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Favourite Footy Yarns: Expanded and Updated

Author : Ken Piesse
Publisher : Echo
ISBN 13 : 1760686662
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Favourite Footy Yarns: Expanded and Updated written by Ken Piesse and published by Echo. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Favourite Footy Yarns: Extended & Updated

Author : Ken Piesse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Favourite Footy Yarns: Extended & Updated written by Ken Piesse and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Favourite Footy Yarns

Author : Ken Piesse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760686598
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Favourite Footy Yarns written by Ken Piesse and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From laughs and larrikins to bush legends and bad boys.

Best and Worst Footy Yarns and Jokes

Author : Geoff Poulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921606328
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Best and Worst Footy Yarns and Jokes written by Geoff Poulter and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Best and Worst Footy Jokes and Yarnshas 101 new jokes at half the original price! This bookis here to show everyone that footy and life should neverget too serious, with the latest rib ticklers and goldenoldies that never fail to raise a smile. Illustratedthroughout by renowned author/illustrator Paul Harvey,his ......

Best and Worst Footy Yarns and Jokes - New Mini Volume

Author : Geoff Poulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921332753
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Best and Worst Footy Yarns and Jokes - New Mini Volume written by Geoff Poulter and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Best and Worst Footy Jokes and Yarns has 101 new jokes at half the original price! This book is here to show everyone that footy and life should never get too serious, with the latest rib ticklers and golden oldies that never fail to raise a smile. Illustrated throughout by renowned author/illustrator Paul Harvey, his distinctive AFL caricatures perfectly complement the array of jokes on offer here, from Buddy Franklin and Sam Newman to Gary Ablett Jnr and Ben Cousins, no one is safe!

Half a Chicken and Chips

Author : The Coodabeen Champions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925927696
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Half a Chicken and Chips written by The Coodabeen Champions and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a Chicken and Chips features 50 of the Coodabeen's best yarns from five decades of footy radio. The Coodabeen Champions love the obscure, quirky and low-profile products of VFL/AFL football. And they love tracking them down and having a chinwag with them on their ever-popular radio show Half a Chicken and Chips is the follow-up to the ......

Real Women Love Footy

Author : Dawn Leicester
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734406033
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Real Women Love Footy written by Dawn Leicester and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts by two women, about what football means to them. Describes their passionate love for Aussie Rules football, their membership in their clubs' women's coteries, and their celebrations of their team's weekly highs and lows. Foreword by Bev O'Connor. Includes photos and endnotes.

A Bibliography of Australian Folklore, 1790 to 1990

Author : David S. Hults
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Australian Folklore, 1790 to 1990 written by David S. Hults and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains only publications culled from Ferguson and the Australian national bibliography (and it predecessors).

Leather Soul

Author : Bob Murphy
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820569
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Leather Soul written by Bob Murphy and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A young, naive kid, with a brand-new football. Over time, the leather aged from the bumps along the trail. The Footscray winters and some glorious liniment-scented afternoons. All of the laughs, the scraps, the yarns and characters. The game. It all left a mark on me, on my soul.’ Bob Murphy has never been a typical footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in a quiet corner of a Fitzroy café or the front bar of a grungy pub as he is in the locker room. Murphy takes the reader inside his 17-year career, including his three years as captain of the Bulldogs, exploring the people, places and events that shaped him: from playing backyard cricket in 1980s Warragul to Community Cup with Paul Kelly in the 2000s, and from the joy of marrying his high-school crush to the agony of a season-ending ACL ruptures. How did the country kid with a gypsy’s heart become an All-Australian captain? What’s it like to have your club win the grand final for the first time in 62 years and have to cheer from the sidelines? How does it feel to realise you can no longer do the things that made you great? The celebrated Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.

