People go two ways over Easter. They lift the city off its foundations and dump it on the coast, or go to the footy. Especially footballers with the Easter bye. You can spot them in an Anzac Day crowd by the way they barrack. The AFL suporter will call: “Kick it, kick it, kick it!” [Read more]
Trouble at The Cave
May 18, 2011 by 8 Comments
by Eric Ellis THERE’s a place, on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, that Demetriou should induct into the AFL Hall of Fame, a sod in his sacred turf of the competition’s haollowed places, a place Where Magic Happens. Its my mate Alex’s basement den, The Cave. We’re drawn – a hard core five of us, Asia lifers [Read more]
AT THE FOOTY…this weekend
May 18, 2011 by 3 Comments
by Chris Riordan The advent of billion dollar television rights has changed AFL fixturing forever. Increasingly it is becoming a TV supported competition. If you want to get to your team’s games, you need to be very flexible with your weekend schedules. We do otherwise – finding a timeslot that suits us and then looking [Read more]
Bobby Davis Photo Tribute
May 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
Alex Wadelton has placed a black arm hoop to this famous image, in way of tribute to The Geelong Flyer.
GIGSTUFF 54
May 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz 8.17.1 Who do Geelong and Collingwood think they are, fighting out a dour, low-scoring, every-play-counts kind of a game? St Kilda? Shame on them. But good on Geelong for scoring less goals than Collingwood and still beating them, meaning that Collingwood STILL haven’t beaten the Cats three times in a row [Read more]
Seven-zip tells me the Cats should stop searching for their new Messiah
May 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Sasha Lennon Now that Geelong is the undisputed competition leader after accounting for flash-in-the pan Collingwood last Friday night, Cats fans can stop badgering the rest of us about the emerging brilliance of Travis Varcoe and refocus their attention on the cup that beckons. With the departure of ‘Bomber’ Thompson and Gary Ablett [Read more]
Kew Hockey Club Debate
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every good move
May 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
fallen leaves the ground they cover chasing Joel Selwood just like old times every good move contains Buckley rain holding off the forwards can’t get near it chilled to the bone the felled player motionless cloud blocked moon — a good chance the ball is where Selwood is entering time on a goal down — [Read more]
DA’s Clue of the Round (9)
May 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
DA’s Clue of the Round (9) The task of any selector Is to pick an inspiring director, Or ideally two near the sticks Despite his height of 176. To which rookie do we refer A strange case of auteur a deux? Please don’t post the answer if you get it. We’ll publish the solution next [Read more]
Geelong v Collingwood Rd 8 MCG
May 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
Round 8 Geelong v Collingwood Freezing weather Wet and windy at the G HUGE game Friday night footy 1 versus 2 Cats and Pies Both undefeated Old champs new champs Hunter Hunted role reversal Collingwood favourites Siren sounds Ottens wins the ruck No Jolly will hurt Magpies Geelong wins the clearance Menzel marks inside 50 [Read more]
Floreat Pica Report: Rd 8 vs Geelong
May 16, 2011 by 30 Comments
AFL General Manager Football Operations Adrian Anderson, Chairman of the Laws of the Game Committee, said the Commission had approved the following: A change to the Advantage Rule, whereby the player and not the umpire will decide if there is an advantage to a team in playing on after a free kick. Inside the last [Read more]
Crio’s Q: Classic Collapses
May 16, 2011 by 21 Comments
The radio waves were humming last night with Saints eulogies…”lowest point ever” seemed a pretty big call. But it does look like they are in line for one of the more spectacular collapses from their lofty position – boy, has that “window” slammed! But sport has a habit of dragging participants very quickly back to [Read more]
A Good Mean Club Song.
May 16, 2011 by 5 Comments
Fengal rock up to play us. Their reserves have three men as old as me. At one stage, one of them fair bowls me over, then helps me up. “You’re my vintage.” he says. Later, I try to run through him, as he would me. In play, it’s all respect and fair.
Surely not? Surely it wasn’t.
May 16, 2011 by 6 Comments
By Ben Footner Adelaide vs Gold Coast – Saturday 14th May 2:40 pm A chilly but fine day greets us as we catch the ‘Footy Express’ down the Adelaide Hills and across town to West Lakes. The crowd is in a pensive mood as they mill about the outer. “Surely not?” is the question on [Read more]
Findlays turn it on at Etihad
May 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
From our western suburbs correspondent No-one at the MCG, Footy Park, Subi, the Gabba or the SCG saw anything like it. Yesterday, in the game of the AFL round, Footscray Primary School Grid 1 team took on Grid 2 at half-time in the match between Richmond and the Dogs at Etihad Stadium. The much-anticipated showdown [Read more]
Eagles v Fremantle – The Footy King’s Speak
May 16, 2011 by 3 Comments
Eagles V Fremantle – The Footy Kings Speak “Selwood. Selwood.” I understand that the editorial policy of the Almanac (revised as of Friday evening) – now requires all articles to commence in this manner. Apparently it is commonly heard among alliterative Geelong stammerers. Had George VI lived this long, he could frequently have been heard [Read more]
Hope…
May 15, 2011 by 8 Comments
Last week I finished reading the novel by Siri Hustvedt : What I loved. She is writing about the wayward friend of a son, who is a lost soul. The narrator, his close family friend and someone there from birth, writes: “…I knew that his last words gave me hope. People imagine that hope has [Read more]
Ammos: MHSOB v Fitzroy
May 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Now here is a dilemma that wouldn’t be faced by too many footy followers. Two teams you support play each other in a normal home and home round of footy. It could only happen in the wonderful world of the “Ammos”, but on this weekend it happened to me. The history of these two clubs [Read more]
Brighton FC’s only flag in 1948
May 15, 2011 by 5 Comments
This is a letter I received from Ian Bennett (of The Local Footy Show on Channel 31), who has unearthed remarkable film of the 1948 Brighton semi-final, preliminary final, and grand final. If you have any stories about this team or it’s players we would love to hear them. To find out more about the [Read more]
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