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- Member Since:
- April 2012
- Based In:
- Redfern
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Bullets, Queensland anything.
- Favourite Sports:
- Football, League, Cricket,
Latest Articles
Some A-League 'active fan' perspective from the stands in Casablanca
1 May 2013Think the A-League’s most active of ‘active fans’ have a tendency to be a little too active? So did I, until I lobbed into Casablanca two hours before the local derby between arch-rivals Raja Club Athletic and Wydad Athletic Club on Sunday. Raja is the current powerhouse of Moroccan football, established in 1949 with 10 [...]
If you can't beat the IPL circus, join it
10 Apr 2013You don’t realise how big the IPL is until you’re in India when the circus works its way across the country. Television station watermarks count down the days until showtime. The Times of India profiles one franchise per day. Virat Kohli spruiks hair gel on the cricket channel every five minutes. When the sixth season [...]
Nine things I learned watching Test cricket in India
25 Mar 2013The India series is over. The baggy greens have been bagged. The whites are being whitewashed, much like their owners. And the post-mortems into Australia’s 4-0 capitulation to an Indian side in a not dissimilar rebuilding phase have begun. I don’t profess to have the answers to Australia’s cricketing woes, except that the selectors could [...]
Test cricket in India: the ultimate sporting pilgrimage
22 Mar 2013It was around 15 years ago, watching highlights of Sachin Tendulkar smashing an Australian Test bowling attack featuring such heavyweights as Paul Wilson and Gavin Robertson all over an Indian cricket field, that I made the decision. One day, I was going to make it over to India to watch Test match cricket – preferably [...]
Does Channel Nine know what rugby league fans want?
10 Mar 2013Only two games into Channel Nine’s five year, multi-multi-million dollar broadcast deal with the NRL, we’ve already got an answer to that eternal question – how much does it cost to buy your way onto a rugby league panel show? Somewhere in the ballpark of $15 million a season, if the appearance of official NRL [...]
Is the NBL the Australian summer’s best kept secret?
11 Feb 2013Three days. Three sports. One perfect Sydney weekend. But which code would offer the best bang for your buck? In the red corner we had cricket, in the form of Australia (or was it Australia B+?) against the West Indies in One Day International number four at the SCG. In the blue corner we had [...]
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