A Triangle of Resting Touchers and Unwanted Sexual Advances on the Green. The Carlton Classic invariably attracts a motley crew of characters from a wide range of clubs. This year was no different. We saw the usual pre game posturing and grand standing from the usual suspects as they mingled with friends and foes in Bowls World. Exchanging stories and regurgitating past glories on the green. I liken some of these blokes exchanging ‘kitty trailing’ ...
Updated 14-05-2014 at 08:23 PM by Fabrizio Marsani
Rejuvenating Bowls Clubs. Why Pissheads Shouldn’t be Office- Bearers. Our club lost some prominent members last season because we’d become ‘too progressive’ in their reckoning. There are those who still doggedly cling onto a quasi Edna Everage Ethos of a 1960s Suburban Bowls Club as the ideal. Princess Park is a small club on the ascent, having won 4 pennants in the last three seasons [ RVBA & Bowls World combined]. Not bad for a club with only 55 bowlers on the books. We’ve taken ...
‘Bowl on the Best Grass in Town’ Nimbin Bowlo- Rebels with a Cause There’s something out in left field about Nimbin Bowls Club. For starters visitors are welcomed by an artist commissioned 3D mural prominently plastered across the front of the club rooms. Then there’s the 3 flags flying from the mast, The Eureka Flag, a Skull & Dagger pirate’s flag and one sporting a Pink Elephant There’s a palpable feeling of - ‘We do it differently in Nimbin’. ...
Updated 29-07-2015 at 01:53 PM by Fabrizio Marsani
No Toffs at Toorak Bowls Club One of this countries most exclusive post codes- 3142 is home to a terrific bowls club whose members are by and large a bunch of knock about blokes light years away from the hallmarks of what this postcode represents, Money, Power, Success and Status. The club manages to successfully shatter stereo types. And flies the flag of Tradition. While most metropolitan clubs have succumbed to the introduction of World Series Cricket like ...
Updated 09-02-2015 at 04:48 PM by Fabrizio Marsani
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