The beginning of a new footy season is always eagerly anticipated, but after getting engaged over the summer and being consumed by wedding talk for a couple of months, I couldn’t wait for round one – even as a supporter of the reigning wooden spooners. Walking through the Fitzroy Gardens to the ‘G, my chances [Read more]
Gabba lights stay on for Lions mirth hour
April 1, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Geoff Woolcock Hailed as the Lions favourite son’s coaching debut, up against the club for whom he’d already purchased guernseys for his kids before Lethal’s resignation saw him turn the removalist trucks around just before leaving for Perth. We were at the Gabbatoir for this blustery dusk opening siren primarily because my oldest son [Read more]
NAB Cup Practice Oops Grand Final Match Geelong v Collingwood by Carolyn Straford
March 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I went to the NAB cup grand final full of optimism and a little confused. Being a Hawthorn supporter I had no allegiance although I went with two Collingwood fans. However I do admit secretly to having a soft spot for Collingwood, (I may be the only Hawthorn supporter that does). My excuse is that [Read more]
Coaching Dilemma
March 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The telephone number flashed up on the screen and I recognised it immediately. Mark Hunter is an ex- Bulldogs player – 130 senior games. And he has demonstrated over the past few years that he is also a very good junior coach. His boy Lachlan and my son Bill share a year of birth and [Read more]
Canadian Pyke mounts his challenge
March 31, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Merryn Sherwood I have to say, I’m already a little bit in love with Mike Pyke. Not just because his name rolls off the tongue so lightly, although that’s part of it, and not just because he is a Canadian international rugby fullback that just through he would give Australian Rules football a [Read more]
Collingwood v Adelaide
March 31, 2009 by 161 Comments
by Steve Healy It’s Saturday Afternoon and I’m in my bedroom, sitting on the chair at my desk, my own personal stronghold of football. Posters hang upon the walls and there are many discarded pieces of paper around the place with statistics that I have thought of and compared. The radio sits on the left [Read more]
Go North, after a long drive south
March 31, 2009 by 86 Comments
by Josh Barnstable “Josh wake up”. That was Mum, coming in to wake me up at 7:30; 7:30 on a Sunday morning. I would have thrown something at her if I had not already been awake, already thinking about the day ahead. I got up, grabbed a yogurt from the fridge and settled down to [Read more]
Slow Start by Pamela Sherpa (Snowy Mountains correspondent)
March 31, 2009 by 2 Comments
We think this is our first ever story on the Almanac site.
Round 1 – Fremantle v Western Bulldogs: Beer and footy make for a pleasant Sunday afternoon
March 31, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Round 1 for the Doggies means a trip to Subiaco to play the Dockers. It also means I need to find a place to watch the game because it’s not on free-to-air. My moral compass (that, and my scabbiness) dictates that pay-TV is evil and shall never enter our household. [Read more]
Pumped – John Weldon
March 30, 2009 by 1 Comment
Well the footy season started and I have to say I’m excited. Very excited. In fact you could say I’m pumped, which is not to say that I’ve been pumped, because that’s not the same thing at all. I don’t want that. You don’t want that. Nobody wants that. I am pumped, as stated, but [Read more]
Richmond v Carlton by Steve Healy (Grade 9)
March 30, 2009 by 414 Comments
Richmond V Carlton Every year, on this day it hits you. The season has started. I hopped off the bus in Ashburton and thought about the footy season. Another six months of happiness, frustration and pure joy awaited me. I rushed home with a spring in my step. I saw a Richmond supporter on the [Read more]
Hawthorn v Geelong by Steve Healy (Grade 9)
March 30, 2009 by 2 Comments
Hawthorn V Geelong This is it. I’m home from school on a Friday afternoon. I plan to leave home as early as possible, off to the footy. Hawthorn V Geelong. Another big crowd expected at the MCG, and an even better game of footy expected. I Say bye to family members, and head off [Read more]
Surely the Cats were the winners – Dips O’Donnell
March 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Some days are just strange. They make absolutely no sense from start to finish and leave you scratching your head and wondering if the whole world has spent the past twelve or so hours in a massive conspiracy to take the piss out of you, and only you. On Friday I spent a [Read more]
Patchy Pies Pipped by Persistent Players from Pissant-Town
March 29, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Steve Fahey Footy’s in the air Every sight and every sound Footy’s in the air Every recalled centre bounce And I don’t know if I’ve been dreaming (but it is probable) Don’t know if I’m being wise But you’re something that I must believe in Every time that I scream [Read more]
Richmond v Carlton
March 29, 2009 by 3 Comments
by Chris Riordan How low can you go?Stocks were used in Medieval times for public humiliation and acknowledgement of social crime. In 2009, we still seem to have this urge to see suffering before redemption (although Ricky Nixon appears to have escaped from his “tram collision” – maybe he’s a good manager after all). Ben [Read more]
Hawthorn v Geelong
March 29, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Craig Down “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result” Albert Einstein I didn’t, for obvious reasons, enjoy the 2008 Grand Final as much as I’d hoped I would. I’d floated through the season, watching the Cats’ 21 victories in full (and having left at three quarter time [Read more]
Bring on Round 1 by Steve Healy (Grade 9)
March 19, 2009 by 755 Comments
I don’t mind the Nab Cup. I like seeing young players and how they are progressing, and I like to see who plays and who doesn’t. This game between Collingwood and Geelong was a game to see where both sides were at. I would be watching the game from the comfort of my own home, [Read more]
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