The Voice

Author : Ray Warren
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231797
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Voice written by Ray Warren and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray 'Rabbits' Warren is the legendary voice of Australian sports commentary. People tell him he must have drunk a bottle of scotch and smoked a packet of cigarettes every day to have the voice that he has. That's not the case – at least, not anymore . . . The son of a railway worker, Ray placed his first bet on a horse called Playboy at the age of just six, and won. A lifelong love of the track – and the punt – was born. During his remarkable broadcasting career, which has now spanned almost five decades, Ray has called three Melbourne Cups, Commonwealth and Olympic Games swimming, and countless rugby league matches alongside his mates Fatty, Sterlo and Gus. Here, for the first time, Ray reveals the man behind the microphone. He speaks of the great highs and devastating lows of his career and life in the same way he calls every sporting event: with great passion, colour and candour. Shortlisted, 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘When it comes to rugby league commentary, there is little dispute that Ray Warren is the best in the business ... I know you’ll enjoy his story.’ —Alan Jones AO ‘It’s not the vision that sells this game. It’s not just the amazing feats of these mighty players. It’s the way Ray Warren calls the action. The sense of theatre he brings to the call. Ray makes the game better. He brings it to life in lounge rooms all over the country. Ray Warren is the voice of rugby league.’ —Phil Gould ‘I loved rugby league growing up in Sydney ... and you can’t talk rugby league without talking Ray Warren. They are synonymous.’ —Hugh Jackman ‘There are enough well-rehearsed yarns about the footy, boozing, betting, “colourful” identities, misadventures and bending rules in the workplace to keep a reader turning pages.’ —Weekend Australian Ray ‘Rabbits’ Warren is one of the most experienced sports broadcasters in Australia. Andrew Webster is the Chief Sports Writer for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Footy Town

Author : Paul Daffey
Publisher : Malarkey Publications Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780987434326
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Footy Town written by Paul Daffey and published by Malarkey Publications Pty Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footy Town is a collection of football yarns from around the nation; stories which celebrate footy at its most local: from New Norfolk to the Tiwi Islands, from Rockhampton to Kalgoorlie, from Edwardstown to Fitzroy, and all the way to Mangoplah Cookardinia United.Written with great love (and possible embellishment) by players, has-beens and fans, they tell of footy clubs and the people who have made them, whether in the suburbs or the bush.They paint a vivid picture of footy’s wonderful culture; a picture of mud and dust; of Dencorub and the clack of stops; of lumpy back pockets and racehorse half-forwards; of spiralling torps and once-upon-a-time drop kicks; of savs bubbling away forever.This is footy; this is Australia’s Game.

Hardmen

Author : Malcolm Andrews
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742693784
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Hardmen written by Malcolm Andrews and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the going gets tough, the tough get tougher. The ranks of rugby league around the world have been liberally peppered with hardmen. With violence that would never be tolerated off the footy field, the game has always been rough, tough and dangerous. Stiff-arm tackles, headbutts, spear tackles - all aimed at maiming the opposition players - were once just part of the game. But while the thuggery of old has been cleaned up, the modern game of huge hits at breakneck speed is definitely no place for the faint-hearted. Fans in pubs and clubs have always talked about the courage of their favourite sons - men who never took a backward step, like legendary South Sydney captain John Sattler, who played through the 1970 Premiership grand final with his jaw broken in three places, and 'Bumper' Farrell, who was accused of biting off the ear of an opponent as he simultaneously gouged his eyes. In more recent times Andrew Johns orchestrated Newcastle's 1997 grand final success with a punctured lung and three broken ribs, and pint-sized Gold Coast star Preston Campbell picked up a broken jaw early in the game but hid it from team-mates until the final whistle. But Hardmen is much more than a collection of bone-crunching collisions and wild confrontations. As Malcolm Andrews' vivid profiles of the most courageous and colourful dramatically unfold - from those who played on with broken legs in early times to the fast and furious high impact of today - we see both the fascinating evolution of the game and the fiercely resolute qualities that have steadfastly remained at its heart. Simply put, Hardmen captures the unique spirit of rugby league with the greatest collection of ripping yarns ever published in a single volume. I always enjoyed the game more when there was a body or two lying about. It made my job a bit more interesting. - Vince Karalius It was a real bloodbath. John O'Neill got 16 stitches in one of his shins. It was huge gaping wound with blood everywhere. But he still couldn't keep the grin off his face. Father John Cootes

The Official Collingwood Illustrated Encyclopedia

Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980744705
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Official Collingwood Illustrated Encyclopedia written by Michael Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collingwood is Australian Football's biggest and most famous club. The Official Collingwood Illustrated Encyclopedia celebrates the rich history of this great club - players, coaches, premierships won and lost, fans, memorable moments and more, all captured in stunning photos.There are profiles of all the Magpie heroes and legends, a decade-by-decade analysis of the club since its first official match in 1892, and a look at the football families who have black and white running through their veins.This updated edition of the encyclopedia includes profiles of the new inductees in the club's Hall of Fame, magic moments such as Jack Anthony's last-gasp semi-final goal against Adelaide in 2009, and all the headline-grabbers from the last five years.

