Almanac Teams: Two clubs in one year

April 3, 2023 by 8 Comments

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: Players that played for three clubs in three years

February 27, 2023 by 5 Comments

Rodney Boyd is back in 2023 and he has something a little different to share this time – his team of players who ran out for three different clubs in consecutive seasons. You wouldn’t want to get too attached to seeing these blokes in your colours!

“These shall not be forgotten years” – Richmond 1981-2016: An occasional series of reflections on the triumphs and tragedies that made 2017 so worth the wait.

July 30, 2019 by 1 Comment

Stainless continues his occasional series about Richmond’s “forgotten years”, this time a more memorable one, Kevin Bartlett’s 400th game.

They shall not be forgotten years. Richmond: 1981 – 2016: An occasional series of reflections on the triumphs and tragedies that made 2017 so worth the wait.

June 28, 2019 by 5 Comments

Stainless confronts the horror that was Richmond’s 1982 Grand Final loss and its aftermath in his ongoing series about the Tigers during those years their fans would like to forget but can’t. So many ‘what ifs?’ in this brutally honest reflection.

Almanac Footy Teams: A team of Jeffs/Geoffs

February 10, 2019 by 35 Comments

Hallelujah! Some decent Jeffs/Geoffs have donned an AFL/VFL guernsey over the years. Anyone “jeffed” and left out of the team? Phil Dimitriadis has come up with a cracker!

A Team of Charmers

May 6, 2018 by 31 Comments

Come on Knackers! Phil asks, which footballers turned you on and why?

Almanac Teams: Great Number 4s

November 16, 2017 by 18 Comments

A cracking, attacking team of #4s from Phil Dimitriadis.

Era, era on the wall; 1977-1986

November 9, 2015 by 14 Comments

Jeff Dowsing continues with his fantastic look at bygone football eras. Many think the 70s and 80s where the greatest in footy. Actually they nearly killed but ultimately saved football. A must read for students of the game.

Round 7 – Richmond v Collingwood: Football in Australia. 100 years on.

May 18, 2015 by 4 Comments

Chris Daley is given cause to reflect on the changes in footy over the century, as he celebrates his great Aunt’s 100th birthday. If she’s a Tiger fan, it will have been a very good weekend indeed.

Geoff Raines

May 11, 2011 by 3 Comments

Football Fact No. 1,000,000,002 Geoff Raines. Geoff Raines was the crispest player to ever pull on a boot. I don’t care that the father of Andrew was a pretty boy, or that the umps didn’t like him, or that he chased the dollar. Not a bit. In his days at Richmond he would take the [Read more]