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The ABC should broadcast the Sheffield Shield
16 Jan 2013The Big Bash League is heading towards its climax in the second season of its city-based ‘wham bam thank you ma’am’ competition. But there is something that puts a bee in my bonnet with the Big Bash League. When a player gets the call up to play Test cricket for Australia, the nightly news bulletins [...]
The Big Bash is as fake as Kim Kardashian
27 Dec 2012Ricky Ponting. Shane Warne. Chris Gayle. Brad Young. Scott Coyte… wait, who? Roarers, here is the second edition of the city-based Big Bash League Twenty20 tournament, where you’ll see players collide in the form of geriatrics, mercenaries and Neville Nobodies. Among the promotion and hype, the standard of cricket has been mediocre. It began promisingly [...]
Does Melbourne deserve two A-League teams?
11 Dec 2012To mark my one year anniversary of writing articles on The Roar, I’m going to look back at my very first article on the site, ‘Who does Melbourne Heart represent?’ With that in mind, I thought it was time to revisit that article, and also review the current situation at Melbourne Heart. In that article [...]
Who are Australia's next top six batsmen?
22 Nov 2012The focus and attention is on the second Test at Adelaide this week, a match that’s predicted to favour batsmen very heavily. In the lead up to the first Test, there was an element of doubt whether Australia’s inexperienced top three could handled the much vaunted South African bowling attack. There were doubts if debutant [...]
A-League players you'd like to see return
30 Oct 2012The focus and attention this year in the A-League understandably has been on the likes of Alessandro Del Piero and Emile Heskey. Former Socceroos such as Richard Garcia and Vinnie Grella have come back, while star import Marcus Flores has also returned. However, in the last few years, the A-League has lost a few influential [...]
Crowd comparison averages for 2002 and 2012
30 Oct 2012The 2012 NRL season has been and gone with the Melbourne Storm the premiers for this year. The 2012 season has been productive on the crowd front for the NRL, having the second highest aggregate for a season on record with 3,486,494. The crowd average was 17,346. This is just a fraction lower than the [...]
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