Boré’s View / Push-up Challenge.

This week Gracey encouraged club members to join the Push-up Challenge.  To complete the challenge, members need to complete 3249 push-ups between the 5^th and 29^th of June.  The challenge aims to raise money and awareness for mental health causes. 

Boré has long been an advocate of physical activity to promote health, but even he describes the challenge as ‘suicidal.’  Yes, only an idiot would sign up for the Push-up Challenge.  Naturally, your humble correspondent signed up straight away. 

If you want to join us register through the Push-up Challenge website or app and search for the Rotary Club of Warrnambool Central group.  Actually, you don't necessarily need to do push ups, you can do sit-ups or squats instead.  You can also just sign up for half the number of reps; 1625 instead of 3249.

Please consider joining us and you too can share the joy of the challenge with Bob. 

We thank Boré for another wonderful cartoon.

Ten for Melbourne.

In last week’s fines the claim was made that no Melbourne player had ever kicked ten goals in a match.  Jeff Farmer once famously kicked nine in a quarter and a half after the coach brought him on half way through the third quarter following an injury to another player.  However, your correspondent thinks that there is at least one Melbourne player who has kicked more than ten goals in a match.  He played during our lifetime and you could argue that, game for game, he is one of the greatest players to have ever played the game.  Can you remember this Melbourne player?  Here are some clues;

·       In his first season he played his first game in round 1, played poorly, and was dropped.

·       Good form in the reserves earned him a senior recall in round 10.  He kicked one goal and was dropped again.

·       He was recalled for round 14, kicked three goals, and retained his spot in the Melbourne side.

·       In his 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th games of AFL footy he kicked 8, 6, 6, 8, and 7 goals in succession.

·       He lined up for his 9^th game of AFL footy against North Melbourne.  Playing on Mick Martin, he had 20 shots on goal, kicking 11.8 with one out of bounds on the full. This included a famous scissor kick out of mid-air from twenty meters out for a goal.

·       He holds the record for being the faster player to kick his first fifty goals.

·       He finished his first season with 71 goals from fourteen games, easily the record for a debut season despite only kicking one goal before round 14.

·       He is the only man to have ever kicked at least fifty goals in both the reserves and the AFL/VFL seniors in the same year, a feat he accomplished in his first year.

·       He kicked his hundredth goal in his twenty first game, equaling John Coleman’s record.

·       He easily holds the record for the greatest number of goals kicked in his first fifty games, easily beating John Coleman’s record.

·       He retired after just 54 games with 208 career goals after suffering a recurrent back injury.

·       He is possibly most famous for kissing his brother after he kicked a goal on him during an AFL game.

Ten years ago, in our ‘German Fast Facts’ section, we included an image of a German 'zhen Deutsch mark' note.  If you printed out your copy of the Central Spoke you were technically committing the crime of counterfeiting in Germany.  Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn’t print out this week’s edition either.  Bono is in Germany at the moment, so I wanted to help him out just in case he was starting to get short on cash.