Collingwood’s 50 Most Sensational Games Round 4, 1987 Collingwood 2.4.16 4.10.34 7.11.53 16.14.110 Richmond 3.5.23 7.7.49 14.8.92 15.10.100 VENUE: VFL Park DATE: Saturday 20 April CROWD: 36,749 UMPIRES: Robinson, Forster COLLINGWOOD B Christian Gayfer Kerrison HB Brown Manson Keays C Millane Turner Bradbury HF Fielke Starcevich Rizonico F Banks Taylor Croall FOLL Cloke, Atkins, Ryan [Read more]
Setting the Bar High
April 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In this Olympic year, thoughts go to many and varied events across those two weeks of that competition which comes around once every four years: events that would be given barely a second thought by any of us at any other time. My thoughts seem to have wandered to the field event of high jump. [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: the Easter schedule
April 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Easter schedule has certainly changed in NSW and tomorrow (Saturday) we see the Slipper being run at Rosehill. Tinkler’s scratching of All Too Hard and some tough draws for challengers have made it look very much like Samaready’s year. I was taken with the effort of the maiden Narcissus and must respect all of [Read more]
McIntyre’s Olympic Legacy
April 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
Fifty-six years on, there’s not so many Melbournians who can claim to have seen their city’s momentous Olympic Games. Consider then Peter McIntyre, whose entry won the competition for the Olympic Pool design. Not only did Peter’s successful tender earn him the right to oversee the 2002 renovation and extension 50 years after his original blueprint, he’s still [Read more]
From Father To Son
April 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Dear Harley, I was eight months from meeting you but I couldn’t stop thinking of you when I walked to the MCG on a warm March night. Your mum and I had not long found out that you would be joining us in November. I was meeting Paul to watch the Cats and the Hawks. [Read more]
What’s Going on?
April 5, 2012 by 10 Comments
In my months with the Almanac, I have been incredibly impressed with not just the standard of writing, humour and general football wisdom, but also with the sensitivity and care many writers show when dealing with serious football issues. In recent weeks, and again in the past few days, the issue of how football manages [Read more]
The Pre Wrap – Round 2
April 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
THE PRE WRAP – ROUND II FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. Scarlett’s equation to achieve the 3-match ban reads something like Harmsie’s calculations for the winner of the Top Eight call at the Almanac GF Lunch. All that was missing was divide by the number [Read more]
Sal’s Tips: Round 2, 2012
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greetings to one all and hope everyone has a great Easter break, The commentators have waxed lyrical about the opening round of the season and with some justification I might say, I enjoyed each of the games that I sat down to watch and the ones I didn’t were pretty good too apparently. But [Read more]
The Lance Perkins end (of Kardinia Park).
April 5, 2012 by 13 Comments
Round 1 1967 – Geelong v Collingwood, Kardinia Park by Burkie (John) I think it might have been Malcolm Blight who, when asked one year about the significance of the opening round for a team, said something along the lines that it was probably the least important game of the season. [Read more]
What Baseball Does to the Soul
April 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Craig Little alerted us to this New York Times piece. Colum McCann, author of “Let The Great World Spin”, has a baseball story with universal themes. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/what-baseball-does-to-the-soul.html?n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/United%20States?ref=unitedstates
The Footygods: Hermes
April 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
The Greeks found Hermes difficult to define. Some called him the god for travellers. Some said that he was the god for those who wandered past their own boundaries. But perhaps they re the different ways of saying the same thing. And he was the god for athletics and luck and a whole lot of [Read more]
From the BFL: 60 Years Ago
April 5, 2012 by 8 Comments
From the Bendigo Football League Records 1952 A reflection on how much things have, or haven’t changed in 60 years Season start April 26 1952, Editorial- B.F.L football made an auspicious start for 1952-the total revenue of 534 pounds set a new high for the opening round; the weather was kind after threatening wet conditions [Read more]
So who is the April Fool?
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By Graham de Casale and Stan Giamalis Well, “here we go again”, I know they are the words of a song, but have no idea who sings it. As is the modern way, I “Google” it, find an answer but am none the wiser. Modern songs, who born in the 50’s, remembers any of the [Read more]
Hurry up Junior
April 5, 2012 by 13 Comments
The due date has come and gone and junior still has not pulled the rip cord and entered the world. Mum to be now moves around the house with the mobility of Justin Madden and the frustration of Tony Jewell. I am much like Mark Neeld – full of good ideas about process and strategy, [Read more]
Getting to Know You
April 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
A few weeks ago, I streamed the Sydney Swans Guernsey presentation. In twelve years of membership, I have never attended or watched a Guernsey presentation. I have been content with skimming the captain’s speech the morning after and stealing away a quote or two for the parenthood file. But this year, I watched it live, [Read more]
Vale Jimmy Little
April 5, 2012 by 6 Comments
I first heard Jimmy Little on the radio in 1963 singing Royal Telephone. I hated the song (which struck me as 3rd rate country gospel) but even then I recognised that Jimmy had a great voice. Royal Telephone wasn’t the first Jimmy Little song to be played on the radio. In NSW he had had [Read more]
IDIOCY
April 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
“I’m here today with Marj, who is in charge of Image Development, Internal Operations and Coaching Youth with the AFL. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to get the job?” “Thanks John. As you know the AFL has been spending an enormous amount of time and money recently on Image Development, [Read more]
House of the Rising Suns
April 5, 2012 by 9 Comments
Matt Webber decided it was a good idea to write about the Gold Coast Suns first year in the AFL. Here is an extract from his book, which includes a foreword by John Harms who has watched a bit of footy on the Gold Coast. Books are available for purchase by emailing [email protected] [Read more]
A 100%, guaranteed, fool proof system!
April 4, 2012 by 3 Comments
AFL PUNTERS, I HAVE IT!: A 100%, GUARANTEED, FOOL PROOF SYSTEM!!!!! by Peter Zitterschlager Friends, it’s taken me all of my many years to crack it, but I finally have. It’s been an despairing journey into the abyss, a trek to the edge of madness, but at long last I’ve broken through. At long last [Read more]
Music and the footy – they go well together
April 4, 2012 by 9 Comments
by Andrew Fithall “I love football and I love music. But I don’t like music at the football.” These were the words of the founder and self-appointed head of the Floreat Pica Society, Steve Fahey, when I had the privilege of sitting next to him at the Round 1 Collingwood Hawthorn game at the [Read more]
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