Interesting incident at the local cricket the other day.
A ball was skied and the call went out for the catch. “Simon, Simon, Simon.”
Simon Ettershank thought it was his and ran in from point, while Simon Kelly thought it was his and got under it from gully. Mayhem ensued but between them, the catch was taken. Simon Kelly got front position and safely secured the wicket.
Other team members realised their mistake after the catch was taken and discussion resulted. There would be a definite benefit in using nicknames in this situation. Think the Murrabit lads will, in the future.
Thought I recognised a bloke walking down Victoria Street last week. Turned out it was former Saints champion Nicky Winmar with his lovely partner.
Both were in the area visiting Lake Boga for a while.
Of course, I wondered if Nicky was going to be playing for Boga as he still looks fit enough.
They were on the way to Sporties where Winmar immediately recognised an old mate serving behind the bar in the bistro. These folks had a bit of a chat and a photo or two.
Had a pretty good career did that young fella Winmar. And so did the bloke behind the bar too, although a bit shorter and not quite as spectacular.
There have been a couple of streets resurfaced in town lately.
For all those impatient folk, that’d be you, Christine, the loose stones will eventually be melded into the bitumen.
With the stones being there at least you won’t be sticking to the tar when it gets hot.
The town meeting regarding the floods was quite successful with the Gannawarra Shire director of infrastructure and development Wade Williams and chief executive Geoff Rollinson explaining in a clear and concise manner what the shire has planned.
Everyone would have to be satisfied with the plans the shire aims to put in place for the flooding situation.
It’s understandable that a few folk wanted to let the town know of their flooding problems and needed to vent, that is expected, but I have complete faith that the right decisions will be made.
Congratulations to the organisers and all concerned. Well done.
It’s always wonderful to see good friends out and about having some fun, and last Tuesday there were four lovely ladies out doing exactly that at the Sporties bistro.
Arnie, Dawn, Kirstyn and Maddy were having a bit of a catch-up prior to school starting again on January 30 (Crikey, that’s today).
Saw them there around lunch time and would like to think that they committed to the afternoon.
Hope you all have the best year at Kerang Primary School.
Speaking of Kerang Primary School, principal Jack had a bit of a basketball accident late last year and rolled his ankle.
Tore stuff from the bone apparently which will, or could, depending on his determination, put a halt to a promising basketball career.
Hope that the moon boot is off for the start of the 2024 school year, Jack, and that you and your family also have a great year.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Australia Day.
And on that, it’s interesting. In an email I received, an unnamed source has said: “I’m so pleased the issue has now been resolved and the person so clearly most qualified to preside over what we should think about Australia Day, Pat Cummins, has cleared it up for us, ‘Australia Day should be changed’. Pat is an absolutely fine bowler who took a while to grasp the finer details of captaincy, but apparently no training program was required to hone his global social and moral etiquette values so he could clear these messy, complex issues up on our behalf.”
Obviously having a crack at Pat for airing his view. Pat has made his point, but the ICC warned Uzzy for wearing a black armband. Appalling set of double standards IMO, or is it that the ICC don’t wish to get involved in the Australia Day argument?
