The Roar | Australia's Biggest Sporting Debate

193

Today

The Roar

Jeremy Cameron 'auditions' for the NFL during his free time

By the looks of it, the GWS Giants star is very handy with the pig skin.

Today

Jeremy Cameron 'auditions' for the NFL during his free time

0:30

William Cornwill

Roar Guru

William Cornwill

Roar Guru

The Mounting Yard: Midweek racing at Sandown

The Mounting Yard heads to Sandown, as per usual, for the Melbourne metro meeting.

Racing

Today

Avatar

Roar Guru

Avatar

Roar Guru

What if the 2020 GWS Giants faced a team of their ex-teammates?

This week, the AFL website compiled a virtual team made-up of former Greater Western Sydney players now at different clubs. The Giants hit back by fielding their current best 22.

Today

What if the 2020 GWS Giants faced a team of their ex-teammates?

Latest

View All

The Roar

Roger Federer's isolation training offers a glimpse at his genius

Tennis

Today

Roger Federer's isolation training offers a glimpse at his genius

1:05

The Roar

Check out these impressive Aussie Rules trickshots

Today

Check out these impressive Aussie Rules trickshots

1:25

Max Hatzoglou

Roar Rookie

The AFL has a duty to ensure the 2020 premiers are worthy winners

Today

The AFL has a duty to ensure the 2020 premiers are worthy winners

Pundit

Roar Rookie

Oh to be a fly on the wall at Rugby Australia

Today

joss98325 new author

Roar Rookie

Cricket has an opportunity to solve a major problem thanks to coronavirus

Today

Arnab

Roar Guru

Top five Test knocks by West Indian batsmen

Today

Top five Test knocks by West Indian batsmen

troyhanning345129

Roar Rookie

Bring in Doc Rivers: 2004-05 Boston Celtics in review

Basketball

Today

Bring in Doc Rivers: 2004-05 Boston Celtics in review

Gareth Hunter

Roar Pro

Some novel ways to get by without sport

Today

Jack Wilson new author

Roar Rookie

Who wins of Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje at UFC 249?

Combat

Today

Who wins of Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje at UFC 249?

Giacomo Bruno

Roar Guru

A-League season review: Melbourne City

Today

Daniel John new author

Roar Rookie

Everybody has their own rugby league journey

Lance Boil said Roar Rookie

Roaring Hot

What really is News Corp's rugby end game?

290

Is the Bell ringing for change in the Wallabies front row?

193

As long as footy's on hold, let's retire these crappy cliches

Plans are underway to launch a Rugby Club World Cup

This is not how the A-League was supposed to die

AFL examines quarantine hub options

One-Ashes wonders

Write for The Roar

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists.

Experts

View All

Brett McKay

Expert

Brett McKay

Expert

What really is News Corp's rugby end game?

There has been exactly zero subtlety about News Corp’s approach to the current round of Australian rugby broadcast rights, but the length and breadth of their concerted assault genuinely fascinates me.

Have your say

The intentions of News corpse 😂 are not hard to understand. Honestly if marbles was more popular than the rugby an…(more)

Lance Boil said Roar Rookie

290

Brett McKay

Expert

Brett McKay

Expert

What really is News Corp's rugby end game?

Have your say

The intentions of News corpse 😂 are not hard to understand. Honestly if marbles was more popular than the rugby an…(more)

290

Joe Frost

Editor

Joe Frost

Editor

As long as footy's on hold, let's retire these crappy cliches

With sport on indefinite hiatus, we’re having to get by on words rather than actions.

As long as footy's on hold, let's retire these crappy cliches

Joe Frost

Editor

As long as footy's on hold, let's retire these crappy cliches

Dane Eldridge

Expert

Dane Eldridge

Expert

Origin speculation to proceed despite no footy as ‘essential service’

Concerns about rugby league’s death have been laid to rest, with the near-fatal collapse of the game no barrier to debating Mitchell Pearce’s halfback spot for the Blues.