Fev: In My Own Words

Author : Brendan Fevola
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742738478
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Fev: In My Own Words written by Brendan Fevola and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always in the spotlight, always controversial, this is the story of a football great forced to confront his demons. From his career highs to personal lows and the media storms that have surrounded them, rendan Fevola opens up for the first time about his time as n AFL great and his controversial offfield ntics. A guaranteed best-seller at Father’s Day, Fev: In My Own Words is a no-holds arred look t a lifetime in sport and in the public eye, and the difficulties that can come with it. rendan Fevola was 17 years old when he as drafted by the Carlton Football Club. Less than a year Later, he played his first senior game in front of more than 50,000 people. Despite the Blues’ slide down the ladder and Fev’s difficult relationship with one of his first coaches, Wayne Brittain, his extraordinary goal-kicking skills and the mentorship of later coach Denis Pagan saw him become one of the best full-forwards in AFL history and winner of two Coleman Medals. Off-field controversies overshadowed Fev’s on-field brilliance and saw him traded to the Brisbane Football Club for the 2010 season before being sacked by the Lions in February 2011. Life continued to unravel with his gambling addiction leading to mounting debts, marriage breakdown, depression and thoughts of suicide. This is a personal and ultimately positive story of Fev’s life in football, the ups and downs both onfield and off, and his hopes for the future. It includes an inside look at life at the Blues and the Lions as a player, as well as intimate insights into Brendan’s experience of family, gambling and depression.

Ben Cousins

Author : Ben Cousins
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1742624103
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Ben Cousins written by Ben Cousins and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's best known for what he's done off the footy field rather than on it. Ben is a self-confessed drug addict, whose drug binges would last for days and involve incredible amounts of cocaine, crack and ice. But what's really remarkable about Ben's story is that the two sides of his life - the captaincy, the premierships, the Brownlow, the accolades, and the frenzy and squalor of the drug scene were actually done at the same time, side by side. Ben's book is an account of this double life, and what it's cost him, his family and his friends. It's also an account of his battles to beat his addiction, and his battle to keep playing football - which was his lifeline - against the entrenched opposition of a large number of people in the game. And as if the story is not extraordinary enough, what distinguishes it above all else is the approach Ben's taken to writing it. It is a work of searing emotional and factual honesty. Ben hides nothing, and the result is one of the most remarkable sporting memoirs ever published in Australia.

Icons of Footy

Author : Kevin Sheedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925870510
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Footy written by Kevin Sheedy and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses team alliances to profile the 21 most iconic Aussie Rules players and coaches of his lifetime.He also sits down for interviews with nine icons he has long admired and who don't normally (for various reasons) have their stories told. Packed full of wisdom and wit, insight and memories, ICONS OF FOOTY is a treasure-trove for football fans of all tribes and ages, from one of the most unique and colourful characters in Australian sport.This beautifully-packaged hardback includes: Gary Ablett Senior, Allen Aylett, Ron Barassi, Kevin Bartlett, Malcolm Blight, Barry Cable, Wayne Carey, Alastair Clarkson, Jason Dunstall, Graham Farmer, Lance Franklin, Adam Goodes, Royce Hart, Francis Hughes, James Hird, Alex Jesaulenko, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Murray, John Nicholls, Barrie Robran, Michael Tuck.

The Things That Make Us

Author : Nick Riewoldt
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760639958
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Things That Make Us written by Nick Riewoldt and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revealing and insightful autobiography of an AFL superstar From No. 1 pick in the 2000 AFL draft, to six-time winner of St Kilda's best and fairest award, to five-time All Australian, to captaining his club for a record 220 games, to more than 330 games as a star of the AFL, Nick Riewoldt is an out-and-out champion. The Things that Make Us is Nick's autobiography, written with a deep intelligence and insight, and giving a fascinating perspective on his extraordinary life and career. As Nick describes it: 'I hope there's something in these pages for everyone who's known grief, especially anyone who's lost a sibling. I hope, too, that my story brings a deeper understanding of a footballer's crazy world. An insight into what goes into making it, what it takes to stay there, and the crippling anxiety that can consume you when your burden is to accept only the best. I hope it paints a picture of what it's like to be the focus of acclamation and scandal, the good and bad of a searing spotlight, and how these experiences can bring out the best and worst in us. 'I hope it honours my family - the German and Tasmanian sides with their stories of struggle and endurance - who are the essence of the book's title. I hope it gives thanks for the love I found on the other side of the world, and the beautiful next generation Cath and I are building together. 'I hope above all that it honours my sister Maddie. 'These are the things that made me.' The Things That Make Us is the intimate, powerful and revealing account of the life of an AFL superstar, and a classic in the making.