Round 20 – AFL Footy Fixture Season 2025: Who, where and when

Find out who, where, and when your team is playing in Round 20 this weekend.

Round 19 – Collingwood v Fremantle: Floreat Pica Society Report

A tough opponent, overseas guests to assimilate, an ‘enemy’ supporter in the next seat, high expectations: all the ingredients for a relaxed afternoon – NOT!

Almanac Poetry: Sunday Night Country Devotions

In this Campbell Bairstow poem, he remembers the joy and the suffering of watching VFL footy replays on the family farm in Western Australia. His faith survived.

Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2025: Round 19 Review / Round 20 Preview

With two straight losses Collingwood is in uncharted territory. Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2025 is confident the Pies will return to the winning table in their Round 20 match against Richmond.

SANFL Blow-ins 1960-1990: Part 5a – Norwood

The Norwood Redlegs had a cast of interstate ‘blow-ins’ during the Alan Killigrew years and continued to attract players from outside SA’s borders. Swish looks at those that came during the 1960-1975 years (this article will be followed up soon with those who arrived from 1976-1990).

Almanac Music: Dylan Cover Songs: International Style #5 – Complete albums of Dylan covers by female artists (Take 1)

Continuing his absorbing ‘Dylan Cover Songs’ series, Karl Dubravs in his latest installment places the focus on female artists who have released a complete album of Dylan cover song – a total of 27 albums to date. Part 1 examines the first 10 albums.

Almanac Poetry – Fox

No lazy dogs here…KD describes this Monday’s poem as ‘a fable about a fox’. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed.]

Almanac Footy: Mid-season footy club reviews (a bit late, but…) – Part 3

Micky McTigger’s mid-season review continues with a look at North Melbourne, Port Adelaide and Richmond.

Almanac Cricket: Fast bowling: A love affair.

Scott Hunt, who was a practitioner of the art himself, explains his love of fast bowling, the appeal of its menace and the precision, particularly the ‘mad bastard fast bowlers’ who feature in the great game of cricket.

Almanac Podcasts: ‘The Cat Pack’, a podcast by four Nuff Nuffs who love the Geelong Football Club

Marcus Holt is part of The Cat Pack Podcast team, a podcast featuring the fortunes of the Geelong Football Club and all things footy. Marcus introduces readers to the members of the podcast, and explains its origins .

#AusJumpsRacingPreviews – Hamilton, Sunday 20 July 2025

Dandy Andy previews the big jumps meeting at Hamilton this Sunday (July 20).

Round 18 – Gold Coast v Collingwood: Floreat Pica Society

The Floreat Pica Society reports on the exciting Pies-Suns clash on the Gold Coast.

Almanac Footy: Mid-season footy club reviews (a bit late, but…) – Part 2

Micky McTigger presents Part 2 of his mid-season reviews, Fremantle to Melbourne.

Round 19 – Sal’s Preview: Barrie Robran, RIP.

Sal pays his respects to Barrie Robran, discusses the State of Origin concept and previews a full round of AFL fixtures.

NRL Round 20 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!

Prop by the Sea is living contentedly in a Maroon world. He’s a hard man to contain.

Almanac Footy: Mid-season footy club reviews (a bit late, but…) – Part 1

Micky McTigger delivers part one of his (slightly belated) mid-season review, taking us from Adelaide through to Essendon.

Almanac Travel: Not so much ‘la dolce vita’ as ‘la vita educativa’ (Part 4]

Ian Hauser continues his series about recent travel experiences in Europe. This time the focus is cruising.

Almanac State of Origin: Where’s Tanunda? That’s in Queensland!

Rabbit in the Vineyard couldn’t be happier. He tells the story of the State of Origin decider, as it was played out in Tanunda which, it seems, is in Queensland. {And he’s pleased that Souths got the two points over The Bye – credit to the boys.)

Barrie Robran: The Champion

Bernard Whimpress wrote this tribute to Barrie Robran forty years ago. We reprise it on this sad day, July 16, 2025.

Almanac Footballers: Vale Barrie Robran MBE – The Humble Champion

The devastating news came through this morning of the passing of Barrie Robran MBE, one of South Australia’s finest ever people, let alone sportspersons. The Whyalla lad was a humble champion from the beginning reports Swish Schwerdt.