Harms
John Harms and Paul Daffey are co-editors and co-publishers of The Footy Almanac. Here’s a selection of John’s recent articles.
Australian language: Fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate 13 March 2010
Cricket: Third Test, Day 2: Ponting a chance for the Camira? 15 January 2010
Golf: Tiger and the seed of destruction, 17 December 2009
Life: A thoroughly Australian few days, 11 December 2009
April 18th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I got a good laugh out of your article John. Most stereotypes have some basis in fact,as difficult as that is to say as a Pies man !! Obviously the stereotype doesn’t apply to all supporters of that club, but enough to keep it going.
A couple of years ago I went to watch the Hawks play Brisbane (as my family was away and I wanted to get a good look at the rolling zone). I was seated in the MCC reserve, where I hardly ever sit, despite my membership, and in front of a group of about twenty who all fitted your description. I was amused both by them and by my own assumptions, notably that they would likely work in big buildings for big corporates. Much to my amusement on my bike journey home on the following Monday, one of them strolled out earnest-faced from the NAB building at Docklands. Sometimes the assumptions are right (but more often than not they are not) !!!
As for any Hawks supporters that have taken offence at your article, they provide further evidence that they have had it too easily in football life, with 37 years awash with premierships, and another only a decade earlier. Seventeen years between flags – that’s not a drought, it’s a blockage in a pipe !!!!!!!!! Ask any Bulldogs, Saints or Demons supporter what a drought is !!!! Or even a Cats or Swans fan who will still well remember.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Forget about the flags and consider the sheer bliss of having two brilliant Gary Abletts that Hawthorn gave you!
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
That, Pamela is the most brilliant comment in this whole debate
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
As an open-minded Hawthorn supporter John (I’ve had to be living here in Brisbane the last 10 years), I really enjoyed your article. Being 37 years of age, I have been blessed to grow up barracking for Hawthorn during the golden era, all thanks to my Irsih immigrant father deciding to take up the brown and gold after witnessing one Peter Hudson weave his magic while attending his first of many of this “greatest game in the world” (his words). I will have you know however that I, like many of my eastern suburbs comrades, suffered long and hard through the ‘dark year’ of 1977 and then worse, ‘79 through to September ‘83 (and I almost jumped was it not for Dermie’s promise in ‘82). Back to the present and here in Brisbane my three kids are all Hawks and proud (even passionate and paid up). On recently taking them to their first game by tram to the Dome on Easter Sunday (a family holiday like no other), the lineage was exemplified when, well into the game my 5 year old daughter (confirmed on that last Saturday in September ‘08) queried “by the way Daddy, who are the blue and white Hawks”? Before I could explain, she cut me off with a cry of “Buddy….goal”. No, don’t bother with an answer I thought, she was just being polite. Very Hawthorn.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hello John, heard you on the radio last week and want to confrim that the brisbane launch is still on tomorrow thurs 10th dec at West toowong been harassing hayden all week to attend.