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2020 started as all new seasons start: slowly. The good teams had hardly woken up when the Armageddon arrived. Suddenly all sport professional, amateur…
I know that the world - including me - is in lock-down, and people are dying, losing their jobs and filled with fear about…
The Women’s T20 World Cup starts on February 21 when Australia meets India at the Sydney Showground Stadium. There are ten teams divided into…
I have been watching the Australian Open since I was 12. Each year we have great expectations that this year a local player will…
The silly season has started, which means players who are un-contracted or in the last year of their contract have the opportunity to look…
So the Roosters went back to back thanks to Trent Robinson, Cooper Cronk, the Coach Whisperer and the best defence we have seen since…
On Saturday night the Roosters will play the Melbourne Storm in a preliminary final at the SCG. This year the teams have been closely…
I was born in Manchester but grew up in Sydney with a father who loved cricket and used to take me to the SCG…
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We in Sydney are in the midst of a stadium crisis. At the beginning of this year we had the SFS (or Allianz Stadium)…
This weekend showed us what we should have known already: that the regions must be catered for to grow the NRL in Australia. The…
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All of my life I have followed English football. Having a father born in Manchester and a mother from Liverpool, I had three great…
Whether it's the northern climate or the huge competition among football codes, the four teams in Sydney and Queensland - and their supporters -…
Last Thursday night, I traipsed out to the SCG to see the Swans start their season again – this time against the enigma that…
The SCG Trust tried the old magic trick: now you see it, now you don’t. The trick was: watch us cater for every football…
The latest international cricket controversy deals with Ravindra Ashwin running out Jos Buttler for backing up too far from the bowler’s end in an…
The latest trolling example in the AFLW - and in sport in general - has struck Tayla Harris. A remarkable photograph of Tayla showing…
When politics and sport mix we sometimes experience a scenario that would not be out of place in a Lewis Carroll book. First some…
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Every year commentators eat their words when they forecast the end of the Swans playoffs run. Enjoy the meal
Keith Hurst
My 2019 AFL ladder prediction
Every year commentators forecast the end of the Swan’s run of Playoffs appearances only to eat their words. Enjoy the meal.
Keith Hurst
My 2019 AFL ladder prediction
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but yours is wacky. Why not suspend them for life?. Will that make you feel better?
You seem to be saying that we would be better off without them. But if they are in form they are the best in the squad.
A golden opportunity: Don't pick Smith and Warner
Mike
There is no question that your comments on Starc’s form are accurate. However your suggestion that he should be dropped is just the uninformed sort of comments that have been bedeviling Australian cricket since Durban. Oh he has 200 Test wickets. drop him anyway put someone else in who has 6 wickets.
By all means try to increase the depth in our bowling attack because as we know injuries are just around the corner, but to discard him after a lack-lustre summer is folly.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
What does Mitchell Starc have to do to be dropped?
Except for Finch who has lost his bearings at the moment, our ODI team put up a solid batting performance. I would have liked to see a little flexibility in the batting order with Maxwell in after the fall of Marsh’s wicket but 288 seemed a defendable total.
The big surprise was the excellence of Richardson and Behrendoff. Blooding new players is always good especially with your top bowlers rested.
More please.
Keith Hurst. Sports fanatic
Richardson and Handscomb star in ODI win over India
The Pucovski pick should not be an experiment but an investment in the future of Australian Test cricket. The selectors must give him a good opportunity to get used to the International game. Sri Lanka without Mathews is a good opportunity and a learning tour of UK is a must.
Picking Renshaw when apparently out of form is also an opportunity for him before the Ashes. He is at this time the best contender for Warner’s partner as opener. Keep the faith and don’t panic if there are a few low scores.
But Siddle must have been picked to cover a mass attack of measles among all of the bowlers. There can be no other explanation.
Keith Hurst – sports fanatic
Will Pucovski must be a two-year commitment, not a two-Test thought bubble
His latest exploits are not very impressive
Australia vs India: Where did it all go wrong?
I can’t understand the point you make about league union and AFL. All are now professional sports where money rules.
Australia vs India: Where did it all go wrong?
South Africa were not relying on him steady the side. They had a number of great players at the time
Australia vs India: Where did it all go wrong?
