This afternoon I listened to 2UE and former referee, Col Pearce’s description of the rugby league match between the Manly-Warringah ‘Sea Eagles’ and the Western Suburbs ‘Magpies’. It was played at the former’s home ground of Brookvale Oval and the score was locked at two all at half-time. Western Suburbs lost its half-back, Tommy Raudonikis, to injury in the second half before Manly-Warringah emerged victorious by fifteen points to four.
I washed the brush and roller under the tap in the backyard by five o’clock prior to embarking upon a walk that, by my calculations, brought up one hundred and sixty-six miles in my effort to reduce my blood’s potentially lethal level of cholesterol.
“Seven’s Big League”, between 6.30 and half past seven, features a full replay of this afternoon’s clash from Brookvale. Channel Nine then screened an edited account of this afternoon’s match in the Rugby League World Cup, which was played in Christchurch. Great Britain led by ten points to seven at half-time before it asserted its dominance in the second half to convincingly defeat New Zealand by thirty points to twelve. We stayed on Channel Nine to view the British motion picture comedy, “Dad’s Army”, which is set during the Second World War. Produced in 1972, the film is an adjunct to the popular television series of the same name, and focuses upon the antics of the part-time volunteers within Britain’s Home Guard which is supposedly the last line of defence against the Germans, should they set foot on home soil.