NRL 2025, Round 2: Rabbit in the Vineyard – Souths go back to back!

RITV is happy to see Souths win back to back games first up in the 2025 NRL season. Should Jye Gray forfeit his position in the team to accommodate Latrell Mitchell when the latter returns from injury?

NRL 2025, Round 3: Prop by the Sea – You gotta love footy!

Prop pinpoints the pressure spots already emerging after only two rounds of the NRL season. Plus he shows us a whole new side of himself in a revealing portrait!

Almanac (Regional) Racing: Way Out West

Dandy Andy returns to cover regional racing of all varieties – harness racing, jumps racing and greyhound racing.

NRL 2025, Round 3: Anyone for humble pie?

Round 2 of the NRL demonstrated that you shouldn’t count on your expectation of roast Chooks before they have a chance to crow.

Footy Almanac Lunch: Sydney (March 29)

Here’s a colourful reminder of our Almanac lunch coming up in Sydney on March 29. (Design by the marketing team at Souths Juniors – Ed.)

Almanac Life: Home and Away

Peter Fuller has had a hectic few weeks or so visiting an ill friend in Queensland as Cyclone Alfred hit; watching his beloved Blues lose a match everyone thought they would easily win, and some running to alleviate his frustrations.

Almanac Golf: Golf – it can give you the shits!

Bernard Whimpress recalls his attempts to break par off the stick at the North Adelaide golf course. Whenever one did look likely, Bernard was thwarted by shit luck, and in more ways than one!

Round 1 – Sydney v Brisbane: Unfamiliar Parameters

Mathilde de Hauteclocque returns with a heartfelt rumination on her feelings for the red and white

Almanac Music: Vale – Jesse Colin Young

Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods is the latest icon from the music world to join the great gig in the sky passing away a couple of days ago aged 83.

Round 2 – AFL Footy Fixture 2025: Who, where, when?

Find out who, where, and when your team is playing in AFL season 2025.

The Fall of the Duck

The crash landing reflected the disgrace of the act implies Damian Ballassone in his latest offering.

Almanac Music: The Over the Hill Blues

Matt Gately grooved to the sights and sounds of The SummerSalt Tour 2025 when it featured in Batemans Bay NSW recently.

Almanac Life: Remembering Grandpa, the Braybrook Hotel, and a time long ago

Col and his cousins met up at The Braybrook Hotel to remember their grandfather and fathers recalling family stories from times past.

Almanac Footy: Gather Round Tickets for Essendon v Melbourne 12 April available

Trevor Blainey has a couple of Gather Round tickets for sale, Essendon v Melbourne on 12 April.

Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2025: Round 1 Review / Round 2 Preview

After their Opening Round effort ‘Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life 2025’ is more than pleased with the Pies reversal of form against Port Adelaide. He also previews the upcoming match against Western Bulldogs.

Round 1 – Collingwood v Port Adelaide: Hot Pies at a hot ‘G! (Floreat Pica Society)

Was last week just a bad dream? The Magpies returned to their stomping grounds and stomped the Power to banish some of the giant worries of the Opening Round. Richard Atkins reports.

Round 1 – Hawthorn v Essendon: Hawks swoop as Bombers misfire!

Not quiite the result Col was hoping for but the Bombers had their chances against the slick Hawks.

Almanac Footy: A case of ‘deja vu’ for the Tigers

There were comparisons made between the triumphant Tigers of 2025 and their 1988 cartwheeling counterparts, however Micky McTigger has turned the clock back a bit further to compare the win with one by another batch of cubs.

Ghosts of the Fairway: Belair Parkrun

In the metaphorical blink of an eye, Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills has transformed from verdant golfing locale to a sunburnt parkrun host – Mickey Randall shares his experiences of both iterations and reflects on the personal and societal meaning within.

Almanac Poetry: The Poet Who Got the Grant Instead of You

This week’s poem by Kevin Densley is a humorous take on the role of ego and rivalry in the literary community. [Contains mild coarse language]