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kerryanndunn · 5 years

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What I read 📚📱🎧 in September 2019 with star ratings (out of five).

For the month of September I participated in the #readwhatyouown challenge. It was meant to encourage you to finally read those books that have been sitting too long on your shelves! I'm happy to say that 8 of these 12 (12!!!!) books met the challenge! The other 4 books were library books 😁. What was your favorite read this month?

⁣1. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins 🎧 - Glorious prose, layered and interesting story, breathtaking narration by the author.

2. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matilda by Roald Dahl 📚 - I love little Matilda and her book loving heart.

3. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 📚 - Modern, romantic, sexy as hell, and wonderful revisionist history. LOVED.

4. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 📱- An enjoyable journey to forgiveness and openness.

5. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds 🎧 - A funny, irreverent, and honest memoir.

6. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris 📚 - A unique and twisty murder mystery, but way too long.

7. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Pérez 📱- A lovely middle grade book about outsiders finding their people and community activism.

8. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 📚 - Fascinating historical fiction illuminating a piece of history I knew nothing about.

9. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Littler Women: A Modern Retelling by Laura Schaefer📚 - A delightful version of Little Women that littler women will fall in love with. There are recipes and craft ideas in it too!

10. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Frankly in Love by David Yoon 🎧 - Messy and honest and charming and sad and smart and hilarious and just so many things! I loved this book!

11. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 📚 - A charming delight. A must read for book and/or London lovers.

12. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 📚 - A magical, comfort re-read for me. One of my childhood favorites.

#books #reading #book reviews #audiobooks #library books

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New Post has been published on https://shovelnews.com/heads-must-roll-as-cheikas-wallabies-lose-against-wales-with-stupid-play/

Heads must roll as Cheika's Wallabies lose against Wales with stupid play

The problem with Michael Cheika’s Wallabies is not that they lost nine points to six to Wales at Cardiff.

The sequence of 13 successive Test wins against a formidable opponent like Wales is extremely hard to maintain. Moreover, Wales were playing at home and rather cunningly it seemed, left the roof of the Millennium Stadium open to make things difficult for the Wallabies ball-in-hand game as showers came down.

It is how the Wallabies lost, why they lost and the reaction of coach Cheika and the captain Michael Hooper to that loss that is a matter of urgent concern.

If you don’t identify why the loss happened, you will be condemned to repeating the mistakes that caused the loss to happen.

It’s imperative before the 2019 rugby season starts that heads must roll in the coaching staff of the Wallabies, in the playing squad and, just as importantly, within Rugby Australia with officials, starting with the board, through to the executives, and on to the coaching director.

The sandpaper ball tampering incident in a cricket Test between South Africa (at home) and Australia brought to a head all the problems associated with the leadership and culture of the Baggy Greens and of the officials involved with running cricket in Australia. This loss to Wales has done the same thing for the Wallabies and Rugby Australia.

Anyone with a modicum of rugby understanding watching the Test would see fundamental problems with the way the Wallabies play and the way the team is selected.

All the back moves, for instance, were launched metres behind the gain line. As well, the backs crabbed across the field in a way that telegraphed the attacking point for the Welsh defenders. Passers invariably turned towards the receivers in making their passes.

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The elementary principles of backline play in rugby going back over a 100 years (and once demonstrated by a golden line of fabulous Australian backs) are square shoulders taking the ball up to the line, drawing the defenders outside shoulder and playing close to the advantage line.

In rugby theory and practice, the team that wins the battle of the advantage line will win the game. And the best way to win the battle of the advantage line is to play as close to it as possible.

This ensures that collisions and tackles are made by the attacking side close to the advantage line ensuring that support at the ruck or for a break involves players going forward, not tracking back as the Wallabies did against Wales.

Coach Michael Cheika has worked with his number ten Bernard Foley and his inside centre Kurtley Beale for years. He has not been able to get them to play flat or square.

Bringing in Stephen Larkham, a superb running number 10 who played flat, has done nothing to straighten and flatten the Wallabies backline play. In fact, during the Test against Wales, the Wallabies backline seemed to play even deeper than usual.

