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1964 Melbourne S Last Premiership
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Author : Adam Woolcock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-07
1964 Melbourne S Last Premiership written by Adam Woolcock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-07 with categories.
The Last Hurrah tells the story of Melbourne Football Club's last great Grand Final and the fall from grace that has left the club without a premiership since. From the mid 1950s, the Melbourne Football Club, led by the legendary coach Norm Smith, dominated the Victorian Football League like no other club before or since. From 1954 to 1964, the Demons competed in 11 finals series, played in eight Grand Finals, winning six. Year after year the club was able to recruit new stars, as other left or retired. The 1964 Grand Final victory, achieved after a last-minute goal by back-pocket player Neil Crompton, turned out to be not only the end of this dominant era, but also the beginning of a black hole of success for the club. In the 56 years since, Melbourne has made just two Grand Finals, both thrashings. The Last Hurrah describes the reasons why Melbourne was such a great team, and how its great coach Norm Smith was sacked - albeit briefly - the following season, leading to what many have described as the 'curse of Norm Smith'. Author, Adam Woolcock, describes, in minute detail, the events of 1964, and what has followed, a period in which Melbourne has competed in just 13 finals series, with little success.
The Red Fox
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Author : Ben Collins
language : en
Publisher: Slattery Media Group
Release Date : 2008
The Red Fox written by Ben Collins and has been published by Slattery Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Australian football categories.
Norm Smith is arguably the greatest Australian Football coach in history. Smith - who, in 1996, was selected as the coach of the Australian Football League's Team of the Century - led the Melbourne Demons to a staggering six premierships from 1955 to 1964. When it came to football, he was a hard man, brutally honest to his players and an utterly ruthless and fearsome disciplinarian, but this was offset by a gentler, charitable side of his nature which was rarely seen in public. This is his story, and secondarily that of his older brother and fellow coach Len Smith, from their childhood in tough, working-class Northcote during the Depression; Norm as a childhood supporter of Collingwood, the club he would conquer many times over as a man; through his distinguished playing career at Melbourne where he built a reputation as the most unselfish player in the game; his first coaching job at Fitzroy; his triumphant reign at Melbourne, detailing his relationship with his ‘foster son' Ron Barassi, his friendly coaching rivalry with his brother, and his controversial sacking and reinstatement in 1965; to his last coaching job at South Melbourne, which in 1970 he lifted to its first finals series in 25 years, and culminating in his premature death at the age of 57
The Book Of Footy Lists
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Author : Mark Fine
language : en
Publisher: Slattery Media Group
Release Date : 2011
The Book Of Footy Lists written by Mark Fine and has been published by Slattery Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Australian football categories.
Football is a great argument starter, but how do you settle all of these arguments? THE BOOK OF FOOTY LISTS will list and rank, the great players, teams, matches, controversies and lots of lists of bests and worsts. Leading AFL identities including Simon Madden, Dermott Brereton and Glenn Archer submitted their lists, as have leading journalists, other football identities and also club supporters.
Mongrel Punts And Hard Ball Gets
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Author : Paula Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Red Dog Books
Release Date : 2012
Mongrel Punts And Hard Ball Gets written by Paula Hunt and has been published by Red Dog Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Australian football categories.
The Immortals Of Australian Football
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Author : Andrew Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-07-31
The Immortals Of Australian Football written by Andrew Clarke and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Fully illustrated profiles of the most legendary Australian Rules players. The Immortals of Australian Football celebrates the greatest players from Australia's indigenous game. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to AFL. Selections include the pioneering Roy Cazaly, legendary figures Ron Barassi and Leigh Matthews, and modern-era greats such as Lance Franklin and Dustin Martin. Each Immortal's remarkable story and contribution to the sport is expertly told.
Every Game Ever Played
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Author : Stephen Rodgers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Every Game Ever Played written by Stephen Rodgers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Australian football categories.
Sixth edition of a record of Australian Rules football, from 1897 to 1997. Provides match statistics for each game and describes the characters, classic encounters and highlights of each season. Includes information about ground changes, new rules, the McIntyre Finals systems and the night series. .
The Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Sydney (N.S.W.) categories.
Favourite Footy Yarns Expanded And Updated
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Author : Ken Piesse
language : en
Publisher: Echo
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Favourite Footy Yarns Expanded And Updated written by Ken Piesse and has been published by Echo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Games & Activities categories.
How much did it originally cost to sign up 'the King', Wayne Carey? Which Carlton player only found out he'd retired when he read it in the papers? What did Buddy Franklin carry with him on the Kokoda Trail? Find out in Favourite Footy Yarns. Packed full of hilarious (mostly) true stories, fascinating facts, bloopers and stats, this updated edition from Australian sport's master storyteller Ken Piesse will have you laughing out loud. The perfect book for any footy fan, it covers the biggest names in the game - from Barassi, Whitten and Ablett to Riewoldt, Fev and Cripps.
The Great Deepression
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Author : Adam Woolcock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-21
The Great Deepression written by Adam Woolcock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with categories.
The Melbourne Football Club entered 2007 as Australian Football League premiership contenders and spent the next 10 years lurching from one disaster to another. This is the 261 game story of the decade that good taste and good football forgot.
The Victorian Premiers 1856 2006
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Author : Paul Strangio
language : en
Publisher: Federation Press
Release Date : 2006
The Victorian Premiers 1856 2006 written by Paul Strangio and has been published by Federation Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the century and a half since Victoria was granted responsible government in 1856, 44 premiers have presided over the state and colony, from 'Honest' William Haines to Steve Bracks. Here is their story. For the first time this book brings together a comprehensive collection of biographical and political portraits of the Victorian premiers written by leading Australian historians and political scientists. The result is a compelling journey through a turbulent, occasionally anarchic, political landscape. A cast of fascinating characters is brought to life--the mercurial Graham Berry, who in the 1870s threatened broken heads and flaming houses in his heroic struggle to tame the colony's intractably conservative upper house; the roguish Tommy Bent, the turn of the century 'can do' premier whose development enthusiasms were unhindered by probities of office; the bohemian Tom Hollway, who conducted Victoria's affairs from his suite in the Windsor Hotel; the 'accidental' leader Henry Bolte, who became Victoria's longest serving premier; and the larrikin metropolitan, Jeff Kennett, who turned the state into a neo-liberal laboratory in the 1990s. A tale of premiers, the book is also a narrative of politics in a state that has vied with New South Wales as Australia's most prosperous and powerful. It recounts many extraordinary episodes: the precocious development of democracy in a fledgling colony turned upside down by gold immigrants; the titanic bicameral struggles of the 1860s and 1870s that brought Victoria to the brink of insurrection; the bank crashes of the 1890s; the police strike of 1923; the great Labor split of the 1950s; the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967; the social democratic adventurism of the Labor decade of the 1980s brought to a shuddering halt by another era of financial collapses; and the neo-liberal experimentalism of the Kennett government. This carefully researched and engagingly written book will leave the reader in no doubt that politics in the 'Garden State' has seldom been sedate and its premiers rarely predictable.