Posts Tagged "Code wars"
Code war: what is it good for? Absolutely nothing
By The High Shot, 5 Jun 2012What gets you out of bed in the morning? Which cause motivates you, kick-starts your heart and churns your belly juices?
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The science and magic of rugby league
By The High Shot, 24 May 2012Those familiar with the Roar would no doubt be familiar with code wars. However, it’s all getting a bit ‘same-ish’ for me.
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The war that’s not a war
By Chris A, 16 May 2012There is no such thing as a football code war.
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Is the NRL-AFL hybrid game just a beautiful dream?
By Damo, 17 Mar 2012Watching last year’s Ireland versus Australia International Rules match on the Gold Coast I, like so many others, couldn’t help but wonder if this would be the last time we would see the mutant round-ball spectacle played.
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Sporting codes treading on each other’s toes
By Adrian Musolino, 28 Feb 2012The timing of the Allan Border Medal, Australian cricket’s night of nights, says a lot about the messy scheduling of the cricket season. With the Commonwealth Bank Series still a match away from its finals series, Australian cricket was patting itself on the back for a job well done.
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Code wars: let’s just get along?
By All-Codes, 18 Nov 2011I don’t know about the rest of The Roar readers but the continual code warring has me bored out of my skull.
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Everyone versus AFL, but NRL shakiest
By sexton1, 14 Aug 2011The balance of power in Australian sport was clearly visible in Sydney University’s Manning Bar on Tuesday afternoon.
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Will Hunt, Folau be remembered as two of the best?
By Damo, 27 Jul 2011With Karmicheal Hunt revealing he has no plans to return to league, and Israel Folau emerging as a rare marketing commodity and dead-eye dick, the question must now be asked of our code jumpers: will they one day be regarded as two of Australia’s best sportsmen?
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AFL doesn’t have it all its own way
By Damo, 7 Jun 2011This weekend, the Socceroos played at Adelaide Oval. Despite poor weather, and the fact that the game was a ‘friendly’ with an AFL game at AAMI Stadium on at the same time, the crowd was able to exceed 21,000.
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Oh boy, let’s start a real Australian Code War
By Garth Hamilton, 10 Mar 2011I want to start a code war. Every now and then one threatens to erupt on The Roar but far too often they end with some sanctimonious poster killing it off with lovey-dovey calls for tolerance, maturity and respect.
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Crunching numbers on the code wars
By Dugald Massey, 6 Mar 2011I confess; where the code wars are concerned, I’m a full-on hypocrite. As unseemly, unnecessary and infuriating as they are, I also find them kind of fascinating. Did they really say that? Seriously? Unbelievable — madder ’n’ UFC.
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Is Australia a country divided by sport?
By The Crowd, 4 Mar 2011There once was a time where I could talk about the Wallabies without receiving a dirty sideways look from social groups I know in my own country.
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Why there’s no need for code wars in Australia
By thom_canberra, 1 Mar 2011Sport in Australia is an institution; a major part of Australian culture and our identity. So what are the issues at present? With so many different sports and the strange relationships between codes, how do we make sense of the growing competitive sporting climate that encapsulates our national identity?
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Cross-code competition is actually healthy for all
By Jared Newton, 18 Jan 2011The AFL is stealing the best and brightest from the NRL; the AFL isn’t an international sport; football fans are hooligans; rugby union is better than league; and football will become the number one sport in this country one day. Do these sound like familiar arguments?
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Some deny its existence; others declare it as the war that is consuming Australia. The code wars, like it or lump it, are becoming a national obsession as fans defend their respective codes like religious zealots defending their respective Gods.
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The Code War will get more precise in 2010
By Steve Kaless, 18 Dec 2009You don’t need to monitor this site for long to realise that its readers take their TV ratings very seriously. You could say they are seen as the most popular ammunition in the code wars.
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ARU should recruit rebellious teens
By rugbyfuture, 15 Dec 2009At the start of every decade, there is a sense of renewal, and this is what is happening in the sporting world.
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