Second preference, second preference, second preference; this was the chant (taunt) we old Redders used to inflict on students from Monash. You see we never considered that there was more than one uni in Melbourne. This University was in Parkville and was the home of the Reds. Monash was the southern outreach program of Kew [Read more]
The Cygnet, the Cat and the Goldfish
June 3, 2012 by 9 Comments
The Cygnet training with Yuki. Yuki is a Geelong supporter, think about it Footy and My Pets by The Cygnet Year 2, age 7 ½ For Christmas last year, I got a kitten. She is dark grey all over with tiny white socks on her paws, a white belly and chest and chin. I [Read more]
Blame it on the Train
June 3, 2012 by 3 Comments
Like most footballing folk, I was captivated by Friday night’s game between the Tiges and Saints. Again, like most people I spoke to, I had tipped St Kilda. However as the game went on I became caught up in the rollicking juggernaut of fervour that the Richmond fans were generating. As the final siren sounded, [Read more]
Ovens and Murray down Hampden League in VCFL Inter League clash
June 3, 2012 by 10 Comments
The Victorian Country Football Championships made their way to Carlton’s Visy Park last Sunday where the fifth ranked Ovens and Murray League took on the sixth ranked Hampden League. With the unfortunate aspect of both teams having to travel to meet each other around half-way fans of both sides could be excused for not turning [Read more]
crio’s Q?
June 3, 2012 by 6 Comments
Do team playing styles reflect their coach’s personality or is that too simplistic? Lyon considered, perhaps boring Sanderson capable, innovative.Ultimately effective. Blighty enigmatic. Leigh Matthews indomitable. A winner.
Brisbane v West Coast – there was something in the air
June 3, 2012 by 7 Comments
As a Brisbane Lions supporter, I have felt the full range of footy fan emotions. It was only four or five years ago, that on my visits to the Gabbatoir I expected to leave with four points. Now, I approach games with the cautious optimism, or more accurately a glimmer of hope, that plagues fans [Read more]
Going to the footy
June 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Daniel Taranto Sitting on a plastic chair, in a stadium which makes it colder indoors than out (How does Docklands manage to achieve that?), with 35,000 fellow Carlton Blues supporters on a Saturday afternoon is one of the things in life that I love doing. It gives me a sense of [Read more]
Posts: A Concrete Poem
June 1, 2012 by 10 Comments
Do we have the greatest game of all?
June 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
Dear Fellow Football Fans, I need your help. The game of Australian Rules football, and in particular, the AFL, has changed dramatically over the last two and a half decades. At the end of the 1986 season the Christopher Skase owned Seven Network purchased the rights to broadcast the VFL for just $6 million. Many [Read more]
Leigh Montagna
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Too tough to lose : the Story of Laurie Morgan, Australia’s first equestrian Olympic gold medallist
June 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
Book Review by Jan Smith Too tough to lose : the Story of Laurie Morgan, Australia’s first equestrian Olympic gold medallist. By Warwick Morgan. Published by Forty Degrees South, Hobart, Tasmania. Not many sons write a book about their father, but not too many people have a father like legendary sportsman Laurie Morgan. Australia [Read more]
Haiku Bob: From the outer
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autumn remains – a few minutes left of the low scoring game away game the ball not going to the right spots one goal down in the rain sinking lower into the sofa scores level vapor rises from the outer branches snap off another knee thin rain hopes of winning [Read more]
Round 10 Preview and Ground Irrationalisation
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Greeting one and all, Welcome to Round 10, This Friday night we have yet another blockbuster, but yet again the “Best Fit” policy has not come into play. The Saints have crossed the line in the sand and Tiger army is roaring but how many will not be able to see the game live due [Read more]
Perry Ultimatum
June 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
The very vocal ultimatum given to Ellyse Perry by her W-League club, Canberra United, will stir-up the lefties’ free-will fibres. Still, it’s a necessary decision for the respectability of Women’s sport. Ellyse Perry, Australian fast bowler. Photo: canberratimes.com.au Ellyse Perry has been a popular media phenom since she made the Australian sides for both soccer [Read more]
Suns, Demons Roos, we’re all the same
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Forgive me Almanackers for I have sinned, it has been 2 months since my last publication. It has been a hectic 2 months as well, but the results have been sadly lacking on the field across the board. From a combined 36 matches across the competitive grades and genders, there have been 3 wins across [Read more]
Hawthorn: the myth is solidified
June 1, 2012 by 1 Comment
This is the second in a multi-part series on the building of the current Hawthorn team. To see part one go to: http://footyalmanac.com.au/?p=38530 As the 2002 season dawned there was a lot of optimism from Hawthorn fans, still bitter over the loss of Croad the fan base still reasoned, with some justification, that he was [Read more]
Melbourne: have you considered your supporters might be the problem?
May 31, 2012 by 5 Comments
A big thank you to the Demons supporters who sat right behind me at the ‘G on Sunday to see their team play the Blues. Had they not been there, resplendent in their cashmere coats and members’ medallions, I would not have been aware of the injustices inflicted on their team by the the umpires. [Read more]
Footy date today
May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s a date! Australian Rules aficionados, trivia tragics and numeric numbskulls look forward with great anticipation to the first official day of winter on Friday written as a date, Australian style, namely 1/6/12. Enjoy it while you can because this is the last year until 2107 that the calendar provides us with just the one [Read more]
Going Scarlett with Rage
May 31, 2012 by 21 Comments
I can’t take it anymore. This has been bubbling inside me for a number of years. The tipping point almost came a few weeks back, and the breaking point has now been reached. I’ve heard one too many comments regarding one full back, and way too many of another. In differing ways On the first day [Read more]
Five minutes of Stevie J: an affirmation of the footy instinct?
May 31, 2012 by 9 Comments
Stay with me on this, because we’ll get to Stevie J. But in the meantime I need to establish my thesis. I remember chatting with Roger Merrett at the launch of Ross Fitzgerald’s footy book about the Brisbane Bears. I think that was just before the 1996 season got under way. We mainly talked [Read more]
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