A walk through History on the Collingwood Footy Tour

The fates finally coalesced for Luke Reynolds as he and his family spent an engrossing couple of hours walking the Collingwood Footy Tour, seven months after a gifted opportunity and 176 years in the making.

Almanac Footy History: The Diamond from the Creek

Glen! tells the story of the great Gordon Coventry who came from an orchard in Diamond Creek. This story first appeared in Town Crier.

Era, era on the wall, which was the greatest of them all?

Wondering how to get your footy fix until next April? In the first of a nine-part series, Jeff Dowsing has scoured the history books looking at Footy ‘then’ to understand footy ‘now’. While this series has a distinctly VFL focus, the question remains: has much really changed in footy?

AFL Round 4 – Richmond v Collingwood: Ghosts of Hoddle Street in the CityLink era

A chat with Syd Coventry proves rather revealing: the past matters, things change, and Collingwood and Richmond are like the once-grand navies of Spain and England. And what of football as a game these days? [E. Regnans: poignantly creative again – Ed]