Monday, February 25, 2019

Sporting shorts - Feb 25

It’s now the end of February which means that it is almost time for the football season to start.  The Women’s AFL Season has already started for the year. We’ve seen four games for the year, the Kangaroos (debuting this year), are sitting 3-1 and leading their pool. The other pool sees Geelong and Brisbane level with two wins each.
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I’d love to see Geelong win, given Sydney don't have a team.

Onto the Men’s competition. I find the pre-season hard to gauge a teams’s  form.  AFL – X is not really close enough to the normal game, and when we had night time premiers the form line rarely held in to the regular season. Time will tell though. I’d love to see see a pre-season competition, though I understand the risks involved; which to be fair, are involved.

So, with very high risk for egg ending up on my face here is my top eight predictions:

1 ROOSTERS
2 RABBTIHOHS
3 BRONCOS
4 PANTHERS
5 SHARKS
6 KNIGHTS
7 DRAGONS
8 RAIDERS

The team most likely to upset my tips is the Melboure Storm or the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs

And for the AFL

1. RICHMOND
2. MELBOURNE
3. KANGAROOS
4. HAWKS
5. BOMBERS
6. CROWS
7. EAGLES
8. CATS

The team most likely to upset my tips is the Western Bulldogs or Port Adelaide.

Again, let me just say I’m not totally sold on my selection. It is the joy of sport, anyone can and often does win, on the day.

On to the big Big Bash – next year I am keen to see the competition run half the time a game played each night until Saturday and Sundays where there are two games.

Thursday, February 07, 2019

What I've been in to February

So, have I been in to over January. I've been in to a range of different things.

Books
Thinking  about books - I have not really been into to much. I have been meaning to read Julia Gilard's My Life; Hilary Clinton's Happened. At the moment I've also been quiet tired so I have not really been able to read much.

TV
On the Television front, I have tried to watch a bit more. This month I've watched David Attenborough's The Planet and The Planet Two. It is a really wonderful series. Showing now awe-inspiring the planet really is.

Other than the documentaries I watched the thriller 'You' and a recording of Bruce Springsteen's musical 'Springsteeen'. I really loved how he told his stories through songs.

Springsteen is a great story teller and I just love listening to him speak.

You was very different. It was a thriller, and creepy to watch. The premise of the show is the book store employee who finds a customer  attractive and then plays 'God' in following her so
he can date her (in the mean-time criticising her choices as being needy or crying out). I certainly felt uncomfortable in the lead actor's shoes).

Will try and watch a little more TV this month.

Music
Not a lot of music news - I'm enjoying listening the Rescues new song 'Hold On'. Other new songs this month have been by Radiohead, The Killers, Glen Hansard and Sarah Masen.

The Killers song is their first overtly politiacal tune. Hoping that new music means the bands will hit the road...

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Sporting sports


Doing a little more of a sporting update, The highlight of the weekend so far has been the start of the Womens’ AFL Season the opening game is now 23-23 between the Magpies and Geelong Cats with about 7 minutes to go. Looks like it will be a great season if that star is anything to go by. I thnk Geelong ended-up winning a really tight one. 

It is easy to get fatigue of the Big Bah, when you don’t know where and when the games are played or how many are left.

Back  in to the Test Series  and hardy surprising that Australia is in a fairly dominate position. Would be intrigued in that stats surrounding enforcing the follow-on. Not so log along it seemed that you did enforce the follow on whenever you got the chance, but Australia didn't this time, and it certainly didn'r hurt them.