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"The Bunker was introduced to provide NRL review officials with world-class technology and enable them to deliver more accurate, efficient, consistent, and transparent decisions."…
Sports administration at any level is difficult. From being a treasurer or manager at a local footy club where everyone is a volunteer right…
I decided to write an article after, to my great shame, watching 100% Footy. Current ARLC chairman Peter V’Landys was a special guest and…
The Raiders season is heading towards a point in time where they will start looking towards their pre-season. For the past handful of seasons…
Well, here we all go again. Is this Groundhog Day? The referees are in the news. Because State of Origin is over we need…
Tasmanian media has, at various times, been saturated with calls for an AFL team. There is plenty of passion, but not much objective thought.…
A lot has been said about the NRL crowds after last weekend, and the question on many people's lips is: how do we revitalise…
What a weekend of games we had. All of the matches were not decided until the final minutes and offered great theatre. Some games…
Watching the Wallabies on Monday morning was almost too much. In fact I had to turn the TV over a couple of times, but…
Being a Wallabies fan is hard, it requires a certain level of dedication. There is no such thing as a fair weather fan, as…
I love a lot of sports, but one of my truly big passions is baseball. What do baseball and rugby league have in common?…
There was plenty of interest yesterday in the article Time for A-League supporters to take responsibility. It seems that there is a great divide…
Think for a moment how the Australian media would react if one of the biggest names in Australian sport tested positive to a banned…
It has been in the works for almost a year now. A rumour that has had all rugby and league fans in Tasmania looking…
The World Series of baseball is one of the great sporting events. While it is a purely North America spectacle, sports fans can appreciate…
The road to baseball's World Series is one step closer for four teams, with the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee…
Professional baseball is making a comeback in Australia. With six sides from the six major cities in Australia competing, it has the potential to…
I had an idea that came to me this morning. The NRL and the A-League are struggling to keep pace with the AFL in…
Comparing Sexton and Beale doesn’t really add that much…if we’re going to bring in older guys then Cooper and Foley offer way more than Beale.
What Joe Schmidt told Kurtley Beale about his Wallabies future
I 100% disagree about your red card comments. “accidents” happen is going to be the mentality that kills contact codes
Rugby is losing the long-term battle: What World Rugby must learn from Australia before it's too late
Which as a coach you’d hate to see. The play hasn’t even moved two passes away. If we talk about the good coaches having players in motion in offence then the same 100% applies on defence. Keeping the feet moving to be that tackling option
Motion sickness: How the NRL's best are crafting confusion and sending defences sideways
It really is. And the Sea Eagles one is a move that any footy team runs. Good to see that the classics still exist!
Motion sickness: How the NRL's best are crafting confusion and sending defences sideways
The gap opens up because two guys inside don’t push the players out because they’re a step behind. But super hard to defend agreed because the distances are so small. Difficult to force yourself to push out when you can reach the guy with the ball
Motion sickness: How the NRL's best are crafting confusion and sending defences sideways
That Titans one is particularly nice to watch, but sure helps that the gap is opened up by the Titans player jamming in early. That said the prop(?) and edge forward of the Titans weren’t in sync so the edge forward didn’t release and push out meaning the half panics and folds in.
I’m not surprised that the gaps and space can be created in that area of the field. There’s such a change in speed between players in that part of the field. But interestingly it seems that the gap that opens up between centre and half is actually being created by the seam between prop and edge forward being broken. Halves tend to get a bad wrap defensively, but it’s actually the big boppers losing shape that’s creating the space
Motion sickness: How the NRL's best are crafting confusion and sending defences sideways
Larkham might not have been a kicker. But then you need a decent kicker in the side…Any Matt Burkes lying around?
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
Maybe someone knows their calls?
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
You make a good point, I guess it was more a sleight on the RA and NSW rugby brains trust in particular that have depowered Australian scrums since at least 2003.
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
It definitely could have been. He was quite conservative. But to me that at least means that his team was in the fight towards the end. Sure, things weren’t always being finished in the championship minutes, but his team was going to be in with a chance. What Eddie was trying to do was get a team that would blow sides away, was never going to happen
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
When will Australian teams outside the Brumbies and Reds learn that the most important players on the field wear 1-5? All the woes of the teams, especially the Wallabies over a long time, have revolved around these 5 players…Which the article definitely touches on, but it’s absolutely a systemic problem throughout since Eddie was around 20 years ago
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
That indeed is the irony…I think it might be manageable from the perspective that the only cross over likely between Western United and the Rebels is around late Feb/early March through until the end of the A-League season. Well if finals are moved to AAMI park and some of the bigger Rebels matches also get moved then the crossover might be kept to a minimum with the two teams trying to avoid playing there on the same weekend or WU at least getting the Friday game and the Rebels Saturday for instance.
