When I was young, growing up in the suburbs of Perth, everyone kept chooks. Continue reading
Bulldogs win battle of dead flank
Nearly 15 minutes gone and not a goal on the board. Photo by Les Everett.
Sunny skies at Fremantle Oval. A beautiful day for the football and the meeting of the top two teams. But it wasn’t so beautiful after all. The strong breeze to the prison end wasn’t a nice straight-down-the-guts variety so the teams employed the age-old tactic of playing the dead flank. Continue reading
The WAFL’s on
Carnival atmosphere? The Fremantle derby attracted a crowd of 4000.
We’re a quarter of the way through qualifying rounds of the 2020 mini-season.
And.
Bendigo legends by Richard Jones
The fifth Bendigo Football and Netball League Hall of Fame induction evening was held late last year and what a gala night it turned out to be. The league’s very first group of Legends, five in all, were named to great applause and affirmation at the All Seasons function. Continue reading
The sweet spot
JD and me
Fifty-five and sixty
Kicking a brand new footy
Behind the cemetery Continue reading
SA’s Eagles play in NSW on 1922 tour by Richard Jones
After South Adelaide’s 1884 trip north Adelaide’s West Torrens Football Club was another interstate footy club to journey across the borders to NSW to play a series of matches. But this wasn’t until July 1922 when the SANFL Eagles started their tour in Wagga Wagga with a match against the combined Riverina side. Continue reading
The fourth jumper by Vin Maskell
FIDA Seagulls’ Indigenous and Special Event games guernsey. Photo Courtesy of FIDA Seagulls website.
Earlier this season, only a few weeks ago, I wrote a piece called Three Jumpers. It briefly re-visited stories from some time ago about two footy jumpers that have meant a lot over the years, and then concluded with a new story, about a third jumper. Continue reading
Bendigo league pulls the pin on 2020 by Richard Jones
There’ll be no senior footy and netball played in the Bendigo league this season.
For the first time since World War 2 – the 1944 season – no football will be played in the central Victorian sport headquarters. Continue reading
Croweaters visit Sydney in footy’s early days by Richard Jones
Sydney was a popular destination for interstate Aussie Rules football teams in the latter part of the 19th century. Only two seasons after VFL club Geelong had played a series of four games, South Adelaide arrived in 1884 for a schedule of five matches in two weeks. Continue reading
Three jumpers by Vin Maskell
THIS is a story of three jumpers. Football jumpers. Australian Rules football jumpers. A story of stripes and numbers, of collars and colours. This is a story of a brother, a father, a daughter. Of a widow, a greengrocer, a stranger. Continue reading
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