“I’ve never been so confident at the start of a season,” was my answer to the often asked pre-season question.
“You told us you were gonna be good!” I screamed (inwardly) as Freo bumbled and fumbled towards defeat at home to North Melbourne in round two.
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Former St Kilda captain Jarryn Geary has helped lift Eaglehawk from outside the Top Five last season to the unbeaten ladder leader after five rounds in Bendigo footy.
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I recently found myself in a paddock that was once a sports ground near Wickepin. During conversation my companion said, “I’d love to know what places had footy and cricket teams around here.”
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I’m a follower of Fremantle in the AFL and East Perth in the WAFL.
Unlike others with an interest in the Dockers and the WAFL I have, over the years, been impressed with Australian football coverage in The West Australian newspaper.
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It was appropriate half way through the AFL’s highly successful Gather Round in Adelaide that I finished a book about a great of South Australian football. An outlaw. An under recognised footballer Jack Dyer said was the most talented he ever saw.
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The East Fremantle Oval scoreboard has gone. Victim of the long overdue redevelopment of the oval Old East and the Sharks have called home since 1953.
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Some people only drink to celebrate so the sobering observations offered here won’t be needed for that kind of Fremantle fan.
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A movie based entirely about a meeting between 15 men and a lone female secretary shouldn’t promise anything out of the ordinary.
But in mid-January 1942, 15 Germans – particularly top military, SS, Nazi party and Gestapo officers – and also with half-a-dozen top civilian departmental heads there as well – meet to discuss how they were going to dispose of a large proportion of Europe’s Jews.
Continue readingA look at All Quiet On the Western Front
When you look back at war films you’ve seen not too many are told from the enemy viewpoint.
Tora Tora Tora devotes a fair bit of time to the Japanese pilots and air crews responsible for the surprise 1941 bombing attack on the US fleet stationed at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.
But it’s only partially about the Japanese military.
In director and co-writer Edward Berger’s World War 1 film I’m reviewing here everything is based around some of the young men in German infantry battalions stationed on the French front lines.
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