Gary Ablett: An Autobiography by Gary Ablett

$44.99 AUD

$49.99 (10% off)

Category: Sport

Gary Ablett: An Autobiography celebrates AFL legend Gary Ablett's stellar career. Reliving key moments and events in his life, this memoir not only explores Gary's great success at the very top of the AFL, but also his journey to get there. Drafted in 2001, Gary's incredible career has spanned two grea t clubs, two Grand Finals and two Brownlow medals among many other accolades. In his book, Gary takes readers through the trials and triumphs of his life: his close bonds with his family; his famous father Gary Ablett Senior's influence on his life; joining Geelong Football Club along with his brother Nathan; becoming a star player and the pressure that brings from the media; taking on new challenges when he left his home town to join the newly minted Suns football team on the Gold Coast; becoming a captain and leading the Suns; dealing with injury and the pressure that you come under then; the joy of returning home to Geelong Football Club even though it was accompanied by a tragic family event; settling back in Victoria with his wife Jordan and baby Levi and a future that will no doubt always have football somewhere in it.  Illustrated with many never-before-seen photographs from private collections, and including contributions from Joel Selwood, Mark Thompson, Gary's mum, Sue, and Gary Ablett Snr, this book is packed with images and stories that will bring the book to life and remind the reader of the many great moments in Gary's career. From childhood to his zenith as a player, Gary's story will be a book to read and re-read about a player without equal. ...Show more

Fishing Guide to Western Port Landbased by Jarrod Day

$9.99 AUD

Category: Sport

Fishing Guide to Westernport by WORSTELING Paul

$19.99 AUD

Category: Sport

The ultimate fishing guide to fishing Victoria's Westernport. Now updated with over 150 GPS marks. Every major species available in the port are put under the microscope with the best baits, areas, times and methods revealed. The unique tidal system is also broken down into specific map areas NOW WITH O VER 150 GREAT GPS MARKS ...Show more

The Hard Way The Story of Richmond's 13th Premiership by Konrad Marshall

$24.99 AUD

Category: Sport

The Hard Way recounts Richmond football club's journey to the 2020 ALF Grand Final. In this thrilling account, Konrad Marshall reconstructs an unprecedented season of footy and the team that came to shine through it all.  The 2020 AFL season was a season like no other, and the challenges faced by the p remier team, due to the restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, were substantial. Richmond, the reigning premier, started the season slowly, were then relocated to a Gold Coast hub for 111 days, faced internal issues throughout, and came into the Grand Final against Geelong the hard way, after losing the qualifying final to Brisbane. Including a foreward from Richmond president, Peggy O'Neal, The Hard Way tells this amazing story and reveals Richmond's game plan - a playing system that is based as much on chaos as clockwork - in intricate detail. Konrad not only covers the club's journey to their final's campaign but also the adjustments made to move to Queensland, life in the hub, their relationship with their fans and the public, and of course, the Dustin Martin effect.    If they weren't convinced already, this book will show all footy fans just how Richmond truly embodies the old sports saying: A champion team will always beat a team of champions. ...Show more

Bachar Houli by Bachar Houli

$34.99 AUD

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Bachar Houli is as accomplished an AFL footballer as they come. He's been part of two Richmond Premiership sides, he was an All-Australian in 2019, and with over 200 games to his name he remains a key part of a champion team. Picked at number 42 in the 2006 National Draft by Essendon, Houli played 26 ga mes for the Bombers before moving in 2011 to Tigerland, where rookie coach Damien Hardwick was assembling the team that six years later would achieve the seemingly impossible and claim Richmond's 11th Premiership. Another flag followed two years later, with Houli close to best on ground in both deciders. Yet it's as the AFL's most prominent Muslim player that Houli is best known - and his strong Muslim values are at the heart of the man he is. Writing for the first time, Houli explores the experiences and beliefs that sparked his trailblazing success as a Muslim footballer, and that established him as a leading voice within the AFL community for inclusion, understanding and tolerance. Co-authored with acclaimed broadcaster and writer Waleed Aly, Bachar Houli- Faith, Football and Family tells the unique story of one of football's most fascinating men. ...Show more

Black and Proud by Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond

$29.99 AUD

$34.99 (14% off)

Category: Sport

On 17 April 1993, after an AFL match between St Kilda and Collingwood, Saints star Nicky Winmar made a historic statement in the face of a torrent of racial abuse. Facing the Collingwood crowd after St Kilda’s decisive win, he pulled up his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: ‘I’m black and I’m pr oud to be black’. Race and sport have a long intertwined history in Australia, but it all came to a head on that day. Photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder captured the moment. Fellow Indigenous team member Gilbert McAdam didn’t even realise what had happened until later. What followed was an intense public debate that forced the AFL and the fans to confront their prejudices head-on. Black and Proud takes us back to that fateful day, but tells the stories of the players and the photographers and all they experienced in the lead-up and the aftermath. ...Show more

Victorian Fish Guide by Frank Prokop

$9.99 AUD

Category: Sport

An invaluable reference for any angler, fresh or salt water, wanting to identify their catch. Containing accurate fish illustrations, descriptions and diagrams of the best rigs to catch each fish and waterproof for your convenience.

