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Media and Communications student from Melbourne lucky to live in a city with so much sport!
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- Member Since:
- November 2011
- Based In:
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Collingwood/Victory/Socceroos
- Favourite Sports:
- AFL, Football, Cricket,
Latest Articles
How will Rodgers save Liverpool?
28 Jul 2012Brendan Rodgers has his work cut out for him at Liverpool. He has left his job at Swansea City, where he was worshipped by fans for guiding them to promotion and then Premier League safety by playing a cosmopolitan brand of football. He is now faced with taking Britain’s most famous club out of a [...]
Tactical analysis: Socceroos vs Blue Samurai
13 Jun 2012The Socceroos emerge from the toughest week of qualifying for Brazil 2014 with two points. Lucas Neill said pre-game that the team would’ve taken a point. To get it in the circumstances they did is even more satisfying. The Socceroos adopted the same 4-4-2 formation as they did in the Denmark and Oman games. Tim [...]
Omani heat makes it hard to judge Socceroos after draw
9 Jun 2012Given the 40-degree heat in Oman it is hard to judge the Socceroos convincingly on this performance which led to a 0-0 draw. The approach in the Denmark game, which was relatively cautious, was virtually a dress rehearsal for this game. In both matches the Socceroos chose to sit back and defend quite deep with [...]
Liverpool's gain, Swansea's loss with Rodgers departing
31 May 2012It was one year ago yesterday that Swansea won promotion to the Premier League. If compensation is agreed to, their manager Brendan Rodgers will become boss of Liverpool. I started following Swansea City halfway through their last season in the Championship. I have cousins who live there and support the team and they told me [...]
Neeld needs time to find his halo
24 May 2012Mark Neeld has been hit with a cacophony of conjecture and criticism about the way his coaching tenure at the Melbourne Football Club has begun. Not only has he borne the brunt of media attacks and opinion, but also others have been dragged in to the bloodletting, namely Gary Lyon last week. Ironically, he was [...]
Craig Foster's Australian football media dream
13 May 2012A few tweets from SBS football analyst Craig Foster yesterday got me thinking. “Media must accept challenge to remain current, update, evolve with game, otherwise coverage will lag behind game level/limit progress” “Coverage of matches/coaches has to improve in order for culture to grow in literacy. We are what we read” “Be great to see [...]
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