The footy season is nearly over and the big questions I’m asking are: * What am I supposed to do now? * How will I spend my weekends? * And more importantly, how will I survive? The seriousness of this matter is epic! Footy is the only reason to get out of bed on the [Read more]
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AFL Round 21: Pies score another win as I dread the end of the season
August 24, 2009 by 512 Comments
General Footy Writing: That sense of hopeless vulnerability returns for a Collingwood icon
July 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By James Gilchrist My Mum started following Collingwood in 1953. At age twelve she used to go to VFL games by herself to watch the Richards brothers and Ray Gabelich. Gabbo was her idol. She would travel by tram each week and stand on top of empty beer cans in the outer to try to [Read more]
AFL Round 14: Collingwood v Essendon: Revenge is sweet
July 5, 2009 by 4 Comments
By Danielle Eid Last time these teams met the red and black crowd was up and my tears were streaming down. Never in my life I had I been so annoyed at Channel Ten for removing the clock off the screen. My team was leading, the clock had disappeared, and surely the time was up! [Read more]
The Gigs Guide to School-holiday Fun
July 3, 2009 by 6 Comments
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS IN THE ’70S – WESTERN SUBURBS STYLE By Andrew Gigacz School holidays are here again and parents everywhere have got their kids organised for a five-day tennis program, a one-day Flash animation course or an all-day video gaming fest at someone’s house. Thinking back to my childhood term breaks, my family had no [Read more]
General Footy Writing: How a Tiger got his stripes (part 1)
June 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Sam Steele It was not until 1970 when I was six years old that I even discovered the existence of Australian football. Unlike so many Australian families in which footy allegiance, like religion, is rock solid and and never to be questioned, or those in which rivalries flourish, in my family the game was [Read more]
The Wrap: Looking at Round 13
June 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By John Mosig What a week it’s been in Footy Eddie. That Coaches Carousel is a 24/7 ride and the fairy floss is free. The latest to climb aboard is Shinboner of The Century. He’s invited The Greatest Player to Ever Pull on The Black&White Verticals to change the colour of his stripes. Actually nothing [Read more]
AFL Round 11 (and gymnastics): Perfection 1 Gymnasts 0
June 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Dips O’Donnell I’m at the Sate Netball and Hockey Centre to watch the Victorian Gymnastics championships. It’s an impressive centre. Lots of steel girders, vast glass windows, and official looking desks with official looking people manning them. I have a nervous daughter competing today. There are a few Olympians [Read more]
Jones files: All aboard for the South Pacific Games
June 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones BACK in the 1960s and ‘70s inter-Territory and inter-island carnivals were the high points of the sporting calendar for Pacific countries. The emerging island nations to the north and east of Australia contested a wide range of sports disciplines in the event known as the South Pacific Games. The Games were first [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Rain, beer and the footy on a front bar TV in Sydney
June 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Tony Reed I guess I have a confession to make from the outset when reporting on this game. I didn’t watch all of it, although I did manage to watch most of it. A bit like Carlton, I knew it was a-comin’ – in this case the rain in Sydney and hoped that this [Read more]
Essendon fan gets the same old feeling
May 4, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Rod Oaten I guess it started some 15 years ago as a Da/Father/Son day but Da gave up about 5 years ago due to age, he is now over 92, and stays in his aged care facility in Northcote and listens on the radio. Family days at the footy have always been important to [Read more]
How D.C. McGillivray bought the farm
April 26, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Pamela Sherpa Running was an integral part of life when my grandfather D.C (David Crump) McGillivray was a boy. Chores were done morning and afternoon and running to and from school was the norm. Not surprisingly, like many of his time, D.C. discovered his athletic talents and developed into a decent all-round sportsman. He relished competition and adhered to the philosophy [Read more]
Harms
John Harms is the contributing editor and publisher of The Footy Almanac. Here’s a selection of John’s recent articles. Harms on Round 5 and Travis Varcoe, April 28, 2011 Harms delivers the George Lovejoy Memorial Lecture, April 20, 2011 Harms on Round 3, Geelong v Port Adelaide, April 13, 2011 Harms on Chappy April 8, 2011 Harms on [Read more]
GIGSTUFF
« Previous Entries GIGSTUFF 51 Posted by Gigs on 15th April 2011 by Andrew Gigacz MEATLOAF The bad news is we didn’t get the draw were hoping for last week and we are no longer on target for 24 drawn games in this year’s home-and-away rounds. The good news is that we are still on [Read more]
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