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Also against Costa Rica, he wasn’t really required to play. When he was involved, he didn’t look overly convincing. Nothing new.
I’m not sure of any sport where a player can get away with saying their career will end of their own accord. That’s not how professional sport works.

I wouldn’t say he deserved the booing. It’s almost an inevitable by-product of poor performance (on and off field), as seen by educated football fans. He should’ve taken it in his stride, constructive criticism? Look at Stuart Broad.

Did Neill deserve to be booed in Sydney?

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2013

As Rob said above, why doesn’t it translate to the senior team? How does FFA handle the transition, are there basically two completely different structures in operation? Even on a technical level the U20s appeared more capable than the senior side has recently.

Repeating all other sentiments. It was the most I’ve enjoyed watching an Australian National team in a long time, they continually stuck to the plan and remained (on the whole) fairly composed.

Evidence generation next are armed with the tools to play and play out

Now need an LB, DT, CB….

2013 NFL Draft: Live blog, updates [VIDEO]

Other Sports

Hey hey, as a big Saints fan….. I can only chuckle along with you.

Nope, can’t say I agree with anything in the article. All I know is when The Last Post is played and the minute’s silence is held, I’ll be shedding a tear (and I don’t even have any family ties involved with the war). No better way (other than the services and parades) to mark the day and what it means, than by sitting back and watching arguably one of the most passionately played sporting matches in the calendar year.

Have an open mind and see the bigger picture. Well done on generating discussion though.

Anzac day footy blurs the boundaries between sport and war

AFL

I think it’s Jo Rowsell of the Women’s British Team Persuit squad this year, she was diagnosed with that hair loss disorder at a young age. I think it’s quite inspirational for her to get to where she is now (Olympic Gold!!??) considering what she had to go through at a young developing age. Comeback? not sure, but definately inspirational.

Olympic comeback stories: what is your favourite?

Olympics

I mentioned he’s served his time in the context that he accepted whatever punishment was given to him. Blame the governing bodies for that, as the handling of the whole case was a debacle.

I’ve noticed, Froome hasn’t done “that” much work for Wiggins. The work horses are Knees, Boassan Hagen (that sounds like an exotic beer…), Porte and Rogers. The only work Froome has really done has been in the last few kms of these mountain stages, where i’m almost certain the back up plan is for Froome to power on for the stage win, as happened in Stage 3 or whatever it was.

Team orders maybe, but i’m going to read into it 🙂

Cracks appearing in Team Sky via warring WAGs?

Though, I agree with your point. Today’s refereeing is of a terrible standard.

Poor refereeing will make fans walk away

League

Meh, chicken wing this, leg wrap that, wrestle head butt blah blah. It’s part of today’s game. Watch any game from 15 years ago or earlier and it was simply, run-tackle-get up and play the ball.

The players of today are prima-donnas. Origin died about 10 years ago.

Similar to the most attacking rider of the day award, I wonder if they can do a similar “biggest workhorse” award based on work done (time on the front) and effect on the result? These type of guys need more recognition.

Hansen admits Tour workload is daunting

I think it’s tough at this early stage to expect Renshaw and Goss to perform well as the dedicated sprinters on their respective teams against the likes of Cav and Greipel, who have done this all their careers. I’m sure the Aussies will improve with time.

For Renshaw, I haven’t really seen any resemblance of a lead-out train for him, so luck and opportunity (and maybe a headbutt or two :P) will greatly influence his results. Orica GE will gel more over time and potentially start to succeed, but clearly at this point, Cav and Greipel are the men to beat in the flat out sprint.

Aussie sprinters not fast enough

Take the best squad from Midfielder’s list and put them up against the Socceroos team that played Japan. I’d be interested to watch. Perhaps the youngsters will pass the ball and play with some dash, while the seniors go route 1 to “St.Timmy”?

Where are the Socceroos heading?

Thanks for the feedback Damo.
Hopefully things will only get better from here.

Maybe a more balanced video source: http://youtu.be/Cuc9Tfwf_38 . If you don’t see it that way, at least enjoy the commentary and graphics.

My point exactly.

Well, Japan is actually ranked 23rd in the FIFA rankings at present (http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html). If you look further down the list, Australia is ranked 24th. If you look into those numbers a little more, you’ll notice that the rankings released prior had Australia ranked 21st and Japan 30th.

I wasn’t implying anything about technical skill being a measure of a side, but you’d expect a World top 25 side to have some ability (good God, we’re 24th??)

We are smart and determined i guess, but those alone aren’t going to get us far.

What’s Rinus Michels and Total Football got to do with anything I wrote?

Thanks for the feedback Tom.
I agree with your point about the results “given the circumstances” and maybe I should have recognised that a little more. Osieck is also doing a fairly good job with the resources at hand.