Snakes alive: Birth of Richmond Central at the pub
On the club’s 35th anniversary, those who formed the Richmond Central Snakes spoke with PAUL AMY about the highs and also the times when they thought they wouldn’t make it.
On the club’s 35th anniversary, those who formed the Richmond Central Snakes spoke with PAUL AMY about the highs and also the times when they thought they wouldn’t make it.
A Victorian local football star who was banned indefinitely in the prime of his career just had his suspension overturned in a matter of minutes by an independent tribunal panel.
He debuted for the Dingley Baseball Club in 1968 and has seen it all – even marrying on the baseball diamond 35 years ago. Go behind-the-scenes as Auke Pool celebrates 800 games.
He was the local boy who stayed a Saint through and through. Now, fans are petitioning to erect a statue of legend Trevor Barker at Moorabbin so that his impact is never forgotten, writes PAUL AMY.
What started as a trip to Kmart as a toddler has evolved into an obsession for devoted Kangaroos fan Shane Gray, who boasts a huge and extraordinary set of guernseys, writes PAUL AMY.
Just days after a harrowing report was revealed, a female VAFA umpire has stood down after a ball was thrown in her face, writes PAUL AMY.
They found him on a ‘cold, horrible night’ at Langwarrin: Jai Culley, a dominant, dreadlocked kid who could now feature in the AFL mid-season draft, writes PAUL AMY.
A 10-pound Pom with the courage to live as an openly gay woman in the 1970s, Ann Rulton turned her formidable will on Aussie rules football and did incredible things, writes PAUL AMY.
Interviewing in tracksuit pants “halfway down his arse” and players filling out applications for him were all part of Bernie Sheehy‘s charm – the coaching genius that who by all accounts could have easily made it in the AFL.
Forty years on, Brian Wilson still remembers the numbers of his 1982 Brownlow Medal win like his date of birth. Which makes the missing award that much tougher to stomach, writes PAUL AMY.