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- Member Since:
- February 2011
- Based In:
- Kerang, Victoria
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Probably Australia's cricketers, by a whisker over the Socceroos and Wallabies internationally. Club level? Glenelg (SANFL), Adelaide United (A-League) with mild interest via relatives and friends for Arsenal (EPL) and Feyenoord (Dutch league)
- Favourite Sports:
- Motor, Cricket, Football, Rugby, AFL,
Latest Articles
BBL: A bit baseball-y, but worth a look?
7 Dec 2012The second edition of the Big Bash League (still a pretty dreadful name) domestic Twenty20 competition starts up this week in Australia. Actually, it’s more like crept up on me really. I actually boycotted the opening season. Deliberately. In a fit of pique over the changes in the format of the competition, more than anything [...]
Big games, small-minded mentality by Nine
27 Sep 2012A couple of weeks ago I was informed that Channel Nine had secured rights to the ‘big games’ of the 2012 and 2014 Twenty20 World Cup and the 2015 ICC World Cup, to be held in Australia and New Zealand. Ha! I knew what this meant. And my suspicions were confirmed when Australia was due [...]
Back to the good, not just Ford n' Holden days!
27 Sep 2012I have a confession to make. I haven’t watched the Australian Touring Car Championship for 15 years. Not one round has flashed past my eyes. Not even the famed Bathurst 1000 during that time. But I am prepared to dive back into a full-on interest level for next year’s series. Why? The arrival of both [...]
Will bigger mean better for Euro 2016?
20 Jun 2012There are times when sport, at an international level, could really do with some expansionist tendencies. Yet is it right for Euro 2016 to include eight extra teams? I suppose, in this apparently environmentally-sustainable-conscious time we humans are living in, I just question whether Michel Platini is right for giving the nod to the eight [...]
Is baseball the answer for a cricket fan's winter blues?
6 Jun 2012What can a cricket fan turn his attention to in the off-season of an Australian summer? Major League Baseball. Yes, before every leather-and-willow supporter threatens to break a Gray-Nicolls or Gunn and Moore over my head, you read right. Baseball. For someone without Foxtel, the recent tour by the Aussies of the West Indies was [...]
West Indies still matter in world cricket
14 Mar 2012Here we are, on the eve of another spin on the international cricket merry-go-round. This time Australia stops off in the West Indies. But after an entertaining home summer, why should fans care about facing a team that now gets as little credibility as Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or even Ireland? It may feel weird to say [...]
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