It is a pleasure to announce that the winner of the inaugural Unofficial Award for Funniest Photo-series in Men's pennants, 2025 is Ralph Hounslow.
Ralph is a worthy winner as his highly expressive gestures and excitable moves as a skipper, standing at the head, were featured on this website a number of times this year.
A notable feature of his work is that he spawns imitators.
In the first link below - a 'highlight video' from a finals game between two Sturt teams on March 26 - and the winning performance by Ralph for 2025, Rocket Ettridge tries to copy Ralph's high-spirited techniques as a skip.
In the second link below - an animation from an internal trial game on September 6 - Tommy Morgan attempts vainly to reach Ralph's level of agitated arm waving and full-body gesticulating.
But there is only one Ralph. He is the benchmark for skips at Sturt for finger-pointing, arm waving and lively dance moves at the head.
Two hugely entertaining Sturt bowlers who couldn't put together a sufficient set of photos this year to topple Ralph's outstanding performances are Stephen Jones and Adam Hill.
Other funny guys who are showing potential and could have a break-out year in men's pennants' humour stakes in 2026 include Stewart Allen, Frank Sabatino, Peter Mann, Neil Fisher, Nick Manglaras, Jes Gauci, Wayne Berryman and Garth Lloyd.
To view the video or the animation, click on the link below then click or touch the screen for the video or animation to play.