At the timeof Harry Kernahan’s death in 2012, Mike Sexton paid tribute to him by telling the story of a brilliant night honouring the twentieth anniversary of Glenelg’s 1985 premiership.
Warner continues. And so do the Indian batting woes.
January 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Australia V India – Perth, Day 2 – 14 January 2012 India 161 & 88/4 Australia 369 Events surrounding this match have unearthed one of Cricket’s greatest conspiracies, the existence of The International Cricket Curators Association (India Excluded) and the weird rituals practised by their members to thwart the plucky Indian players in [Read more]
A Tale of Two Captains
January 13, 2012 by 4 Comments
It seemed like a classic contest: India’s batting monuments facing Australia’s rejuvenated pace attack, with one last chance to claim a series victory in this country at stake for some. It has only taken eight days of cricket for conversation to turn to consideration of a whitewash. Instead of a great confrontation, we’re left reminded [Read more]
The cost of free speech
January 13, 2012 by 9 Comments
I can’t remember the exact season, but suspect it was 1993. The game had barely begun when a stick-like bloke a couple of rows in front and a few seats to the left started, and virtually didn’t stop. Every play the Cats made was loudly criticised, and every Cats player demeaned, and all with a [Read more]
Premier Cricket Round 12 Preview
January 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Five rounds of the 2011/12 Premier Cricket Home & Away season remain commencing with Round 12, a two day fixture to be played over the next two Saturdays (14 & 21 January). MATCH OF THE ROUND Melbourne (2nd) 37pts v Geelong (5th) 31 pts @ The Albert Ground Melbourne 2011/12 MCC LLWWWWDWWLW G’long WWLLLDDWWWW [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Magic Millions 2012
January 13, 2012 by 1 Comment
Keen racing fans will know that this is Magic Millions time. This concept, driven by master-promoters Gerry Harvey and John Singleton, has been an unequivocal success. The prizemoney and the profile are huge and, from a P1 meeting, it is now a major racing “event” in Queensland with more Government money about to be pumped [Read more]
Purgatory
January 12, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Simon Dalton November, 1995 This is my first attempt at confronting the devil since the last Saturday in September, 1995. He has been chiding me and probably kindred souls of the same ilk. Come April he will undoubtedly crank it up. The worst insult has been implanting in my subconscious a song, not unlike [Read more]
Who Gets the Footy Team?
January 12, 2012 by 6 Comments
The off season of footy (otherwise known as “are we there yet”) is filled with Rugby, Cycling, pre-Olympic meets and of course, currently, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, and Cricket (in all its forms). All wonderful events, which help one to be meaningfully distracted from the ordinariness of life. If you are doubly lucky, these things form [Read more]
In A-League of its Own 9 (2011/12)
January 11, 2012 by 4 Comments
Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The festive period in the A-League has brought colossal changes across the league. The main one was clearly the sacking of former Melbourne Victory manager Mehmet Durakovic, and the subsequent appointment of North Irishman Jim Magilton. The sacking came after a string of poor results for the Melbourne-based [Read more]
A thousand miles from home
January 11, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Glenn Brownstein I spent my New Year’s Eve in Houston, Texas. A thousand miles and a thousand dollars from home. To see a college football game ignored by most folks. Doesn’t make sense. Or does it? What drives us to travel across a country or halfway around a globe to follow our favorite [Read more]
Premier Cricket – Round 11 Review
January 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
by Mic Rees Whilst it has taken eleven rounds, all First XI teams have now experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as Carlton suffered the blues and at long last you can confidently say they’re a happy team at Hawthorn. At Mervyn G Hughes Oval, Hawthorn Monash University (9/227 cc) [Read more]
A Magpie Life
January 9, 2012 by 29 Comments
So here’s my story. I heard FootyAlmanac.com.au being plugged on SEN 1116 and thought “this is for me”. I love my footy and with my great mate Chubba I started a parenting resource, a blog with a sporting flavour, called TackleNappy.com. I’m a tragic Collingwood supporter. I once stood next to Lee Walker at [Read more]
Why the hoops?
January 9, 2012 by 4 Comments
‘WE ARE GEELONG, THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL…’ Now this, for so long the most ‘cringeworthy’ line in any AFL team song, finally rang true at the end of the 2011 Grand Final when we were able to belt it out with gusto and conviction. Beautiful! Dear Family, In light of this magnificent [Read more]
IT IS A GAME OF MILLIMETRES
January 9, 2012 by 3 Comments
In a clash between the Queensland Country side and the SA Outbacks in the Australian Country Cricket Championships in Geelong – this delivery seams to defy logic and missed the stumps by millimetres. Delivered by off-spinner Andrew Frick, in the Twenty20 fixture at South Barwon Reserve, the ball deceived the batsman, but frustratingly didn’t [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Sporting Sounds
January 9, 2012 by 16 Comments
The unmistakable response of the crowd to the caller’s “They’re off in The Cup”. The groan/giggle that echoes around the ground after a batsman gets hit in the box. The boom of a big ace. “Sounds of sport.” Some are instantly recognizable. As a kid I vividly remember the respect rising to a roar as [Read more]
Triple centurions and wickets
January 8, 2012 by 12 Comments
One of the best things about Michael Clarkes triple century was he took a wicket in the same match. Other Australian triple centurions, Bradman, Hayden, Taylor, and Simpson, did not manage a wicket(s) in their match when they passed 300, and i’m 95% sure Bob Cowper did not take a wicket in the MCG test [Read more]
Why Not Have A Trundle?
January 7, 2012 by 5 Comments
2nd Test, Australia v India Day 4, January 5th, 2012 All the overnight talk was about Tendulkar. Would he finally get that 100th century? It had been proving elusive, even for the Little Master. He was 8 not out at stumps, and had not looked all that convincing in the final hour of play. [Read more]
Standing on the outside lookin’ in.
January 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
A return to the coal face has not been conducive to what has been a big week in sport. This has been more difficult as the main action has been in Sydney and I’m trying to write from a Melbourne point of view. Still in a week, where undertaking a first aid course has provided [Read more]
The Bomb
January 6, 2012 by 13 Comments
Broken Creek in Numurkah, Northern Victoria, was where I learned to swim. Graduating from the fenced-in concrete-bottomed beginners pool, Dad took me into the deep where the bottom was unfathomable, for a five year old, and promised to look after me, but kept moving further away, forcing me to continue my stroke to just stay [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Pack Your Picnic Hamper
January 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Within a month we will be cranking up for the early Autumn features, but for the present it is very much “off-peak” for an industry that never really stops. There are, of course, heaps of meetings of various charm, with the summer picnics probably still the most appealing. This Saturday, for example, the Gunbower Cup [Read more]
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