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- Member Since:
- September 2012
- Based In:
- Sydney
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- Football, Cricket, League,
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The Advanced Hair All Stars 1992 - Present
29 Mar 2013Just as the Indigenous All Stars need an NRL All Stars side to play against each year, last year’s 1992-Present Ranga All Stars will need opposition to play against. In the shape of the Advanced Hair Studio sponsored Prematurely Balding All Stars 1992 – Present, I think we have found a more than worthy opposition. [...]
Salary capped or free market football?
9 Mar 2013What is the purpose of salary cap, salary floor and draft systems and is it good for sport? This is not an article I ever planned to write but the significant response generated in my European football hypocrites article has forced my hand. It was impossible to engage with the all comments on the article, [...]
Henriques: has Australia unearthed a diamond in the rough?
3 Mar 2013Moises Henriques has rather unexpectedly taken to Test cricket like a duck to water. Despite his obvious and undoubted natural ability, Henriques boasts a rather mediocre first class record as a bowing all rounder. Rather tentatively and perhaps foolishly I’m going to pigeon hole Henriques as a sportsman that improves as the quality of competition [...]
European football hypocrites and glory hunters
28 Feb 2013You’re probably expecting to read an article attacking Manchester City and Chelsea fans for ‘ruining’ football by supporting clubs on the pure basis of spending power and success. Instead I’m going to debunk the constant criticisms levelled hypocritically at supporters of new comers to the elite world order of club football. Essentially very close to [...]
Cricket is more than just a numbers game
28 Feb 2013Australian cricket’s armchair selectors have had somewhat of a ground-breaking summer. The puzzling selections of Bobby Quiney against South Africa, Hastings in Perth, five bowlers in Sydney and the omission of Stephen O’Keefe for Glenn Maxwell and Xavier Doherty on the plane to India have created a summer unlike many others for Australia’s millions of [...]
Tall poppy syndrome alive and well
26 Feb 2013It doesn’t get much better than a great sporting debate in Australia. At the pub, around the dinner table, in the change rooms or indeed on The Roar we all love to pump up the tyres of our favourite athletes and sporting team. Unlike Americans who have typically followed the Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers and [...]
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