REFERENCE LIST

Here is an ever growing list of the books and websites we use to gather our information.

Big shout-out first of all to The National Library of Australia, their excellent trove resource is bookmarked and used by us all the time.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/

Websites

https://www.blueseum.org/HomePage

http://demonwiki.org/Home

http://www.hawkheadquarters.com/index.aspx

https://www.tigerlandarchive.org/tiki-index.php

https://afltables.com/afl/afl_index.html

https://australianfootball.com/

http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/HomePage

https://www.footyjumpers.com

https://www.hardballget.net/

https://thehickeystand.com/ 

https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/the-collingwood-archives/

http://www.waflcombinedppoa.com/

http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/R/?func=collections&collection_id=1081

Books

• Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers, Russell Holmesby & Jim Main, ISBN: 9781921496431
• Every Game Ever Played : Vfl/Afl Results 1897-present day, compiled by Stephen Rodgers ISBN 0670908096
• Everything you wanted to know about AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL but couldnt be bothered asking. Graeme Atkinson ISBN 0867880090
• The Courage book of VFL finals, 1897-1973 - Graeme Atkinson ISBN-10: 0858851520
• The Encyclopedia of AFL Coaches: Every AFL/VFL coach since 1904 Jim Main, ISBN 1921496274
• Mongrel Punts and Hard Ball Gets - Paula Hunt & Glenn Manton (2006) ISBN - 1921167289
• A game of our own The origins of Australian Football - Geoffrey Blainey (2003) ISBN - 1863953477
• Australian Rules Football an illustrated history, 1974 Jim main, ISBN 0701803576
• The Clubs : The Complete History of Every Club in the Vfl/Afl - 1999 Garrie Hutchinson and John Ross ISBN 0670878588
• The great Australian book of football stories -1983 - Garrie Hutchinson. ISBN 085902153X
• 100 years of Australian football, 1897-1996 Jim Ross ISBN 0670868140
• Grand Finals Volume 1: 1897-1938 Slattery Media Group ISBN 9781921778322
• Grand Finals Volume 2:1939 - 1978 Slattery Media Group
• Grand Finals Volume 3: 1979-2018 Slattery Media Group - ISBN 9781921778865
• AFL Premiers The Fascinating History of Every AFL/VFL Grand Final - Joe St John (2013) ISBN - 9781742573540
• The Australian Game of Football: Since 1858 -(2008) James Weston ISBN 0980346665
• A National Game (The history of Australian Rules Football) 2008 - Rob Hess, Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart & Gregory De Moore 2008 isbn - 9780670070893
• Tom Wills First wild man of Australian sport Greg DeMoore ISBN 9781742375984
• Legends of the Australian Football Hall of Fame - Slattery Media Group - 2019 - ISBN 9780958029094
• Aussie Rules: The Glory Years of AFL by Francis Doherty (2016) Francis Doherty ISBN 101742578721
• The wild men of football Vol 1 by Jack Dyer and Brian Hansen, Published by Brian Edward Hansen, 1993

Harder Than Football League Players at War - Barbra Cullen (2015) ISBN 9780992379148

