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Latest Articles
Digby needs to come clean to QRU and Reds fans
24 Apr 2013I have a lot of time for Digby Ioane – he is a fantastic athlete and a pretty damn good rugby player. At 27 he still has plenty of rugby left in him and the potential to take things a step further and become a great Australian player. That said, Ioane needs to stop playing [...]
Why weren't the Brumbies penalised more?
22 Apr 2013On Saturday night I was bewildered that the Brumbies were yellow carded only twice throughout the course of the match. For a team that was hell bent on playing an appalling style of rugby, there needed to be more yellow cards, penalty tries and even red cards. That was my view walking home, very frustrated [...]
The Wallabies can win everything in 2013
21 Apr 2013Australia has the cattle to win the Bledisloe Cup, the Rugby Championship and the Lions Tour in 2013. There is now an undeniable case that we have three strong teams in Super Rugby, a forth that is slowly getting its act together (as for the Rebels, well they are still in puberty, on and off [...]
Lions Tour: make or break for Aussie rugby
12 Feb 2013With all the talk of doping and match fixing in Australian sport, substantive discussion about the various codes’ seasons has fallen back to a degree, which has left some people forgetting about what is arguably the biggest gem of them all: The 2013 British and Irish Lions tour. For those whom are unaware, the Lions [...]
Channel Nine's sporting coverage hurting national sport
30 Aug 2012Once upon a time, there was a TV channel in Australia that dominated the ratings. For 29 years straight, it was the most pressed number on the Australian remote, attracting a large viewership every day. All of a sudden, however, this stopped when in 2007 Nine got knocked off by the long-time apprentice, Channel Seven, [...]
Well, Ma, that sure don't look like a bandwagon
22 Dec 2011Over the past few weeks, much has been made of the Brisbane Roar’s so called “fall from grace” along with a lot of description of how everyone here in Queensland is jumping off the “bandwagon”. Nothing could be further from the truth. So-called respected newspapers have been publishing all sorts of articles full of the [...]
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