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Back to the Gabba in a heartbeat

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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 →

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Heroes the lot of them

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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 →

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Tigers, Dogs and Storm win big clashes by Richard Jones

Bendigo footy, wrap of Round 10

BFNLLogo1Strathfieldsaye, 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 →