• The Game of Their Lives - Nick Richardson (2016) ISBN 9781743536667
• Up where, Cazaly? : the great Australian game / Leonie Sandercock and Ian Turner.ISBN 0586084274
• Celebrating 150 years of the Melbourne Cricket Ground The Tapestry Story , Keith Dunstan (2004) ISBN 0 7344 0605 3
• More than a century of AFL grand finals - Jim Main & Rohan Connolly (2001) ISBN 1877029955
• Goals, Goals, Goals A study of League and Association Full Forwards Marc Fiddian (1996) ISBN - 18754575117
• The Best Football Trivia (2003) Marc Fiddian ISBN10 0958170452
• Ladders without snakes, Marc Fiddian, 2009
• Boilovers, thrillers and grand eras : in league and association football. Marc Fiddian, ISBN 13: 9781875475087
• The Complete book of AFL finals - Graeme & Brant Atkinson (1973) ISBN - 9781742112756
• The Brownlow - A tribute to the greats of Australian Football - Geoff Slattery Media (2003) ISBN - 0734406002
• The history of the Brownlow Medal - Peter Blair (1997) ISBN - 0959340637
• Courage Book of Brownlow Medal Records - Peter Blair ISBN - 0959709878
• 100 great marks - Scott Palmer & Greg Hobbs (1974) ISBN - 072510192x
• Gerard Healy's AFL trivia challenge - compiled by Russell Holmesby & Michael Croke (1997) ISBN - 0732257360
• Hooked on Football Dermott Brereton an Addicts A-Z Guide - With Ken Piesse (1991) ISBN - 0725106867
• Great Australian Football Stories, Ken Piesse, 2011, ISBN 9781742487489
• The Greatest Game, (Timeless tales from the Greats of Aussie Rules) Ken Piesse (2006) ISBN 9781760065713
• Favorite Footy Yarns: Form laughs and Larrikins to bush legends and bad boys, Ken Piesse (2015) ISBN 9781760404246
• The Winter Game - ovver 100 years of Australian Football - Robert Pascoe (1995) ISBN - 1863305971
• Heart and Soul - A tribute to the game and its people - Robert Shaw (2004) ISBN - 1920910298
• Play On! the hidden history of Womens Australian Rules Football - Brunette Lenkic & Rob Hess (2016) ISBN - 9781760063160
• Kevin Barlett's Book of Football - Kevin Bartlett (1995) ISBN - 0867889829
• The Footy Flashbacks A-Z of Australian Football Clubs Volume 1 - John Devaney (2018)
• The Footy Flashbacks A-Z of Australian Football Clubs Volume 2 - John Devaney (2018)
• Champions all a history of AFL/VFL football in the players own words - Matt Zurbo (2016)
• Urban Footy Legends exposed - Gus Smarrini & Mark Fine (2005) ISBN - 1920910417
• Screamer! The Story of the centurions - Brian Hansen (1997) ISBN - 1876151064
• Immortals - football people and the evolution of Australian Rules - Lionel Frost (2005) ISBN - 1740311043
• Footballs Black Book - Jim Main (1998) ISBN - 1864631899
• Time and Space - James Coventry (2015) ISBN - 0780733333699
• The Red Fox (The biography of Norm Smith Legendary Melbourne Coach) - Ben Collins 2008 - ISBN 9781921778742
• This Football Century The greatest game of all - Russell Holmesby & Jim Main ISBN - 186350222X
• The Changi Brownlow an inspirational story of the Aussie Spirit - Roland Perry (2010) ISBN - 9780733634581
• The Great Laurie Nash - E.A.Wallish (1998) ISBN - 0958705968
• King Richard - The Story of Dick Reynolds Essendon Legend - Dan Eddy, 2014 - ISBN - 9780992363178
• Captain Blood - Jack Dyer - Brian Hansen (1965)
• A Decade of Pride (The history of the Brusbane Lions) by Mark Opolion
• Haydn Bunton Best and Fairest - The greatest legend in the history of Australian Rules Football - Chris Donald (2003) ISBN - 1877029424
• Collingwood and Me -Peter Daicos with Jake Niall (1991) ISBN - 0646033913
• Jock - The story of Jock McHale Collingwood's greatest coach - Glenn McFarlane (2011) ISBN - 9781921778292
• My Life - Tony Lockett (1999) ISBN - 0732910382
• Coleman - The untold story of an AFL legend - Doug Ackerly (2014) ISBN - 9780646917047
• Polly Farmer A biography - Steven Hawke 1994 - ISBN - 1863680926
• Jim Stynes - My Journey with Warwick Green (2012) ISBN - 9781921901140
• Robbie - Robbie Flower with Ron Reed (1987) ISBN - 0959115544
• Boots and All - Lou Richards (1963)
• Ben Cousins my life story - Ben Cousins (2010) ISBN - 9781405040006
• Goody, The highs and Lows, SImon Goodwin with Shane Mensforth, 2010
• The Blue Boys : The History of the Carlton Football Club from 1864 (2002)- Brian Hansen. ISBN10 1876151153 
• Out of the Blue, Defining moments of the Carlton Football Club (2009) Tony De Folfo, ISBN 978-0-646-51645-5
• Rebirth of the blues, Marc Fiddian, 2008
• Sticks The Stephen Kernahan Story, Tony De Bolfo 1997