Western United's football-specific facility is a milestone worth celebrating
The problem for all the rectangle football codes is that they need each other. The NRL is maybe financially able to fund their own stadiums. But football and union are the poor cousins so probably just have to cope with being alongside one another…
Western United's football-specific facility is a milestone worth celebrating
It’s amazing how far people’s egos will cloud rational thought
What the Rebels players should be demanding to know, as Twiggy's ex-rival throws a familiar hail Mary
Don’t be so harsh on the Waratahs!
What the Rebels players should be demanding to know, as Twiggy's ex-rival throws a familiar hail Mary
The sewage treatment plant needs relocation as it is…but I agree that the TCA ground should have been an option also because the build could commence immediately.
How Tasmania's AFL dream could be killed by a $750 million dilemma
I thought I’d kick of proceedings with pointing out that both Bass and Braddon have the highest primary votes for the Liberal party. They really did lose some big numbers but they lost as much if not more in Franklin – but also worth considering who from the last election is no longer there. Gutwein got almost 3 quotas alone in the 2021 election.
I might also point out that Lambie’s party do not actually have a no stadium policy. They have intentionally gone to the election without policies as they knew they wouldn’t win an election. The only thing that I could specifically find out about their position on the stadium was that they were unhappy that it was so close to the centotaph.
Finally, comparing Bellerive to any potential stadium is farcical. They can barely have the 5 or so night BBL games at the moment with the Bellerive residents having kittens about the disruption. Would happen with an AFL side as well, probably worse. Couple that with the fact that there is no parking, decent transport or pre or post game venues then surely you can see past the capacity “issue”. By all means question the merits of the stadium due to the cost/location but raising the strawman of Bellerive being fit for purpose isn’t required.
How Tasmania's AFL dream could be killed by a $750 million dilemma
It’s great to hear from an administrator that seems genuinely thoughtful and measured in his responses. I’m hoping that the Walsh incident is the catalyst for change to head clashes, because it really is happening way too much
'Will that change in the NRL? It probably will': Why Walsh is the canary in the coalmine for concussion
Doesn’t seem to reach the controversy heights that it does in league. And I’d say that the block running is worse at times. But it’s probably seen as part and parcel of the game with runners going here and everywhere. League is a little more linear so decoys sit out like a sore thumb
Obstruction turning a 'simple' game into complicated mess of decoys and defenders milking penalties
As an aside I’d be curious as to what the relationship between 5 metre offside line and 10 metres and injuries…
More subs, player loans, cap changes?: How the NRL can be proactive to fix the early-year injury crisis
Seems like it would help. How does the top 30 work at the moment? Can teams bring people in for say a month, particularly during SOO then they go back out? I know salary cap issues come into play. But surely a boatload of fringe players wouldn’t cause issues? Although they have minimum wages and the Player’s Association would have a fit…
More subs, player loans, cap changes?: How the NRL can be proactive to fix the early-year injury crisis
There’s also the obvious length of the season, which starts way too early, involves way too many games, all to satisfy who?
Betting companies.
I’d say that some players are starting to get dangerously close to 40 games in a year with pre-season, full season, SOO and finals games all taken into account. Add the helter skelter nature of modern NRL games and you can begin to understand why there are increasingly large amounts of injuries occurring.
I’d also be curious as to the nature of the training these guys are doing during the week. Is there a high level of contact training? or is it more strength and conditioning?
More subs, player loans, cap changes?: How the NRL can be proactive to fix the early-year injury crisis
I remember running these plays as a kid when playing union. It was always called a block play because it’s main intention was to block the defenders essentially from coming through into the backfield. In hindsight it probably should have always been illegal but it was never policed. But now we have half the team, often more, in front of the ball most times a team tries to put on a play. In these scenarios the benefit of the doubt really needs to go to the defending team as they are the ones that are onside.
I’ve actually stopped watching much NRL lately. I thought it was all about pushing through the line and catching to ball past the block runner and not running behind them. I thought it was always a bit black and white for my tastes, but understood the rationale behind making it as clear as possible. Surely they’re not thinking about walking back the interpretation?
Obstruction turning a 'simple' game into complicated mess of decoys and defenders milking penalties
Well ironically it’s the cuddling type tackles that result in hip drops in the NRL…
There are only two ways rugby can go from here - and there's no middle ground between physicality and safety
He’s always been a cat and I’m not sure how the Bulldogs thought otherwise. He’s a jersey grabber defensively and has been for years…
Don't believe the hype: Why did Bulldogs fork out big bucks for the most overrated player in the NRL?