What was the sporting highlight of winter?
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By El Capitan, 9 Oct 2008 The Crowd is a Roar Pro
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Now that the football season is finished across the country (bar the A-League and the rugby league World Cup), I thought it would be timely to discuss the year that was in the football codes.
Some of the more memorable moments include all the saga of having a Kiwi coach the Wallabies, Sonny Bill Williams leaving mid-season to play rugby union in France, “Lethal” Mathews resigning from the Lions, and the Socceroos qualifying for the next stage of the World Cup.
I like to hear readers’ feedback on the memorable, the forgettable and the plain wacky sporting moments from this past winter season.
After all, it’s only five mont hs until the start of the next footy season!
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Redb said | October 9th 2008 @ 7:24am | Report comment
The emergence of Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin and his 100+ goals.
Redb
True Tah said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:03am | Report comment
Redb,
I agree with that, it was a real feel good factor, and it was on the same weekend the wallabies got smoked by a rampant Bokke in Johannesburg.
After that i would have said the Wallabies winning our second game in South Africa since 1995.
El Capitan said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:18am | Report comment
Personaly, since I missed most of the winter by travelling to the UK (yeah I can hear you already, the UK’s summer really isn’t summer), my highlight was actually the thrashing of Man U at the hands of St Petersburg, and England upsetting Croatia at home for the World Cup Qualifiers. Not being an actuall “football” supporter it was kind on good watching the games in the pubs with mates who could explain the tatics to me.
The only other game I watched was the Wallabies getting thrashed by the Boks. Needless to say it was a quite time at the Walkabout Pub!
Brett McKay said | October 9th 2008 @ 8:35am | Report comment
a single highlight from four codes over ten months, this should be easy….
El Capitano, give the Crowd a challenge!!
Millster said | October 9th 2008 @ 9:04am | Report comment
Spain finally rising to their potential and winning the European Cup.
In the same tournament some of the sublime, ethereal play of the Dutch in the group stages (though they did not follow through when it mattered) – it was so utterly briliant that I even appreciated it against my beloved but hapless French.
And for an Aussie highlight for me it was the chick who unexpectedly won silver in the 100m hurdles in Beijing and who went absolutely ape with joy afterwards. Wonderful!
In the domestic codes, the Warrior’s finals run in the NRL was a potential fairy-tale that made me sit up and take note… especially as I have a huge soft spot for Ruben Wiki from my days of living in Canberra.
I’m not adding in Adelaide’s current achievements in the ACL which are unprecedented and monumentally important for Australian sport as that is a story for which we are yet to see the conclusion…
Harry said | October 9th 2008 @ 9:33am | Report comment
Thought hard about this, firstly thought the big Wallaby win over NZ in Sydney but that proved to be a false dawn. Instead I’ll nominate the two tries set up by Greg Inglis in State of Origin 2 as th most thrilling vision of the season for me.
El Capitan said | October 9th 2008 @ 10:18am | Report comment
Yeah I thought a combined effort on all football codes would be relevant, and a way to bring all factions of supporters together.
don’t forget the fairytale of the Giants winning the Superbowl as well.
Joe FC said | October 9th 2008 @ 1:15pm | Report comment
El Capitan
Celtic winning the SPL over Rangers on the last day of the season.
El Capitan said | October 9th 2008 @ 1:25pm | Report comment
Joe FC.
Ahh yes the grudge match in the Scottish Prem League.
I was lucky enough to watch the August 31st match. What a cracker that was. 6 goals in total I believe.
Joe FC said | October 9th 2008 @ 1:46pm | Report comment
Yes El Capitan unfortunately ( from my perspective ) the score was the wrong way round.