The Wrap was going to run a phone-in on whether Mick has already done the deal around at Visy Park – but it was too boring – and boorish.
VAFA Div 1 Semi-finals: A weekend for the ages
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Will the experience of the Pirates get them over the line in this weekend’s VAFA Division 1 preliminary final? Smokie Dawson runs the ruler over the contenders.
Off Season Odyssey – Part 9: The Bandidos
September 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
After a few big days in the bush, spraying in the gullies, and clearing fireweed, I come down from the hills to have a surf not far off sunset – the good, stupid, lazy kind that hurts no-one. Not the kids on boogie boards I can’t dodge, not me or the water. Jumping in [Read more]
Northern Lights: A season with NT Thunder
September 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
The Almanac is hosting a screening of the documentary, Northern Lights: A season with NT Thunder, produced and directed by Alastair McGibbon at the All Nations Hotel on Thursday, September 20. Join us for a meal from 7 for 7.30, followed by the screening at 8.30ish.
Haiku Bob: warmer nights
September 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob’s take on AFL Round 23: Collingwood v Essendon
Almanac Rugby League – Return to the Promised Land
September 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
By John Robotham
Storm vs Souths in a qualifying final. My club against the outfit I love to hate. The people’s club, with 104 years of rich history, ranged against an interloper created to fit the needs of a national competition.
AFL Round 23 – Brisbane v Dogs: 5km into town, 10 goals out of touch
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The last hurrah for season 2012 for the Western Bulldogs was much like most weekends before hand, started with a little promise and hope in the air and finished with nothing but despondency, anger, even thoughts of surrender. But last Sunday was not like most match days for this weary traveller and footy tragic. Sure [Read more]
Four legs good, Stevie J bad
September 7, 2012 by 8 Comments
A joyious September to all, Finally the AFL have got one right with the people’s bard Paul Kelly taking the stage as part of Grand Final Day. To me no one is more deserving of the honour of performing before the Grand Final, he immortalised our sporting cathedral in his 1987 single “Leaps and Bounds” [Read more]
Van the man!
September 7, 2012 by 5 Comments
A wonderful Robin Van Persie hat-trick saved Manchester United from an unlikely loss against lowly Southampton.
Saints Go Marching Home.
September 6, 2012 by 5 Comments
St.Kilda are not going to make the finals. That is now official. After a season where we, the huddled masses, watched with a head filled with rationale- We monster the sides below us but we just can’t step up for the big guns. And a heart filled with hope- Geez, Carlton lost to Gold Coast…..and [Read more]
Crio’s racing
September 6, 2012 by 49 Comments
The marketing campaign may have changed but the quality of racing at Flemington in the spring remains the same. Crio gives his first tips of the season.
When the Richmond champions came to lunch
September 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
Photos from the August Almanac lunch where the Richmond ladies entertained all. Photos: Yvette Wroby
Finals: Harms with some thoughts on the weekend’s footy
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Harms with a few thoughts on this cracking weekend of footy. Twitter: John Harms@ratherbeatlunch
The positive take on the Saints of 2012
September 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
Despite missing finals, St. Kilda’s last game of the season provided many highlights, which makes Saints supporters excited for the season of 2013.
Some thoughts on issues surrounding Indigenous players in the AFL
September 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
The news came to me at 4.00 on Monday afternoon that Liam Jurrah had left the Melbourne Demons. It seemed to be an inevitability since the beginning of the season when it was announced that he was “being held in police custody in an Alice Springs jail following his alleged involvement in a machete attack.” [Read more]
1980 A Personal Footy Almanac – Qualifying Final, Saturday 6 September, v Carlton, VFL Park
September 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
“…and may the best teams win tomorrow, as long as they’re Collingwood and Richmond…”.
I do a sharp double-take as I hear the throwaway line from Geoff Raymond, the principal newsreader on ABC TV at the time. From a man with an inscrutable “ABC” persona and no apparent interest in football whatever, Raymond’s sign-off remark from his evening bulletin on Friday 5 September is unexpected.
AFL Round 23 – Geelong v Sydney: In a strange land. Queens-land.
September 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
STATIC. Occasionally interrupted by foreign language radio and golden oldies. Finding an AFL clash on the radio in Brisbane is an acquired skill.
VAFA: History counts for little as Drysdale exposes ‘Hoers Tail
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With Melbourne Uni Blacks progressing steadily towards the grand final in both grades, the Black Hack gets misty at memories of previous close finishes.
Off Season Odyssey Part 8: A well-shared silence
September 6, 2012 by 15 Comments
Off Season Odyssey Pt.8. Concreting has been hard. Jack and I kick the ball. His real name is Steven, but his last name is Daniels. He is a stocky Otway Ressies Premiership player, by way of Geelong. Nowhere Geelong. From one of those non-descript houses, in one of those rolling suburbs in a sea [Read more]
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