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The Holy Trinity

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7 years ago

Numbers make for harsh judges. For us kids, cricket’s numbers occupied an honoured place alongside all those other indisputably quantifiable things – like, you know, where a girl rated on…

Verbal Remedies

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7 years ago

If the venerable Doctor Johnson was correct with his observation of Englishmen – that their first talk is always of the weather – it’s little wonder they never get beyond…

Catching Happiness

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7 years ago

What is it to be happy? A friend of mine back-ended a car in traffic. A rather dwarfish bloke with a white beard got out and angrily approached. “I’m not…

Death-defying!

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7 years ago

“Forever Young” by The Youth Group, was starting to do my head in. At first, I was haunted by its wistful melody, and because my boys liked it too, it…

World Game? Spare me!

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7 years ago

We met Belter Brogan in 2012 when he delivered the Inaugural Wacko Jacko Oration on the State of the Game. A recap: In 20 years of suburban footy, he racked…

Modern Maniacs

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7 years ago

Since Belter Brogan retired as a suburban football legend (20 years, 97 games, over 250 weeks of enforced holidays before Acquired Knuckle Injury forced him out of the game) he’s…

Sticking it to the Yanks

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7 years ago

We might be a nation of boofheads and bogans, but deep down, we’re really a pretty compassionate lot. We feel the pain of others. However, when it comes to feeling…

Bushwhacked

Articles, Community sport

7 years ago

“Get your hands off him ya dirty piece a ‘Rat shit”, spits a stout Stawell man. The Aararat player looks up sharply and gives him a savage finger, provoking another…

Going with the flow

Articles, Community sport

7 years ago

It begins at the historic Yarrawonga Weir with a blast from a Crimean War blunderbuss, a great puff of screeching sulphur-crested cockatoos, a churn of white water, and intense barracking…

In The Creek with The Croc

Articles, Sport

7 years ago

Getting to know Brad Beven is going to be easy. He’s a friendly bloke – and it’s not as though he could avoid anyone if he wasn’t. After arriving in…

Professional pugs

Articles, Community sport

7 years ago

Last Friday, sixteen men from Joe Cursio’s Fightfit gym in South Melbourne, almost all of them white-collar workers, became professional boxers for a day so they could square off against…

Wakool water

Articles, Community sport

7 years ago

The Wakool River is at last in full flow, but signs of the recent drought are defiant. Tired towns. Creeks like collapsed arteries. Weeds that only thrive in thirsty river…

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The Holy Trinity

Verbal Remedies

Catching Happiness

Death-defying!

World Game? Spare me!

Modern Maniacs

Sticking it to the Yanks

Bushwhacked

Going with the flow

In The Creek with The Croc

Professional pugs

Wakool water

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Catching Happiness

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World Game? Spare me!

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Sticking it to the Yanks

Bushwhacked

Going with the flow

In The Creek with The Croc

Professional pugs

Wakool water

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