Bernard Whimpress considers the manic appeal and its impact.
Bring Back the Place Kick
July 24, 2014 by 21 Comments
Bernard Whimpress recommends Mike Sexton’s reprint of the 1914 classic book “Football” by Dave McNamara. He laments that skill and quality has been replaced by speed and quantity in the modern game.
Tennis: The Big Four
January 26, 2014 by 10 Comments
Bernard Whimpress sums up the Big Four in contemporary world tennis. [Rather concisely and neatly – Ed]
Adelaide and Suburban Cricket
November 1, 2013 by 5 Comments
Bernard Whimpress offers a quick glimpse of yesterday’s Sheffield Shield match at Glenelg Oval. The first time top class cricket in South Australia has been played elsewhere than Adelaide Oval in 110 years.
SANFL Grand Final: Last Day at Football Park
October 7, 2013 by 22 Comments
Bernard Whimpress honours the passing of Football Park in Adelaide, after Sunday’s SANFL Grand Final. Memories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly that would fill a dozen spaghetti westerns.
Cricket: A semblance of order
August 8, 2013 by 9 Comments
Bernard Whimpress offers his thoughts on the Third Test and and selection curiosities.
The Clarke Captaincy revisited
July 20, 2013 by 9 Comments
Bernard Whimpress remains unconvinced by Clarke’s captaincy, in particular the constant bowling changes. Three and four-over spells does not enable the bowler to devise and implement a plan.
Lost footy ground
May 10, 2013 by 4 Comments
Bernard Whimpress stumbled upon a footy ground of a past era recently.
Rotation, rotation
April 23, 2013 by 10 Comments
Bernard Whimpress gives the national selectors something to think about before they choose their squad for the Ashes.
1878: Norwood Football Club’s First Year
March 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
Bernard Whimpress recounts the story of Norwood’s triumphant march to a first title against a background of fierce off-field disputes.
Third Test – Day 1: The proof is in the fruit-cake
December 1, 2012 by 8 Comments
Bernard Whimpress says that the so-called rotation approach where top cricketers are rested de-values Test cricket.
Second Test – Day 4: The Clarke Captaincy
November 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
As a fielding captain Michael Clarke first won points for being inventive and a lateral thinker. This summer he’s begun to lose them as he’s gone from being inventive to quirky to cutesy-pie, says Bernard Whimpress.
Second Test – Day 2: In Praise of Rest (Days)
November 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
Adelaide, 24 November 2012. After Australia’s flogging of the Proteas – they do sound like flower boys don’t they (rather like when the Hawks were Mayblooms) – to the tune of 5-482 on day one, a once-in-a-century experience, the sort of experience that has every ham cricket follower reaching for the end of the St [Read more]
SANFL Grand Final: Winning ugly
October 8, 2012 by 7 Comments
Bernard Whimpress says Norward fully deserved its 28th premiership as it had dominated the 2012 season in which it lost just two games during the minor round and it crushed West in both finals.
The Ian McKay mark: Sixty years on
October 5, 2012 by 25 Comments
Bernard Whimpress reflects on Ian McKay’s classic mark taken 60 years ago, and the skill necessary to capture the moment.
Eat up! Eat up! And play the game.
August 26, 2012 by 16 Comments
It was one of those nights when a few middle-aged blokes get together to talk about old times in sport. John was a new fellow to join the group and everyone’s eyes lit up when he said ‘I saw Bradman bat once’. John’s view of Bradman was when the Indians played a Test [Read more]
Saints March In, Coober Pedy Style
June 22, 2011 by 4 Comments
Will the Coober Pedy Saints march in with their first win of 2011? They look smart in their red, black and white strip. At least as smart as St Kilda look half the time. It’s the eighth round of the Far North Football League (FNFL) season so it’s been a piss-poor start. Hornridge, the [Read more]
‘Comment Wally May’
May 29, 2011 by 6 Comments
by Bernard Whimpress Wally May has died, aged 84. The man with the concise comment became an Adelaide television hero on a Sunday sports show of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and inspired a phrase which passed into popular idiom whenever authoritative comment was sought. I interviewed May when I was editor of the [Read more]
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