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Jesse Fink aka “Half-Time Orange” is a former deputy editor of Inside Sport and has written on football for Fox Sports, FourFourTwo magazine and SBS. His book about the Socceroos, 15 Days in June: How Australia Became a Football Nation is out now through Hardie Grant Books. He lives in Sydney.

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- Australia in dream Rugby World Cup draw (29)
  - Colin N: As an England fan, I am delighted with the draw. Ok, we may have the toughest third seed in Scotland but we have missed the ‘big three.’ I’m not going to predict how Argentina will do because they’re at a...
  - Sluggy: The pool with Engalnd, Argentina and Scotland looks like the pool of death, even though form will alter over the next 3 years - the runner up has a likely QF against the ABs.
- Midweek summer nights the way to go (79)
  - Midfielder: Adrain Sorry to go off topic a tad but below is a comment I made on the SBS site regarding the above article and sometimes before my comments have been changed or not put up so I copied a record of my comment here for myself...
  - Midfielder: KB Understand where you are coming from now …… may I add a little French flavour to your idea …. a problem we have still with some in the state leagues is the Sydney Croatia ethnic fringe is still there....
  - Koala Bear: Midfielder, I think you have been taking my pills without the proper directions … The fact is we have a 10 month Football season in place now, if you combine the State and HAL — is that too hard to understand..?....
- Wales down Wallabies in tight Test (39)
  - jools-usa: Another great game and Wales looked slightly better, especially in thn backs always thrusting forward a la NZ. Don’t mind losing (closely) to such an enterprising group. Don’t think ref cost OZ the game, though his...
- Forget 2018, FFA, let’s look to 2022 (38)
  - paul: 2018 is impossible. It has to go to the northern hemp I thought? or was it Europe?
  - Midfielder: KB Good post I hope you are right … you say we have five ….Sth Africa, Italy, Brazil, Japan, China … silly question can we vote for ourselves … if so that’s 6 votes ….. 7 votes needed in 18...
  - Koala Bear: Link, yes I can’t see why not the Broncos used it for 2 seasons and with the Feds monies it could undoubtedly do with some refurbishment and a fresh coat of paint.. good suggestion.. In Adelaide the Premier has gone on...
- Deans slays the Wallaby Demons (17)
  - bennalong: Winning against the AB’s, I mean…….! ! Hey we’ve beaten them a couple of times recently ! My bet is we’ll have them crapping themselves again soon. I know you knockers are nothing compared with...
  - Aussie D: Howl, Gruffalo, EJ was/is a great technical coach, probably one of, if not, the best , in the world. Where he fell down was in the areas of player management and trusting his support staff. I am not a fan of his style of play...
  - bennalong: Geeezz, some of youz blokes are tough markers ! LAS makes some good points and I don’t think he’s comparing the current crop with Wallabies of old. He’s saying look how far we’ve come ! Are we agreed :...
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