really captured [Read more]
Bod’s big day out at the footy
September 29, 2010 by 4 Comments
by David Armstrong I had reasoned that it was nigh impossible for a regulation football fan (me) to ever go to an AFL Grand Final. So I committed myself to see a country league Granny, and chose Goulburn Valley as one of my sons lives in Shepparton and I was free on the day. So [Read more]
Local Footy: Roosters find boosters to see off Heidelberg
September 23, 2010 by 6 Comments
You can always bank on a handful of dramas in local footy at this time of year, but few would match the events of the Northern league in recent weeks. Heidelberg was heavily favoured all season to win its sixth premiership in seven years. In round 16, the Tigers defeated the second-ranked team, West Preston, [Read more]
My Black and White Past
September 23, 2010 by 26 Comments
When I was younger I played football with Montmorency in what was then called the Diamond Valley Football League. When I was older I played football with Diamond Valley Super Rules Football Club in their Master division (old blokes footy). In both of these teams I was required to wear a Collingwood strip – the [Read more]
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