Welcome back to footy tipping for the National Rugby League and Australian Football League competitions 2018 fixtures. As usual most of these tips will be given with not very much knowledge of who is playing in the various teams from week to week and will mostly be a combination of guess-work and pre-existing prejudices about …
On the first day of the Brisbane Cricket Test Match, I remember David Sabine. David was a part of the eldership at Wynnum Presbyterian. Before I moved away twenty years ago we’d taken to attending the first day of the Brisbane Test together. The ground looks completely different now. The grandstand we sat in has …
I saw an excellently priced copy of Ali – A Life by Jonathan Eig at Big W. It looks like it will be the standard biography of a landmark figure in 20th century popular culture. Ali was so much a product of the culture in which he grew up, was prepared to stand aloof from …
It’s the week after the Grand Finals and season 2017 is done and dusted. Adelaide spent all year convincing me they could win, and all Grand Final showing me why I doubted them. But then, Richmond who I doubted more showed that they had the goods on the day. Some people may have thought that …
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