Admittedly, Wales ran a defensive system that involved elements of rushing in it. But I can’t recall a significant line break made by the Wallabies. Moreover, there seemed to be no tactic, other than the occasional inside ball, to thwart the rush defence of Wales.

It is remarkable, too, that since the 2015 Rugby World Cup, coach Cheika has done nothing to develop a world class number ten to take over from Bernard Foley, who played his best rugby then and has been disappointing since.

Turning the spotlight on the forwards, we saw the Wallabies make crucial mistakes in lineouts and scrums, especially in attacking position, something that has dogged the side and led to its many losses this season.

The scrum problems relate to the technique or a lack of it from some of the front rowers.

The lineout problems relate squarely to the fact that the Wallabies are short of a lineout jumper when David Pocock and Michael Hooper, two natural (and shortish) number sevens, are playing. As a consequence, the Wallabies lost several crucial lineouts, something that has dogged the side, whoever is the hooker, throughout the season and again in this Test.

The fact of the matter is that Pocock and Hooper between them, but not separately, combine to make up a complete open side breakway.

Pocock is a terrific tackler and is world class as a jackal over the ball. He won three turnovers against Wales to two by Justin Tipuric his Welsh counterpart.

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Hooper is a strong and fast runner with the ball and plays with more bustling energy than Pocock.

Playing the two of them together, though, deprives the Wallabies of two other bigger loose forwards to take the ball up hard in the close quarters, make the really big tackles and be a viable lineout option to keep the opposition jumpers guessing.

Alan Jones, a successful Wallabies coach and one of the best selectors Australian rugby has had, always talks about the concept of “shape” when deciding who to select for a side.

The concept acknowledges that a great selector does not play his 15 best players. He selects the best players to play the various roles that the different positions on the field require to be filled.

The concept implies, too, that players should be picked where they play best.

These principles suggest, to me at least, that Pocock should be selected in his best position at number seven, the open side breakaway, and Hooper be selected as a reserve to come on when his energy and dash are required.

The further consequence of this thinking is that Hooper should not captain the Wallabies, even when Pocock is not available. The plain fact of the matter is that he can’t read a game and almost always in a crisis makes the wrong decision.

In the Wales Test, with the scoreline reading 3 – 3, and deep into the second half, he three times turned down kicks at goal.

The first time was a penalty from near halfway.

The second and third time the penalties were near enough to the 22 and eminently kickable.

All the penalties should have been attempted because it was clear at this stage in the Test that it was going to be a low scoring match.

Admittedly, Bernard Foley has a shortish range on his penalty kicks. But Kurtley Beale can boot them over from halfway and he should have been given a chance to convert the first penalty, at least.

After the Test, Hooper admitted that “I should have gone for goal … probably my reading of the game there was amiss with the fact it was going to come down to penalties in the end.”

I don’t believe this mea culpa.

Hooper generally goes for the 22, even when the match situation calls for a shot at goal.

Moreover, he called himself in the first lineout near the Welsh try line.

This play suggests to me that Cheika and Hooper had worked on a play that could, if it came off, strengthen their hand when the “Poopper” option is criticised.

As it happened, Hooper made the lineout catch. But he was not strong enough or big enough to withstand the Welsh forward surge. The surge forced the Wallabies, going backwards, to cough the ball up and the scoring chance was lost.

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Despite his obvious weaknesses as a player and a captain, Rugby Australia have signed Hooper up for another five years in Australian rugby.

This is a truly dumb decision.

To begin with, it is doubtful whether Hooper is even the second best Australian number seven.

David Pocock is clearly ahead of him. Sean McMahon is also, in my opinion, ahead of Hooper. And Liam Gill, now playing somewhere in France is probably the best of all the current Australian number 7s.

Now we come to Cheika’s bizarre comments after the Test that the loss had no bearing on the next World Cup, even though the Wallabies play Wales in a pool round match:

“I don’t think it has any (bearing), but everyone has a different opinion on that stuff. My opinion is when you get to the game (in the 2019 RWC tournament), no one is thinking about what happened ten years ago or one minute ago … All I can do is get the guys improving on the things we didn’t do well today.”

As Tom Decent in his Sydney Morning Herald report noted: “Australian fans are losing patience with a team that constantly talks about its grand plans but so often fails to come up trumps on the scoreboard.”

