Jan 27 2009
Australia Day Sporting Weekend
Instead of sooking about the treatment of our national flag by ‘the public’ I thought I would concentrate on the more important tradition of the Australia day long weekend, the Sport.
The traditional one-day game however turned out to be a sore point with Australia’s dismal summer continuing in bucket loads. Much to my surprise and against earlier rants about my boredom watching 50/50 over games, the inclusion of new power plays has improved the excitement stakes. The excitement level did not increase Australia’s ability to win with the South Africans giving us the flogging of a lifetime. I agree with most of Peter Roebucks stinging indictment against the Australian batting order this morning. However his ‘pass’ for David Warner is still not warranted in my opinion.
On a personal note we started a new yearly tradition for Australia day ourselves. The first annual old blokes versus the young blokes cricket match took place on a turf pitch at a suburban Brisbane cricket oval on Sunday. After much sledging and slogging the match drew to an inevitable draw in the evening light. A most enjoyable day except for the clear lack of preparation by me for the days festivities. I look forward to an opportunity to play next year with the hope that preparation will equal an even more enjoyable day. One wicket and 20 runs is below what I would expect from myself. Cheers to the Freckly Kid and Reecey ‘the tragic Snap Dragon’ for organising both teams and to the Freckly Kid again for the BBQ spread he put on after the game. Lots of laughs and giggles makes for a great Australia Day tradition in my opinion.
In Boxing
Sugar Shane Moserly did exactly what I thought he would and dominated Antonio Margarito in a one sided affair on Sunday. In the ninth round kid Sugar put the Mexican on his clacker for the third and final time resulting in a tidy return for yours truly.
In keeping with tidy returns…
El Segundo was back without much fanfare on Friday night but he did come home pretty well. Light Fantastic was a much better run and I will be keeping ‘the Fantastic’ in my stables through the Autumn. Another bit of excitement occurred for me yesterday with a horse in Western Australia bobbing up at the juicy odds of 39.90 the win. A blind bet based on the name of the horse could not have turned out better for me! KENNEDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mixed Martial Arts
Russian heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko won yet again in sensational fashion on Sunday with a stunning mid air knock out of Belarusian power house Andrei Arlovski. The first time I saw it, I though Arlovski had jumped in the air and just landed on his face but after a replay it was clear what had occurred, Fedor had knocked Arlovski the hell out! Brutal, watch it here.
I have been trying too get some of me mates to play cricket on Australia day too. It is nearly impossible due too everyone having bar b qs planned out and other things.
It is a shame that some of the racist behaviour by some of those young surfer types keeps occurring on Australia day. It really tarnishes the holiday in my opinion.
That k.o. was certainly impressive. Did he land on his face?
You need your bloody head read Rob. As if calling them ‘those surfer types’ isn’t a type of socialism which in my book is just as bad as racism. Wake up sunshine.