Rabbit in the Vineyard is back for the 2024 NRL season! Here’s his take on last weekend’s Charity Shield match.
NRL 2024 – Charity Shield: South Sydney Rabbitohs v St George-Illawarra Dragons
February 22, 2024 by 3 Comments
1964 SANFL Mobil Cards – Part 1: Central District
February 22, 2024 by 17 Comments
‘Swish’ launches Part 1 of his 1964 SANFL Mobil cards series with Central District, one of the two new additions to SANFL League ranks in that year. You may know of Gary Window and Ken Eustice, but Sam Donovan and Jock O’Brien had colourful careers too.
NRL 2024 Preseason odds and ends
February 22, 2024 by 1 Comment
NRL 2024 season preliminaries continue this weekend after an opening weekend that produced some very good footy. Rugby league editor Ian Hauser picks out a few highlights from the past week.
‘Country Week memories abound…’ by KB Hill
February 22, 2024 by 2 Comments
Country Week cricket is a highlight of the game’s annual calendar in Victoria. KB Hill revisits the triumphs of the WDCA over the decades.
Almanac Cricket: Summers of Twin Delights 1977-1979
February 21, 2024 by 10 Comments
“The Establishment Boys” is a new book by Barry Nicholls in which he talks to players who represented Australia in Test matches in the shadows of World Series Cricket
Almanac Travel: 20 Photos from 20 Days in New York
February 21, 2024 by 9 Comments
Ian Wilson relives New York through a selection of twenty images he took during his visit there.
Almanac Memoir: Swish Agonistes – A 70s Tribute to Sandy Stone
February 20, 2024 by 28 Comments
Attention: men (and women) ‘of a certain age’. Mark ‘Swish’ Schwerdt has drilled into your collective unconscious and found memories you thought you’d forgotten. [A classic from ten years ago reprised. – Ed]
Almanac Teams: Only T20s for Australia
February 19, 2024 by 5 Comments
The most recent of the three international standard forms of cricket is the subject of Rodney Boyd’s latest side – those who represented Australia’s T20 men’s side but not Tests or ODIs.
Almanac Poetry: 6 Canterbury Street
February 19, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem, according to Kevin Densley, is ‘mainly about loneliness’.
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2024: Opening Round – Back to back?
February 18, 2024 by 2 Comments
With the opening of footy season 2024 fast approaching, Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life and the ‘True Believers’ are feeling very upbeat about their prospects for the coming season.
Almanac Cricket: Pomborneit CC Weekly Wrap
February 17, 2024 by 1 Comment
It was a week of mixed results for the Pomborneit Cricket Club in all divisions in their previous round of matches but the annual ‘Bulls Ball’ was a great success.
Almanac Music: Taylor, Anna and me
February 16, 2024 by 14 Comments
John Harms is about to jump in the car to drive his daughter Anna to Melbourne for the Tay Tay concert. He’s interested in your thoughts on the phenomenon.
Almanac Music: Calexico – Melbourne Recital Centre
February 16, 2024 by 3 Comments
Col had the pleasure of watching one of his favourite bands, Calexico, perform at the Melbourne Recital Centre a few days ago.
Almanac Local History – Cazaly Rests in Coburg Cemetery
February 15, 2024 by 1 Comment
Allan Barden continues his series on the resting place of sports luminaries in Coburg Cemetery. Today’s focus is the Cazaly family.
Almanac Cricket: Across The Ditch
February 15, 2024 by 9 Comments
With the Australian men’s Test team on the verge of a two-match series in New Zealand, Glen! takes a look back at the 1973-74 tour.
Almanac Rugby League – 2024 Season preliminaries get underway
February 15, 2024 by 5 Comments
The preliminaries to the 2024 NRL season get underway tomorrow tonight with the annual Indigenous v Maori clash as well as the Pre-season Challenge.
“The ups and downs of ‘Simmo’s sporting life…” by KB Hill
February 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
KB Hill caught up with Damien Simmonds, a multi-talented sportsman who seems to have played at only one speed – flat out!
Almanac Pro Running: The quick and the dead
February 14, 2024 by 2 Comments
Drizzle tells the story of Steve Brimacombe winning the Keilor Gift in 1994, and how the red lane proved to be the difference.
Almanac Books: An Instant Australian Classic
February 14, 2024 by 1 Comment
A friend gave Ian Wilson a copy of ‘Larrimah’ by Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson about missing Northern Territory man Paddy Moriarty to read. Ian was hooked and believes the book will become an Australian classic.
Almanac Poetry: Haiku Bob event readings
February 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Haiku Bob will be reading his haiku at an event at the Collingwood Yards this Saturday, 17 February.
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