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The NBA pre-season has kicked off and after all the action of another drama-filled offseason it's time to get into projecting where each team…
Week 4 is upon us, Ryan Tannehill has shown he indeed can't cover on the road and like Ryan Fitzpatrick throwing a pass into…
The pointy end of the NBA season is here, and while this means a smorgasbord of first round matches to sink our teeth into,…
He’s no leader. Engineered a coo of the coach (an Aussie legend and one of our toughest ever players) to get his mate in charge that doesn’t do anything ‘mean’. Bites back at legends who criticise the team, is poor tactically and goes missing with the ball. He can’t hold a candle to Waugh, Taylor, Ponting, Border, Chappell, Benaud etc. the great leaders we have had in our game.
'I'm as much to blame as anyone': Cummins admits Aussies batted 'too up-tempo' in Delhi implosion
Was looking forward to this series for years. We’ve dished up 2 2.5 day capitulations of hopeless cricket like we don’t really care. I’ve been a cricket fanatic for my entire life, never missed a test on purpose – but I won’t be watching the 3rd test. This team is not worth my time, if they don’t care I don’t see why I should. Cummins had the cheek to clap back at AB after the first test, well perhaps he could learn a bit and show some leadership like AB as an all time great did. That shot today was an embarrassment and his bowling and tactics have been awful.
'I'm as much to blame as anyone': Cummins admits Aussies batted 'too up-tempo' in Delhi implosion
So he quit on his godfather and put in zero effort? Great sign.
Guys a quitter and mentally weak, not a good recipe for pro athlete success. There’s noise because he’s spent half a decade rubbing pretty much everyone in basketball the wrong way.
Simmons circus over as Nets bundled out of NBA playoffs in straight sets
That’s commonplace, it’s nothing to do with that – he didn’t even finish the year and he chose to go to a 3rd tier program rather than compete with the best and then coasted and couldn’t even get them to the tournament.
Simmons circus over as Nets bundled out of NBA playoffs in straight sets
Agree with all 5 points. Needs a shake up – short, fast, condensed schedule with more stars and more accessible to fans.
My five solutions to save the Big Bash League
Forgot to mention – bailed on the Boomers at the olympics with our best ever team of NBA vets where he could have developed and learned on the world stage. The guy just doesn’t care about basketball but wants to be paid full freight like he does.
Simmons circus over as Nets bundled out of NBA playoffs in straight sets
What a disaster. Simmons has won no friends over his career. Went the soft option at LSU instead of developing at a real program, quit on the team. Acted entitled at Philly and shirked it at key moments, never bothered to become even a passable FT shooter and attack the rim with his athleticism. Then traded and pulls this rubbish on the Nets.
Simmons circus over as Nets bundled out of NBA playoffs in straight sets
Best 7 in Australia by far. Hooper is a great rugby player and competitor but he is not a 7 and has been miscast his entire career. He offers nothing at the breakdown and we consistently get killed because of it. Fraser is a true 7 and offers a chance for the Wallabies to have a real impact player at the breakdown ala Pocock.
'McCaw-esque': Reds No.7 commits to Wallabies despite Hooper roadblock, ex-coach says he'll be world's best
I watch both League and Union, and to be honest Union takes player safety more seriously. The Munster incident in Rugby would be a certain yellow card, protecting a defenceless player in the air and a dangerous play causing head impact, maybe even a red depending on the day. In League its carry on not even a penalty and not even commented on!
Six talking points from State of Origin 2
Nope – it was completely glossed over. Changed the game entirely with zero repercussions.
Six talking points from State of Origin 2
Fitzsimons is a self gratifying flog. Always on his high horse, sod off mate.
Peter FitzSimons slams NRL execs for allowing the season to continue
Shield has been canned too…
Australia- New Zealand ODI series called off amid coronavirus concerns
Crazy overreaction, panic has well and truly taken hold. If you are suspending the season now I can’t see when it would resume, in a few weeks or months 10 times the people will have had the condition, so it won’t get any better. When will they resume? Knee jerk to one player contracting it.
