Thursday @ The Almanac

Hayden Kelly muses about the demise of hot gospellers among the ranks of coaches.
His reminiscences of the wonderful orators of the past can be read HERE.

 

ROUND 8

Collingwood v Hawthorn
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle
Adelaide v Port Adelaide
Essendon v Brisbane
West Coast  v Richmond
Geelong v North Melbourne
Carlton v St Kilda
Sydney v Melbourne
Gold Coast v GWS

 ROUNDS 1-7

 

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Almanac Rugby League – Capitulation

April 10, 2012 by 2 Comments

By way of a demonstration, I have decided to write tonight’s match report showing a degree of commitment, enthusiasm and attenchun to detale equivalent to that displayed by Penrith. The End. Manly 30 (Buhrer, Williams 2, Matai, Watmough tries, Lyons 5/7 goals, Cherry-Evans 0/1 field goals) def Penrith 0. Venue: Brookvale Oval Referees:Gerard Sutton, Henry [Read more]

Leaving it all on the track

April 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment

  Leaving it all on the track Patrick O’Keeffe   It is a Sunday afternoon in Melbourne. I am at the Hisense Arena, standing in the middle of a recently constructed cycling velodrome, watching competitors from numerous countries preparing for the 2012 Track Cycling World Championships. The championships will be commencing in Melbourne on Thursday [Read more]

Here we are again

March 30, 2012 by 6 Comments

A couple of years ago, I sat and watched the Tigers run out onto the MCG, led by a man who many said was to be the messiah, of sorts. The bringer of good times and good fortune to Punt Road. “Isn’t he great,” some said. “What he a boost he’ll provide,” said others. “What’s [Read more]

Media critique, the Grand Prix, and other bathroom renovations

March 17, 2012 by 11 Comments

It’s been a fortnight that has seen as much political manoeuvring in sport than anything seen on the hill in recent times. The annual squabble of the F1 has taken the usual argumentative pathways. Residents of Albert Park aggrieved at having to walk the Labradoodles at another location, up against Ron Walker who believes the [Read more]

Creeping wowserism: the AFL is making a rod for its own back

March 17, 2012 by 10 Comments

On Saturday 10 March 2012 the Stansbury Cricket Club won their ninth consecutive Lower Yorke Peninsula Cricket Association A grade premiership.  The next day the team celebrated at a local hotel, in an area that was not open to the general public.  They were joined by a teammate who had been unable to play in [Read more]

Tip the Top 8 Comp

March 15, 2012 by 2 Comments

Tip the Top 8 Comp   Each year fans are invited to tip their Top 8 in order. That is the top 8 at the end of the home and away season. The winner is announced after the (riveting and rather amusing) count at The Footy Almanac Grand Final lunch on Grand Final eve. Tallying [Read more]

The Dogs are Barking

March 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The Dogs came out barking in this highly anticipated match. Talk earlier in the week focussed on whether Frank Pritchard was going to cop a suspension for his high shot on Penrith winger David Simmons. He got a week. Most of the betting agencies – if not all, had the Dragons as favourites to win [Read more]

A strange scene

March 7, 2012 by 1 Comment

  by Steve Merry It is a strange scene. Thirteen thousand fans have rated this event worthy of their attendance. Worthy of donning their team’s colours. Worthy of coordinating plans with friends or family. But to show that one might actually care about the result tonight is another matter. Only a brave few seem prepared [Read more]

Murphy and Gaita

February 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment

I can heartily recommend this Rotunda event on February 29. Bob Murphy is known to us through his fine work across the half back line and in The Age. Raimond Gaita is a philosopher, teacher, writer who came to significant public prominence through his memoir Romulus, My Father, which is a fine, fine book. This is [Read more]

Separated at girth

January 31, 2012 by 8 Comments

Shannon Byrnes sent this around via Twitter with the comment, “Sorry Cameron Ling, but this is too good not to be made public”.

Hangies and Rugby

December 8, 2011 by 4 Comments

Hangies and Rugby.   A few days of farm work and, somehow, cutting back from the coast and its relentless winds, I‘ve found myself in the back of a city, over a river and all the lights that frame it, drinking at a hangi with a group of Islanders. Most of them are from PNG [Read more]

MARTIN BENNETT 1951-2011

October 19, 2011 by 5 Comments

MARTIN BENNETT  1951-2011       by Steve Haddan  Good afternoon, I am delighted to accept Carol and Peter’s invitation to say a few words in tribute for Marty, who I first met back in 1979. It was at the start of a brief and undistinguished career at the University of Queensland Australian Football club [Read more]

G. Ablett senior

September 26, 2011 by 5 Comments

It is Gary Ablett senior’s 50th birthday on Saturday.

Cheap Tickets

September 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Cheap Footy Tickets (x2) – Cats V Eagles Saturday   Bay Q34, Row L, Seats 17 & 18 Top deck of Ponsford stand behind the goals – city end. RRP $100+ each   Will do the TWO for $130.00 or best offer   Can be collected on day at ground.   Call Rod 0439 011 [Read more]

2 sausages, 1 barbie

September 20, 2011 by 3 Comments

   by Rina Reiss Last Sunday (18th Sept 2011) a Muslim-Jewish harmony footy match with two mixed teams of Jewish and Muslim teenagers playing side by side at the Whitten Oval.   I first heard about the footy match while sitting with a group of Almanackers in the audience of the live-to-air ABC 2 Aboriginal [Read more]

Swans, Hawks and Corrugated Tin

September 17, 2011 by 2 Comments

Swans, Hawks and Corrugated Tin.   Roland’s home is, basically, a pile of corrugated tin and mice, in a paddock, in nowhere. But the wood-fire’s a corker, the telly works, and he’s a great mate. We had the idiot box and music on, his girlfriend, free from her kids for the night, rotten, laughing, falling [Read more]

Anchors Away

September 16, 2011 by 1 Comment

No comment necessary really. Picture by Yvette Wroby

Almanac Rugby League – Shaken but not stirred

September 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment

It was 9.20pm on Saturday 24 September 2005 and I was shaken to the core as the siren at the Sydney Football Stadium rang out. Not that I could actually hear it above the din of thousands of West Tigers fanatics writhing with ecstasy across the concourse and grandstand of the Sydney home of rugby [Read more]

Collingwood/Eagles discussion

September 10, 2011 by 16 Comments

What do you reckon?