Round 21 St Kilda v Geelong: On good terms with ourselves … not quite…

Most people would be familiar with Dropsy (dropping stuff) and Lostsy (“my glasses: I can’t find my glasses!”) but after Saturday night’s St Kilda v Geelong Cats draw at the Docklands, Stephen Alomes adds Confusey to the mix.

Round 21– Fearless 2015: Zac Dawson/Beaker (The Muppets) Separated at Birth –LOL!

Fearless wraps up Round 21 and throws his 2 cents into the Hodge/Wingard pot. Are slow motion replays helpful?

Round 20 – Geelong v Hawthorn: Blockbuster – What Happened There?

Anne Cahill Lambert enjoys a weekend with a Baptism, a Hawks win and some great footy from the Melbourne v Bulldogs curtain-raiser at the Docklands.

Round 20 – Fearless 2015: Michael Jamison fresh airs Mitch Robinson… A bit sooky lala

Lots of fallout from round 20. From the Friday night lights of the SCG to another classic Derby out west, this is how Fearless saw round 20.

My (absent) left foot

Matt Watson discusses how players in this day and age have lost the art of having a left foot.

Round 5 – Richmond v Geelong: On Being Saved by Mitho and Donno

Chris Daley shares his Richmond v Geelong match day experience with the Almanac. Cold cans, listening to the three-quarter time address in the curtain raiser at Punt Rd and listening to Mitho and Donno give some entertaining lip in the big one at the ‘G.

AFL Round 13 – Brisbane v Geelong: Unchosen. How the footy gods tired of a bunch of half forward flankers

Sparkling footy from the Lions lifted the hearts of almost everyone as the Cats were left to contemplate the role of decadence in the crumbling of empires. What a memorable game of footy! The day the footy gods abandoned Geelong?

Stevie J: You need friends in the media at the tribunal

Freo fan Neil Belford is sick of The Age stories defending gutless “heroes”. Johnson irons out a defenceless player; Harvey punches his tagger; but the story is Crowley pinching? He’s not happy.

AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: Wobbly wheels

Once again, Bombers fan Steven Ingham was left to ask: Who, the hell, is on Steve, bloody, Johnson?!

AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: An honourable loss

If ever there was an honourable loss, this was it, writes Bombers fan Rod Oaten.

Stevie J: The Wangaratta Magician

Stevie J took Ged McMahon’s Bombers apart on Friday night and while that was painful to watch, he held no grudge. It was a pleasure to see the Wangaratta magician at play.

AFL Round 7 – Geelong v Essendon: Nervous?

It’s all very raw for Bombers fan Andrew Else.

Five minutes of Stevie J: an affirmation of the footy instinct?

  Stay with me on this, because we’ll get to Stevie J. But in the meantime I need to establish my thesis. I remember chatting with Roger Merrett at the launch of Ross Fitzgerald’s footy book about the Brisbane Bears.  I think that was just before the 1996 season got under way. We mainly talked [Read more]

Ritual or routine?

Growing up, footy, for our family, was a matter of ritual. Each season developed its own rhythm, its own timetable, and we would find ourselves doing the same thing at the same time each week. Church, school, Saladas and Vegemite and Adventure Island after-school and then kick-to-kick, Monday’s newspaper to read, and F-Troop, being allowed [Read more]

Cats play in the winter sun

The phone rings on Saturday morning. J. Dunne is in good spirits, enjoying the Barwon Heads sunshine, on a perfect winter’s day. He’s thinking footy (which usually means he’s considering backing the opponent) and wondering what my footy-plan is. I am slogging away at the desk, resisting the temptation to be reading the form guide. [Read more]