Inspired by a comment on an earlier side, Rodney Boyd shares his team made up of players who represented two clubs in the same season.
Almanac Teams: The Debatable Eights (1980- )
March 22, 2021 by 6 Comments
It’s Monday and that means Rodney Boyd is back to share his weekly side, this one made up of the more ‘interesting’ players who wore Number 8 in the past 40 years or so.
Almanac History: Moratorium
May 11, 2020 by 14 Comments
The Moratorium March, Royalty at the footy, the VFL’s first ever Sunday match, and VFL Park’s first game; 1970 was certainly a happening year for many things political- and footy-wise. This insightful piece from Glen! was posted a couple of years ago and this past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Moratorium March. [Well worth remembering – Ed.]
Cracking weekend of footy and sport coming up
April 6, 2018 by 1 Comment
Almanackers, we’re in for some cracking games of footy, and all things sport this weekend!
“A funny thing happened on the way back to the rotunda” by Brent ‘Tiger’ Crosswell
April 4, 2018 by 3 Comments
They don’t make ’em like Brent ‘Tiger’ Crosswell anymore…in fact they never did. Here’s a piece from the three-club champion, teacher, son of a butcher, and writer; first published in The Australian.
AFL: The engineer and the artist
May 25, 2017 by 24 Comments
Dips O’Donnell sees that AFL football now sadly focusses on risk reduction, rather than on individual and collective enterprise. We should celebrate human imagination, art and wisdom.
Round 4 – Carlton v Western Bulldogs: Dogs in a canter
April 20, 2016 by 3 Comments
Bulldogs building the dream while Carlton builds a team.
Retrospective Norm Smith Medals?
April 9, 2016 by 8 Comments
As the great footballers of the 50s and 60s grow older, Shannon Gill argues the case for retrospective Norm Smith Medals.
Martin Flanagan’s speech to the Grassroots Sports Club in Hobart, Spring 2019.
Martin Flanagan is one the country’s leading writers on Australian football. This is a timely speech about footy in Tassie which Martin gave in Hobart last weekend for the Grassroots Sports Club to raise money to buy sports equipment for disadvantaged kids.