Write. From the Heart.
Monday 10 October the Australian Society for Sports History (WA) is putting on a big bumper night of footy at the The Game Sports Bar in Northbridge.
Bouncedown is at 6.30pm, includes the ultimate footy journeyman and the WA launch of Play On: The hidden history of women’s Australian Rules football
Peter Argent has spotted something here in the kicking style of Jared Petrenko.
Nickthestatsguy was game enough to review his 2016 predictions. How did you go with yours?
Belief is a strong word, especially when applied to Gigs and fellow Bulldog supporters, it is the belief that their time will come and now they can’t believe it!
Grand Final 2016 is over and Rulebook reviews the game with a few contentious thoughts and you know who gets a mention.
The South Australian branch of ASSH is holding a dinner to celebrate its twentieth anniversary – on Tuesday October 11. All welcome. John Harms is the guest speaker. The topic will be of interest to those who enjoy the almanac.
Looking at the placegetters in Sunday’s de l’Arc de Triomphe, Archie Butterfly reckons there is only one horse that can claim to be “the greatest.” And she didn’t even run.
Dan Toomey is awake to the power of kindness. He saw it on Saturday.
Peter Sweeney has always loved Bendigo’s Queen Elizabeth Oval. But watching Kyabram v Rochester at Shepparton’s Deakin Reserve had him wondering – which is the best footy ground? [Leave your Australia-wide nominations].
Check out these images captured by Yvette Wroby at the Footy Almanac Grand Final Eve lunch 2016.
An epic Footy Almanac Grand Final Lunch topped only by an epic Grand Final. Can the Bulldogs drop their hangdog persona? Peter Baulderstone adapts classic Australian verse (apologies to John O’Brien) to record the events of recent days.
Mick Jeffrey of Gladstone (Queensland) took plane, train and automobile to see his Doggies in the Grand Final. And he’ll be back at the MCG in two weeks. [Epic – Ed].
Dave Warner demonstrates a whole series of inequities in the national competition and points the finger at the Melbourne-based journalists who support them. How strong are the arguments he brings?
E. regnans is on a couch in Geelong West, with friends and family, moved to tears, aware that he is in the midst of something profound, reminded of words which speak to him in a similar (the same?) way.
bod argues the case that no duplicate medal should be struck, following Luke Beveridge’s selfless act on Saturday.
A reflective Keiran Croker, on his traditional post-Grand Final trip to the Rising Sun Hotel, finds gratitude in the emptiness of Grand Final defeat.
Lachlan Tighe is an elite lawn bowls coach and analyst who says we can learn a lot about sporting organisations from the Western Bulldogs.
Continuing our highlights from Old Dog’s book, Champions All, an excerpt featuring the 1970 Grand Final.
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