Monday – The Brownlow I used to love Brownlow night, but some of the magic has been lost of late. It seems less and less about footy. However, fellow ‘knacker Neil summed it up beautifully “Not a fan of the Brownlow but love the excuse for Monday night pots.” I do like how everyday conversations [Read more]
AFL Grand Final: Let There Be Football
September 29, 2012 by 7 Comments
Right now it’s past midnight. Tomorrow. Saturday. Grand-damn-Final day! Praise be and hallelujah Grand! Final! When jets play on jets. Champions are put on Champions. Redemption stories are put on redemption stories. One tale to be confirmed, etched in stone. The other to be shattered and fade like false dawns. I’ve said it before, [Read more]
AFL Grand Final: A strange love story
September 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Bruz has fallen in love with the Swans but can’t quite put his finger on why.
Almanac Rugby League – Queensland Cup: The battle of the Bayside – football with soul
September 29, 2012 by 4 Comments
Queensland Cup Rugby League Grand Final 2012: Wynnum Manly Seagulls 20 d Redcliffe Dolphins 10 by JJ Leahy The initial convict settlement in Queensland was established at Redcliffe on the shores of Moreton Bay in 1824. However, it was moved in the next year up the Brisbane River to the current site of the CBD. [Read more]
AFL Grand Final: Barracking for football in general, and banjos in particular
September 28, 2012 by 18 Comments
My mate Biddsy bought a banjo, and a banjo manual, so he could learn that brilliant solo from the Swans theme song, from first principles. He barracks for Richmond. I am thinking of Biddsy and banjos because we have heard a lot of the Swans theme song in our house over the past few days. [Read more]
Grand Final Preview: The Pre-Wrap
September 28, 2012 by 19 Comments
The Wrapster gives his two cents on Jobe, Juddy, Swan, a twilight Grand Final and the Tigers….and he’s just getting started.
A bus ride home
September 28, 2012 by 10 Comments
The boys have done the business. After 33 barren, and disappointing years, the Wynyard Cats have come from the wilderness and done the business, snaring this year’s Northern Tassie premiership, reports Bill Walker.
Crio’s racing: Great value at Money Valley tonight
September 28, 2012 by 21 Comments
The Grand Final has stolen the headlines but there is plenty of good racing this weekend. Crio lays out his best bets.
Grand Final preview: Medals, smokies and the first goal
September 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
Resident tipster Sal Ciardulli makes his prediction and provides some smokies for the Norm Smith and first goal.
The Footy Almanac Team of the Year: your nominations please
September 28, 2012 by 49 Comments
Rightio then, I reckon we should pick The Almanac Team of 2012. And I reckon it could go in the book. This is not necessarily the best team, but it is a team of players who would appeal to Almanac readers and writers; players who have a bit of the Almanac in them. So please [Read more]
AFL Preliminary Final – Sydney v Collingwood: September breeze
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Haiku Bob reflects on Collingwood’s final game of the season.
AFL Grand Final: Harms TattsBet preview
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Harms with some thoughts on the Grand Final.
Grass roots and blond tips…footy’s range of play from Akerfeldie to Dermie
September 27, 2012 by 2 Comments
Stephen Alomes draws from his new book, Australian Football: The People’s Game 1958-2058, to examine Jason Akermanis and Dermott Brereton’s place in the game – now and then.
Grand Final Writing
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G’day Almanac Writers We always receive stacks of yarns about the Grand Final, and this Hawthorn-Sydney stoush is sure to get the Olivettis clacking. I look forward to reading them all. We usually publish 5 or 6 stories in The Footy Almanac (book). This year I have commissioned 2 writers for the Grand Final. [Read more]
The Footygods: Mt Olympus
September 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
And then there were four. The swans got to take on the pies and the hawks got the crows. And both pairs fought over the right to get into the big one; the right to play for a silver cup at the MCG. And there is nothing bigger and nothing more special than the G [Read more]
Morals v Medals: Who comes out on top?
September 27, 2012 by 4 Comments
Hannah Kuhar raises the issue of playing to win at the cost of participation in junior sport.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 24: Addictions
September 27, 2012 by 9 Comments
Jesse’s Aboriginal. Light, like his Mum, who he grew up with down south, in the bush where I’m from. He’s gone to work with his Dad, who is full-blood, on the Central NSW Coast. It’s been ages and is great to see him. He’s nineteen now, but, due to his height, still looks [Read more]
Cycling through the eras
September 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
Premierships are the benchmark of successful teams. Geelong had been starved of real success since 1963. A founding member of the league as we know it, influential on the rules as we know them, the once powerful Geelong had become mediocre. A spate of losing efforts in Grand Finals dating back to 1967 against Richmond, 1989 against [Read more]
English Premier League: Chelsea hold top
September 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Chelsea 1-0 Stoke Another game, another win for Chelsea. Both sides went into the game after hard fought draws the week before. Stoke had held on for a valuable draw against champions Man City while Chelsea failed to win at Loftus Road. The first real chance came on twenty minutes, when Walters smacked a header [Read more]
Grand Final preview: Diary of a dialectician in training
September 27, 2012 by 7 Comments
There are three sleeps to go until the Grand Final. Hawks supporter Rick Kane is getting seven hours per night – for now, anyway.
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