Subiaco’s Zac Clarke and Claremont’s Oliver Eastland had a spirited battle in the ruck at Claremont Oval. All Photos by Les Everett.
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Close but no fairy tales
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Tigers, Hawks score important home victories by Richard Jones
Wrap of Bendigo footy, Round 13
Kyneton and Eaglehawk scored vital late season wins on Saturday with wins over challengers Gisborne and Golden Square respectively. A one-point last-gasp win to the Tigers at the Kyneton Showgrounds lifted them back to third spot on the ladder. Continue reading
Plenty of WAFL changes but it’s all about Perth
WAFL round 16…
There was movement in the five after round 16 of the WAFL with West Perth jumping into second place while Claremont and Peel both moved past East Perth who last week looked like the next big thing. Perth didn’t go anywhere but tightened their grip on fourth place with their third win in a row. Continue reading
Demons slip into the five
Desperation: a big spoil by Perth’s Kasey Nicholas. All photos by Les Everett.
WAFL round 15
These are interesting times in the WAFL. The alignment between East Perth and West Coast will finish at the end of the season, West Perth is broke, there’s talk of mergers but best of all the Perth Demons are playing the kind of footy that might just mean they’ll participate in the finals for the first time since 1997. Continue reading
Storm, Gisborne clinch important mid-winter wins by Richard Jones
Wrap of Bendigo footy, round 12
Strathfieldsaye and Gisborne posted the vital wins in Bendigo football’s mid-winter round on Saturday. The Storm consolidated top spot on the BFNL ladder with a 23-point win over third-placed Kyneton while the Gardiner Reserve Dogs kept their September hopes flickering by downing second-placed Eaglehawk. Gisborne crept over the line by four points after leading by the same margin at half-time. The other three games were predictably one-sided: Golden Square restricted Castlemaine to a single goal to run out massive 206-point winners, Sandhurst smashed home side Kangaroo Flat by 121 points while in the closest result of that trio South Bendigo accounted for a much improved Maryborough by 43 points. Continue reading
Siblings re-unite to produce a vintage drop by Richard Jones
A look at Back To Burgundy (M) Continue reading
Demons eye the five
WAFL round 14
Back to the Gabba in a heartbeat
Looking into the sun at the Gabba. My seat was just above the 60… but I moved.
It was a week off from the WAFL and instead the live game for the week was at the Gabba – the meeting of the bottom two Brisbane and Carlton. I’d seen the Lions smash Freo a week earlier and Freo smash the Blues before the bye so this one looked predictable enough. Continue reading
Heroes the lot of them
Yesterday’s Heroes deserves a place on your bookshelf.
It’s funny how things turn out. Earlier this year I discovered the scoreboard at Nukarni which is, as you know, between Nungarin and Merredin in the Eastern Wheatbelt. A little research led me to John Crook, Nukarni’s finest player, who a had brief but triumphant impact on footy in the city. Crook played 42 games in two seasons with South Fremantle, was a premiership player in 1950 and represented WA five times. Then he went back to the farm. Continue reading
Dragons rocket back up the ladder and into five by Richard Jones
A look at Bendigo footy’s 11th round
