We are all totally devastated by this terrible news. From the moment Col first arrived at the Almanac, as a writer in 2012, and as an editor from soon after, Meryl has been there, someone to whom Col ...

Do you recall anything of the time we spent together? We were inseparable, you were my best friend. Those two years are just a blur, tiny droplets which fleetingly form in my thoughts unbidden.

Michael had booked a beer garden table at the ‘Maid and Magpie’ hotel. However, it was now formally known as ‘The Maid’. Walking around the beer garden there was no booking for them. There was also ...

We predicted that the Doggies would finish from 8th to 10th, and they finished 8th. A closer look at their teams through the year indicated that Richards and Bontempelli did most of the hard midfield ...

– after the early powerful efforts of Whyte (which he continued later on), Leniu, who didn’t get on the field for a single minute last week, played a match-turning 24 minute cameo that was utterly ...

And just when you thought the NRL’s Grand Final day was the end of the season, along comes the 2026 Rugby League World Cup! Starting next Thursday night and running through until its finals on ...

The AFL Grand Final is, of course, about football. But for those of us who write haiku about it, the game provides much more than a score, a winner and a loser. It gives us a concentrated moment in ...

The ‘Maynard’, my age, had been stomped on by a horse, several times, sometime earlier, bitten, fell off, bucked off and in high school was kicked in the leg by his horse, so hard, it numbed it, the ...

Yesterday was a visit to what’s left of the Twelve Apostles. The cliffs and Apostles themselves are still spectacular despite the erosion and the lookouts are awesome. This morning was the Port ...

Paul Allott was a Lancastrian who played 13 Tests, as well as 13 ODI’s, for England in the 1980’s. As a medium pace bowler, he scored an inaugural half century on his Test debut. His career was injury ...

As announced following Round 27, the 2026 RITV Player of the Year is Tallis Duncan. Duncan, who only today committed to the club until the end of 2030, joins the previous winners: 2023 and 2024 ...