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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 [...]
Ten years of crowd growth for the NRL
9 Oct 2012So the 2012 NRL season has come to a close, with the Melbourne Storm beating Canterbury 14-4 in the grand final. This season has been a good one on the crowd front for the NRL with 2012 having the second highest aggregate for a season on record with with 3,486,494. This year it marked the [...]
Who is the better commentator: Andrew Voss or Ray Hadley?
17 Sep 2012Channel Nine’s coverage of the 2012 NRL season saw a change in commentary when Ray Hadley replaced Andrew Voss as the network’s second caller, a move that has brought plenty of conjecture. The origin of this possibly traces back last year when Andrew Voss on the Sunday Roast quipped that the Ray Warren statue (which [...]
Cronulla boned, Broncos win, in NRL season stats crunch
10 Sep 2012With the NRL to have a fixed 20 round season schedule over the next five years, perhaps it has come at a good time following this year’s schedule. This season Brisbane had a whopping 18 Friday night games, with their nearest rivals being Canterbury and St. George-Illawarra, whose total of ten includes the Thursday night [...]
Why did Australia under perform at London 2012?
15 Aug 2012Another Olympics has been done and dusted with London delivering a terrific Games. It has been helped by Team GB’s performances where they have come third in the medal tally with 29 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze with 65 medals in total. Australia, on the other hand, had a tough London 2012. By Day [...]
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