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)
• 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

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