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Phil Hall

Press Service International

Phillip Hall has been too long in Melbourne to see AFL in the same light as those back in Fremantle. East Fremantle born and bred, he would love to see the Dockers back in the eight. But would settle for just beating West Coast twice a year.

  • Good will was not Good for Goodes

    For those who do not know, I work as a School Crossing Supervisor. Last week I left my stop sign (lollipop) behind. I had one of those unfortunate moments and I forgot it. I came back the next day and it was not in my car. Emergency?

  • Monsters and Monstrance: Reflections of Man and God.

    By the time you read this I will have finished reading, Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein'. Why am I reading Frankenstein? It is for my minor thesis, a document of many words. One that has not yet been written. Though it is coming together.

  • Who needs to be penalised?

    Who do you penalise when every attempt to make a game better, or, at least more fluid fails? When the ball movement is so restricted that for minutes the same thirty players have barely moved. Though the ball has passed through enough hands to have travelled the length of the field twice.

  • When heroine is merely correct vocabulary

    I went to see a movie recently and I was reminded of a moment from a George Lucas classic: Raiders of the Lost Arc, the first Indiana Jones movie. The scene is not the big one at the end where the power of God erupts from the Arc of the Covenant and the faces melt like wax. It is the moment when Indy is confronted by the warrior wielding a scimitar expertly, challenging Indy to join him in combat.

  • When does the Premiership End?

    The siren sounds, the last wicket is taken, the winning goal is scored. One team is successful, the other laments the fact that they have not been able to gain the ultimate prize. One team gets the cup, the flag, the honour of being the winners of the whole competition. If it is a global tournament, or an American one, you can be World Champions.

  • Online Ordering Makes Inconvenient Store Blues

    I have to explain because the idea of not writing something about sport is new to me. Yes, I do write about other things. Like, who should be the next Batman after Ben Affleck.

  • A tale of Two Saturday Afternoons.

    Kyle is fifteen and Harry is thirteen and they both play cricket at the same club. This Saturday Kyle is debuting in the firsts senior team. Harry is playing in the eights senior team with his Dad and older brother. Both look forward to a big day of cricket.

  • The Less is More Summer

    Those who are on social media may have come across the tidy queen Ms. Marie Kondo. Her Netflix series has championed a less is more lifestyle. Op-shops around the Pacific Rim groan as the new fad for less possessions floods their bins and stores.

  • There should be more than one Grace in the Game

    There are many stories about West Indian great Viv Richard's that get told. Usually the one about the bowler who describes the cricket ball in detail and to whom Richards replies “You know what it looks like got get it.” after Viv hit it out of the ground and into a river. The one I remember is an earlier moment in his youth.

  • Winning is elusive. Hope is created together.

    I have learned something about Hope recently. Hope is not just wanting a way out, but actively searching and working out creatively for a way out. Hope requires a wish and others to join in that risk in wishing for hope. Like a team, together we creatively discover ways out of the hopelessness we are in.