High hopes were held for the Blues in 2023.
They’ve lost their last five games. Here’s the mid-season report.
Continue readingCarlton: mid-season report by Tony Brenz-Verca
Fremantle (Walyalup): mid-season report by Les Everett
“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.
Continue readingRecruit Jarryn Geary has lifted Eaglehawk in BFNL by Richard Jones
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.
Continue readingAll you need to know by Les Everett
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.”
Continue readingA message to you Suma (and The West) by Les Everett
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.
Continue readingIf you’ll gather ’round me, children, story I will tell by Les Everett
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.
Continue readingBlack Midi: it’s not over by Song List Rat
Scoreless at East Fremantle by Les Everett
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.
Continue readingTime for Freo to sober up by Les Everett
Some people only drink to celebrate so the sobering observations offered here won’t be needed for that kind of Fremantle fan.
Continue readingTrue Evil On Display As Nazis Plot Mass Murder by Richard Jones
A look at The Conference
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.
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