Coronavirus forces NBA to suspend season
You are making out like Kosta Koufus is an All Star and they aren’t playing him out of some youth movement
They haven’t been playing him because they are better with different lineups. He’s a journeyman bench/role player at best.
WCS is their centre, Bagley is a better PF and with him injured Harrison Barnes can spend time at the 4. They have wings to fill the 2 and 3 and push Barnes up and space the floor around Fox.
Koufos is definitely not a power forward, he is a centre.
Maybe he could have played power forward in 2010…league has changed.
Youth is not always the NBA's best policy
I live in Brisbane. Tossing up going to the game
If they pick Siddle and Marnus I won’t be.
That signals we have not learned anything, and are on the wrong path and that kind of Cricket Australia is not getting a cent out of me.
Australia vs Sri Lanka: First Test preview and prediction
You are comparing Head’s batting to how a bowler used to bat and then saying he did better than expected.
Geez, expectations must have been low….
Personally my expectations are for a number 5 specialist batsman to bat with a calm head and not throw their innings away repeatedly without learning from their mistakes.
Australia vs Sri Lanka: First Test preview and prediction
Didn’t do much wrong?! I just spat out my coffee! His game awarness and decision making was horrendous. Over and over he got out to terrible shots rather than good balls. He was batting like it’s t20.
I would have dropped him to go learn some common sense when batting in first class cricket, rather than bestowing him with a leadership position. Absolute joke.
Australia vs Sri Lanka: First Test preview and prediction
India played well but Dhoni had 4 chances and Kohli 2 chances.
That cost us 120 runs right there, pretty hard to not say Australia should have won this game with basic fielding skills, even after posting a modest 230 with poor batting.
India didn’t need to do too much exceptionally in this series, we made it pretty easy.
Sloppy Australia hand India 2-1 series win
I think it’s a terrible move by CA but the one good thing is that it seemed to get Fox into gear about a decent sports streaming service.
They’ve quietly launched Kayo with no fanfare but at $25/month for all their sport content it’s a pretty good option so reluctantly went for that given I get NBA/NFL there too and football codes in winter.
Assessing Cricket Australia’s TV gamble
Nuffy of the week, Zac. It’s not propaganda mate Mary can write about whatever she wants and shock horror as a woman she has an interest in women’s sport (not to speak for you, Mary!)
More people are caring all the time, and the product is becoming a great watch, as evidenced by the coverage on Channel 7 and Foxsports.
I’ll admit I still follow the mens game more closely the womens game has developed leaps and bounds and with the improvements in bats the hitting in the t20 game is great to watch.
If you don’t like the articles mate just give it a miss.
Australian women looking for series whitewash
Completely agree with your bottom sentiment on the dispute and also re Bangladesh.
How many times are we going to somehow get out of going?
Personally I thought it was already a danger series with how improved they are at home and our frailties on the sub continent. Now with this dispute and lack of preparation it’s shaping as a real danger series.
Deadline looms for cricket pay dispute
Re: The scrums, yes it is a farce.
Went to the Broncs game last Thursday and a friends GF asked me in bewilderment ‘whats with the scrums? is that how it’s meant to happen?’
I had to meekly explain what a joke scrums have become and that theres no real point to them but we keep them anyway because we always did.
‘Ahhh, Rightttt’
Great for the casual fan!
Four changes that will help improve the NRL
Kyrie is a one way player, an iso scorer. He’s not making any team dominant trough his play.
If he went to the knicks they would still be behind the Cavs (while LeBron stayed) and then Boston, Milwaukee and the Sixers long term in the East.
Kyrie Irving to become the next great New York Knick
How about he stays in Cleveland and continues to attempt to build a team with the hometown fans and make amends for bolting to Miami last time?
What’s the obsession with ‘he has to go somewhere’
Lebron should take his talents to this surprising Eastern Conference team
Real flog behaviour from a mediocre (at best) paceman to a guy who had carted them everywhere for 140.
Last tour to Aus Robinson got dropped due to fitness, and couldn’t bowl more than 1 spell per innings.
Can’t imagine the furore if an Aussie pacer did this after a wicket, would be straight to the gallows.
'If you can't handle that': Defiant Pommie paceman defends disgraceful 'f---ing prick' send-off