AT: Little bit of gossip this week about Warrnambool footy side Old Collegians wanting to play on Good Friday next year.
TA: They would get a huge crowd. First game of the season and there's little to do on that day.
AT: I understand there was a Good Friday game a couple of years ago in Ballarat. Obviously the club served fish, pies were off the menu and the clubs involved were sensitive to community concerns. There could even be a donation made to the Royal Children's Hospital appeal and I don't think there would be too many people against the concept.
TA: Appears Penshurst's Grant Ewing might have taken his phone off the hook. Sources say every club in the region has been chasing his services for the 2010 season.
AT: Who will Ewing play for next season?
TA: Hot favourite at this stage is Timboon but we'll have to wait and see. I think you might find that Old Collegians is close to signing three players from other clubs and Koroit might have picked up a bloke who wears a blue uniform.
AT: Well the big whisper this week is that former Norm Smith medallist Byron Pickett is a rough chance to play for Deakin University through his personal trainer Rude Ryan. I hear that Rude might have a bit of work to get Byron down to his playing weight as the former AFL enforcer has ballooned out to about 120kg.
TA: You upset Brian Hancock from Brian O'Halloran Real Estate the other week when you said Maddens Lawyers had purchased the old Wannon Water offices on the corner of Koroit and Kepler streets the other week. Appears Hancock is selling the property and it will be sold by expressions of interest.
AT: I talked to the big man on the punt Gerard Daffy this week. Sportsalive.com got a bit of touch-up with Tigers Woods winning the golf in Australia a couple of weeks ago after the experts said the world No. 1 would struggle on the sand belt course. Daff was very interested in the future of jumps racing. He said he had talked to 20 people this week, many who haven't been to May in a long time, who are all coming to the carnival next year. The May races will be huge next year the only problem is that it may be the last jumps carnival.
TA: The boys from the Warrnambool Latte Group that ventured over to New Zealand for the week have got back safe and sound.
AT: That's the group which donates a lot of money Vantage each year. What did they get up to over there?
TA: Robert King, Kevin Chiller, Eric Read, Simon Crisp, Clark Smock, Peter Menther and Brendan Pendergast made the trip to the land of the long white cloud to take part in the annual Lake Taupo bike ride. The ride is over 160 kms, more than 11,500 riders rode in the one-day event.
AT: I'll bet you there would be plenty of stories they could tell after the week away.
TA: You know the story what happens on the trip stays on the trip. The only information which I've gleaned is they celebrated Clark Smock's 60th birthday long and hard for a few days.
AT: Warrnambool detective Matt ''Smokey'' Laxton is copping heaps from his work colleagues after an over-enthusiastic effort when officers executed a warrant at 6am on Thursday. Matt was in charge of forcing the front door. The plan was a quick tap and get out of the way, but Matt was a little bit keen and the door finished up swinging like one of those old bar doors in a western. Smokey then did a little bit of stumblin' in and finished up sprawled over the lounge room before back-up arrived.
TA: One very special birthday this week with Kermond's snack bar celebrating its 60th birthday on Tuesday. We should share a hamburger as a tribute.
AT: I heard a couple of interesting boating tales of woe this week. I'm told East Warrnambool footy club president Shane Keogh managed to put his boat through the back window of his car and Robert Rentsch had a mishap down at the breakwater boat ramp when a wave washed through his new car which last I heard was no longer starting.
TA: Anything else?
AT: I didn't want to mention it because the lad has copped a hiding this week, but it was reporter Alex Sinnott's 21st birthday last weekend. I'm told it was a huge night and everyone in Yambuk has been eating the left-over cake this week. The young man with the booming Peter Harvey voice, who will compere Yambuk's carols by candlelight on December 20, was snapped in some peculiar dance poses. He could be a potential Dancing With The Stars candidate. Until next week, hooroo.
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