Sal Ciardulli pays his respects to Ron Barassi and Kevin Neale, makes his preliminary final predictions, and checks out the form for this weekend’s races.
Almanac Running: City Bay fun run – Singapore Sharks, snags and spirituality spruikers
September 22, 2023 by 10 Comments
Mickey Randall is off on another run, this time the six kilometre leg of the Adelaide City Bay fun run. As usual, Mickey takes in all the sights and sounds during his run to share with readers.
Almanac Music: Aussie Album Review – Jet ‘Get Born’
September 22, 2023 by 3 Comments
In the wake of Jet’s elevation to the ARIA Hall of Fame, Smokie returns to their debut album “Get Born”. It is the 17th of his Aussie album reviews
Almanac Music: Songs about Roads
September 22, 2023 by 74 Comments
This week’s music piece from KD concerns songs that mention roads in the title, whether they be specifically highways, streets, avenues, boulevards, esplanades or similar infrastructure.
Almanac (Women’s) Footy: The Payneham Falcons are flying high !
September 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Verity Sanders explains the expansion and on-field success of the Payneham Falcons Football Club’s women’s program. Vying with their men’s teams for equal status within the club, there’s a blueprint here for others to consider. (An exciting, enthusiastically expounded exemplar of how to make a club prosper – Ed.)
Almanac Poetry: ‘Winter Dies Early’ – Tommy Mallet
September 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In his poem, ‘Winter Dies Early’, Tommy Mallet describes that feeling of an early morning start to work in winter.
Almanac Footy – Finals Diary, Chapter 5: Five by Five
September 21, 2023 by 4 Comments
The Beatles had No. 9; Shane Reid has No. 5 – and he’s got it bad! Read Reid’s rationale about the importance of having a number on your footy jumper. (And his prediction for the Lions v Blues clash.)
NRL Finals Week 3: The Road to the Finals – Part 3
September 21, 2023 by 2 Comments
Matt O’Hanlon has studied the Form Guide once again to find the good oil on this weekend’s NRL Preliminary Finals.
NRL Finals Week 3 and NRLW Finals Week 1: The finalists all get what they deserve!
September 21, 2023 by 1 Comment
The NRL and NRLW Preliminary Finals feature the teams that deserve to be there but confidently picking winners remains a challenge. Ian Hauser tries to sort out his thinking.
‘Tenacious small man realises his dream…’ by KB Hill
September 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Dylan Wilson was marked as one to watch from a young age. Now he’s a fixture for the Wangaratta Rovers. KB Hill charts his progress over the years.
Almanac Footy: Grumpy Old Men – featuring Rocket,Taubo, and Murph
September 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
You are invited to the Ralph Robertson Annual Lunch presented by the NSW Australian Football Society featuring three ‘grumpy old men’ – former AFL players Rod Carter, Steve Taubert, and David Murphy.
Finals Week 3 – AFL 2023 Footy Fixture
September 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Check out who, when, and where the Preliminary Finals are played this weekend.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Mid Spring Detente’
September 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
With the weather warming up, James Walton reminds us of the hidden dangers lurking at our feet.
Mike Brady Presents: The Songs of Football’s Greatest Sons
September 19, 2023 by 12 Comments
A must have item for many a young footy fan in the early 1980s and Damian Balassone was lucky enough to get his hands on a copy after scrimping and saving his pocket money… it is Mike Brady’s ‘The Songs of Football’s Greatest Sons’. [The Footy Almanac reprises this post by Damian Balassone which in part features Ron Barassi who passed away a few days ago. – Ed]
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life: Finals Week 3 – Go Pies
September 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life is confident the Pies can make their way through to the Grand Final by defeating the Giants in their Preliminary Final match.
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