The Prospector was there to see the Broncos corral the Storm. This was his perspective from the great heights of the grandstand.
2025 NRL Grand Final – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love Grand Final footy!
October 9, 2025 by 9 Comments
Prop by the Sea takes us on his NRL B2B Grand Final Tour with his offsiders The Prospector, The Crabman and The MahJong Hand. With a cast like that, how could it be anything but entertaining?
2025 NRL Grand Final – Just a couple more things…
October 9, 2025 by 1 Comment
A few days down the track from his first thoughts on the Grand Final, Ian Hauser offers a few more observations before he signs off from the NRL season.
2025 NRL Grand Final – Purple Haze: Phased out!
October 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Purple Haze revisits the NRL Grand Final and works out where it was lost by the Storm and won by the Broncos.
2025 NRL Grand Final – Why the Broncos will win
October 2, 2025 by 6 Comments
By invitation, The Prospector returns to tell us why he thinks the Brisbane Broncos will beat the Melbourne Storm in Sunday’s NRL Grand Final.
2025 NRL Grand Final – Why the Melbourne Storm will win
October 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Guest writer Purple Haze tells us why the Melbourne Storm will prevail over the Brisbane Broncos in Sunday’s NRL Grand Final.
2025 NRL Grand Final Preview – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
October 2, 2025 by 6 Comments
Prop by the Sea has completed his crusade to the Middle East and Europe, spreading the gospel of rugby league to all and sundry willing to listen. He returns to The Footy Almanac just in time to preview Sunday’s Grand Final before he heads off with ‘the usual reprobates’ on their annual Grand Final Tour via Bimbi and Bondi.
2025 NRL and NRLW Grand Finals – Will Brisbane be the new sporting capital of Australia?
October 1, 2025 by 1 Comment
Ian Hauser takes a look at the 2025 NRL Grand Final where the losing sides from the last two years, the Melbourne Storm and the Brisbane Broncos, get their chance to set the record straight. And in the NRLW, the two powerhouse teams of 2025, the Sydney Roosters and the Brisbane Broncos, look set to put on a worthy season finale.
NRL Round 10 – Prop by the Sea: You gotta love footy!
May 7, 2025 by 4 Comments
Prop is not by the sea this weekend, unless of course we’re talking about the inland seas, because he’s off to Quilpie. Those nostalgic about Queensland town names will enjoy this report.
NRL Grand Final Weekend Review – Rabbit in the Vineyard on Tour
October 10, 2024 by 2 Comments
Rabbit in the Vineyard was on tour for NRL Grand Final weekend too, with a highly personal and meaningful return to significant places and memories from his younger days.
NRL Grand Final Review – Prop in the Canefield: You gotta love footy finals!
October 10, 2024 by 4 Comments
In his final column for NRL Season 2024, Prop in the Canefield takes us on his Grand Final Tour with his mates The Crabman, The Prospector and Tiny. (Thanks and well done on a fine season, Prop – Eds.)
NRL 2024 Grand Final Review: No Stopping the Pink Panthers!
October 8, 2024 by 2 Comments
Alan Whiticker analyses just why the Penrith Panthers have been the dominant force in the NRL for the past four seasons as he celebrates their dominant win in the Grand Final.
NRL 2024 Grand Final – Prop in the Canefield: You gotta love footy!
October 3, 2024 by 5 Comments
Prop and co are off on a different Grand Final Tour this year. Check out their dress code, itinerary and possible sidetracks as well as Prop’s thoughts on the Grand Final here.
NRL Round 1: You gotta love footy
March 6, 2024 by 1 Comment
Prop among the Canefields is 0-2 but that won’t stop his pontifications which include a nice whack for the Rabbitohs and a ridiculously huge claim about Penrith and all of human history.
NRL Finals Week 2: The Road to the Finals – Part 2
September 14, 2023 by 2 Comments
Matt O’Hanlon casts a very thorough eye over the two NRL semi-finals this weekend, applying the principles of horse-racing and the superior logic of the MOH mind.
NRL Round 5 – South Sydney v Melbourne Storm: April Fools Day Report
April 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Rabbit in the Vineyard is increasingly disappointed with the performances of his South Sydney team – they’re more Bunnies than Rabbitohs at the moment.
Almanac Life: Citrus Bueller’s Big Weekend
March 21, 2023 by 5 Comments
Citrus Bob Utber had a big few sporting days in Melbourne involving going to the footy, interviewing, and catching up with his many friends and associates.
Almanac (Australian and rugby league) Footy – “You call this ‘finals fever’?”: An NRL + AFL Travelogue
September 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Joe Sexton displayed his footy catholicism by taking in both NRL and AFL finals in Melbourne. As a Carlton supporter he was emotionally uninvested in either match, standing back to make a whimsical evaluation of what transpired around him.
Almanac Rugby League: Embracing The Storm
May 10, 2022 by 2 Comments
As a ‘dyed in the wool’ long suffering Saints supporter for over the past fifty years Ian Wilson now turns his attention and support to the NRL, and in particular, Melbourne Storm as he explains.
Almanac Rugby League – 2022 NRL Round 1: And away we go!
March 10, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Ian Hauser sets the scene as the 2022 NRL season gets under way tonight (Thursday).
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