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- September 2009
- Based In:
- Brisbane
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Qld Reds, Wallabies & Lithgow Shamrocks.
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- Cricket, Rugby,
Latest Articles
ARU set to announce a new CEO
9 Jan 2013If my information is correct, Michael Hawker will name his former 1984 Grand Slam Wallaby team mate Bill Calcraft as the CEO of the Australian Rugby Union at a press conference at 2pm today. For those of you who are asking Bill who, here is a little background on the man. William Joseph Calcraft is [...]
ARU: The wrong people are being asked the right question
17 Dec 2012I have learnt through credible confidential sources there is an ARU board member and members of the broader Australian rugby community, who have influence on such matters, who do not support Robbie Deans continuing as Wallabies coach into 2013. This is despite Australian Rugby Union Chairman Michael Hawker stating there was “very little chance” of [...]
The Deans dilemma and Cooper conundrum
11 Dec 2012During the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand Robbie Deans and Quade Cooper found themselves sitting at the window of a coffee shop across from their hotel in Wellington having a ‘chat’. While not privy to that conversation I would suggest it would have been about rugby, tactics and perhaps growing up in New [...]
Quade: How Green Was My Valley
28 Nov 2012A wise man once told me that all solutions to your problems are often hidden in plain sight. The same man also told me we are often the architects of our own demise and only upon reflection does one realize the opportunity lost by failing to see what simply ‘is’ and the undeniable beauty of [...]
Robbie: open up and keep the faith
20 Nov 2012When considering the recent Wallaby victory at Twickenham, one gets the sense Wallaby coach Robbie Deans and his team may have had a heart-to-heart leading up to the now famous win over the old enemy. Not the regular coach’s address and the ‘time to pull up your socks’ styled motivational moment that would have been [...]
Time to channel the spirit of the late great Tony ‘Slaggy' Miller
16 Nov 2012What happens when the body is battered and broken yet the competitor still has kilometres to run, rounds to box, runs to score and scrums to pack? A simple decision is made from within the individual – press on no matter what; no matter the pain, no matter the critic and no matter the opposition [...]
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