SA Footy

For those who want to remember the 2007 season, or those who like a good or different read, The Footy Almanac will be launched this Friday and goes on sale from the weekend.

The book is overseen by John Harms and Paul Daffey, with a forward from both Paul Kelly (the singer) and Martin Flanagan.

If you don't know Harms -- he's a mad Cat supporter, regular on ABC radio, occasional panellist on ABC Insiders on a Sunday, mug punter, author of several books.
If you don't know Daffey -- he's a Hawk man, leading authority on metro and regional footy, contributor to the Age and author of several books, including a truly outstanding one several years ago collating a year in country and park footy.

The premise of the Almanac is that it has a match report of every single game of the year, plus finals, but written from the point of the view of the one-eyed fan. To produce and cover the year, they use more than 30 different writers to cover the season (not traditional footy writers), with different people doing particular matches. Sometimes the fan sees his team win, and sometimes he's there when they lose.

Just a very different view of how 07 played out, if you like some of your sports books to be a bit different.

Cheers Rog, I was wondering what to get my Uncle for Chrissy... just solvered that problem..

Do us a favour, burn the Carlton pages..(and Collingwood & Essendon too )

Should have said for FC's benefit. Selling for 30 dollars if you're present buying, but presuming Borders is nearly always cheaper than the cover price.

As a Geelong man, really enjoyed the fact it was a committed Richmond supporter who wrote the review of the Round 6 massacre at the 'Dome.

Adam McNichol (most probably don't know him, but he has very very very strong views on Richmond's coaching) opened his report of the night
"As a Richmond supporter born in the late 70s, I had already seen some awful things. I had seen almost as many hundred-point thrashings as wins. I had seen Richard Lounder. And Anthony Banik. And Matthew Dundas. And Billy Nicholls."

After about a two-page tantrum on how bad his night at the footy was, he finishes his report.
"We have got only three more seasons of this nonsense (with Terry as coach) to go."

Every match report includes quarter by quarter scores, goal kickers, the writer's best players, the writer's votes, Brownlow votes, the match betting?!?!?!?, crowd figures and then the appendix lists who played for the year for your club, how many matches, how many goals etc.

Thus endeth the plug in favour of two authors I like (you probably worked that out though)

Harms is a pratt. I suspect he is on here though with all the other people we only found out were Geelong supporters this year.

SJABC wrote:Do us a favour, burn the Carlton pages..(and Collingwood & Essendon too )

Don't do that! Playing with fire is dangerous!
Use them for toilet paper instead.

LMAO..Would shit stick to Eddie though ?

SJABC wrote:LMAO..Would s***t stick to Eddie though ?

Dunno?
Lets give it a try then!

Might get it and read up until the second last game of the year.

I have actually,(last weekend) watched the GF again.It was just as painful this time,but it did give me (a TV view as opposed to at the ground) an even stronger appreciation of the magnificent Geelong side we ran into.

What an Almanac without Keef Martin surely not

Andy #24 wrote:Harms is a pratt. I suspect he is on here though with all the other people we only found out were Geelong supporters this year.

Andy, I'm sure if you read his delightful book Loose Men Everywhere, you'd find a fairly full description of how he is a Geelong supporter.

When was it published?

rogernumber10 wrote:Just a very different view of how 07 played out

Unless Saturday the 29th September 2007 plays out differently in the book, I wont be buying it!!!

Thanks for the headsup Rog, will get a copy for sure.

It should have simply been named 119 IMHO.

Wedgie the Geelong Addy have a premiership book out on how the cats got there $30 it is worth it.