All the world is football shaped, so why didn’t XTC kick that ball well and truly into space? Jeff Dowsing looks at a band who should have been one of the biggest groups of the U.K’s New Wave movement in the early 80s
Wool Team: Riverina nominations
March 23, 2015 by 5 Comments
Here’s some noms for footballers who come from a wool background in New South Wales and especially the Riverina. We haven’t got a team yet. Please add local champions as well.
A Footy Almanac Yarn about Writing Footy Almanac Yarns
March 23, 2015 by 12 Comments
“Singapore’s only no repeat work day;” Words that could only be found in a Mickey Randall yarn for the Footy Almanac. From downtown Singapore, the day when Mickey heads back to the Adelaide Oval via Glenelg looms. Go Tiges!
WAFL kicks off for 2015
March 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The WAFL season has begun with four pretty one-sided results. Les Everett wraps up week one of footy in the west.
Fitzroy and a New Girlfriend
March 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As the streets and gutters fill with leaves, this time of the year is like getting a new girlfriend for Phil Hill. If the weekend’s practice match is any indication, things are looking good for their relationship.
NAB Pre-Season – St Kilda v Hawthorn: A Funny Thing Happened… Again.
March 22, 2015 by 3 Comments
Yvette celebrated the start of the 2015 season by meeting new Sainters.
The Almanackers: L is for Latham
March 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Ian Latham has been writing for us for quite a few years now. A Sydney barrister, his words first started popping onto the site a few years ago, as each week he found a way of applying a Greek myth to a footy situation from the weekend’s matches. These pieces were very popular. He [Read more]
Harmes and Harms: a story of industrial relations, bacon and egg burgers and VFL premierships
March 21, 2015 by 3 Comments
John Harms remembers how an E Harmes and an E-less Harms spent the 1979 Grand Final. [Memorable – Ed]
The Bloody Brutality of Boxing – Brayden Smith
March 21, 2015 by 7 Comments
Matt Watson’s passion for the sweet science comes to the fore in this considered piece on what the future holds for Boxing in the wake of Queensland boxer Brayden Smith’s untimely – and shocking – death earlier this month.
NAB Challenge 2015 – St Kilda v Hawthorn: Tough Roads
March 20, 2015 by 6 Comments
If you thought a new tourism-based job in the Japanese town of Kyoto could separate Yoshi from his beloved Saints, think again.
The Almanackers: K is for Kane
March 20, 2015 by 2 Comments
Here’s a look at Rick Kane and his K-colleague contributors who write for the Almanac.
Cam Hooke’s Collingwood Life: And They Still Won by Seven Points?
March 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
NAB Challenge or not – Cam Hook needs one of the faithful to explain to him how the Pies could dominate the stats sheet against Carlton at Bendigo and still lose by seven points? With his eyes now firmly fixed on round one, Cam wants to know what you’re looking for from the Woodsmen in Saturday evening’s match against the Bulldogs.
Is that Bob Neil over there in the grey hair and Volleys?
March 20, 2015 by 5 Comments
Adelaide Uni Blacks player Daniel Weekley may have spotted Bob Neil. Here’s what happened.
Matt Spangher to Launch the Footy Season – April 1 at the Royal Melbourne Hotel
March 20, 2015 by 3 Comments
Our 2014 cover model and son of Almanac favourite Enzo will join us for dinner at the Royal Melbourne Hotel on April 1.
Crio’s Racing: Gold, Gold, Gold for Slipper Day
March 20, 2015 by 30 Comments
Crio highlights the “gold, gold, gold” on offer for 2yo’s in the Slipper on Saturday. Melbourne punters will journey to the Bendigo goldfields for their share of the spoils. Tips please.
Seasons in the Sun (Part Twenty Three): The Last Post
March 19, 2015 by 6 Comments
And just like that, another season is all over. Callum O’Connor recounts the valiant grand final defeat of the mighty Lower Plenty third XI.
Almanac Rugby League – Forza Inala!
March 19, 2015 by 7 Comments
In this classic memoir, Patrick O’Brien gives us a glimpse of the current premier’s home territory. Annastacia Palasczcuk is from Inala. Pat explains what that means by recalling the time his middle-class rugby league team took on the street-hard boys from down that way.
Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Ice Hockey League – a new book by Almanacker Will Brodie
March 19, 2015 by 2 Comments
“Yes, there is ice hockey in Australia,” writes Almanac supporter Will Brodie. Will has written a fantastic book about the sport in ‘Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Ice Hockey League’, which is being launched on March 21st at the Icehouse, Docklands [this Saturday night]. Will has also been kind enough to provide an exclusive extract from the book for the Almanac.
ICC World Cup 2015: Following without seeing
March 19, 2015 by 6 Comments
E Regnans’ 2015 ICC World Cup cricket coverage has been sans visual coverage so far. The written word and the internet has sated his cricketing appetite thus far. And butter chicken… (includes the #TimeHonoured E Regnan’s Butter Chicken recipe for free. You’re welcome).
Ready Reckoner: Where Do the Western Bulldogs Fit Amongst Recent AFL ‘Scandals’?
Avoid knee-jerk reactions and mis-directed, energy sapping, screaming-banshee hysteria on social media or in refined company with Dave Brown’s handy guide to the appropriate level of outrage you should invoke when it comes to AFL ‘scandals’.