POOR old Don Ross had his gopher nicked. That meant that the poor fella had to walk. It took him less than a day to acquire himself another one. Clearly Don is not too keen on walking.
Because of this, one could assume that he plays golf with a golf cart. (Don’t most of them now?)
IT may not be news to many, but Kelly McKnight received life membership of Kerang Football Netball club at their presentation night. Kelly had made plans halfway through the season to step aside from her many duties and let someone else take over but she forgot to put a succession plan in place. Someone will need to step up. Pretty sure that the club will find an able body to volunteer.
PAUL Grayling was announced as Kerang’s senior coach for the 2025 season at the club’s presentation night. Paul has previously coached the club to a premiership a while ago and has currently been coaching Kerang’s under-12s.
Looks like it could be a busy year for Grayls next year, coaching the under-12s and Seniors. Yep. Come on Paul, you can do it.
There may be a few changes but the club will surely have another successful year.
DON’T usually mention anything from “fakebook” too much, but saw a thing recently: “In the 1940s, males faked their age to fight in WWII. In 2024, males pretend to be female to win in sports.”
GARRY McCluskey and partner Judy were heading to Christmas Island and had a bit of trouble with flights recently while on Cocos Island. At one stage they thought they were going to be sent back to Perth, but they eventually made it.
Making a long story short, while they were travelling, Garry was of course wearing his Kerang FC shirt and someone got talking to him, as happens. The person in question was the CEO of the Shire of Cocos Keeling Islands, a Mr Frank Mills. Turns out that Frank is a former Yarrawalla resident and played a bit of footy at the ‘Walla before venturing far and wide.
Anyway, Mr Mills headed off to his destination of Perth, and Garry and Judy eventually made it to Christmas Island for a magnificent time.
While waiting for planes, Gary got to see both AFL Preliminary finals, so yep, they had to wait a while.
WHILE on that, Garry’s second-cousin Darcy Fort did OK in replacing big Oscar in the Brisbane Lions Grand Final team.
Darcy Fort is the son of Garry’s first cousin Ritchie Fort.
Chooka (that’s Garry) expected him to nail all his shots he had at goal, but he missed a couple I think.
Stay with me now – Ritchie’s other son Frazer, played in the Geelong Footy League’s losing grand final for South Barwon.
THE ‘How to Vote’ instructions sent out in the Gannawarra Shire Council election envelopes fooled me. It had different languages on it and of course I was looking for the English version. It wasn’t on there. Quick as a flash (not) I realised it was all so easy that the instructions were on the voting slip.
The text on the back of the ‘How to Vote’ slip was in the variety of languages and basically said, “To obtain assistance from an interpreter, call the number below”. That’s what the French one said anyway. The Albanian interpretation was a little different but meant the same.
See! Extensive research goes into the Komment.
HAVE heard from a reliable source that the Kerang Cricket Club will enter two senior teams in the SHDCA this coming season.
Last season the Kerang club only had a B Grade team but will also have a C Grade team this season. The decision to have a C Grade option should give younger players in the club an excellent stepping stone to senior cricket.
TIM Scriven had a bit of time off last month to participate in Daryl Beattie’s final ride. Mr Beattie runs Daryl Beattie Adventures and took riders on tours of the Simpson Desert, up to Cape York or the Cannie Stock Route, which is the trip that Scrivo did. A 14-day tour with 12 days on the bike, camping in tents, covering about 2000kms.
Tim said it was a hell of an experience. His knees are currently still the worse for wear.
HAD a chat to Mark Powney and he has just been up north visiting old mate Brad Maclean. As Brad is a gun fisherman, I asked if Mark had a fish with Brad. He freely admitted that he doesn’t fish. That might make Kurl the world’s second worse fisherman.
