Often seen walking around town is Don Ross. Don is a bit of a golfer, so he knows how to stuff up a decent walk, too.
It’s great to see Don making his way to his daily appointment. Good on you, Don. Stay well.
Footy is starting and the word is out that Macorna, Moulamein and Quamby will all be better than they were last year.
Nully would still like to leave the competition, but will remain this season and are likely to be at least as strong as they were last year. That sets up a pretty good challenge for all other teams, but that’s what footy is about. If you don’t take up the challenge, you might as well not play.
A couple of local lads playing for St Mary’s in the NT league faced off against Troy Coates’ old team in Nightcliff in the Premier League preliminary final on Saturday night.
Haven’t heard how they went, but Tinny Robinson was named at half forward and hopefully, Matty Wilko got a gig.
Funny that old mate Jack Whitehead has no inside news regarding local footy. He did mention something about one club but the source couldn’t be verified.
There was a time when if Jack didn’t know it about local footy, it wasn’t worth knowing.
So “they” have dug up the concrete in front of the Exchange Hotel to get to the NBN. Let’s hope that the problem was under the concrete, and not somewhere else. We have to assume that they have that covered.
Poole’s, Loddon Heating and Cooling and Autopro, among others, have all had some serious NBN concerns over the past months.
Let’s hope it is all done and dusted soon.
The AFL footy starts tomorrow night, on a Wednesday. Melbourne versus the Doggies, then the traditional Carlton versus Tigers the next day kicks off the season.
There will be many folk looking forward to an uninterrupted season, not only from the AFL, but the local competitions as well.
Serpentine air race is on Sunday, March 20. This will be the third attempt at holding this function, which is a celebration of the centenary of Australia’s first official air race. Over 100 years ago, Serpentine was selected as the starting point of the government sponsored air race, which set off on August 27, 1920.
Mid Murray Flying Club is holding a bit of a do on March 26 and 27 as well, which they are calling a fly-in.
Kerang’s got a pretty good airport.
Former Cohuna lad Liam Treacy is playing a bit of cricket down in Melbourne and grabbed a five-for-not-many in the A Grade competition, following his 49 with the bat. Good job, Liam.
There are quite a few former locals playing some pretty good cricket in some renowned competitions across the state, Nick Farley, Clayton Holmes and the Thrum lads to name a few.
While mentioning cricket, the previous test match in Pakistan must have been a pretty flat wicket. The Aussie bowlers couldn’t get wickets at regular intervals, but their opponents seemed to do OK.
It could have been interesting if the Pakistani’s had decided to push for victory at some stage during the match, rather than gloss up their batting averages.
