Was the ANZAC long weekend and what better way to spend the weekend than to be watching country football? Well, more specifically, to be watching another installment of Southwest Football League football in Bunbury. In Australia it is quintessentially Australian to have Australian Rules games played over the ANZAC long weekend and today was no different. Though this time I was not in Perth and was watching Collie play the much fancied and stronger Bunbury.
Collie was not ever in the contest with them trailing at every break against a far more dominant Bunbury. Bunbury simply was just too good as they would out-muscle Collie, out pace them and certainly were far more decisive when they had to make decisions to pass or kick to targets. Bunbury was simply able to hit their targets without having to fumble or be pressured. They seemed to always have hectares of space and were making leads and providing space for the back line and the midfield to see their targets up front and hot them with accuracy.
The saving grace for Collie was their accuracy, despite the heavy total being mounted against them by the Bulldogs. Collie had kicked 8 straight until the last quarter when they kicked another goal in addition to 4 points. Bunbury was simply never under any form of a threat, despite the accurate kicking from the eagles and Bunbury finished the game with a margin of 72 points. The final score being Bunbury 10 goals and ten points 20.10-130 to Collie’s 9 goals four points 9.4-58.
Now we should tackle the food situation as it was a bit of a disappointing affair. I must say that you would have to imagine that for the ANZAC long weekend crowd, you would have enough food for the decent crowd watching. You would think that you would have enough food for people wanting hot chips and hotdogs. You would imagine that if they wanted hamburgers that these would be available also.
Now I understand that there are times where team canteens do run out of stock on the day as they have not anticipated the rush of people to watch the game, or a rush on a particular item that has taken a particular fancy. However, this is the weekend where you know that there will be a fair amount of people in the area that will not be at work and will want to be doing something out of the house. Especially on such an important public holiday long weekend.
It is just a shame as what I did have, and I will write about it in this article were not too bad. It is just that I was wanting the things that they were out of stock in and this was a massive let down. Given that it was not just me who was in attendance and they wanted to sample the hotdogs and the hot chips. So, I say to Bunbury that they need to make sure that the people in attendance should have access to some delicious hot food for much longer so they can therefore stick around longer and buy drinks at the bar and make more money for the club.
I ended up with a ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce sandwich and this was 8 dollars and for what it is worth is alright but not was what I was wanting. The other item that we resorted to was the burger. It was one of the last remaining at the canteen and the bread was a bit on the hard side of things, but it was rather tasty with lettuce, beetroot, tomato and a decent thick sized beef patty. This was also priced at around 10 dollars and was a decent size but again, it was not what we had wanted but certainly very filling.
To accompany the food, we had cans of coke at 4 dollars each. This is on the high end for soft drink, but it was what they had wanted and the very few things that the little ones were overly happy with as they did have their hearts set on hotdogs and bountiful amounts of chips. However, despite the shortfalls of the food on offer it was another enjoyable time out in Bunbury to watch some SWFL football. The result may not be what I would have wanted for my adopted football team, but was a fun day out to watch some country football.
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