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]
Rotunda in the West: Baum & Flanagan
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Lionel Rose Radio Tribute
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AFL in South America
May 15, 2011 by 3 Comments
In late 2010, I packed my bags and flew over to South America to take part in what I hoped would be the most rewarding and life changing experience of my life – Volunteering in South America. The project that was assigned to me was in a small, remote village, 45 minutes North of Cusco [Read more]
Black Caviar makes it 13 from 13
May 15, 2011 by 5 Comments
Black Caviar went 13 from 13 at a packed out Doomben today. There is something in the hearts of Australians that just love a champion nag. Brisbane had been buzzing all week at the prospect of the witnessing the most exciting thing since the Fitzgerald Royal Commission. I decided it was time to get my [Read more]
Diary of a tense one
May 14, 2011 by 1 Comment
Collingwood v Geelong: Running diary The much-anticipated top-of-the-table clash between two undefeated teams, turned out to be everything we had hoped it would be. To commemorate the event, I broke out a running diary.
Joel Selwood. Joel Selwood. Joel Selwood.
May 14, 2011 by 52 Comments
The novelist Anson Cameron says that were Shakespeare alive today he’d spend his waking moments thinking of words that rhyme with Selwood. Because Selwood is the topic of the modern day. He deserves poetry: sonnets which capture his quintessence; and epic poems which tell the tales of when he roamed the MCG, when he led [Read more]
Krakouer: Footy Almanac Theatre Night
May 13, 2011 by 5 Comments
Match Committee Ep. 9
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The lads have a special guest star in this episode. http://www.thematchcommittee.com
Geelong-Collingwood preview
May 13, 2011 by 27 Comments
I love a day like this, when everyone is thinking about the footy tonight. Game-plans, formulated ages ago, are being put in to action. Or plans are being made via email right now. Pre-match beers. Or lunch for those who have their lives well-organised. Watching the hours. Waiting to meet up with friends and family. [Read more]
Sweet 19 (14?) Expectations
May 13, 2011 by 7 Comments
This isn’t going to be just any Friday night game. The date marked is Friday the thirteenth! We’ll be missing our star ruck man Darren Jolly, Ben Johnson, there’s rumors that the skipper be a miss too and it will be a day when Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter align. The Cats have been going well so [Read more]
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