When Phantom hears of an appeal by the Ulverstone footy club against the result of the 1975 grand final result, he heads straight to the oracle of the Wynyard Footy Club to put his mind at ease.
A bus ride home
September 28, 2012 by 10 Comments
The boys have done the business. After 33 barren, and disappointing years, the Wynyard Cats have come from the wilderness and done the business, snaring this year’s Northern Tassie premiership, reports Bill Walker.
Almanackers do Wynyard while Tigers do Saints
June 5, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Yvette Wroby The Journey: Getting onto a small REX airline 30 seater plane at Tullamarine was a relief after a big week of helping my eldest daughter shift into her flat. Being super mum to three kids meant that a weekend away made the before and after very busy. But once I’m on [Read more]
Weekend at Burnie’s Neighbour (Wynyard)
June 5, 2012 by 10 Comments
Five brave blokes, and two even braver women, met up at Melbourne Airport last Friday morning with one aim in mind. To cross the ditch between Victoria and Tasmania, and track down a legendary beast said to have roamed Van Diemen’s Land for many a long year but which hadn’t been seen for almost as [Read more]
Loose Thylacines Everywhere
June 5, 2012 by 18 Comments
Last Friday night we were driving back to Bill (The Phantom) Walker’s weekend shack in the Rocky Cape National Park on the northwest coast of Tasmania. It was about 9.15pm. We’d been to the Tasmanian launch of the 2011 Footy Almanac at the Wynyard Football Club and were taking things easy, this being our first [Read more]
Tasmanian launch – 2011 Footy Almanac
June 5, 2012 by 13 Comments
Local legend Max Brown chats with John Harms at the Wynyard footy club rooms. Dips and Pamela Sherpa selling truck loads of books to the Wynyard crowd. The Alamanac touring party at the local footy oval. Wynyard gets up – and didn’t they need the win.
Will this be Wynyard’s year?
May 3, 2012 by 7 Comments
Round 1 – Wynyard vs Smithton First game day is always exciting. There is a gnawing feeling inside and no matter what has happened in the past you believe that this could be your year. The only problem with that is that all the other club’s connections have the same feeling. I had changed my [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick (Part 3)
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Bill Walker Sword Sharpening Christmas is coming, players all get fat; first run in the New Year they’re all well tanned, but flat. No such problem this year at Wynyard. Shannon and his bench coach Dan Smith had got them onto the track in mid November. The young recruits were like [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick: Part 2
April 20, 2012 by 11 Comments
By Bill Walker Summer Sojourn The summer break is always a challenging time for small footy clubs. The game day business is finished but book balancing is daunting, annual dinner and AGM loom and coaching review and recruitment are pivotal to player recruitment. Every aspect of our club’s administration is undertaken by volunteers. They [Read more]
Twelve Months on a Pogo Stick
April 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Bill Walker Preamble Wynyard is a sleepy little seaside town on the North West Coast of Tasmania. It has three pubs, one set of traffic lights, an annual tulip festival, an airport, basketball, cricket and footy clubs, a writers group whose leader is aspiring to Colleen McCulloch dizzy heights, numerous stray cats and [Read more]
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