My address to the assembled cricket media, administrators and players.
Thanks for coming everyone. I’m taking advantage of this rare two-day break to talk about an important issue – spin bowling.
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A Test even making it into the fifth day seems a rarity these days. For me this one was even longer. I settled down on Friday morning to watch the first day only to discover it didn’t start until Saturday. Still took a bit of effort.
We were promised rain and got it.
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A look at The Problem With People (M)
Perhaps a movie best seen on a quiet Sunday afternoon except we saw it on a heatwave Saturday and the temperature in the movie never exceeded very moderate levels.
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One day I’ll get to an Adelaide Test.
This year’s viewing started in the admissions waiting room at a hospital, on Kayo, on the phone. Saw the first ball, the first wicket and settled in.
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The first Test has come and gone but there’s still a lot of processing going on.
The experts – the ones on TV, radio, podcasts, newspapers and social media – provide so many observations, opinions, prejudices and contradictions that our cricket processor can get clogged up.
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In 1982 I, like Napoleon, was the self proclaimed emperor of the dance floor. The Red Parrot in Northbridge was my Fontainebleau. Indeep’s song Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was my go to song. How little did I know that 40 years later those improbable lyrics would come to pass during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A look at Lee (R)
As model turned topline war photographer Lee Miller, Kate Winslet captures Lee’s confrontational, tough outer skin mixed with her magnetism as a former high fashion model perfectly.
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If you were alive in the 50s you remember where you were when Betty Cuthbert won the 100/200 sprint double at the Melbourne Olympics. Similarly for the 60s when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and the 70s when Mohammed Ali beat George Foreman in Zaire to reclaim his world heavyweight boxing crown. In the 80’s ??? – maybe you don’t remember anything let alone where you were but if you lived through the 90s you would remember the exact time and place you were when you saw the first episode of Twin Peaks. It changed the relationship between cinema and TV forever, but more importantly it would change your perspective on “normality” and change the way you view the motivation of others and the imbalance in how society values achievement over mythology.
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With the excitement of the trade period over maybe it’s time to take one last look back at 2024. Sorry, I started this soon after the season (for Freo) ended but art exhibitions, medals and travel have got in the way. Delistings have happened and some suggestions (eg Corbett have been followed through – hint hint Sebit). But anyway, here we go with this completed in Dartmouth Nova Scotia, just over the water from Halifax.
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If Blair Bell hadn’t got the ball, realised he had space and kicked a goal with seconds to go in the WAFL first semi final Peel would have been BUNDLED OUT and the reason clear to all. The Fremantle-listed players in the Peel team had clocked out anyway, would rather be on holidays, don’t really care. And they’re no good anyway.
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Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
escape to the Vasse idyll
