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
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
A look at Bendigo footy’s 11th round
WAFL round 13…
Claremont continues to rise. Subiaco just continues.
Peel’s Ben Howlett encounters a bit of traffic. All photos by Les Everett.
Bendigo footy, wrap of Round 10
Strathfieldsaye, Kyneton and Golden Square won the three big matches in Bendigo football’s tenth round. The Storm won the top-of-the-table clash against second-placed Eaglehawk by 34 points on their Tannery Lane home deck. Kyneton won just their second match in the past 14 outings at the QEO with a comfortable 58-point belting of South Bendigo, virtually ending the Bloods’ quest for a finals berth – and it’s still June. And Golden Square held Sandhurst to just one goal after half-time – the second time in as many weeks the Dogs have stifled a Top Five opponent in the closing half – as they cleaned up the Dragons by 29 points. The other major news from the 23 June round was Maryborough’s drought-breaking win over Castlemaine at the Camp Reserve. In the battle of the BFNL’s Magpies Maryborough recorded their first win away from home since round 16, 2014 while Castlemaine suffered their ninth straight loss for 2018. It was Maryborough’s only win so far this season but hauled them out of the cellar and tossed the one-win Maine into the dim, dark depths. In a low scoring affair Gisborne climbed into the top five by downing Kangaroo Flat by four goals at Dower Park. The Gardiner Reserve Dogs replaced Sandhurst in the league’s leading bracket of teams and could prove extremely difficult to dislodge as winter rolls on. Continue reading
Subiaco’s Max Walters tries to break a tackle at Bassendean. All photos by Les Everett
Only three games were played in round 12 of the WAFL but there was a big mover with Claremont jumping two spots on the ladder. Meanwhile Subiaco is now three games clear on top. Continue reading
Wrap of Bendigo footy round nine: halfway mark Continue reading
WAFL round 11
Haiden Schloithe marks close to the boundary at Fremantle Oval opposed to Mitch Crowden who missed the spoil by… that much. All photos by Les Everett.
The Sharks are the only team out of contention after 11 rounds of the WAFL season (and even they are a mathematical chance of making the finals if they cheat in the exam). Wins to South Fremantle and West Perth consolidated their positions, the newly exciting Perth had another victory and Subiaco were challenged by East Perth. Continue reading
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