There was nothing good for the Wallabies that came out of the Test, either. As Decent also pointed out: “This was the fewest points Australia have scored against Wales since 1975 and the six points they chalked up is their lowest number since August 2012 against any team.”

Since the 2015 World Cup, the Wallabies have won 16 Tests from 40 starts. And as Tom Decent again notes: “This year the Wallabies have lost eight of their 11 matches. Their winning record of 27 per cent in 2018 is the worst in a calendar year since 1958, when ten matches or more were played.”

The lesson from this is not Cheika’s wildly optimistic read that “the scars you collect … are only going to help us.”

You don’t win the Webb Ellis trophy with a side with a 27 per cent winning record prior to the tournament.

Heads need to roll if the Wallabies are to have any chance of going beyond the quarter-finals in RWC 2019.

A clean out of the board and most of the executives of Rugby Australia is desperately needed. Like the Cricket Australia executives, they have failed their community, in this case the rugby community, with a self-indulgent and arrogant concern about matters outside of the interests of the rugby community.

Any board faced with the failed record of its main money-maker, the Wallabies, would clean out most of the people who helped create that failed Wallabies record, including Rod Kafer who is RA’s director of coaching.

This means, also, that attack coach Stephen Larkham, defence coach Nathan Grey and the forwards coach Simon Raiwalui should go at the end of this tour.

I would like to end this pessimistic column on a slightly positive note by offering these names as possible candidates to help turn things around in 2019.

Replace Kafer with Scott Johnson, currently helping to turn around Scotland.

Glen Ella, who has been overlooked time after time by Cheika (why?), has shown with his short time with England that he can get a backline fizzing. Ask the All Blacks about the questions posed by England’s backs during that titanic battle this weekend at Twickenham.

During the broadcast of the Wales – Australia Test, James Horwill, a former Wallabies captain and second-rower, was used to give an Australian perspective on the play.

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Horwill’s commentary was terrific. He explained in detail why the Wallabies scrum and lineout failed from time to time and why the various penalties at the breakdown were awarded against the visitors.

The contrast with this informed commentary and the nonsense about “the referee got it wrong” from Rod Kafer and Phil Kearns on Fox Sports broadcasts was illuminating.

Horwill should be brought into the Wallabies camp as a forwards coach, as soon as possible, or at least in the lead-up and during the RWC 2019 tournament.

Someone like Alan Jones or Rod Macqueen should be included in the Wallabies camp as a selector and adviser.

And why not bring in Jake White, a coach who knows how to win the Webb Ellis trophy, to help with tactics, processes and the management of the Wallabies squad leading up to and during the 2019 Cup.

Source: https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/11/12/heads-must-roll-as-cheikas-wallabies-lose-against-wales-with-stupid-play/

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Investor demand for TT Electronics (LSE: TTG) ripped higher in Wednesday trading after the firm released exciting news on a recent disposal.

The tech titan was last 11% higher after advising that it had hived off its Transportation Sensing and Control (or TS&C) division to US giant AVX Corporation for $118.8m on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The Woking firm advised that it will use the proceeds to cut debt and to fund capital investments and acquisitions to facilitate future growth.

Celebrating the deal, chief executive Richard Tyson commented that “this is an important step for TT. Having returned the TS&C Division to growth and profitability faster than expected, we believe it will be better positioned to achieve its full potential under the ownership of AVX.

“Following the disposal, TT will be a higher margin, higher quality business, with an improved geographic and market balance.” Tyson added that “we will continue to focus on structural growth markets where there is increasing electronic content.”

Broad approval

The news has been widely welcomed by those in the City. Harry Philips of Peel Hunt commented that “the disposal itself is not unexpected but the price is far better than the £65m we had in our model.”

He added that “[the deal] leaves net cash at around £50m, which is a terrific platform to build off and this represents relaunch of the company. The management team have done a great job and they will be strongly supported in the next phase of the company’s development.”

Meanwhile David Larkham of Numis advised that “the transaction will… materially improve the quality of earnings since operating margins in this division were particularly low at 1.3%.”

