We re-visit this classic Almanac yarn each Easter (for good reason):
Dips O’Donnell tells the story of his crack at Stawell and what the event and the weekend mean to the O’Donnell family.
2009 Round 4 – Brisbane v Collingwood: Magic Medhurst beats flood by surfing it
April 11, 2019 by 2 Comments
Both Haiku Bob and the Almanac have traveled far since HB wrote his first match report, in Round 4 2009. It turned out to be good weather for trout farming. And Pies.
Yarra Man: Rugby league origin games go all right
June 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Tavis Perrry As an avid sports lover, I really enjoyed watching the rugby league state-of-origin clash between NSW and Queensland, in particular the maroons’ star-studded and highly formidable defensive end. With AFL being my footy code of choice, I couldn’t help but compare the differences that I see between the AFL and NRL. The […]
Jones files: High times on the back of a truck
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones WHILE broadcasting sports events in Papua New Guinea was never dull, radio work hasn’t been without its moments here in central Victoria. How many metropolitan radio hacks would hoist themselves into the back of ute parked against a country footy ground’s fence? Not to mention a dairy cattle livestock truck positioned adjacent […]
Weekend Memoir: Round the grounds
May 16, 2009 by 7 Comments
by John Harms During the past week the scheduling of AFL matches has been a topic of discussion. Monday night’s match between Collingwood and St Kilda, despite being an ordinary game, seems to have been a reasonably successful experiment. However many feel that football has hijacked yet another day of the week. Spreading […]
Round 5 – The Middle Distance
April 28, 2009 by 3 Comments
by Haiku Bob round 5 – the middle distance Anzac Day defeat staring into the middle distance cold snap the empty space where our ruckman used to be swirling breeze Pendlebury splits the pack with a fake […]
Seventh heaven, my bootlace. Writing match reports is a terrible business
April 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Andrew Stafford A few days after the Brisbane v Collingwood clash at the Gabba, I received an email from a fellow Pies tragic. “You must have been in seventh heaven!” she gushed. Several other friends, not all of them Magpie fans, made similar comments. My job is a source of some envy. I am […]
Andrew Gigacz’s Round 4 Stat. Declaration
April 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment
St Kilda dominated the stupid stats in this round. In a tribute to 100-gamer Sam Fisher, the Saints went postal. Their goal sequence across the four quarters was 5, 3, 4, 5. And of course we all know that 5345 is the postcode of Fisher in South Australia. Not only that, Fisher just happens to […]
Bulldogs Hold the Aces by John Green
April 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The mind games started the day before this clash at the Docklands. Opposing coaches, Terry Wallace and Rodney Eade, were once teammates at Hawthorn. Having since become career coaches, they had engaged each other in a battle of wits at various times in recent years. First it was Wallace with the Western Bulldogs and Eade […]
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