Heroes of Footy by Kevin Sheedy

$29.99 AUD

Category: Sport

  Introducing 30 of the rule-breaking, change-making, boundary-pushing and risk-taking men and women who have shaped footy. Celebrate the players hand-picked by the legendary Kevin Sheedy as some of the greatest trailblazers the game has ever seen. Featuring stats, biographical information and brillia nt illustrations by Michael Weldon, Heroes of Footy is the perfect gift for young footy tragics everywhere.  ...Show more

Golden Daze (Australian Surfing Then to Now) by Sean Doherty

$45.00 AUD

Category: Sport

Australia's best surf writer brings to life the wild, bold, brave story of Australian surfing from the 60s to the present through the stories of Surfing Australia's Hall of Fame surfers and contemporary surfing legends. Golden Daze is a compelling memoir of Australian surfing through a year in the life of Australia's top surfers. Starting in 1963, renowned surfing journalist Sean Doherty charts the history of surfing through the stories of Surfing Australia's Hall of Fame inductees. Taking a year and a surfer at a time, he will reveal what they did, where they surfed and their life events in fascinating depth and detail. Illustrated with unpublished images from the surfers' private collections, these stories also give a vivid sense of the shifting world around them, particularly in the ever-changing realm of surfing. Golden Daze opens in 1963 with Peter Troy jumping ship in Melbourne with a surfboard under his arm, embarking on his fabled surfing odyssey that saw him introducing surfing to Brazil, being crowned European champion, hitching alone across the Kalahari Desert and watching an unknown band from Liverpool called the Beatles. 1964 is Midget Farrelly's story of winning the first world title on home sand at Manly Beach. In 1969 Wayne Lynch goes down the coast, avoiding the Vietnam draft. And in 1971, Alby Falzon stumbles upon the island of Bali while shooting his humble surf movie Morning of the Earth. The book brings to life the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and noughties through the eyes of the Australian surfers who defined them best, ending today with stories of potential Hall of Famers, contemporary stars like Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and Tyler Wright. Part journal, part biography, part surf culture memoir, Golden Daze gives a fascinating insight into Australian surfing and what makes it so unique. ...Show more

Complete Australian Fishing Encyclopedia by Bill Classon

$49.99 AUD

Category: Sport

This new release for 2010 contains fishing information on noth fresh & saltwater areas plus info on tactics, knots & rigs, gear, fish identification and a lure guide plus many handy hints!

Siren's Call by Yvette Wroby

$24.95 AUD

Category: Sport

Siren's Call is a tale of Yvette Wroby's two families: the family she was born into and the family that is the St Kilda Football Club. It's a story about the bond between Yvette and her mother Elfie, and a wider tale of how her mother's and father's families survived the Second World War to make a rich, fulfilling life in Australia; of how Yvette's many aunts and uncles and siblings made her who she is today. It's also a story about stories - of how people in all walks of life across Australia came to cherish the red, white and black of the St Kilda Football Club or other clubs, of what life circumstances brought them to their football team. Yvette spends a year of weekends travelling the country to discover what has pulled her into that community, but returns to her mum during the week to sustain her through cancer treatments. In her busy life she handles the day-to-day responsibilities of caring for her older children, her relatives and her community. Siren's Call is a love story about family and footy and those things that bring us all together. ...Show more

The Comeback Summer: When Smith and Stokes got the Magic Back by Geoff Lemon

$29.99 AUD

Category: Sport

The captain of the Australian team: a batsman on the way to being the greatest of all time. The star of the English team: an all-rounder breaking record after record. Both disgraced in enormous scandals of very different kinds. Both attempting a path to personal and professional redemption, through Worl d Cups and county games. All culminating in a meeting of cricket's biggest rivalry: the 2019 Ashes. It was always going to be a summer to remember. The follow-up to Geoff Lemon's multi-award-winning Steve Smith's Men is an equally insightful, thrilling and sharply observed take on the cricketing world, with a cast of finely drawn characters, vivid backdrops and a series of incredible events, both on and off the field. ...Show more