I used to be a five-day-all-day man but I left live Test cricket behind many years ago. The lure of shade, the digital representation of the WACA scoreboard and a more appealing Australian team led me back this week – a couple of hours on day three and 65 minutes or whatever it was on the final day. Continue reading
Due to a technical glitch – caused by an inadequate briefing during shift handover – for a little while yesterday we asked our fans and readers to provide us with their Best of… list for 2019. Executive bonuses have been frozen in the wake of this embarrassing error – we’ll hand them out later when the fuss dies down.
One correspondent, going by the name Vee Em, provided us with a 2019 list. It doesn’t seem at all fanciful so we’re publishing it… Continue reading
Oh no… it’s list time.
We’d love you hear what you thought was the best of 2019.
Here’s one from 2017….
https://australianrules.com.au/2017/12/30/best-of-2017-by-matt-quartermaine/
australianrules.com.au cub reporter Vin Maskell has gained exclusive access to a draft press release from Cricket Australia (additional “reporting” from Les Everett who, unlike Maskell, has been to Perth). Continue reading
In the season past 19 players won an AFL best and fairest award – there was a dead heat at Collingwood – and 182 finished in the top 10 in their club voting with a triple dead heat for 10th at GWS.
Taking into account there would be maybe 15 West Coast, Collingwood and Richmond players not listed here who had better seasons than many who finished in the top 10 at other clubs, what we have is a list of players who did pretty well in 2018.
Here’s a fairly unreliable statistical look at them. Continue reading
A look at Ladies in Black
Aussie director Bruce Beresford has bequeathed to we cinema goers some handy offerings about his home country. Continue reading
A goal celebration. Africa style. All photos by Les Everett.
People come to Australia from all over the world. How do we bring them to Australian Rules football? Here’s how a school, an amateur football club and the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) went about it. Continue reading
A writer, a T-shirt & Geoff Blethyn.
Sometimes writing takes you to surprising places. Continue reading
The historic 1959 sign welcoming punters to Las Vegas.
AFTER our fascinating morning with the male grizzly bears at Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain it was time to move on and head out to the airport. Continue reading
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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