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AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Geelong Cats (5th)

August 22, 2017 by 25 Comments

We’ve hit the whiskery part of Swish’s review of the 1997 lists. Who was your fave Cat back then?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: West Coast Eagles (6th)

August 17, 2017 by 10 Comments

West Coast comes in (or more accurately, go out) at number 6 in Swish’s pictorial countdown of the 1997 AFL lists.

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Sydney Swans (7th)

August 15, 2017 by 10 Comments

Swish continues his 1997 countdown, the Swans are next. Who stood out for you, Bloods fans?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Brisbane Lions (8th)

August 11, 2017 by 11 Comments

Brisbane became the Lions in 1997. Their list was fairly stable, but not their place on the ladder. Does this stir up any memories for you?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Port Adelaide (9th)

August 9, 2017 by 18 Comments

Port Adelaide’s initial AFL list from 1997. How’d they go? Who do you remember? Who had the worst haircut?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Collingwood Magpies (10th)

August 7, 2017 by 11 Comments

Collingwood weren’t too flash in 1997, as this list would indicate. Who kicked on, who went elsewhere?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Carlton Blues (11th)

August 4, 2017 by 10 Comments

We’re edging closer to the 1997 finalists in this pictorial countdown of that season’s list. Carlton’s next up, only a couple of years after their recent flag (and light years away from their next).

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Fremantle Dockers (12th)

August 2, 2017 by 15 Comments

Freo’s third season 1997, was one of the best of a mediocre first decade. Let us know what you know about these transcontinental men of mystery.

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Richmond Tigers (13th)

August 1, 2017 by 12 Comments

Relive Richmond’s golden year of 1997.

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Essendon Bombers (14th)

July 28, 2017 by 5 Comments

Our countdown of the 1997 AFL lists finds the Bombers in between flags and towards the bottom of the pile. But not for long.

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Hawthorn Hawks (15th)

July 27, 2017 by 22 Comments

This is what the Hawthorn list looked like in 1997. What are your memories of those dark, dark days?

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Melbourne Demons (16th)

July 23, 2017 by 13 Comments

The Dees were dismal in 1997. Does this look like the list of a sixteenth placed team? Let us know who you recognise or who you’d forgotten.

AFL 1997 – Twenty Years On: Introduction and The Coaches

July 21, 2017 by 8 Comments

Can 1997 really be two decades ago? Apparently so, as Swish introduces this pictorial series covering the coaches and players from the 1997 AFL season.

Almanac Footy History: Black and white evidence for footy’s forgotten years

April 16, 2025 by 4 Comments

In researching the life of Karl Schneider, MIchael Lefebvre has found a document which is in itself interesting and helpful, but also offers insight on another topic. The letterhead on the Collingwood FC correspondence says something about the sensibility of the time and the place of pre-VFL premierships in the history of the game in 1928. [Great find – Ed]

Almanac Footy: SA v WA 1978 – Not so golden years

January 27, 2025 by 8 Comments

Was South Australian footy in 1978 as good as some of us like to remember? Perhaps not, as Swish’s review of this State game against WA concludes. At least the salads were good. Warning: contains traces of Le Coq, skivvies and casual sexism.

Almanac Footy: The VFL/AFL’s Blunt Team

April 1, 2024 by 18 Comments

Brad Scott’s comment about the ‘Essendon Edge’ had Ian Wilson thinking back to a time when players didn’t need an edge, they were blunt, as he explains.

Almanac Footy: The AFL’s Ginger Wildcats

March 10, 2024 by 2 Comments

Ginger cats in Ian Wilson’s family reminded him of some AFL ginger headed players as he explains.

Almanac Footy: The case for a Canberra AFL side

May 18, 2023 by 7 Comments

Dan Hoban reckons it makes sense to now have a twentieth AFL team. He argues the case for the nation’s capital and the Canberra Fat Cats.

Almanac Footy: It was 50 years ago today…..the blackest day in my Collingwood life – John Greening

July 8, 2022 by 21 Comments

For Collingwood fans, it fifty years ago today, the Round 14 match played on 8 July 1972 between Collingwood and St Kilda that is forever remembered as the day a champion footballer, John Greening was cut down in the prime of his footy career.

Opinion: What if Declan Mountford makes his Eagles debut but nobody knew? The day integrity and the AFL parted company

March 28, 2022 by 6 Comments

John Gordon thinks the AFL stuffed up big time by hamstringing his Eagles who had to play with several missing due to Covid protocols – what do you think? Would it be a different kettle of fish if flag faves Melbourne were playing?