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The Reds will start their pre-season campaign against McKenzie’s former side – the NSW Waratahs – in Lismore before playing the Crusaders and Western Force in [...]
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![First of all, let’s get something straight: FIFA’s apparent back flip on who can bid for the 2018 World Cup hosting rights has nothing to do with Australia and everything to do with Europe.
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It’s a concept that Australian rugby is finding out about the [...] Andrew Logan: Where are all the good coaches? Somewhere else](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/where-are-all-the-good-coaches-ewen-mckenzie-th.jpg)
![The A2-League, or whatever the second division mentioned by Frank Lowy at the Melbourne Victory business luncheon will be called, needs to be forgotten. With crowds fading across the country, it’s the last thing the game needs, even if it is a long-term possibility.
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![When Adelaide United admitted that coach Aurelio Vidmar wouldn’t be allowed to lead his team into their second Asian Champions League campaign this month all you could do was laugh or cry (depending on whether you’re a Reds fan or not I suppose).
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![On Saturday’s decisive stage of the Tour Down Under on Willunga Hill, Cadel Evans attacked. In his rainbow jersey, representing his world champion status, Evans went some way to repairing the unjust persona that the Australian public has formed of the Tour de France runner-up.
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![I don’t want to be the one who tells you that Santa Claus may not be who you think he is, but all this talk of code wars is about as close to reality as a bloke who breaks into your house and leaves you iPods instead of taking them. There I’ve said it.
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![While my wife was in labour at Hammersmith Hospital in London for the birth of son number one, we passed the long hours of waiting by playing Scrabble. Such is the word-power and determination of Judy that she only succumbed to a defeat, after many victories, just before she was wheeled away to give birth.
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![Luca Badoer has become the laughing stock of Formula 1, through no fault of his own. Languishing at the bottom of the timesheets having replaced the injured Felipe Massa, what more were we to expect from a driver who has been out of racing for a decade?
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![The irony wasn’t lost on me. Less than a week after writing about some immediate points for resolution in the world of Test Cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) made an announcement that will undoubtedly have a major impact on the future of … one-day cricket.
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![When Melbourne announce that coach Dean Bailey – who has presided over a total of seven wins in his two seasons at the helm – has been given a new contract, effectively extending his stay by a year, you have every right to question what the world is coming to.
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LeftArmSpinner said | October 23rd 2009 @ 8:22am | Report comment
6 wallaby tourists but 14 originate from qld. thats ya problem right there Link