• Harry, The words and wisdom of Justin Madden, 1996
• The Story of Jock McHale, Collingwood's Greatest Coach Glenn McFarlane (2011) ISBN 9781921778292
• In Black & White 125 Moments That Made Collingwood By: Michael Roberts ISBN: 9781863958905
• THE MAGPIES: THE OFFICIAL CENTENARY HISTORY OF THE COLLINGWOOD FOOTBALL CLUB 1892-1992 ISBN: 0646117696
• Collingwood at Victoria Park - Glenn McFarlane and Michael Roberts (1999) ISBN - 0734400403
• Collingwoods 100 biggest wins in League Football, Marc Fiddian, 2014
• Kill for Collingwood / Richard Stremski ISBN 086861971X
• THE OFFICIAL COLLINGWOOD ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA : Featuring the Champions of the Collingwood Hall of Fame and the Team of the Century 2004 by Michael Roberts, and Glenn McFarlane ISBN 0734407165
• Collingwood's 100 biggest wins in League football - Marc Fiddian (2014) ISBN - 9780992346601
• A Century of the best. The stories of Collingwood’s favourite sons. Michael Roberts 1992
• Tortured Tales of a Collingwood Tragic - James Gilchrist (2011) ISBN - 9781921421877
• The Machine: The inside story of Football's greatest team - Glenn McFarlane & Michael Roberts (20005) ISBN - 0958641234
• Collingwood a love story - Paul Daley (2011) ISBN - 9780522858808
• Flying Higher: the history of the Essendon Football Club 1872 - 1994. Michael Maplestone ISBN 0959174028
• Always Striving : Great Essendon Moments (2017) Dan Eddy 9780987342836
• Champions of Essendon – Ranking the 100 greatest Bombers of all time. Simon Matthews (2002) ISBN 1 74064 081
• The Illustrated history of Essendon Football Club - Geoff Slattery (2007) ISBN - 9780975836286
• The Bombers Missions - Brian Hansen (1996) ISBN - 1876151048
• Behind the Bombers; Grant Aldous, 1995
• Fitzroy For the Love of the Jumper - Chris Donald (2002) ISBN 1877029181
• Fitzroy – Jim Main (2007) ISBN 9781920910815
• Fitzroy – Dyson Hore-Lacy (2000) ISBN 1876 557 33 8
• The first one hundred Seasons Fitzroy Football Club, 1883-1983, Mike Sutherland, Rod Nicholson, Steweart Murphy, 1983
• Miracle Match, The Day Dabid Downed Goliath, Brunswick St July 6, 1953, Ken piesse 2014
• Aka The Battle wihin by Jason Akermanis with gary Smart 2004
• Roar of the lions - Fitzroy Remembered 1883 - 1996 - Garrie Hutchinson, Rich Land, John Ross (1997) ISBN - 0850918804
• Fitzroy’s Fabulous Century (The 100 greatest Victories 1897-1996) Peter Carter, (2020) ISBN 9780994168917
• The road to Kardinia : the story of the Geelong Football Club Russell Stephens - iSBN 0949853577
• Cats on the Prowl, Stories from he Dressing Room by Geoff Davie and the Geelong Cats, 1994, ISBN 0732250684
• Cat's Tales, The Geelong Football Club 1897-1983, Col Hutchinson, ISBN 0959286314
• 1963, Cans in Command, Bruce Kennedy and Bruce Coe, 2010
• Chappy Believe it or not. Paul Chapman, 2015
• Polly Farmer, Steve Hawke,1994 (updated 2014) ISBN:9780992363154
• We Are Hawthorn - Beverly J.Allen, Peter Haby, Euan M McGillivray, Leon Rice, Peter Stathopoulos (2001) ISBN - 094985378x
• Leigh Matthews. His Football Career As Photographed And Scrapbooked By His Mother Lorna Matthews, 2007
• The Hard Way - Harry Gordon (1990) ISBN - 0949853429
• Lethal By Leigh Matthews With mike Sheehan, 1986
• 125 Years of the Melbourne Demons - The Story of the Melbourne Football Club from 1858 to 1983 , Greg Hobbs ASIN: B001V8IGKG
• Melbourne F. C. Illustrated History Since 1858 John Murray ISBN 9780980442007
• Heroes - 150 players, 150 years. Melbourne Football Club - Garrie Hutchinson (2008) ISBN - 9781740666152
• The Last Hurrah (Melbourne Premies 1964) Adam Wollcock 2021, ISBN9781743796771
• The Shinboners The Complete History of the North Melbourne Football Club ISBN: 9780987342867
• The North Story - Gerard Dowling (1997) ISBN - 0949853569
• Richmond FC, The Tigers, a Century of League Football, Rhett Bartlett, 2007
• The Hafey Years: Reliving the golden era at Tigerland by Elliot Cartledge 2011
• In the Blood, South Melbourne Sydney Swans Football Club, Jim Main ISBN: 9781921496011
• Days By the Lake A history of the South Melbourne Football Club, Marc Fiddian (2013) ISBN-978-0-9870625-7-4
• The Swan Lake Spectacular How South Melbourne won the 1933 VFL Premiership - Marc Fiddian 2004 - ISBN 0975709801
• Cazaly The Legend - Robert Allen ISBN 97809926363161
• The Sydney Swans The Complete History 1874-1986, Kevin Taylor, 1987