Strong trading

News of the disposal was not the only cause for cheer, however, with TT Electronics also putting out a short — but reassuring — commentary on current trading, the firm advising that the “pattern of trade across the remaining business has been good,” and that the “order book remains strongly ahead.”

The company’s decision to concentrate on structural growth markets with improving electronic content is clearly producing the goods, and prior to today’s results the City had been expected earnings improvements of 15% and 9% in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

I reckon the firm is worthy of serious attention, particularly given its very-unassuming current forward P/E ratio of 14.8 times.

Medical marvel

While Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN) may not be expected to generate eye-popping earnings growth in the near future — rises of 1% and 9% are anticipated in 2017 and 2018 — I am convinced profits should explode in the years ahead as rising healthcare investment across the globe powers demand for the company’s artificial joints and limbs.

The FTSE 100 giant has been pressured in recent times as demand from China has moderated and economic pressures in the Middle East weighed. But sales at the company seem to have picked up in 2017, and particularly in emerging territories (underlying sales growth in these regions returned to double-digits during January-March, rising 13%).

These figures underlined the huge potential of these highly-lucrative regions. And I believe the huge investment Smith & Nephew has made in growth arenas like sports medicine and robotics could also lay the base for stunning revenues growth in new and established markets alike.

I reckon Smith & Nephew’s slightly-heady forward P/E rating of 20.4 times is decent value given the company’s robust long-term outlook.

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The purpose of Stonehenge is a debatable mystery, some say it is a calendar, others a burial ground; while some engage in the possibility of aliens, fairies and conspiracy. It is the unknown and the mysterious that encourages this collective fantasy and draws people from all over the world to Stonehenge. For thousands year’s people have been able act freely within this space, and fully involve themselves in a true firsthand experience in an unmediated fashion. 1974 to 1984 Stonehenge became the venue of the annual Stonehenge free festival, which took place on the solstice as a continuation of pagan Neolithic British tradition as well as being at the forefront of the free festival movement. Allowing for the engagement of people within an atmosphere of creative collaboration, music, art and ritual practices from both druid community, the new age traveler movement, as well as locals and tourists alike. The event attracted tens of thousands of people each year, causing much concern and extensive debate in regards to the preservation of both the surrounding environment and the monument its self. In 1984 the department of environment handed the monument over to English Heritage. The following year the Stonehenge free festival was prevented from happening by police from six surrounding counties and the ministry of defense of whom inflicted their will through the application of brute physical force. An act of police brutality very similar to that of the miners strikes the year before. Witnesses speak of nonnegotiable physical violence, caravans/living vehicle’s being smashed and people being prevented from leaving the bean field that they had been forced into by police road blocks either side of the A303 in Wiltshire, making it impossible for anyone to move towards or even away from Stonehenge. ‘The battle of the bean field’ was used by the media to generate hysteria against the travelers, gypsies, and protesters paving the way for the 1986 public order act to which allows for the forceful eviction of two or more people under the grounds of unlawful trespass, this attack on civil liberties continued with the events of castle Morton common free festival which lead to the 1994 criminal justice act which replaced the 1968 caravan sites act resulting in the marginalization and criminalization of the entire gypsy and traveler culture. (Andy Warrington, guardian)

Fencing was set up in 1978 to decrease the impact of tourism. Museums, coffee shops and an entrance fee soon followed. Turning what once was a free open space into an object of a high arts to which people must pay to go and see but not fully experience. According to a study conducted by peter mason and I –Ling during the late summer and early autumn of 2003, 50% of people visiting Stonehenge did not make it past the visitors entrance but instead indulged themselves in the consumption of coffee and gifts from the shops or simply looked at the monument from the road and car park as to avoid the admission fee. Foucault’s ideas of a hyper reality seems somewhat relevant within this transition of conduct. ‘Becoming a theme park of your own history, long since ceased to be authentic’; ‘we are giving you the reproduction so that there is no need for the original’ (the nature of capital, Marx after Foucault). This privatization of Stonehenge speaks a lot in regards to our current state of our culture and the way in which we conduct ourselves and interact within a place.

