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AFL Grand Final – Sydney v Hawthorn: I’m not angry, just disappointed
September 30, 2014 by 6 Comments
Swans supporter Joe Moore took his extended family from Hobart to Melbourne for a memorable grand final day. Everything was brilliant before and after the game. The problem was the bit in between.
AFL Preliminary Final – Sydney v North Melbourne: up against the Extra$
September 23, 2014 by 8 Comments
‘I hoped for something to ease the angst that filled the garage. My heart was yammering.’ In his man-cave with his mates, Matt Watson endures the Roos prelim-final loss to the Swans.
AFL Preliminary Final – Hawthorn v Port Adelaide: This one’s for Gibbo
September 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
Players take no solace from a loss – Josh Gibson explained this sternly to Trucker Slim back in May. Port Adelaide played with speed, ingenuity and sublime skill, but did not quite do enough.
AFL Round 23- Adelaide v St Kilda: Mr Squiggle and Dr Smith, trapped aboard the Jupiter 2.
September 1, 2014 by 22 Comments
CSI Almanac: Mickey Randall conducts a post-mortem on Adelaide’s 2014 season and finds only questions.
The 2014 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup – Round Twenty One
August 21, 2014 by 4 Comments
Earl O’Neill celebrates his Monaros big win over the hapless Demons, and muses on the future of Mark Thompson and the endlessly recycled trivia of the footy media (Almanac excepted).
AFL Round 18 – Collingwood v Adelaide: a Patong bar, a sunset lobster, a Magpie loss
August 19, 2014 by 1 Comment
PJ Branagan sandwiches a Round 18 match report between drinks at Bar Funk 3 in Patong and lobster while overlooking the azurian Andaman Sea.
AFL Round 20 – St Kilda v Western Bulldogs: Graduating with Honours
August 12, 2014 by 7 Comments
Shane Warne, Dannii Minogue – neither of them could hold a candle to St Lenny says Neil Anderson.
AFL Round 19 – Adelaide Crows v West Coast Eagles: Flake and Hot Chips
August 3, 2014 by 9 Comments
Peter Baulderstone finds evidence to support his faith in Adam Simpson as the man to transform his Eagles. The Crows need deafeners, concussion plates, block winkers and a change of stables.
AFL Round 18 – Port Adelaide v Melbourne: Triple fun in Sydney Town
July 26, 2014 by 7 Comments
Handbag Hansen is invited to three functions on the one afternoon. Lucky they’re all at the same venue. And Port fall over the line.
AFL Round 18 – GWS v Geelong: Don’t Mention the Game
July 23, 2014 by 1 Comment
Richard Naco’s first AFL game for this year will also be his last. “Never again,” he said at the end.
AFL Round 18 – Carlton v North Melbourne: I went in to Sin City
July 21, 2014 by 2 Comments
Matt Watson lives in Brisbane and spends $400 a year on an AFL membership that allows him to fly to Melbourne and watch his Kangaroos from the Second Tier at Docklands. He considered jumping.
AFL Round 18: St. Kilda v Fremantle – A Miracle at the Dome
July 20, 2014 by 11 Comments
I’m sure Almanackers everywhere immediately thought of Yvette when they saw that the Saints had pulled off the upset of the year. Here is her report
AFL Round 17 – Fremantle v GWS: Dockers sink Giants
July 15, 2014 by 4 Comments
Trademark sparkle from the pen of D Zampatti whose muse is clearly footy (and not the world game). Nice piece on the Dockers’ untroubled win, the longer term prospects of GWS, and the possible course of Freo’s season (“Prepare the torpedoes!”).
AFL Round 16 – West Coast v Sydney: Where were you?
July 9, 2014 by 4 Comments
The rivalry continues, albeit in a slog at Subiaco. Joe Moore watches from the other side of the continent.
AFL Round 16 – Gold Coast v Collingwood: Persistently Profligate Pies Eclipsed by Suns
July 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
When is too much Collingwood never enough? When they lose (unbiased opinion – Ed.) Steve Fahey pens a longer, more Collingwood-centric view for the Floreat Pica Society of Saturday night’s game on the Gold Coast.
AFL Round 16 – Gold Coast v Collingwood: Pies eclipsed by Suns as old and new tribes meet
July 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Steve Fahey journeyed north to Metricon and enjoyed the old-fashioned tribal atmosphere at the game. He was less impressed by his Magpies performance and the result.
AFL Round 15 – Sydney v GWS: Headaches, Hot Toddies and Heroes past and present
July 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The 1935 Bloods are reflected in the 2014 Swans. Through a haze of ‘medicinal’ whisky Joe Moore reflects on moustaches, Bob Pratt, Buddy Franklin and dynasties.
AFL Round 11 – Essendon v Richmond: Dreamtime at the G
June 2, 2014 by 2 Comments
The Bombers cruise to one of their easier Dreamtime victories as the Tigers stare down the barrel of being … gulp … worse than Melbourne circa 2013? Rod Oaten reports.
AFL Round 9 – Fremantle v Geelong: Viva la character; viva la personality; viva la history.
May 20, 2014 by 6 Comments
On Pav’s night, the Freo characters, bold with personality, render the celebrated Geelong opponents anonymous (again), and win a victory worthy of their fine champion, writes David Zampatti. [Super piece – Ed]
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