Join us at the All Nations as Tim Boyle launches this new book of local footy yarns.
AFL Round 7: The 2013 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup
May 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Tippett recruitment is making more sense by the round, write Earl O’Neill.
How to Watch Footy, part 9: Homegrounds and donuts
May 16, 2013 by 2 Comments
How is Vin Maskell expected to stay the distance without an adequate supply of Blue and Gold donuts?
When the salary cap doesn’t fit
May 16, 2013 by 1 Comment
The Melbourne list should be paid 20% of what Geelong’s players earn, so why must the club pay them 95% of the salaray cap, asks Barry Levinson.
Oh Brother, thou-est see-est some victories (or Yvette and Andre, part 3)
May 16, 2013 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby and her brother, Andre, decided to watch their boys play Carlton after all. How happy were they with that decision? Happy enpugh to sing the song four times.
Daniel Cross and extraordinary courage
May 15, 2013 by 4 Comments
What possesses a player to throw himself headfirst into an oncoming pack when the game is already lost? Can players like Daniel Cross help themselves?
The Sky’s Limited
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the week the sky stopped falling. Losses were piling up for both the Saints and Tigers but a win always holds the sky in place.
AFL Round 7: The View from Shepparton
May 15, 2013 by 3 Comments
After listening to classical music (played on the pipe organ, no less), Peter Schumacher is in a feisty mood and Monday night football, Kevin Sheedy and AFL greed are in his sights. (If he’s the Almanac version of Alex, someone should warn the good people of Shepparton.)
AFL Round 7 – Fremantle v Collingwood: Another night of pain at Subiaco
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Collingwood fans watched another game where heart and grit was enough to get over the line – unfortunately in this case it was Fremantle that had those qualities on display.
AFL Round 7- Hawthorn v Sydney: Pleasure and pain
May 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
This game was not one to enrich a rivalry, but only time will tell whether it highlighted a Hawthorn maturing above the necks or Sydney as a team showing the first signs of rheumatoid arthritis.
AFL Round 7 – Brisbane v West Coast: The rain in ‘Bane falls gently on the slain
May 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
On an unusually damp Brisbane May day, Glenda Ellis is chauffeured to the Gabba for a contest that’s on until the final ten minutes.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Revenge
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Young Cody Lane develops a serious sense of satisfaction as his Hawks do the job against the premiers.
AFL Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne: Magical Son of the West
May 14, 2013 by 5 Comments
If the Dogs had recruited Majak they would have won this game. It also would have produced a banner headline in the Footscray Mail: Victory as Magic Door opens for Doggies.
AFL Round 7 – Fremantle v Collingwood: Pies hit by Dockside tsunami
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Dockers’ patched-up junior team cast a spell that not even a misty eyed veteran optimist of 17 years of Freo pain could believe what his eyes were witnessing. Jim Smith wept tears of joy as they ripped the heart from the surging Pies.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Mountain-sized challenged for the Swans
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cobba Stevens can’t imagine a year that would be better than 2012. The only disadvantage to being so high, is the drop beneath.
AFL Round 7: Nicky Winmar a revolutionary figure?
May 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
Paul Thomson wonders if Nicky Winmar likes the term ‘revolutionary’?
AFL Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne: Tempo
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As May marks a change in tempo in the footy, our Canadian correspondent, Rob Chanter, says patterns in the football season will soon become evident.
AFL Round 7 – Adelaide v GWS: Dangerfield and the Rickenbacker guitar
May 14, 2013 by 11 Comments
Patrick Dangerfield is the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles.
Reliving the pain
May 14, 2013 by 6 Comments
Matt Watson has never watched a replay of a game North Melbourne has lost. He doesn’t have the emotional stability to do it. So what happens when a mate brings a copy of the 1978 Grand Final against Hawthorn?
Drugs in sport: Spare a thought for the players
May 14, 2013 by 4 Comments
The scandal playing out at Essendon is a classic example of the current pressures placed on AFL players, writes Brandon Erceg.
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