Pancontinental has announced significant drilling activity has commenced on-trend to its acreage position in PEL 87 offshore Namibia. TotalEnergies has commenced drilling its ultra-deep Venus-1 well in the Orange Basin. On-trend, Pancontinental has mapped the very large Saturn turbidite complex in PEL 87, which is geologically similar to Total’s Venus Prospect.
As Manly prepares to take on the Parramatta Eels at Bankwest Stadium on Sunday afternoon, it has just been announced that legendary Manly player and coach Bob Fulton has died.
Remembering a couple of rugby league speed demons A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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The saying goes that you can’t coach speed and that’s probably true. But raw speed alone isn’t enough to hold a place in first grade.
There’s nothing better than watching some of the modern games speed men tearing down the field, leaving opposition defenders in their wake, and the game has been blessed with fast and talented players since day one.
When I started watching the game in the mid ’60s, nearly every team had their marquis speed men, ready to bring the crowd to their feet and scorch down the sideline when the ball came their way. In those days, these flyers invariably played on the wing, although at times speed merchants like Reg Gasnier found themselves playing in the centres.
The forgotten players: Parramatta Eels A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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This is the 15th article in the series that looks at some of the forgotten players from your favourite club.
The Parramatta Eels entered the competition in 1947 and have had over 800 players don the blue and gold since day one.
My first rugby league memory is watching the Eels at the flint hard Cumberland Oval dust bowl with my father sometime in the very early ’60s. I can’t remember much of the game other than the fact that Ken Thornett was playing that day, so it was probably 1962.