Collingwood v St Kilda Grand Final Replay It’s been an eerie week. Ever since that final siren sounded last Saturday, plans were thrown in the air, weddings were postponed, holidays were cancelled, and more money was spent on a Grand Final ticket. It was the first Grand Final draw I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and [Read more]
And now… The Happy Ending!
October 3, 2010 by 19 Comments
I guess I must be older than I feel because I have lived through three drawn Grand Finals and their replays. I don’t remember anything about the first. I was less than eighteen months old and besides my team wasn’t playing. I was thirty years old when the next drawn Grand Final occurred and I [Read more]
Collingwood: The Most Effective Spread Since Vegemite
October 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
Collingwood have claimed the elusive Premiership pennant for the first time in two decades with a comfortable 56 point victory as the spread of pressure, effectiveness and intimidation within the Magpie camp became as prominent as ever. The annihilation initiated by the Magpies has no doubt sent the vast Collingwood army into raptures as they [Read more]
Footy History: Dees and Dons take twists and turns in first drawn Grand Final
October 2, 2010 by 14 Comments
1948 Grand Final Essendon 0.6 2.15 6.21 7.27 (69) Melbourne 3.0 4.5 6.8 10.9 (69) 1948 Grand Final rematch Essendon 0.3 5.5 6.6 7.8 (50) Melbourne 6.2 9.3 11.6 13.11 (89) With the first drawn grand final and grand final rematch in VFL history, the end of the 1948 season marks one of the great [Read more]
This is it, again.
October 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This is it. The decider. The day of battle. The last hurrah. Really! No kidding. Found it hard to sleep. Not as nervous as last week, and am still quietly optimistic (I’ve even started inviting friends and family on Sunday night for a party if we win). Yesterday morning we blew up more balloons. I’m [Read more]
The Footy Almanac turns 500,000
October 1, 2010 by 13 Comments
A half a million visits. It seems like only yesterday that two brave print journos sailed off into uncharted waters. How the hell do you run a website? Well, they got it done, and many of us have enjoyed the results. If you have any comments on the Almanac as it is, or as you wish it [Read more]
2010 Grand Final- Part II: Discussion
October 1, 2010 by 36 Comments
By now the nerves of all Saints and Magpies supporters have received an extended shredding. The teams have been selected- heartache for some, delight for others. After a week of huge football stories, the biggest one of all will now be played out. How is everyone feeling? What do we expect tomorrow? Let ‘er rip [Read more]
Grand Final 2010: One More Day
October 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
Almanac Racing: Turnbull Stakes 2010
October 1, 2010 by 16 Comments
This is one of the great racing weekends on the Australian Calendar. We’ll be flicking between Randwick and the MCG on Saturday to keep abreast of Sydney’s classic card, including four Group Ones amongst a litany of race names that resonate with turf followers…The Gimcrack, Craven Plate, Roman Consul, Flight Stakes, Spring Champion Stakes, Metrop, [Read more]
THE ABLETT SAGA: BE AFRAID
September 30, 2010 by 35 Comments
It is often said that there is a lot more than meets the eye in every saga. I have no doubt that there is heaps more behind the Ablett move to Queensland than we will ever know. There was plenty for a Geelong supporter to be despondent about when we all saw Gary sitting at [Read more]
Syd Barker Medal 2010
September 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
Everyone is talking about the draw, the tie, whatever you want to call it. Sure, there’s some uproar about it, but in the end, you just couldn’t split them. Two great competitors having great seasons and it all climaxing in a draw. How fitting.
Grand Final 2. The sequel is never as good.
September 30, 2010 by 4 Comments
As those inside AFL House rub their hands with glee and dive, Scrooge McDuck-like into piles of gold, the rest of us are left with the emotionally draining prospect of another four quarters of nerve-jangling Grand Final football. Collingwood was brilliant but wasteful in the first half last Saturday. St Kilda were strong and brave [Read more]
GEELONG – 2010 SUMMARY
September 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
Season highlights Although compared to the (now) halcyon days of 2007-2009 and the Grand Finals that went with those years, 2010 was still an overall success with many highlights. The Cats found an oldie but a newie and KP goodie in James Podsiadly and unearthed a batch of talented youngsters who, if developed in the [Read more]
In A League Of Its Own – Issue 10
September 29, 2010 by 5 Comments
Tom’s weekly outlook on the A-League The drawn AFL Grand Final had the potential to bring the A-League to their knees, to be a final nail in this season’s coffin. After the early season turmoil that FFA and A-League has been put through – extremely low crowds, expansion troubles and the Newcastle Jets situation – [Read more]
What a day!
September 29, 2010 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Starkie Wednesday of preliminary final week, a line of eight chairs is roped to the back fence of Reservoir Ticketek. Sticky-taped, scribbled signs warn: ‘Collingwood member. Don’t touch!’ The chairs are like sentries. Or night club bouncers. I brace myself for a Collingwood grand final. At the 11 minute mark, second quarter of [Read more]
The Pre Wrap Lite – Mid-week Edition
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
by John Mosig FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARNGROOK FAN What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. James Hird has fulfilled his childhood ambition – to train The Dive Bombers. David Evans said Hirdy was the standout applicant in an exhaustive interview process. He must have been. They’re paying the Prahran U9 coach a reported cool [Read more]
Letter from JezzaOWNZ
September 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by George Callum Jones-Kennedy Dear Almanackers, Great to see Rocket writing about the Glory days at UNE. One of the Greats was Julian Morison who penned this classic piece for the booklet produced for the reunion a few years ago that I would like to share with the Footy Almanac community as it really captured [Read more]
Goodbye Gary, Au revoir Ablett
September 29, 2010 by 40 Comments
Sure, we all knew that it was going to happen. But now that it has happened, how do we feel about it? And with Bomber Thompson on the edge, what does this mean for Geelong in the short and long term? Please share your thoughts.
The Real Experience from the Great Southern Stand
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Lucas Garth OK. My review, having not watched any TV replay or listened to the game on radio. Literally just watched the game live without input from any analyst which I though was hard to do but made for a gripping “real” experience. First quarter Collingwood played very well early, could have had 6 [Read more]
“Go Hawks!”
September 29, 2010 by 5 Comments
by Bill Walker I was accepted to the Knackery after a cold call to John Harms early in 2008. I had heard about the first book on the Coodabeens when they were at that convenient Sunday night spot. After spending the summer chuckling away, to the annoyance of all nearby, with my snout in the [Read more]
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