development

Family or Community?

How many sports refer to their participants, officials and supporters as being a part of ‘a family?’ This has become a modern trend. Rather than being a sporting community we are now told that everyone is part of ‘a family.’

Podcast #115 – The Biggest Surf Park in the Southern Hemisphere, A Letter, and Are the Media Really to Blame.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

We’re back for our 19th year and our 539th show. Happy New Year! This show is slightly longer than our normal length but we hope that you will feel it is worth it, as we have a very interesting guest

Podcast #114 – Welcome To Country, Speeches and More Funding for Football.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Live sport is all about entertainment, so why do paying fans have to endure speeches that kill rather than help build the atmosphere leading to a big game? In this show we look at this as well as the issue

Fornaroli Selection Highlights Development Failure

While many are celebrating the fact that immediately after becoming an Australian citizen Uruguayan-born Bruno Fornaroli has been added to the Socceroos squad this writer almost wept for it is an indictment on the lack of quality development in Australia.

The Charlesworth Classic Conundrum

When it comes to great Western Australian sports people there will always be debate as to who ranks where. There are currently six Western Australians in the Sport Australia Hall of Legends, Margaret Court, Herb Elliott, Dennis Lillee, Walter Lindrum,