Yvette Wroby laments the decline of her Saints in recent years, but is still making lemonade from lemons. The scattering of her friend’s ashes today at Whitten Oval were the uplift that the Bulldogs and Yvette needed.
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AFL Round 13 – Geelong v St Kilda: On Being a Cellar Dweller – for this moment in time
June 15, 2014 by 4 Comments
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: We’ve been Tealed but it’s still a good week
June 9, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Yvette Wroby finds joy in the simple things of improving young St Kilda footballers, and good times with family and new friends.
Lost and Found
June 1, 2014 by 5 Comments
A poignant memoir from Yvette Wroby about the passing of a beloved uncle, and how footy teams like people move from flakiness to triumph to gratitude. Her Saints turn will come.
AFL Round 9 – St.Kilda v Gold Coast Suns: Kenny Whiffen Will Live Forever in our Hearts
May 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
On Sunday St Kilda honoured a man who has served the club for 50 years and never missed a game. Yvette Wroby tells the story of Kenny Whiffen who was the runner on ‘that day’ in 1966.
AFL Round 8 – St Kilda v Carlton: Surrounded by the Blues and Funny Stories
May 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The verb “to Yvette” refers to the random and frequent engaging of strangers. Particularly on trains, or in cafes, or on the way to the footy. Yvette Wroby reveals her adventures on the way to Monday night’s game (her Saints lost but it barely matters).
You have to laugh and you have to wonder….
May 9, 2014 by 5 Comments
Yvette Wroby looks at the long injury list for her Saints, and surveys the injury rate across the competition. Is this getting worse, or have injuries always been this prevalent?
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v St Kilda: Remember This….
May 4, 2014 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby takes the lemons from her Saints heavy defeat by the Hawks, and makes typically “Yvettian” lemonade. E Regnans has now elevated “doing an Yvette” to proper noun status among all Almanackers.
Best chicken soup ever; depletion; replenishment.
April 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
Long live the delicious sustenance of chicken soup, grandchildren, art, footy and meeting others who love to talk about footy, writes Yvette Wroby.
AFL Round 5 – Essendon v St Kilda: Bathing in the glory of unexpected happiness
April 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
“We had to sit up with the gods, and it was OK because tonight they were on our side,” writes Sainter Yvette Wroby.
AFL Round 4 – St Kilda v Adelaide: Looking at life another way
April 14, 2014 by 5 Comments
Yvette Wroby tells how sometimes even a thrashing for your team is a welcome diversion from the realities of life. Her indomitable spirit and love of life shines through.
The Universe says that it’s more than a game.
April 7, 2014 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby is at it again, having stories to tell about sports supporters even when in difficult circumstances. Finding another Sainter will always make the world a better place, and finding other sports nuts is an added benefit.
AFL Round 1- St Kilda v Melbourne: NICE
March 24, 2014 by 1 Comment
All is good and NICE with the world in Yvette Wroby’s heart following the Saints fighting win over the Demons.
Very Excellent Adventures Remembered.
March 10, 2014 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby is back from six months travel in the USA. Here she covers the four major sports and everything else in her excellent adventure, which she shares with her Almanac family.
A Red, White and Black World
October 12, 2013 by 3 Comments
Yvette Wroby has found the Holy Trinity. The Louisville Cardinals; The Boston Red Sox and The Saints (in that order). All is right with her world.
The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live
October 5, 2013 by 18 Comments
Our international correspondent Yvette Wroby lets us into the secrets of the world’s greatest sporting events. What, no St Kilda premiership dance?
Take me out to the ball park
September 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
Yvette Wroby travelled to Fenway Park as part of her USA adventure to watch the Red Sox and the Yankees.
AFL Round 20 – St.Kilda v Hawthorn: Listening to our inner Scotty
August 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
The Saints are in good hands with Scott Watters, says Yvette Wroby.
“Springsteen & I”
August 6, 2013 by 5 Comments
The film Springsteen & I depicts the community Bruce Springsteen has created around the world, much like the community that has evolved around the Footy Almanac, writes Yvette Wroby, who felt the full support of that community last week.
Lost Dog
July 31, 2013 by 31 Comments
Yvette Wroby’s brother-in-law, Jon Hilton, a huge Bulldogs supporter, passed away on Saturday following a short battle with cancer. Yvette attended the Bulldogs-West Coast match the following day with Jon’s wife, Denise, hoping for a win. Thank you, Bulldogs.
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