• The Bloodbath: The 1945 VFL Grand Final - Ian W Shaw, 2006 ISBN - 192076997
• Heroes with haloes, Stkilda’s One hundred Greatest by Russell Holmesby (1995) ISBN 0 949853 54 2
• The Point of it all; The story of StKilda Football Club, Jules Feldman and Russell Holmesby (1992) ISBN 0 949853 50 X
• Darrel Baldock: The incomparable Mr Magic, Peter Lyons, 2010, ISBN9780977541789
• Strength through loyalty Saints at Moorabin and beyond - Russell Holmesby (2013) ISBN - 9780987484703
• Unleashed - A History of the Footscray Football Club - John Lack, Chris McConville, Michael Small & Damian Wright. (1996) ISBN - 0646262157
• The Bulldog Heritage, Historicl Player Register, By past players of the Footscray/Western Bulldogs Football Club and their family members. 2010
• The Bulldog Book, Sons of the Scray (1883-1983) 1983
• Origins of Australian football. Volume 1 A golden era begins : football in 'marvellous Melbourne" 1877 to 1885 / Mark Pennings.2014
• Origins of Australian football. Volume 2, A golden era begins : football in 'marvellous Melbourne' 1877 to 1885 : Victoria's early history / Mark Pennings.2014
• Origins of Australian football : Victoria's early history. Volume 3, Covert 'professionalism' : the power of the wealthy clubs, 1886 to 1890 / Mark Pennings. 2015
• Origins of Australian football : Victoria's early history. Volume 4, Tough times: Victorian football loses its way, 1891 to 1896 / Mark Pennings. 2016
• Origins of Australian football: Victoria's early history. Volume 5, Players and clubs: the complete records 1858 to 1896 / Mark Pennings. 2016
• Heart of the game, 45 years of football on television, seven network, 2001
• Jack Dyer's The Greatest: The most Sensational Players of the century, by Brian Hansen with Jack Dyer, 1996
• Football Grounds of Melbourne, Santo Caruso, Marc Fiddian and Jim Main, 2002
• Our Great game, The Photographic History of Australian Football, Slattery Media 2010
• The Great Grand Finals, George Handley,1989
• The A-Z of all things AFL, the whole Australian Football Catalog, Stephen Downes, Garrie Hutchinson, John Ross, 2001
• Roosters - The History of the North Ballarat Football Club 1882 - 2002. From gumboots to glory - Phil Roberts (2003) ISBN - 0646421743
• Carn - Andrew Mueller 2019 -ISBN- 9781460751947
• Barassi The Biography, By Peter Lalor, 2010, 9781742379098
• 200 Players, Where are they now? Jim Main, 1999, ISBN 1865080276
• Black and Proud Matthew Klugman & Gary Osmond, 2013, ISBN - 9781742234052
• Born to Play: The Barry Davis Story, by Ken Davis, 2020, ISBN-0992522897
• AFL’s Black Stars, Lothian Books, 1998
• A Run through the runthroughs VFL cheersquads and their banners, Simon Nowicki and Frank Filippone, 1989
• Lou: My Wonderful Life, Lou Richards with Stephen Phillips
• Neale Daniher, When All is said and done with Warwick Green, 2019
• Eddie Betts The Boy from Boomerang Cresscent, 2022
• Jarman Magic, The Andrew Jarman story, 1994
• Nathan Buckley, All I can be, 2009
• KB A Life in Football, 2011
• More of the Kangaroo
• The Football Solution, George Megalogenis 2018
• Footy in the 1960s Six Games on a Saturday. Michael Roberts & Michael Winkler, 2003
• Origin of Speccies, The players, and positions of AFL, Nathan Jarvis, 2006
• Football Legend Woofa Bob Davis, 1996
• Accept the Challenge Leigh Matthews Autobiography, 2013
• Footy's Greatest Coaches, Stephanie Holt & Garrie Hutchinson 2002
• Ten Years in Black and White: Crackers Keenan with Bruce Eva, 1996
• The Paddock that grew, The story of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Keith Dunstan 1962
• Team Talk, The book of AFL trivia teams - Gus Smarrini, 1997
• My World of Football: Peter McKenna, Jack Pollard
• The Pioneers, 100 years of Association football, Marc Fiddian, 1977
• Up Close, Photography by Michael Willson, 2016
• 200 players, where are they now? Jim Main, 1999
• Footy’s Hall of Shame - Dave Warner 1996
• Behind the Play: Football In Australia Peter Bourke & June Senyard 2008
• Barassi Australian Football Stories 1981
• The Footy Club inside the brisbane Bears Fitzgerald
• The Search for Perfection, The winning ways of Football Icons, Paul Daffey, 2012
• Up There Mike Brady! by Noel Delbridge, 2004
• MORE OF THE KANGAROO – 150 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN QUEENSLAND — 1866 TO 2016, Murray Bird and Greg Parker 2016
• Mark Bickley A biography by Trevor Gill
• Knuckles The Neil Kerley Story by Jim Rosevear

