The Norwood Redlegs had a cast of interstate ‘blow-ins’ during the Alan Killigrew years and continued to attract players from outside SA’s borders. Swish looks at those that came during the 1960-1975 years (this article will be followed up soon with those who arrived from 1976-1990).
Wally Miller: the doyen of administrators
October 17, 2024 by 52 Comments
We reprise Rulebook’s tribute to Norwood legend Wally Miller who died yesterday. Vale Wally Miller.
Almanac Footy History: St Kilda’s Bob Wilkie – what do you have to do to get a guernsey?
May 18, 2023 by 4 Comments
As a boy, Allan Grant first crossed paths with St Kilda stalwart Bob Wilkie. They became close family friends. Here, Allan makes the case to have Bob Wilkie in the St Kilda Hall of Fame.
Almanac (Sporting) Memoir: 1957
April 25, 2023 by 4 Comments
Allan Grant continues his memoir about sport from the perspective of a young boy growing up in Balaclava in Melbourne’s inner south-east. Here he remembers his mighty Saints as they improve, cricket and the champion Tulloch at Caulfield.
Almanac Childhood Heroes: Brian Gleeson – Brownlow medallist, member of the Saints Hall of Fame
September 18, 2020 by 7 Comments
Allan Grant pays homage to his childhood hero, St Kilda’s Brian Gleeson, whose career was cut short by injury at a very young age.
Saints 1940 – A Premier combination: the Patriotic Premiership
May 27, 2020 by 3 Comments
In 1940 St Kilda Football Club won the Lightning Premiership. Allan Grant tells of the players in that squad and wonders what might have been.
1966 and all that: Round 3 – North Melbourne v St Kilda
April 22, 2020 by 4 Comments
It’s Round 3, 1966 and Peter Clark takes us to Arden Street for the match between North and the Saints. And fills us in on the other scores and what’s going on in the world. [Includes a link to The Age coverage of the round as well – Ed]
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