Mark Hellinger and Jesse Maskell have won the People’s Choice and Cultural Diversity awards at the 2015 Setting Sun Short Film Festival. Their film Road To Glory tells the story of the Williamstown Seagulls FIDA Football Club in the lead up to their thrilling 2014 premiership. Continue reading
Author Archives: Les Everett
Peel arrive Perth off the mark
All the away teams won in round five of the WAFL and the competition is full of interest. Historians are at work as we speak trying to see if Peel have ever been second on the ladder before. I haven’t checked but can confidently say they haven’t.
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Into the Nebraska void by Richard Jones
A look at The Homesman (MA)…
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Kangaroos sneak home over fired-up Maine Magpies by Richard Jones
KANGAROO Flat unleashed a nine-goal second half to snatch a narrow win over a fired-up and determined Castlemaine on Saturday night.
The Magpies took a well-earned 33-point lead into the half-time break at Bendigo Mazda Oval before a large, but subdued, Roos home crowd. Continue reading
Everyone’s a loser WAFL

South Fremantle’s round four loss means there are no unbeaten teams in the competition and the ladder has an interesting look about it. Peel Thunder are in the top four and East Perth, arguably the form team, are out of the top five. We also found out something about the much-heralded Channel Seven coverage of the WAFL – it’s not every week! No TV game this week or next.
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Thunder do it for Jones
Peel have celebrated captain Brendan Jones’ 200th WAFL game with an emphatic victory over East Fremantle at Rushton Park. Continue reading
Hawks flog Bloods in Good Friday match at Canterbury Park by Richard Jones
EAGLEHAWK confirmed its pre-season status as a Bendigo Football League Top Five contender with an emphatic 102-point Good Friday belting of South Bendigo. Continue reading
BFL’s 1945 season opens soon after VE Day’s parties by Richard Jones
THE 1945 BFL season opened on Saturday 19 May just 11 days after the Allies World War 2 victory in Europe over Germany had been celebrated on VE Day: 8 May.
So bad it’s good by Richard Jones
what the jick by song list rat
we like to take sides. take perth afl fans for example they are either dockers or eagles. so it has been with music across the decades. british is better than american. or so it was in the 60s some say. was there a time when american was better than british? what about the 90s. british bands oasis, blur and radiohead pushed the dial towards briton but then singlehandedly pavement swung the dial back to america as their 5 albums of that decade defined indi rock. Continue reading