Yearbooks and club Published Magazines

 

Adelaide

• Camry Crows 1996
• Camry Crows 1998

Carlton

• Inside Carlton 1997 yearbook
• Inside carlton 1998 yearbook
• Inside Carlton 2003 Issue 20
• Inside Carlton Issue 24 Oct 2004
• Farewell Princes Park
• Blue Heaven A celebration of Catlton's 16 premierships

Essendon

• Bomber Magazine March/April 1996
• Bomber Magazine 1999 year in review
• Bomber Magazine March 2000
• Bomber Magazine year in review
• Bomber Magazine 2002 year in review
• Bomber Magazine 2003 year in review
• Bomber Magazine  2004 year in review
• Bomber Magazine 2007 year in review 
• Bomber Magazine Edition 53 December 2008
• Bomber Magazine Edition 57 December 2009
• Bomber Magazine edition 58 April 2010

 

 

Port Adelaide

• June 1999 (Power to the People Magazine)
• 2009 Yearbook
• 2010 Yearbook
• 2011 Yearbook
• 2012 yearbook

Stkilda

Harvs StKilda Legend

 

Football almanac

2011

2012

 

 

AV RESOURCES

• Gold'n Brown Jubilee : the story of the '61 Hawks / Richard Allsop and Peter Haby

 

MUSIC WE USE ON THE SHOW

• Songs recorded by the Fable Singers 1972,
• “we are the Navy Blues” Written by Carlton players in 1930, based on the song Lily of Laguna (1898, by Leslie Stuart)
• Good Old Collingwood Forever, Written by Tom nelson 1906, Based on Goodbye Dolly Grey (1901 by Will D Cobb)
• See the Bombers fly up, written by Kevin Andrews 1929, based on Keep your sunny side up (1929 Ray Henderson)
• Old Fitzroy, Bill Stephen 1952, based on the La Marseillaise Claude Joseph Roget de Lisle 1792
• We are Geelong, by John watts 1963 based on the Song of the Toreador Song, (composed by Georges Bizet, 1911)
• Mighty Fighting Hawks, Jack O’Hagan 1959, based on Yankee Doodle Boy, George M Cohen 1904
• It’s a Grand old Flag written by George M Cohen in 1912, based on the song You’re a Grand Old Flag (George M Cohen, 1906)
• Join in the Chorus –– Based on the song Wee Deoch an Doris (Written by Sir Harry Lauder 1911)
• We’re from Tigerland lyrics by Jack Malcolmson , based on Row Row Row, William Jerome / James Monaco (Row, Row, Row lyrics Peermusic 1912)
• I Do like to be beside the seaside, Talent City Singers 1958 based on I Do like to be beside the seaside, John A Glover-Kind 1907
• The red and the White Larry Spokes – based on the Notre Dame Victory March Written by Larry Spokes 1961)
• Sons of the West Ralph McKay , based on the sea shanty - Sons of the sea
• It’s a Draw – 2011 - The Barrackville Singers
• Big Red’s Round Up uses the backing music of the song “Baka” by Outback. Licensed to Kobalt (AWAL Digital Limited) (on behalf of March Hare Music)
• I've Been Everywhere, written by Australian country singer Geoff Mack in 1959
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