Columnist About
Ben Pobjie is a writer and comedian whose promising rugby career was tragically cut short the day he stopped playing rugby and had a pizza instead. The most he has ever cried was the day Balmain lost the 1989 grand final. Today he enjoys the frolics of Wallabies, Swans, baggy greens, and Storm.
- Member Since:
- August 2011
- Based In:
- Melbourne
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Wallabies
- Favourite Sports:
- Cricket, Motor, Rugby, AFL,
Latest Articles
Wallabies coaching job poisoned chalice
2 days agoWhen I read this story I confess, I sat for a bit, amazed. Stunned at the revelations it made. It wasn’t the news that “people love or loathe” Quade Cooper: I was already aware of that. Quade Cooper splits opinion the way his passes split defences, or his kick-offs split the faces of the spectators they [...]
The magic of a Lions tour
17 May 2013It’s easy to be down on rugby nowadays. It so often seems to be the half-blind bumbling uncle of Australian football. Where soccer has international glamour and youth appeal, rugby league has blood-stirring brutality and tribalism, and the AFL has a massive bag full of cash that it uses to bash everyone else over the [...]
Complaining about the mark contest? Man up, whingers!
10 May 2013Do you ever read the sports pages, see what various players and ex-players and coaches are saying about current events, and think, “Jesus, why don’t you all just shut up you pack of whining sissies”? I do, and I think this phenomenon, although certainly present when reading about the Australian cricket team, or NRL coaches [...]
Please, can we finally end this drugs in sport scandal?
3 May 2013As the football doping scandal weaves on like a long, thick, muddy river, I think I speak for all sporting fans who agree with me when I say: for God’s sake just get it over with. I want to be clear: it’s not that I condone drug use. It’s not that I want players going [...]
Australia's Ashes squad the worst in the history of sport
26 Apr 2013The English media have already dubbed the Australian Ashes touring party the weakest Australian team ever to tour England. I’m disappointed in this: it doesn’t go far enough. Any reasonable, rational, level-headed, honest observer would have to admit that this is not just the weakest Australian cricket team to visit the old country, but literally [...]
Black Caviar: an Australian heroine
19 Apr 2013What’s your favourite thing about Black Caviar? Is it the way she runs very fast? Is it the way a tiny man sits on her while she runs very fast? Perhaps it’s the way that she runs very fast in a big circle, rather than just in a straight line, so she ends up in [...]
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