Citrus Bob Utber has a few strong views on the make-up of the Australian side and recent and current selection approaches. [He’s coming at you SPD Smith – Ed]
Almanac Pro-running: The Stawell Gift Monday program from 1961
March 5, 2024 by 8 Comments
Swish Schwerdt and JTH help Dips recover from the shock banning of bookies at the Stawell Gift by publishing this gem of an artifact [a holy relic no less] from 1961. Can you help build the story?
Almanac Horseracing: A bad day at the Bell Races (1954)
March 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Damien Morgan from the Darling Downs has been delving into racing history. A Trove search revealed a crazy meeting at Bell in 1954. Here’s what happened.
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test, Day 4: Aotearoa Dispatches
March 4, 2024 by 3 Comments
All wrapped up with a day in hand, Dennis Gedling recounts the tail of the Test, beers with the boys and an extra sporting highlight.
Almanac Life: Stawell and the Hand Gluers
March 4, 2024 by 19 Comments
Dips O’Donnell is a broken man. The Stawell Gift is on again this Easter, but bookies have been banned. And, worse, you can’t pitch a tent in the camping ground. Dips can see the writing on the wall.
Almanac Music – Wantok Sing Sing: 16 artists from Melanesia and Australia together in one show (Melbourne/Adelaide)
March 4, 2024 by 1 Comment
This is a very special lineup of musicians from the Wantok Musik family, playing together for just two dates in Melbourne and Adelaide this coming weekend.
Almanac Memoir: Knowing Hazel
March 4, 2024 by 3 Comments
Instead of a poem, KD shares a short memoir about his late friend, internationally renowned writer and biographer, Dr Hazel Rowley, who died in Manhattan in March 2011. Rowley wrote biographies of authors Christina Stead and Richard Wright, as well as non-fiction works about iconic twentieth century couples Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test: Day 3 – Get Lyon on the line!
March 3, 2024 by 5 Comments
Citrus Bob Utber rises from his sick bed and watches Nathan Lyon spin Australia to victory on Day 4 of the First Test in Wellington.
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test: Day 3 – Aotearoa dispatches
March 3, 2024 by 5 Comments
The evidence was that the boys were in slow decline as they prepared for Day 3 of the Wellington Test. Just, says Dennis Gedling, like a Test pitch. [Hang in there lads – Ed]
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test: Day 2 – Aotearoa dispatches
March 2, 2024 by 1 Comment
Dennis Gedling reports from Wellington on a day when Josh Hazlewood emerged as an all-rounder.
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test: Day 2 – Green and Hazel favourite colours
March 1, 2024 by 6 Comments
A crook Citrus Bob Utber missed the end of the Aussie innings but was there to watch New Zealand get off to a disastrous start on Day 2 of the First Test in Wellington.
Almanac Cricket: Pomborneit CC Weekly Wrap
March 1, 2024 by 2 Comments
Wins, losses and junior premiership reunions (featuring 2 former AFL players) in another big week at the Pomborneit Cricket Club.
Almanac Cricket – NZ v Aust, First Test: Aotearoa Dispatches
March 1, 2024 by 2 Comments
Dennis Gedling and his mates make a pilgrimage to one of Test cricket’s great grounds – The Basin.
Almanac Films: ‘The Zone of Interest’ – Having Genocide as your Neighbour
March 1, 2024 by 9 Comments
Ian Wilson reviews a movie about the holocaust, ‘The Zone of Interest’ directed by Jonathan Glazer, and he was both impressed and moved by the movie.
Almanac Music: ‘Rooms on Fire’: Songs about Houses and Rooms
March 1, 2024 by 227 Comments
In this Friday’s music piece, KD deals with songs about the spaces in which we live – houses, flats, apartments and the rooms within. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Cricket: NZ v Aus, First Test – Windy Welli
February 29, 2024 by 6 Comments
After leaving a 45degree Mildura, Citrus Bob wonders whether he should have packed more clothes for a cool and windy Wellington as he watched Cameron Green score a memorable century on the first day’s play of the First Test against New Zealand.
NRL – Rabbit in the Vineyard: Round 1 Preview
February 29, 2024 by 2 Comments
Rabbit in the Vineyard is doing his best to get over the South Sydney’s’ capitulation in the second half of 2023. He’s got some pretty good ideas on how they might improve. And he’s ready to tune into their opener against Manly, live from Las Vegas.
NRL – Prop among the Canefields: You Gotta Love Footy – Round Zero
February 29, 2024 by 4 Comments
In the first of his columns, Prop among the Canefields turns the superior mind of the front row to give us a bookend’s look at the pre-season. He also predicts what’s to come.
Almanac Rugby League: Join the 2024 NRL Tipping Comp
February 29, 2024 by 3 Comments
The winner of the Footy Almanac 2023 NRL Tipping Comp has been announced. And the 2024 comp is now open.
NRL Round 1: Viva Las Vegas!
February 29, 2024 by 1 Comment
‘And now for something completely different’, as they used to say in Monty Python terminology. Rugby League comes to Las Vegas to kick off the 2024 NRL season.
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