Footy Memorabilia : SA Footy World & Team Tumblers

November 14, 2019 by 10 Comments

Swish has restarted some of his footy archaeological activities, with surprising results. We’d love you to share any special memorabilia that you may have.

Almanac Teams: Footballing Wallys

February 21, 2019 by 13 Comments

We keep coming up with special teams, especially those with names from yesteryear. Today, Glen picks a team of Wallys.

In the tree tops with the ruckmen

December 13, 2016 by 5 Comments

Carolyn Spooner finds a perfect relationship between the very best of football’s big men and, thanks to a trusty copy of Shrubs and trees for Australian gardens, many particularly characterised Australian trees.

Welcome to the 60s, SANFL Style

December 23, 2015 by 12 Comments

Swish is older than this 1960 SANFL Budget, but only just. It looks to have weathered the 55 years better than he has.

Round 20 – Essendon v Adelaide: Revenge, A Dish Best Served Very Cold

August 17, 2015 by 11 Comments

Revenge is most certainly a dish best served cold; even if that dish has been stewing (no pun intended) since the 1993 Preliminary Final. Swish Schwerdt and the Pie Girl watch Eddie Betts put on a clinic as Adelaide dismantle a hapless Essendon at the Docklands.

‘Comment Wally May’

May 29, 2011 by 6 Comments

by Bernard Whimpress Wally May has died, aged 84. The man with the concise comment became an Adelaide television hero on a Sunday sports show of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and inspired a phrase which passed into popular idiom whenever authoritative comment was sought. I interviewed May when I was editor of the [Read more]