THE year began in the country and ended with the purchase of a new sound system that has one of those streaming things to take me into a whole new world – and a turntable that has already taken me back to a much-loved old one.
Here are some highlights…
My Top, Fave … the 12 songs I got into the most of the songs I heard in 2015
This should be a Top 10 but it’s a Top 12 and before we get into that there’s also 5 songs that just missed selection. Call it the bench. So here we go, in a particular order from 17 to 1! Continue reading
MOST film reviewers come up with a Top Ten list at the end of a busy year’s watching and writing. Maybe just a scant Top Five as Margaret and David used to compile on At The Movies.
For me, I go for a Top Twelve. Not a baker’s dozen, but an even figure.
Some of the movies I most enjoyed this year would certainly rate as ‘arthouse’ but there always seems to be a handful of films which most folk would classify as multiplex offerings.
So here goes for this year: Continue reading
The Straight Dope: Chip Le Grand.
The Essendon supplements scandal had (has) it all. Mystery, intrigue, big money and elite sport. Continue reading
The beginning of our annual look back, your lists and essays are welcome dear readers…
Comrades, a year of great upheaval- disruption – as they say. But, was it really? Is the new normal the new normal? In a time when mediocrity abounds we look forward to a 2016 where the tortoise will be able to lay down with the lamb, and the forces of darkness shall be weakened incrementally. Continue reading
For ten years a small group of former non-footballers have met on Sunday mornings for The Sherrin At The Fearon kick-to-kick sessions in Williamstown, opposite the beach. It’s blokes mostly, and most on the wrong side of 50, re-living teenage glory days. (Even if those glory days were no more than kick-to-kick itself.)
In my best of 2014 https://australianrules.com.au/2014/12/22/literally-the-best-of-2014-in-no-particular-order-by-nick-gye/ I made a startlingly omission. I had acquired an album late in 2014 and hadn’t listened to it when I put the list together. I now have to put matters right. I am referring to Soused. Continue reading
In 2001 I was in France during the Tour de France and followed it closely on TV marvelling at the American Lance Armstrong and barracking for Australian Stuart O’Grady in the sprint section.
The AFL draft is happening on Tuesday. Time to think about prospects who were running around in the WAFL this year.
Callum Ah Chee has had a pretty standard pathway to the AFL. However he does have the advantage of a bit of time at league level in the WAFL to go with his under age state representation and AFL elite junior opportunities. He’s skilful and exciting.
Callum Ah Chee. Photos by Les Everett
Teacher Education, Sport, Australian Rules Football,
Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
escape to the Vasse idyll
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