‘The common responsibility to safeguard for future generations is recognized. It is our duty to hand them on in the full richness of their authenticity’ (UNESCO – 1COMOS 1964) It is the responsibility of the individual to act with consideration so the collective can benefit. Unfortunately not everybody thinks in this manner. People would take fragments of the stones as a souvenir, leave rubbish and act disrespectfully within the space yet many of the people visiting Stonehenge did not act in this way, yet their experience has become limited by the actions of the few.

But what is authenticity, what makes one object more valuable than another in terms of historical relevance, who decides what is important and how meanings in an object can contribute to the narrative that is human history? ‘Notions of heritage and authenticity seem to imply there is a deep rooted need for objects and places to be endowed with value, even if that value is entirely a scocio-phyco-cultural invention that is that objects and places have no intrinsic wroth other than the invisible quality, which a culture chooses to project upon it’ (David Littlefield). Our current perception of time is linear, archeologists look at history from an asymmetrical standpoint. The past is in the ground awaiting to be unearthed and the facts will be found through the art of reductionism, however David Littlefield’s ideas of symmetrical archeology considers the archeologist as an active creator of narrative and meaning, all of which is culturally determined. ‘The past and present hold a somewhat uneasy balance’ and therefore must find a way to coexist (David Littlefield). By restricting access to Stonehenge and mediating the way in which people act there we are suspending a moment in time In order to preserve it, and keep it authentic, but by doing this we are preventing the present from interacting with the past. ‘An objects presence in time and space, its unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence. This includes changes it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as the various changes in ownership.’- (Benjamin Walter, 1935) Perhaps the way people interact with Stonehenge is part of its history and by allowing a collaboration of past and present a new and exciting future can be created. ‘Negotiate a way through elusive notions of heritage and authenticity by appropriating the past as raw material for creative endeavors.’ (David Littlefield)

Bibliography

Jiven, Julia and Peter J Larkham. Sense Of Place, Authenticity And Character: A Commentary. 1st ed. Carfax Publishing, 2003. Web. 9 Mar. 2017.

Kuo, I-Ling and Peter Mason. Managing Megalithic Monuments: A Comparative Study Of Interpretation Provision At Stonehenge And Avebury. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Goodfellow Publishers Limited, 2017. Web. 8 Mar. 2017.

Leask, Anna. Managing World Heritage Sites. 1st ed. [Place of publication not identified]: Routledge, 2016. Print.

Littlefield, David. Heritage At The Periphery, The York Street Vaults, The Roman Baths, Bath. 1st ed. Bath: University of West England, 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2017.

Springfield, Herbert. The Ceremony At The Stones. Avebury: http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/henge-history-84.html, 1984. Print.

Marsden, Richard. The Nature Of Capital: Marx After Foucault. 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Print.

'The Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility. 2nd ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1936. Web. 7 Mar. 2017.

Walter, Benjamin. The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction. 1st ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1936. Web. 11 Mar. 2017.

Warrington, Andy. "Remembering the Battle Of The Benfield". Guardian 2009: 4. Web. 9 Mar. 2017.

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New Post has been published on https://shovelnews.com/hey-stupid-yeah-you-across-the-dutch-kiwi-scribe-lays-in-boot/

Hey stupid! Yeah, you across the dutch – Kiwi scribe lays in boot

Rattue goes on to list the latest salary cap scandal in the NRL – the 90th by his count, with no sign of abating.

Fair call? Chris Rattue sledged Michael Cheika, the cricket team and Nick Kyrgios among others.

Photo: Rugby.com.au, AAP, EPA

He looks at our erstwhile passions of summer: “The nation which produced legendary and respected tennis icons such as Rod Laver, Yvonne Goolagong and Margaret Court now comes up with knuckleheads like Nick Kyrgios and Bernard ‘the Tanker’ Tomic.”

Enough, already?

No, Chris had barely cleared his throat.

“As for cricket, there has never been a sadder more pathetic episode in sport than the sandpaper scandal in South Africa, the nadir for a team which had spun out of control on anger and arrogance.”

Perhaps, he might be kinder to the Wallabies?

Fault: Bernard Tomic is an enigma.

