SO Carlton finally had a win against a team of note, defeating Geelong on the Anzac Day weekend.
Chum Chamberlain may argue that the North Melbourne Kangaroos are a team of note and Lloyd Murray would claim that West Coast Eagles are a team of note. Sorry lads.
A Carlton supporter who knows their team well should not get carried away, but I wonder if Peter Colville would have said a word or two to his boss, Cats supporter Peter Miller?
Wonder how things are at Millers Bus Lines this week with the Cats having just played Collingwood. Would either Peter Miller or his Collingwood-supporting employee Col Granter keep their mouth shut?
THE Gannawarra Shire has knocked the rail trail on the head.
An amazing amount of money from a grant has been spent on the project already for research, viability studies, community consultation, royal commissions and the like, and nothing has happened.
The endangered grass in question is bead bush, a weed that grows prolifically in the local area (Kerang airport). Flooding of the proposed track was another reason against the bike trail. Many locals can remember the floods of ’73 when sandbags were carried on the Tram Tracks to locals. The tram track was one place that didn’t flood.
Two prominent locals have driven around Fosters Swamp along the tram tracks in a two-wheel drive car recently and that is not in the Ramsar site and quite easily accessible.
Cyclists don’t need a gold-paved highway. A graded surface would do. If it floods, so does 80 per cent of the shire.
There was once a local bloke who had a little grey Fergie with a little grader on the back and he had a good eye (much respect to the family). He probably would have cleared a surface for a cyclist in no time. Don’t you wish it was that easy?
WHILE chasing a copy of a book that was printed in Kerang way back in the day, I spoke to former Kerang resident Michelle Day. Michelle was the wife of former The Northern Times journalist Ian Day who wrote a book titled Quick Go the Shears: The Life and Times of Henry Salter, MBE.
Although they weren’t in the town for any great length of time, someone may remember Michelle and Ian. Ian sadly passed away in the early 90s. Michelle is currently teaching in a remote settlement on the Canning Stock Route.
Probably won’t get much of a chance to drop in for a quick chat and a coffee in the near future I’d think.
NORTH Melbourne’s Paul Curtis has failed to overturn a three-match ban for rough conduct at the AFL tribunal after he was cited for a tackle on Port’s Josh Sinn.
I believe the key to all this lies with the push in the back rule.
If they paid push in the back every time a player was tackled from behind and propelled forward onto their front/face, it would only take a couple of weeks and coaches would have their players tackling differently. These were always paid push in the back until moderately recently – I’m thinking around about Chris Judd’s time etc.
It should be unacceptable for a player from behind to just grab, pin the arms and fall on the running ball carrier. If he didn’t pin the arms it would have been a legal tackle according to the AFL. Of course, unless he still was concussed.
Therefore the fault lies with the AFL. Change the rules so a tackle that players are being fined for is deemed illegal, whether arms are pinned or not, rather than just cite them following a review.
But the AFL haven’t got the courage to do that, as too many supporters would cry foul. Yep, weak as water AFL!
DARBY Godfrey usually has a cuppa each morning with old mate Jack Whitehead, but last Thursday Jack was absent.
Mr Whitehead was busy looking after his sister Lurch and when spotted they were banging at the door of the Royal.
Lurch used to play a bit of tennis in her day and was often selected as the ‘scribe’ to write the tennis notes for the paper. Renowned for using nicknames and having a bit of a crack at people, Lurch was always good for a laugh.
Think that she could take this as ‘payback’. Good on you Lurch.
NOTICED that Danny Holdstock is organising things front of house at the Sporties Bistro. Good on you Danny.
While on the local pub scene, the Royal is flying with their new chef Alex.
Pity that the Exchange has closed but it’s great to have a couple of eat-out options still going strong, along with Kwong Ling Chinese Restaurant, Kerang Central and the Classic Fish Shop, Memo’s, Chicken Supreme, Chino’s, Wood Box and the newly named Why Not Café.
HAD a quick chat to Barham doctor Chameera Akuragoda who was over in Kerang. Yep, of course we talked cricket but then we got onto footy as Chameera’s son is into the Auskick. That’s a good thing, as any team sport, it doesn’t matter which, is the best.
