Patersons Stadium

Got an invite recently to go to the "The Home' of Aussie Rules footy here in Perth.
Attached to the invite was for Peter to join in what they call 'Auskick'.
Basically, we got there about 2 hours before the game, and Peter gets to go on the pitch and have an hours worth of Aussie Rules coaching from current players of West Coast Eagles and The Fremantle Dockers. These two sides are fierce rivals and both use the same stadium for home games.
For the record, in all the time Peter has been here he has never played Aussie Rules, but good as gold he went and joined in.
Fantastic experience, because there are kids here who would die to be able to go on the Patersons Stadium pitch and kick a footy around with some of the most famous players of today.

Bless him, he was one of the oldest there, but he stuck at it.

Soon be over!

Big place. You definitely need binoculars to see anyone scoring at the other end.

I got to people watch for an hour, my God I saw some sites I can tell you.
Have to say though, what an absolutely brilliant family day out everyone makes an Aussie Rules game. I can honestly say that in the 4 hours I was in my seat, I never heard one swear word of any description from a single person. amazing, just amazing, when you consider that booze is freely available to take back to your seat to drink whilst you are watching the match and most males you meet here can't put a sentence together without a least one expletive in it. Bloody brilliant. If the ref makes a poor decision, do you know what the frowd do? They boo him, its really funny when you think what happens in The Premiership. The Premiership could learn a lot. Also never saw even a hint of aggravation, just 20,000 people having a great time.
We shall be going as a family, if we can get tickets (its sold out every week of the season I'm told) as soon as we can.
The Skerritts in Oz