Photo: AP

“As for rugby . . . sophisticated, clever, that’s how the best of Australian rugby used to be. There were elegant leaders like John Eales and Rod Macqueen, and never-to-be-forgotten players such as David ‘Campo’ Campese, Mark Ella, Stephen Larkham and many more . . . What have we got now? Whinging Michael Cheika and a team which doesn’t know what it is about.”

He finishes: “Hey, if the once great Australian sports nation is determined to be a sporting laughing stock, it’s a free world.”

Too harsh? Too unbalanced? Too brutal?

Nuh.

Too shay.

But hey, at least we’re light years ahead of those Kiwis in politics, and are not infected by the same stupidity there.

Oh, wait!

Hopping to it

Good around the house: John Hopoate.

Photo: Fox Sports

As you will see in the quotes section, we have it on the sincere authority of Will Hopoate that his father John has another side: “If people saw him at home, they’d see mum is the real boss, she’s got him under the whip, vacuuming and doing the dishes.”

As one who’s had my fair share of goes at Hopoate Snr over the years, I am glad to hear it. In similar spirit, as one who has criticised Josh Dugan many times, and those who only go to children’s hospitals as the cameras roll, a reader sent me a story this week that showed another side.

It concerned his eleven year-old grandson Gabe Smith, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour and admitted to the Randwick Children’s Hospital, where Dugan came across him . . . and held on, going to see him many times thereafter, through all his many treatments and even into palliative care at Manly’s Bear Cottage, where he would stay for four hours at a time.

For yes, young Gabe tragically didn’t make it, and died in July. Dugan and his girlfriend attended the funeral at the Avoca Beach Surf Club and stayed for the wake.

So, there you go. Just as I struggle to put the public Hopoate I know of with the private figure described by his son, I can’t quite fathom that the Dugan described above is the troubled, swaggering bruiser we know – but accept that it is.

Still, if it turns out that Greg Norman has a humble side, that Shane Warne actually delights in Dosteovsky, and Nick Kyrgios is releasing a motivational lecture , I’ll give up!

Fat chance

Très drôle, as we say in the classics. The 53-year-old pro golfer from Michigan, Scott Parel, see, was asked at the end of the second round of the PGA senior tournament what he thought of his chances of winning.

“I think I have two chances – slim and none. And I think I just saw Slim heading out of town.”

It might be straining the metaphor a little, but Slim came back and tucked into the buffet something fierce, because he soon became Huge, and Parel shot 63 on the final round to win the whole thing.

Lunch date

As mentioned, this year’s Cauliflower Club lunch is at the Hyatt Regency on Sussex St on October 12, with special guests Wally Lewis, Michael O’Connor and Ricky Stuart on deck, and you can book at www.cauliflowerclub.org.au.

This week though, our Chair, John Fordham, secured a very interesting auction prize: a big lunch with all of Bob Dwyer, Alan Jones and Rod Macqueen.

Father’s Day

Reluctantly, I must accept that there is some chance that, for Father’s Day, some of you won’t be buying or getting my own latest book, Monash’s Masterpiece, the 93 Minutes That Changed the World. In that case (sniff), allow me to recommend Greg Growden’s The Wallabies At War, which looks at the stunning service of many Wallabies from the Boer War onwards, or Michael Visontay’s Beyond the Stereotype: A Celebration Of Jews In Australian Sport.

Both are, as you’d expect from two long-time Herald scribes, exceptionally well-written and chokka with good yarns.

In Growden’s book, my favourite is about the great Stan Bisset – a man I was proud to call a friend – who was decorated for his bravery on the Kokoda Track where, during the Battle of Isurava, his brother Butch was riddled with machine gun bullets. Stan carried Butch to a clearing, where he held his hand through the night, singing him songs from the old days, till he died just before dawn. Vale, great men.

Steve who?

Take a hike: All Blacks coach Steve Hansen.

Photo: AAP

Meantime?

Meantime, reader Michael Milgate reports that when about to head off on a hike along New Zealand’s spectacular Milford Track with his daughter last year, they were encouraged to have dinner the night before with other hikers. As dinner is being served, his daughter finds herself in the company of a group of charming strangers, one of whom is notably robust, resplendent in a black tracksuit, introduced as “Steve” but addressed by his companions as “Coach”.

“And what do you coach?”

“Rugby,” he replies.

