Stats Entertainment – Round 2 by Andrew Gigacz DIAL N FOR ‘NO CHANCE’ Two weeks into the season and a clear trend is already emerging. And that trend revolves around a single letter of the alphabet. That letter is ‘N’. Disparage if you will, but the facts speak for themselves.
Round 1 – Footscray v Collingwood: Magpies win but Jack fudges up
March 29, 2010 by 19 Comments
by Dannie Eid Ahh, finally I get to see my men in black and white show me their stuff as a possible foreshadowing of the rest of 2010, the year of Scott Pendlebury. Big Bad Barry has the first shot on goal, turns out to be a shocker, pheww! Daisy whacks the first goal of [Read more]
Round 1 – Sydney v St Kilda: No longer a boring prospect
March 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Josh Barnstable Rewind to 2007, 2008 or 2009, and I wouldn’t have watched this match. I would have watched the opening quarter maybe, and then stop watching it. But, with the year the Saints had in 2009 and the young talent the Swans offer, this match is suddenly one I rate very highly. After [Read more]
Round One: Geelong v Essendon
March 27, 2010 by 115 Comments
Why do they play the first game of the season on a Thursday night? For some, for most, have either work or school the next day, so it was hard to get excited about the Season Opener, knowing that we still had to get an early enough night to prepare for the last day of [Read more]
Round One: Richmond v Carlton
March 27, 2010 by 6 Comments
The simple yet appropriate words of ‘Can’t Wait’ is the motto for the AFL’s promotional video in the lead-up to this season. Like many avid footy fans around the country, I circled the date March 25th in my calendar as the Tigers are set to clash with the mighty Blues in the season opener. It’s fair to [Read more]
AFL Round 1 – Richmond v Carlton: True Tiger traits shine through
March 26, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Simon Ely I put the mighty Tiges in the 8 at the end of this year and last night was true testament to why. On any given week, the Tigers should be admired and applauded by the other 14 teams in the competition (15th team is the team they play on a particular week).
The 20th Annual Ladder Competition
March 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Andrew Gigacz It’s back and promises to be BIGGER than ever. It’s the internationally acclaimed (well, my brother said it was good, and he lives in Malaysia) LADDER COMPETITION. It’s the comp that requires you to do no more than to write down (or type) the names of the 16 AFL teams ONCE for [Read more]
Link: A brilliant debut by Waleed Aly
March 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We all knew it would only be a matter of time before Tony Jones came knocking on the door of one of the many talented Almanackers and invited them to appear on ABC TV’s prestigious “Q and A” program. And the Almanacker he selected first was Tiger fan Waleed Aly. If you missed Waleed’s brilliant [Read more]
Obituary: An untimely end to a Sporting Life
March 16, 2010 by 5 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Visitors to these pages who are regular readers of the Age will be saddened to hear of the passing of the stalwart of that paper’s Sporting Life column, Geoff McClure. Geoff died yesterday, aged just 59, after a long struggle with cancer. For those of you out there looking to find someone [Read more]
Seriously, can we have your favourite joke?
March 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
We want your favourite joke. by Andrea McNamara Kevin Sheedy is raising money for the IndigenousLiteracy Project (ILP), which was established 5 years ago to help address the current literacy crisis in remote Indigenous communities. Sheeds believes humour is a great cure for all sorts of ills, a powerful tool in dealing with hardship and a great [Read more]
Footy Almanac March Lunch Sponsor: Don McLardy
March 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Don McLardy of McLardy McShane Insurance & Financial Services is proud to be associated with the Footy Almanac. McLardy McShane Insurance & Financial Services are specialists in servicing the needs of small to medium sized enterprises. Their long standing relationships with leading insurers and other suppliers enables them provide you with a comprehensive range of [Read more]
Footy: Personality matching game
March 3, 2010 by 16 Comments
Let’s play a game of match maker, AFL style. My regular readers know that my writing is ‘different.’ While some dive into stats, I dive into which player has the best hair. If you want to read a piece about how many push-ups Juddy did last training session, or how many times the ball went [Read more]
Manning Clark House – essay writing competition for high school students
February 24, 2010 by 6 Comments
G’day high school students, Manning Clark House is a cultural and scholarly centre in Canberra. Each year we have a Weekend of Ideas. This year the theme is Fair suck of the sauce bottle: a celebration of Australian language. In conjunction we are running a competition: BE A JOURNO FOR A DAY All you have [Read more]
Second Test, Day 2: Intuition wins out over process
January 4, 2010 by 3 Comments
by John Harms Play School was just finishing as the cricket started at the SCG, and on Channel 9. The Australians had it all before them, having been bowled out cheaply the previous afternoon. The Pakistanis had bowled beautifully, and taken most of their chances, and then their openers Imran Farhat and Salman Butt hung [Read more]
First Test, Day 4: In search of the pivotal moment
December 30, 2009 by 12 Comments
By Andrew Gigacz Day four of the Boxing Day Test match. Potentially the best day. I’ve never really understood the whole Boxing Day thing. I mean I understand that it’s become a bit of a Melbourne sporting tradition. Huge crowd. Big expectations, no matter who the opposition. But in the context of a Test Match, [Read more]
Russians not Hiddink it off with Guus
December 7, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Tim Ivins Guus Hiddink would have cast a lonely figure in the bowels of Petrol Arena late on November 18. His Russian team, chock full of talent and Euro 2008 runners up had been eliminated by lowly Slovenia on away goals. In the first leg, a goal from Nejc Pecnik in the 88th minute [Read more]
Second Test, Day 2 – A change of fortune for West Indies and Clifton Hill
December 6, 2009 by 3 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz From the outside, the parallels between the current West Indies team and the Clifton Hill 5th XI may not appear obvious. Actually, even from the inside, they probably aren’t apparent to anyone but me. And in truth, they did not even manifest themselves in my mind until I woke up on Day [Read more]
The Rite of Spring
October 19, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Damian O’Donnell I love Spring. I love what it does to people. In June, July and August we go about our business. We watch our footy team battle through the long AFL season. We pay the mortgage, keep warm, and ask our kids what they did at school. The grass only grows in clumps, [Read more]
Footy Weather: Grand Final conditions to resemble Kardinia Park in July
September 24, 2009 by 2 Comments
By Brett Dutschke Strong winds are not only transporting soil to other parts of the country they are also making some places feel quite foreign. Just three days after a dust-blown Sydney resembled Coober Pedy, the Melbourne Cricket Ground this Saturday will be cold, wet and windy – more like Kardinia Park in July.
Haiku Bob: AFL finals – week 2 – closer to oblivion
September 16, 2009 by 5 Comments
night trickles in… Maxwell’s early blunders clear as day a flock of Crows only one of them carrying the ball unseasonal heat a detectable haze across the forward line another September Leon’s basket of tricks snapped shut white-hot moon we edge closer to oblivion blustery wind the less polished among [Read more]
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