Dockers travel with too many passengers.

Amazing evening; 24 degrees, slight breeze Back to the scene of Australia’s biggest Olympic moment; Stadium Australia/Tel$tra Stadium, where in 2000 Cathy Freeman coolly won the Women’s 400m Olympic title. On that night I was one of 90,000 people. This night we had 62000 people streaming in, a rock band playing and the stadium and colonnades illuminated in Metal halide and Neon lights. It was a site to behold. That night ended in jubilation, this night would end in frustration and disappointment.






























































Crappy stitch job. I aint got the energy to clean it up.
There are plenty of match reports around so I am not going to bother with that. I will say this ; The Captain Peter Bell played like a giant, the giant Aaron Sandilands played like a colossus and the Big Pav well he played like he always does; like 10 men.

That however is where it ended. The rest of the team were overwhelmed and were not up to the task. They had a crack but Sydney played like demons, their ability to grind down the play and then take it out of the stoppages was awesome. While the footy was not attractive you had to admire their ability. Barry Hall was on fire, If Sydney did not have him and his 36 points we would have been in the game. However they did have him and we had no one who could stop him, not Parker not Macpharlin and not Grover who was watching from the stands.
We were in the game till the end of the 3rd quarter then Sydney ramped up and we ramped down.

Other blokes that deserve a special mention were ; Des Headland this bloke needs a kick in the ass from further back than full back, he is a pretender on the night and only showed up for the track suit. Ryan Murphy could not get in the game at all and was a big disappointment. Byron Schammer continued his season from hell.
The back line was under siege all night and had none of the required rebound. Mundy was looking like a bloke who pulled a dead body over his head in Platoon and waits for the battle to end then comes up for air; take a long hard look at yourself mate. Johnson and Hayden tried hard but were sole hands down back. MacPharlin and Parker were outclassed in nights they will want to forget.

The midfield is our weak link. We need to desperately trade to get some spine in there. Josh Car and Belly were good but they were lone hands in an area where Sydney controlled the game. Sandilands centre tap wins were sharked with ease. Cooky and MacManus tried hard but where not up to the standard required on this night. Heat Black was tagged out of the match as was Peak. Mathew Car was doing the job on Goodes but was injured at half time and did not come back on. This left the job to Crowley who did OK.

Up forward Pav was great, Jeff Farmer went missing and had one goal and a few possessions for the night when his team desperately needed him to fire.

There were others who kind of got lost like Webster, you kind of saw glimpses and that was it.

Kick in the guts on the night, 2006 was pulled from the fire at the half way point in the year and I was happy about that hopefully this was a learning experience for the younger blokes and a reality check for others. Would someone give us back whatever we gave up for Headland? At the moment he is a dog that needs taking out the back and shooting.

The Women in Black.

Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice Drablow lived - and died - alone. Young Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is ordered by his firm's senior partner to travel up from London to attend her funeral and then sort out all her papers. His task is a lonely one, and at first Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows. He only has a terrible sense of unease. And then, he glimpses a young woman with a wasted face, dressed all in black, at the back of the church during Mrs Drablow's funeral, and later, in the graveyard to one side of Eel Marsh House. Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions, but the locals not only cannot or will not give him answers - they refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence, at all. So, Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again, and she slowly reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose.
Coming to Perth theatre.
Got the DVD coming from Amazon.

The Devil at Your Heels.

I have been trying to find this docco for years. An absoloute classic.

Go East young man!

We got a green light lets get it on!