Eyes on grand final spots for local teams
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‘Tis the season to be jolly. Bit early for Christmas On the Pulse will admit, but this season is shaping up as a pretty good one for the majority of football codes.
We’re at the serious end and grand final spots are now up for grabs.
The Hawks with their Kiwis seem to be travelling well in the League, the Saints seem to be set to strike in the AFL and the Joeys have a reasonable chance of hopping into a soccer grand final.
Admittedly it will only take one lost game to end their hopes, but hey, On the Pulse is backing our boys all the way.
We are so confident that we’re willing to build an On the Pulse trophy cabinet, to cater for any overflow of cups, ribbons and certificates that this season may bring.
There are a couple of problems though (isn’t there always?).
At the risk of placing the proverbial cart before the horse, On the Pulse can foresee a few problems, should all three codes take out their respective grand finals.
You see, that’s a lot of celebrating by a lot of young, fit, exuberant footballers.
No doubt, some ‘unfortunate’ sports journalist would have to cover those celebrations, and there you have it.
On the Pulse has seen this situation before and rest assured, dear reader, witnessing a sports journalist completely lose two weeks of their life, amid late night celebrations and Berocca fuelled mornings is not a pretty sight.
Then again, it is a tough job and someone has to do it.
Wacka’s whistlestop tour of Byron Bay
On the Pulse was most interested, if a little bit puzzled, to recently receive a PDF copy of page 12 of The Byron Shire Echo’s August 19, 2014 edition.
Head scratching turned to suspicion when On the Pulse noticed it had been sent to us by Hans Lovejoy, the editor of The Byron Bay Echo.
The Echo has absolutely nothing to do with Fairfax Media (publisher of The Inverell Times), but their email had been checked by our anti-virus software so we decided to throw caution to the wind and open it.
The big article on the page was about Inverell’s Senator John Williams.
The headline was ‘I don’t put a lot of faith in economists’ and below that, the summary read: “Team Australia is in real trouble so we must get those unemployed working, said Nationals federal senator John Williams on his whistlestop tour last week.”
Of course, an independent review of John’s whistlestopping caught On the Pulse’s eye, so we read on eagerly.
However, the article revealed few rewards for Wacka. For some reason it found it necessary to define ‘Truthiness’ as arguing ‘from the gut’ or because it ‘feels right’, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination or the facts.
Their article went on to read: “Dear God, I am thinking at this point, these are the adults in charge and have no f@#&ing idea.”
Then: “All people like Williams will lose from this budget proposal is a few bottles of 1952 Grange Hermitage from an air conditioned cellar.”
It continued: “He interrupts again and changes the subject back to his favourite subject – himself.”
Ouch.
Cripes that Echo article left On the Pulse’s eyes watering.
And Pulse was actually thankful for the editor’s note at its end.
It wished Mungo McCullum a speedy recovery.
Damage could have been far worse for Team Australia had Mungo been on the field, although he probably wouldn’t have mistakenly tagged Liberal senator Bill Heffernan as a National, as the Echo did.
It was a busy week for our ambulance service
On the Pulse sends a big hello to our new friend, Kristie Carter.
Kristie is Director – Marketing & Media at the Ambulance Service of NSW.