Missing out on a flag

Sasha Lennon wants to profile former players who have missed out on playing in a premiership side and he needs your help.

My favourite Cox Plates

Budge lists his top 10 Cox Plates, but is there room for Bonecrusher?

Event: Unexpected Passions at The Wheeler Centre – Friday October 26.

Sam Pang with Jen Cloher and John Harms.   Details here.

Bradman Oration: Delivered by G C J D Haigh

Gideon Haigh who came to prominence when he launched The Footy Almanac. The boy has kicked on. He finds himself, here, in front of the camera delivering The Bradman Oration. (Well done old son). (Thanks to Youtube and Cricket Australia)

AFL Grand Final: The Pride of the North London Lions

It is AFL Grand Final eve and Peter Flynn arrives at the North London Lions presentation night.

A Corker Grand Final

How damn brilliant was Jetta taking on Rioli? Something for the ages.

It was like the fight everybody wanted. Everybody expected. As if the two of them had no say in it. As if it wasn’t just a piece of play, as if it wasn’t just a race. There was ownership involved.

Grand Final Eve

It’s a kind of madness when your team’s in the Grand Final. A week of internal distractions and surreptitious footy shamanism.

The ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – recall

According to Earl O’Neill, football’s always been a mean, cutthroat kind of business. Read his recall of The 2003 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Three Preview.

The possible Almanac Team of 2012 (debate welcome)

A team has been picked on the basis of the nominations received. No doubt there are serious omissions. Happy to have the side straightened out.

Meeting Maxy

Many AFL supporters that don’t support Collingwood are quick to degrade Premiership player and Collingwood Captain Nick Maxwell; a little too quick if you ask me.   I won’t shy to the fact that for the past two years I have jumped to Maxy’s defense when he’s bagged in an online or real life environment. [Read more]

The Tippett saga

Angry, furious, disenchanted, sad, disappointed. Perhaps they should be the taglines of the Gillette Trade Period.

In A-League of its Own: Round 3

Interest in the A-League is at an all time peak and is definitely reaching a global audience thanks to Shinji Ono, Emile Heskey and Alessandro Del Piero, says Tom Riordan.

Footy Short Story: The Test

by Matt Zurbo
A wedding is scheduled for Grand Final day.

Best footy club monikers

Just putting a call out for the best footy team monikers in the country. I just posted some photos featuring the Mount Gravatt Vultures – now there’s a team name that strikes fear. I can’t help but picture a 40-year-old backman, bald as Mil Hanna, sharp elbows, a fearsome stare, ready for his opponent to [Read more]

NEAFL action shots

A selection of photos from Morningside’s thrashing of the Mount Gravatt Vultures in their NEAFL match earlier this year. Photos by Damian Chandler.

Caulfield Cup Review

When I scanned my copy of the Winning Post on Thursday afternoon, it was apparent that this was one of the great Cup fields. What it lacked in “star” performers (e.g. Northerly status) was more than compensated by the evenness and depth of the field which was relfected in a wide open betting market. The [Read more]

Crio’s Question: Terms & Conditions

The stream of betting promises will become a torrent over the next fortnight. Billboards, jingles, radio and TV. Directed at the trendy and the trilby. They’ll try greed, humour, logic. Some are pretty clever. And they all have the same goal – you.

Marathons and the off-season of footy

Yvette Wroby is filling her off-season with painting and Rodriguez the Sugar Man.

A-league – Round 3: Phoenix flight suspended

The Roar looked like they were suffering from Jet Lag when their game in Wellington kicked off.

Photographs: classic local footy photos

The Footy Almanac will be  bringing out a local footy book soon. We are looking to publish classic images of country, ammos and suburban footy. If you have any ripper photos which you would like to see published in this book please contact [email protected] We are especially looking for shots that capture players in context [Read more]