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I don't know if it is an unpopular opinion, but does anyone think that AFL season 2024 to date has been crap? Sure there have been a couple of good games this season like Carlton and Adelaide, Geelong and Hawthorn and Carlton and GWS, but there have been so many games that have been...

I think the Cats early good form will count for little in the end, and that the aging Geelong team of 2024 will go a similar way to North Melbourne in 2016. The Kangaroos won their first 9 matches of the season and were 10-1 and miles on top of the ladder at the midway point. They finished...

Back in the early 1990s, the jumpers worn by the North Sydney Bears and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters at the time used to clash pretty badly IIRC.

Hill had an unusual career in terms of the teams he played with. He played initially with South Sydney Rabbitohs, then to the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, the Western Suburbs Magpies, the Manly Sea Eagles, Wests Tigers and back to Manly for a final season in 2005. So he played for a South, West...

American actress Frances Lee McCain has played the mother and grandmother of a number of well-known characters in some very famous movies: Footloose (1984) - Mother of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) Gremlins (1984) - Mother of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) Back to the Future (1985) - Mother of...

Thanksgiving (2023) - Directed by Eli Roth, this slasher comedy is similar to the Scream movies or going back some years, the now largely forgotten 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' movies from the late 1990s but has plenty of original ideas of its own and no shortage of action, thrills and...

My bad, what I had meant to say was that Cleopatra was born closer to today than when the Pyramids were constructed (around 3200 BC). Although I had thought Tutankhamen's short lifespan was years earlier than it was. Here's another interesting one; earlier this week (15 April) it was the...

I've mentioned interesting cases of 'Dawsons Creek Casting' in the past, movies and TV shows where adults well into their 20s (and on some occasions into their 30s) play teenagers attending high school. Sometimes you see a case where actors in their early 20s are portraying teenagers, but among...

I love trivia like this. For example, for years I thought that trilobites swam around happily in the warm seas and other water courses when the dinosaurs were around. But as it turns out, the trilobites were long gone before even the earliest dinosaurs, and in fact more time passed between...

While the Woodstock music festival of 1969 became a legend, other music festivals over the years have become mired in infamy. Woodstock 99 which descended into anarchy that year and the Fyre Festival in 2017 are well known debacles, and another failed music festival now forgotten through the...

When I looked at Wikipedia's deaths page this morning I thought that one of the Doctor Who actors had died out of sequence, and that fit and healthy grandfather Peter Davison had passed away at age 73 before the extremely frail 90-year-old Tom Baker, however it was actually Peter Davidson a...

NEWS HEADLINES FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 2116: Melbourne, Australia - The Essendon Bombers win their first final in 112 years, beating the New Zealand Rams at the MCG 17.10-112 to 14.16-100 in an Elimination Final and earning a First Semi Final position against the Canberra Kangaroos the...

Another amazing one emerged last year, Titan submersible captain Stockton Rush's wife (now widow) is the great, great granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Strauss, both of whom died on the Titanic in 1912.

One of the stranger Titanic stories was that of Douglas Spedden, the little boy photographed playing with a spinning top on the ship's decks. He survived the sinking (sleeping through most of it) but by age 8 in 1915 he would be dead, hit and killed by an automobile in Maine, that state's first...

Essendon has some odd links to the Titanic. It won the premiership in 1911 (Titanic launched), in 1912 (Titanic sank) and in 1985 (wreck found). Essendon Association were also VFA premiers in 1911 and 1912. Doctor Robert Ballard the oceanographer who discovered Titanic's wreckage was born...

Kirsten Dunst played the lead female role in the 2005 movie 'Elizabethtown' but her character in the movie was not named Elizabeth, but Claire. in her long career Kirsten has never played a character directly named Elizabeth, but in three movies she has played characters who have names that...

OJ Simpson's death got me thinking about how many of The Towering Inferno cast members are still alive. While as to be expected for a 1974 movie many of the cast have since passed away, a reasonable number are still with us including Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Susan Blakely, Robert...

In 1995, there were a number of competitions that finished with the minor premier's win/loss record being the inverse of that of the wooden spoon as follows: AFL - Carlton 20-2, Fitzroy 2-20 WAFL - Subiaco 19-2, Swan Districts 2-19 TAC Cup U 18's - Eastern Ranges 16-2, Tasmania 2-16 ARL - Manly...

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry aged 87, R & B and early Rock and Roll singer from the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1990s there was Geelong's Michael Mansfield who played for the Cats from 1990-1999, before transferring to Carlton and playing for the Blues for three seasons from 2000-2002. Also in the 1990s there was a Matthew Manfield, who played for Fitzroy in 1995 and 1996, Richmond in 1997 and...

Directors have all sorts of interesting quirks, and one of the most interesting ones was from Alfred Hitchcock, who apparently loved casting left-handed actresses in his movies. Kim Novack, Tippi Hedren and Eva Marie Saint among others are/were all left handed, and apparently Grace Kelly played...

Maybe we should ask 1950s American music group The Platters for their opinion?

Two deaths from 4th April: English children's writer Lynne Reid Banks aged 94, author of the popular 'Indian in the Cupboard' book series in the 1980s. Australian Rugby League player Bob Lanigan aged 81, played for Newtown Jets in the 1960s, coached at various clubs in New South Wales and...

This year has been understandably very disappointing for the Adelaide Crows, but while I would be concerned if I was part of the club I wouldn't be hitting the panic button just yet. Sometimes rebuilding teams do have a stumble one season as part of this process before getting back on track the...

Kangaroos fans obviously weren't very happy about the 70-point thrashing handed out by the Brisbane Lions at Norwood, but I (and no doubt many other accountants) very much liked the final scores of Brisbane 16.16-112 d. North Melbourne 6.6-42, a margin of 10.10-70 like perfectly balanced debits...

Minus 14 points for anyone who had Juan Vincente Perez of Venezuela, who died on 2nd April at the astonishing age of 114. The oldest man in the world until his passing, his date of birth was 27-May-1909 and he was the last verified male born prior to 1910.

John Worsfold is another coach with a premiership and two wooden spoons. He coached the West Coast Eagles to the 2006 premiership and was coach of the Eagles and of Essendon when these teams were wooden-spooner in 2010 and 2016 respectively.

American actress Barbara Rush at age 97. She had a long career from the early 1950s to the late 2000s in movies and television as well as on stage. Her breakout role was in the 1953 science fiction film 'It Came From Outer Space'.

2024 Coaching Changes at all 18 AFL Clubs: Adelaide Crows - Matthew Nicks dismissed at end of season as Crows rebuild stalls mid-ladder. Brisbane Lions - After becoming the latest side to miss the finals albeit narrowly after finishing runner-up the previous season, Chris Fagan is replaced at...

In the case of West Coast, even promoting one of the assistant coaches to caretaker coach for the rest of the year and seeing how things go surely couldn't be any worse than the status quo? He at the very least could provide some new ideas and directions to the young Eagles players.