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Throw it out!

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The day after MCC cricket law 41.5 was passed in September, Marnus Labuschagne of the Queensland Bulls broke it. The law states, “It is unfair for any fielder wilfully to…

The Holy Trinity

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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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…