Jackson Clark keeps us up to date with NEAFL’s Thunder and their good start to the 2014 season.
AFL Round 7 – Adelaide v Melbourne: Heil Thomas!
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Ben Footner is crushed, first by the freakish ride of form of his Adelaide team, then by his little daughter’s tyranny. He’ll take her form of torture any day, and Thomas the Tank play rather than his Crows.
Round 7 – Greater Western Sydney v Port Adelaide
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Peter Crossing went to Manuka, freezing but satisfied with the food offerings of a friend and a good game if not a victory for his GWS team.
Cold Morning; Best Seat
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Kate Birrell braves the cold, Sunday morning, junior footy circuit (from the safety of her old car) and adds a brilliant sketch of the game for good measure.
WAFL Round 7: Swans are good, South are getting better and Peel are not
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Les once again fills us in on WAFL footy results with poor old Peel in the basement with zero wins for the season.
Round 7 Carlton v Collingwood: The Malthouse Conundrum
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Mick Malthouse is is topic of discussion once again, this time from an outsider (non Carlton or Collingwood writer Liam Quin) who gives some thoughts on this interesting modern day story of a crusader. Liam asks whether Mick is playing the man or the ball.
AFL Round 7 – GWS v Port Adelaide: Magic Happens
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Dan Hansen ventures to Canberra, that weird in-between of footy and rugby, to see the Giants and the Power. “We all agree, Robbie Gray is Magic!”
Red Letter Day
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“That’s not going to happen again, is it?” Well, Rod Oaten’s football miracle did … twenty years later.
AFL Round 7 – Essendon v Western Bulldogs: The Hostel Experience
May 5, 2014 by 2 Comments
Sam lives on the edge: unwanted guests, unpredictable conditions and unpleasant experiences …. and when he’s not watching the Bombers, he negotiates the world’s hostels.
Age shall weary them; Carlton v Collingwood Legends Match
May 5, 2014 by 4 Comments
“Like a general surveying a long-lost battlefield…” Jeff Dowsing revisits Princes Park, the Magpies’ old House of Pain, to see the Collingwood v Carlton Legends match. Hey, where else can you see Presty snare a major? [Monkenstein! Brilliant! – Ed].
Is any of this getting through? Post-match analysis with my 12-year old
May 5, 2014 by 15 Comments
A sign of our times: Daddsy becomes a coach for his son Charlie …. via texts.
AFL Round 7 – Carlton v Collingwood: Daisy’s Blue Return
May 5, 2014 by 7 Comments
Luke Reynolds sees red over Daisy wearing navy blue. He reflects on the good times with the former number 13 while enjoying a Pies win over the Blues.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v St Kilda: Hawks Soar Over Saints
May 4, 2014 by 3 Comments
They are stoic folks these Saints supporters. Braham Dabscheck surveys the wreckage of the Hawthorn game and expects a ‘character building’ season for fans and players alike,
AFL Round 7 – Essendon v Western Bulldogs: Power Forwards and the Last Five Overs
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Old Dog has worked it out: footy is like one-day cricket.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 42-Portugal’s Black Pearl (1966)
May 4, 2014 by 1 Comment
Dennis Gedling tells the story of Eusebio, the great Benfica striker who is the forgotten star of the 1966 World Cup.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v St Kilda: Remember This….
May 4, 2014 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby takes the lemons from her Saints heavy defeat by the Hawks, and makes typically “Yvettian” lemonade. E Regnans has now elevated “doing an Yvette” to proper noun status among all Almanackers.
Kentucky Derby Day
May 3, 2014 by 12 Comments
Glenn Brownstein gives us the inside oil on the Kentucky Derby straight from the horse’s mouth.
AFL Round 7 – Carlton v Collingwood: Dear Daisy
May 3, 2014 by 6 Comments
Colleen Wood debuts for the Almanac with a Mills and Boon tale of love gained and lost. Daisy’s looks are gone. Has her domineering father ruined any chance of future happiness?
AFL Round 7 – Collingwood v Carlton: A frank perspective on the Pies spanking the Blues
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Frank “Cheeseman” Taylor writes for the Floreat Pica Society about last night’s easy win over Carlton. He liked what he saw for 3 quarters.
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