“Oh, and is it a local team?”

“Have you heard of the All Blacks?”

Oh . . . pass the bread?

Short and sweet

The way forward for the Wallabies? Fitzphile Robert King has the answer! “In the same way T20 has rocked the cricket world,” he writes, “let’s push for a shorter version of the Bledisloe Cup. We will play the first 35 mins only, two-man lineouts and no scrums. I understand Lord Bledisloe died in 1958 so he can’t object.” That works!

What They Said

Lovely writing from Matthew Johns on the early days of Johnathan Thurston: “He first came to the Bulldogs in the mid-2000s and he looked like a rabbit trying to find a hole in a barbwire fence. He was a ducker and a darter . . .”

When ESPN commentator Brad Gilbert asked Nick Kygrios after the first round if all his carry-on was to get himself going, Kyrgios replied: “Not really. It keeps me relaxed.”

Tennis umpire Mo Lahyani to Nick Kyrgios during a break in the second round of the US Open, asks him to carry on with more purpose:

“I want to help you. I want to help you. I’ve seen your matches: you’re great for tennis. Nick, I know this is not you.” Kyrgios won nineteen of the next 25 games to win the match. There was hell to pay.

Helpng hand: Mo Lahyani and Nick Krygios. Illustration: John Shakespeare

Will Hopoate on his dad: “For most of my life I’ve seen the John Hopoate off the field, and that’s the man I respect and love as a father. The bloke you see on the field and off the field are two different blokes. If people saw him at home, they’d see mum is the real boss, she’s got him under the whip, vacuuming and doing the dishes.”

Venus Williams laughs at the prospect of playing her sister, Serena, in the American Open: “The last time we played, in Australia, it was two against one. At least this time it’s fair.” On that occasion, at the 2017 Australian Open, Serena was pregnant.

Barry Hall: “I got no income, and there’s no real light at the end of the tunnel of when that will change or when that will be. So it’s a big cock-up.”

Collingwood President Eddie McGuire on another Pies player testing positive: “The last person to find out anything to do with drugs is the club itself. It’s an AFL issue. They have control of everything that goes, as far as the testing is concerned. In fact, as the president of the club I’m not even allowed to ask about these situations.”

Carlton coach Brendon Bolton on the upside of having won two games for twenty losses this season: “In some time we’ll look back and say this time paid us back.” Sure you will, Coach.

Wayne Bennett following the Roosters game: “I could make a headline easily, but I won’t tonight. I’ll leave you with this guys, you’re all journalists here, you see what I see, why don’t you write the stories?”

Eels coach Brad Arthur on the wooden spoon, after his side lost 44-6 to the Cowboys last Friday: “At the end of the day, I’m in charge. Someone has got to claim responsibility, that’s me. I feel a sense that I’ve let people down. It’s just embarrassing. I have to face up to it, I can’t run and hide from it.” Coach? Look to the blokes laughing and joking within seconds of being on the wrong end of a 40-point drubbing – and wipe them. Start with Jarryd Hayne, who was doing precisely that.

Gus Gould: “Sunday afternoon at Jubilee Oval. One of the great pleasures of life.” Andrew Johns: “Gus, you’ve gotta get out more.”

Team of the Week

Fond farewell: Thurston waves goodbye to the Cowboys home crowd last week.

Photo: AAP

Johnathan Thurston Plays the final match of his extraordinary 17-year career tonight, against the Gold Coast Titans.

Richmond and Hawthorn How very odd. Between them they have won 24 Premiership flags and yet next Thursday, for the first time, they contest a finals match.

Argentina Pumas Snapped an 11-match losing streak in the Rugby Championship by beating South Africa.

Sunshine Coast Lightning Gone back to back to claim their second Super Netball title. So I suppose it does strike twice!

The second annual Chappell Foundation Golf Day To raise money for the homeless, it will be held on Tuesday September 11 at the spectacular NSW Golf Club, La Perouse.

Italy Has just banned all advertising for gambling, most particularly including sponsorships of sporting teams. Watch this space!

Caloundra Won their first rugby grand final since their foundation in 1982, beating Noosa.

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Peter FitzSimons is a Herald journalist, columnist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.