Origin speculation to proceed despite no footy as ‘essential service’

Dane Eldridge

Expert

Origin speculation to proceed despite no footy as ‘essential service’

Stuart Thomas

Expert

Stuart Thomas

Expert

This is not how the A-League was supposed to die

Over the years, an endless stream of theories have circulated around the reasons behind the impending and inevitable death of the A-League.

This is not how the A-League was supposed to die

Stuart Thomas

Expert

This is not how the A-League was supposed to die

Tom Rock

Expert

Tom Rock

Expert

The winners and losers of abandoning the 2020 NRL season

Putting aside the crippling financial pain being felt across the great game of rugby league, it’s clear that some players and clubs will fare far better than others if the 2020 NRL season is suspended.

The winners and losers of abandoning the 2020 NRL season

Tom Rock

Expert

The winners and losers of abandoning the 2020 NRL season

Geoff Parkes

Expert

Geoff Parkes

Expert

The Wrap: Rugby’s ugly in-fighting just got uglier

Last Tuesday, Rugby Australia CEO Raelene Castle stood in front of staff and announced that most of them were stood down from their jobs, effective immediately.

630

Geoff Parkes

Expert

The Wrap: Rugby’s ugly in-fighting just got uglier

630

Stuart Thomas

Expert

Stuart Thomas

Expert

My ten greatest sporting documentaries

In 2016 I wrote a piece for The Roar entitled My ten greatest sporting reads.

109

Stuart Thomas

Expert

My ten greatest sporting documentaries

109

The Roar

Revelaed: The full team the Wallabies must pick for their next Test, as voted by you

Over the past two weeks, we’ve asked you to pick the Wallabies team for whenever it is they next play, including the starters, the bench, and the captain. It’s time now to reveal that full side.

Revelaed: The full team the Wallabies must pick for their next Test, as voted by you

The Roar

Revelaed: The full team the Wallabies must pick for their next Test, as voted by you

Spiro Zavos

Expert

Spiro Zavos

Expert

How to watch a game of rugby: Part 3

My friend, the late Warwick Roger, used to have a ‘Cockadoodle Do’ section in the Metro magazine he edited so brilliantly which listed all the awards his writers had won in the previous year.

Spiro Zavos

Expert

How to watch a game of rugby: Part 3

The Roar

Help us pick the greatest Ashes XI of all time

A few evenings ago, Shane Warne named his greatest Ashes XI. So we’re going to do the same.

252

Help us pick the greatest Ashes XI of all time

The Roar

Help us pick the greatest Ashes XI of all time

252

Roar of the Crowd

View All

Tigerbill44

Roar Guru

One-Ashes wonders

It must be made clear that one-Ashes wonder aren’t the players who played in just one Ashes series.

Ruairidh MacDonald new author

Roar Rookie

Which country is the world's best at sport?

Every time the Olympics come around, or perhaps at any moment for our sport-mad brains, we wonder which country is the best at sport.

Other Sports

Doran Smith

Roar Guru

Picking the AFL's best players aged 27 to 29

Jayden Head

Roar Rookie

NBL 2019-20 player ratings: Melbourne United

Basketball

Stephen Shortis

Roar Rookie

AFL top 100: The champions of Collingwood

Giacomo Bruno

Roar Guru

A-League season review: Central Coast Mariners

Doran Smith

Roar Guru

Left-footed A-League All Stars

Mark Scarfe

Roar Rookie

'The Test' a rare insight into a reformed Australian side

In a world in the depths of a chilling crisis none of us had ever imagined, the suspending of sporting competitions means nothing.

Joshua Kerr

Roar Guru

How to get your sporting fix while in lockdown

As I write this, I am entering the third week of lockdown in the UK brought on by the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Avatar

Roar Guru

From the Vault: AFL Round 4

Avatar

Roar Guru

From the vault: NRL Round 5

The one and only Adrian Megale

Roar Guru

When the NRL relaunches, this is how it should look

troyhanning345129

Roar Rookie

Falling: 2003-04 Boston Celtics in review

Basketball

AAP

NRL conference plan 'not fair': Tallis

Ken Catchpole's Other Leg said Roar Guru

Latest Comments

Is the Bell ringing for change in the Wallabies front row?

