John Harms from ABC Grandstand and footyalmanac.com.au here. I do a segment with Walshy and the boys on ABC SA each Saturday. This week Walshy has set me some homework. He wants to hear stories of club mergers and is especially keen to find out what has happened to The naming of the new club [Read more]
Your most frustrating sporting moment
June 12, 2012 by 43 Comments
Tell me dear reader, what is your most frustrating sporting moment? The underarm delivery? Jim Stynes running across the mark against Hawthorn’s Gary Buckenara in the 1987 Preliminary Final? Milne seemingly hanging back near the goal square in the drawn 2010 Grand Final only to see the ball jag the wrong way? For Adelaide Crows [Read more]
Unsociable supporter
June 12, 2012 by 10 Comments
At three quarter time of the Swans vs Bombers I was having a relaxing Saturday, the next 30 minutes exposed my seedy underbelly. I have to face the facts – I am an unsociable supporter. The day started so in great fashion, despite a bumpy week where young Jack was feeding poorly and I feared [Read more]
Pies prevail on the Queen’s birthday
June 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Paul O’Connell It’s a Public Holiday, usually cold, and we usually win. So it is great that the “usuallys” prevailed on the day. We continue to field several inexperienced players (who continue to stand up) due to our injury list. Sadly Dids was added to the injury list with his attempt on goal very [Read more]
Something special
June 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
This was an away week, a game the Saints played in the rain on the Sunshine Coast. It had been planned for the whole year to go to Judy and Mark’s house and watch this game on pay TV. Their daughter Amanda is my footy daughter. Their newer daughter, four year old Zoe, was our [Read more]
crio’sQ?…budget buys!
June 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Not a lot of people saw Tino Best make the highest score for a Number 11 in Test history. It’s a “dead rubber”. The first 2 days were total washouts. The Windies had limped through a gloomy 3rd day to finish at 8/280. And…general admission was over 40 quid! Cold. Gloomy. Irrelevant. What were they [Read more]
Corowa races; Queens Birthday, Saturday
June 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
For the third time this year Maryanne and I headed up the Hume to attend the Corowa races. As we know this weekend coincides with a famous Queen’s birthday, so we were in a festive mood. How would we fare? On the January 28 meet I doubled my return, but on Cup day, during the [Read more]
Blues of the father
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I dread Geelong playing on a Friday night these days. Last couple years it was ideal. Finish work, head home or to the pub with the boys, couple of frothies and watch the Cats paste whoever was unlucky enough to be fixtured in for that week. Not this year. Geelong’s general dominance of the last [Read more]
Heave Ho – lid’s back on
June 11, 2012 by 11 Comments
Richmond are improving, and possibly can still be finalists, but as far as getting ahead of yourself goes, this Richmond week rivals the 2012 Carlton Premiership. Has there ever been a game where the arriving crowd was so sure they were going to win! There was no tension amongst the Tiger horde s – they [Read more]
Royals leave it to the last second, again
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WAFL Round 12 IN round 11 East Perth left it until the last second of the game to kick a goal to draw their game. In round 12 they waited a little longer. After trailing all day in horrible conditions at Leederville Oval the Royals hit the front by a point with an after-the-siren goal [Read more]
Rebels with a cause – Round eight of the YVMDFL between Alexandra and Kinglake,
June 11, 2012 by 4 Comments
If opposition teams didn’t know any better, their away trip to Alexandra in division two of Victoria’s Yarra Valley Mountain District League, would have them quaking in their boots. The team from north-east Victoria are known as the ‘Rebels’. After visiting the scenic ground to watch them take on Kinglake recently; I’m pretty sure they’re [Read more]
Spain and Italy turn it up to 11
June 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Euros 2012 commentary by Lee Hugh McGowan Group C. Spain, Italy, Croatia, and The Republic of Ireland. After last night’s matches I suspect this is how this group finishes. The Irish showed up, but apart from a last gasp 10 minutes of bravery, they looked like the only team who didn’t belong here [Read more]
Off the beaten ‘Track’
June 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
Earlier this year I visited one of the most incredible, scary and bizarre places on earth. You may have heard of it, it’s a wonderful land called India. Yes, that’s right, India. Snake charmers, Hinduism, busy, dirty, cow worshipping India. I spent one week in India, (Mumbai and Goa) and one week in Sri Lanka [Read more]
Almanac Rugby League – On how to improve the greatest game of all
June 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
When you’ve done life’s hard yards and made it into the grumpy years, you understand with cold and dispiriting certainty that there is no turning back the clock. But that doesn’t mean that in the face of crass, intolerable change – or ‘progress’ as the suits would wish to sell it – you should give [Read more]
Summit Fever
June 11, 2012 by 2 Comments
The football world really ought to give Richmond supporters more credit. “Keep a lid on it Tiger fans”? Even Mick Malthouse is getting in on the act. People think we’re like little kids sighting a bit of tinsel in July and getting all excited because Christmas has arrived. But things look good. Scintillating victories [Read more]
To clock or not to clock?
June 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
Like everyone else on this post-Vaudeville Sunday morning, I’m thinking about the clock. We’re told that the lack of an official countdown clock is one of the great romances of AFL football: the drama of not knowing how long to go until the agony is ended mixed with the fervent pleas to either “lock it [Read more]
Invasion of the Bomber Snatchers
June 10, 2012 by 1 Comment
Terror isn’t normally a word thrown into the mixing bowl of footy adjectives. Yet it’s the first word flashing across my mind on this freezing Sunday morning reflecting on last night’s game. A savage final quarter of football so chock full of impending doom that even now, in full daylight and knowing the result, I [Read more]
Part of the tribe
June 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
The experience of being a football supporter is surprisingly unique. You never actually sit down and think it thorough, until you do…and then you end up writing a blog about it. By unique, I am referring to the way you belong to a certain football club. It is a tribal, parochial association that finds you [Read more]
Are the Dutch doomed already?
June 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
Euros 2012 commentary by Lee Hugh McGowan There is an advertising campaign for a telecommunications company which claims, ‘the future’s bright…the future’s Orange’. Coming into this tournament, it could have been the slogan for the on fire Dutch. Robben has been the star of Bayern Munich’s successful domestic and Champion’s league campaigns and [Read more]
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