ST JOSEPH’S College’s 1st XVIII travelled to Ballarat for a pre-season match against St Patrick’s College to kickstart the school footy season.
The Joeys boys must have been so eager to play that they forgot their SJC jumpers, suffering the ignominy of playing in St Patrick’s training jerseys.
To make matters worse, the Joeys boys lost by 84 points to complete an altogether forgettable day.
A LONG lunchtime queue formed outside a major fast-food outlet in central Geelong when the kitchen ran out a staple item.
No, it wasn’t chicken, it was bacon, a key ingredient in two products the chain was marketing heavily.
Unfortunately, customers weren’t told about the eight-minute wait before paying for their orders.
Kinda took the ‘fast’ out of fast food.
WELL-INTENTIONED it may be but David Koch’s suggestion Ford workers could find new careers processing abalone left some unimpressed.
The Indy reported last week that Mr Koch, a Liberal state upper house MP, thought the pending expansion of an Indented Head abalone farm could provide departing Ford staff with opportunities “due to their manufacturing experience”.
At the Indy’s website, commenter Nathan did the numbers, calculating that 15 new positions don’t go into 800 lost jobs.
“Yep, two thumbs up there, David Koch,” Nathan wrote.
Clearly he thought Mr Koch was speaking (a)baloney.
KUDOS to Jo-Anne Giuffre for her faith in one-armed bandits, viz, one-cent pokies.
Who says they’re not worth playing? Certainly not Jo-Anne, who was rewarded for championing the bottom-feeder with a tidy $1000 at the local pub.
Evidently, it’s her shout this weekend for Spanish donuts – with chocolate dipping sauce.
Go Jo!
A GROUP of sponsors and coterie members sat quietly watching this week as Cats players filed out for a training session.
As is their wont, some of the players enjoy a jocular relationship with media identities they encounter regularly.
Indy photographer Reg Ryan good-naturedly snapped off a few shots of a prominent player still preparing for the session. Unaware of the audience, he smilingly responded by giving Reg a pair of birds.
Perhaps he was referring to beating the Magpies last round and facing the Eagles this weekend.
