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- Member Since:
- December 2006
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- Sydney
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SPIRO'S Lions Diary: Brumbies show Wallabies how to do it
2 days agoOld Spiro is an ancient who should have been born in the 18th century, or at least before the modern technological age. He struggles with new-fangled and old-fangled devices like laptops and iPhones. For about a decade he has watched all his sport on an aged television set that has the build of a Wagnerian [...]
SPIRO's Lions Diary: Are the Lions serial 'cheaters'?
4 days agoA small drip of name-dropping to start our analysis of the British and Irish Lions performances so far on their 2013 tour of Australia, and how they played so well against a depleted but fired-up NSW Waratahs side in front of 40,805 spectators at the Sydney Football Stadium. The media arrangements at the SFS have [...]
SPIRO'S Lions Dairy: The joy, drama and pain of Lions touring
11 Jun 2013Warren Gatland put it well when he said the give-them-hell tactics of the Reds against the British and Irish Lions on Saturday night reminded him of those old-fashioned long tours where every province came out to ‘throw everything at the visitors for the first 20 or 30 minutes’. And judging by the constant roar from [...]
SPIRO: 'Captain Magic' Quade Cooper goes down with all flags flying
10 Jun 2013‘There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.’ Quade Cooper was very, very good, especially in the opening 20 minutes of the exciting, incident-packed Reds – British and Irish [...]
SPIRO: All Blacks learning to live without Carter
7 Jun 2013Dan Carter is for New Zealand rugby supporters a once in a lifetime (and a long lifetime at that) player. In the All Blacks pantheon of greats he is there with Dave Gallaher, Bert Cooke, George Nepia, Bob Scott, Michael Jones, Colin Meads and Richie McCaw. With McCaw and Carter playing together, the All Blacks [...]
SPIRO's Lions Diary: Foley does Australian rugby a disservice
6 Jun 2013Michael Foley has done a disservice to his star players and to Australian rugby by playing a weakened Western Force side last night against the British and Irish Lions. If coaches aspire to greatness, and one presumes that Foley is in this category of coaches, they first look after the interests of their players. The [...]
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