194

It’s quaint that you (and the mob) didn’t know that Nic.
Because the kid looks like a real deal. Captain of junior …(more)

mzilikazi said Roar Pro

Evening Who. All well over here so far. We are keeping a very low profile…..early morning walks, then sticking to our …(more)

Nicholas Bishop said Expert

I guess Blues’ supporters might say that their organisation is as suspect as the Tahs in respect of player development!?

Plans are underway to launch a Rugby Club World Cup

jacko said Guest

Cad it actually says SR sides so I guess they mean SR sides…

What really is News Corp's rugby end game?

290

Lance Boil said Roar Rookie

The intentions of News corpse 😂 are not hard to understand. Honestly if marbles was more popular than the rugby an…(more)

Videos

View All

The Roar

Quade Cooper's gridiron trick throw is out of this world

Have your say

Timo said Guest

😂 😂what is so insane about that kids been doing this in the backyards forever .

Quade Cooper's gridiron trick throw is out of this world

0:31

now watch

Quade Cooper's gridiron trick throw is out of this world (0:31)

The Roar

You won't see a bigger hit up than this

When the coach tells you to run it straight and hard!

0:27

The Roar

You won't see a bigger hit up than this

0:27

The Roar

AFL's new American superfan's audition tape is... actually pretty impressive

Pat McAfee, you’re a natural!

AFL's new American superfan's audition tape is... actually pretty impressive

1:06

The Roar

AFL's new American superfan's audition tape is... actually pretty impressive

1:06

The Roar

The new AFL Evolution 2 ad has just dropped and it looks epic

And the best news- the launch has been brought forward to April 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic!

The new AFL Evolution 2 ad has just dropped and it looks epic

1:26

The Roar

The new AFL Evolution 2 ad has just dropped and it looks epic

1:26

The Roar

Apparently even Kane Williamson's dog is good at cricket

Get her into the New Zealand slips cordon when we can go outside again!

0:36

The Roar

Apparently even Kane Williamson's dog is good at cricket

0:36

The Roar

Swans coach John Longmire's stirring 'pre-match' address gets absolutely nothing from the family

Deserved more than what it got, surely!

Swans coach John Longmire's stirring 'pre-match' address gets absolutely nothing from the family

0:41

The Roar

Swans coach John Longmire's stirring 'pre-match' address gets absolutely nothing from the family

0:41

The Roar

AFL legend Stephen Silvagni gets absolutely destroyed by his son in home boxing bout

This is the most brutal barrage SOS has endured since his time as Carlton list manager!

AFL legend Stephen Silvagni gets absolutely destroyed by his son in home boxing bout

1:01

The Roar

AFL legend Stephen Silvagni gets absolutely destroyed by his son in home boxing bout

1:01

Club Roar

View All

The Roar

Local footballer decides to try kicking a medicine ball... and the result is predictable

0:19

The Roar

Mar

The junior highlights that pushed Latrell Mitchell to stardom

1:08

The Roar

'That's filthy!' Beach rugby maestro leaves a trail of destruction in his wake

Mar

0:31

Club Roar

Editor

Local defender gets the luckiest of breaks as horrific own goal... is disallowed

Feb

Local defender gets the luckiest of breaks as horrific own goal... is disallowed

0:24

Club Roar

Editor

You'll never see a more epic winning try than this

Feb

You'll never see a more epic winning try than this

0:52

Club Roar

Editor

MASSIVE left hook sends mouthguard flying

Feb

Local footy player dislocates shoulder... while celebrating his match-sealing goal (0:35)

Longform Read

View All

Harry Jones

Roar Guru

Harry Jones

Roar Guru

Winning in Tokyo: Finding the sun

As the last century ended, Nelson Mandela was resigning from public office. His 1999 farewell speech to Parliament closed with his dream that “all our children may play in the sun” and warning “the long walk continues”.