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Round 14 – Richmond v GWS: The simplicity after the complexity

Tigers supporter, Chris Daley, watched the Tigers have a scrappy win against the Giants with his family on Saturday. Then found out a few days later that some players were born in the moment and have never left.

Round 11 – St Kilda v Melbourne: A fight for the Ages and a fight for the fourth win

Yvette Wroby gets an introduction to Masters footy and then introduces her cousin to experiencing an AFL game in person. And what a pair of debuts!

Round 9 – Richmond v Essendon: Dreamtime at the G

Bombers supporter Rod discusses a couple of issues with his Bombers as they go down to the Tigers at Dreamtime at the G.

VWFL Premier Round 1 – Darebin v Diamond Creek: How’s that for first impressions?

A magnificent autumn Saturday and some VWFL action is too much for E.regnans to turn down. Darebin and Diamond Creek put on a show.

Old (woollen) footy jumpers – Stephen Alomes, Rainbow warrior

Football chronicler Stephen Alomes recalls a rare high mark and his old TUFC jumper.

The State of the Origins (of Australian Football)

Charlie Wells chronicles the origins of the names and places of all the clubs that grace our great game. And despite all the pommy toffs and shonks that lent many a club name, Ron thinks the indigenous possum skin game ‘Marn Grook’ gave it much of its style. (Lovers of our history will be richly rewarded by Charlie’s research – Ed.)

Dear Gillon

Stand up and cheer Knackers. Read this amazing letter that Sue Currie sent AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan passionately summarising all the problems of the modern game. To his credit Gillon rang Sue personally to respond.

AFL Round 13 – Collingwood v Western Bulldogs: We came, we saw, we believed

The Bulldog Tragician ponders fate, tentative happiness, the company and comfort of strangers – and sweet, sweet victory over the Pies.

Coarse Cricket Comes To Tassie

Geoff Lockhart opens the batting on a series of yarns about local cricket in Northern Tasmania. Why is a good fridge always more important than a good opening batsman?

No sore losers here

Catherine Durkin saw a couple of games last weekend – and can hardly believe the contrast. They set her thinking.

Was the Dogs’ 97 PF loss the ‘butterfly effect’ in the 09 failure?

Look away now if you are a Bulldogs supporter. Kerrie Soraghan revisits the 97 and 09 preliminary finals at length. To be fair, this is an attempt at exorcism more than self flagellation.

Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it’s off to work we go.

Sam (Stainless) Steele has been wondering about the mundane (banal) nature of sport once it is in the grip of the professionalised industrial process. [Super article; thought-provoking. Ed]

For richer for poorer; in sickness and in health

Andrew Else pens a passionate and intelligent summary of where his Bombers are at. You can choose your friends, but family and footy clubs are for life.

Melbourne Launch

Thursday is the big night for Melbourne Almanackers. Gather at the All Nations Hotel in Richmond to collect your books, and buy a dozen for Christmas presents to delight family and friends with your spontaneous and unedited wit and wisdom. Meet the crew and buy a box to guarantee your slot in next year’s edition.

1951 Recruit of the year

A classic bit of football history as Neil Anderson reports on how things were done back in the day – how was EJ Whitten advised of his good fortune by the Bulldogs?

Big H’s first pack of Galahs

Rob Heath on the team of Mr Universes who visited Ireland as The Galahs in 1967. [Cracking historical tale – Ed]

Being Relevant.

There are only two positions available to the eighteen AFL teams at this juncture of the season – Relevant or not.

New Tom Wills doco

Have a look at the trailer for the new Tom Wills video documentary. [Worth a look – Ed]

Knackers to the fore in new footy book

Five Almanackers are amongst the 50 contributors to Australia’s Game, a new book just published by Slattery Media. The book is an updated version of the 1988 book The Greatest Game, edited by Ross Fitzgerald and Ken Spillman

AFL Round 12 – Collingwood v Western Bulldogs: Word associations and unanswerable questions

David Wilson is multi-tasking (badly) and would like some help from the ABC commentary team. Stop spouting cliches and reading statistics – give us the vibe of the match.