Funny! The whole Australian cricket public thinks they were.
Australia vs India: Where did it all go wrong?
Why are these changes so surprising. Both Finch and Mitchell have failed repeatedly in the last 6 Tests. The selectors had to do something or they would be criticised for repeating the same mistake over and over again.
If this doesn’t work more changes will be made for the Sri Lanka Tests.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Aaron Finch, Mitchell Marsh set to be dropped for Sydney Test
David you must be right. Legally it is not justifiable to withhold contract payments unless their contracts have been validly terminated. I do not remember reading that CA did this.
Therefore any attempt to start from scratch with these players would be a breach of their existing contract and would lead to a substantial claim for damages by the players.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic and lawyer
What's wrong with the baggy greens?
You have to feel sorry for the selectors as no one is putting their hands up for selection.
But you don’t recycle duds, you carefully introduce younger players and persevere with them. This should be done for the Sri Lanka tests, not SCG.
Renshaw must come back as the long term partner for Warner,
The Australian selectors are grasping at straws adding Labuschagne to the SCG squad
The lost art is not batting but irony. This article is soaked with it.
But seriously folks, all of the commentators are right. Until you have a serious first class back up to Tests it is unlikely that we will produce Test bats. It doesn’t always work. Look at Matthew Renshaw who killed them in England them came back to Australia and nothing!
Next year make sure that T 20 runs behind not in front of Shield cricket, more “A” tours keep the pathways open and sit back and hope. We may have to wait a few years but soon we will be producing centurions again.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Failing Test batsmen ordered back to Big Bash to "spend solid time in the middle"
Rubbish! You obviously know nothing about television and how to present a sporting event.
Rating the Fox Cricket commentators
Here is the problem! Fox’s timing was bad for everybody but Fox. If the MCG had not served up such a dud wicket we would be all talking about the cricket not old news.
What can Warner say that won’t bury him further?
Let it go don’t hound Warner but just get on with the season.
Keith Hurst
Bancroft’s BBL return must force CA clarification on Warner
Talk about a weak article, what is your response?
My first draft had rating scores, but I considered that my own figures are irrelevant to my comments on them. Choose your own figures.
As for being sexist, Isa impressed me not Brendan. I am glad he rocks your boat.
Keith Hurst
Rating the Fox Cricket commentators
I feel depressed when I heard Bancroft seem to say that ball tampering is equal to not fitting in to the team. Forget culture I would like to think that a grown man of 25 would know the difference between right and wrong. Although not a crime, ball tampering is against the rules and spirit of the game, not fitting in is a social problem. I have lost whatever respect I had for Bancroft.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Cameron Bancroft reveals Warner's involvement in ball-tampering saga
Remember Luke Keary: I think over the season he outperformed Widup. Apart from that can’t argue with the selections.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
The 2018 NRL team of the year
I agree with Paul. Why have a negative depressing headline and then 6 positive headings about non scandalous events. What scandals have I missed.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Australian cricket's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
At last a scribe who has his finger on the right problem.
Lack of aggression is a fools way out to explain why we lost a cricket match.
The best teams are those with the better and most consistent bowlers, batters and fielders.
Skill and performance are what counts and that is what our players,coaches and high performance people should concentrate on
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Australian greats can't see the 'good hard cricket' lie
I read your article 3 times and still don’t get your point.
Culture is defined as social behaviour in a society. If most people think that a group’s behaviour is not satisfactory they blame it’s culture.
The Longstaff report thought that Cricket Australia and their cricket teams behaved in a fashion that was reprehensible and not in accordance with society’s expectations. You may or may not agree but something is wrong and we are losing. Shock, horror.
You can’t change “culture” by selecting a different team or firing the CEO or shaking hands. It takes time.
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Aspirations versus reality: Cricket and our national culture wars
The issue that heads your article is very important it but every comment whinges about individual selections, not what the topic is.
Selectors do not have a divine right. They must rise and fall with the success or failure of their selections. As we do not know which selector favours which player one has no evidence to discard or retain the selectors.
So our only criteria should be success and/or consistency. On these grounds the present panel must go.
Another panel should be appointed. I have no qualifications to suggest who should be on it and I really don’t mind. Let the chairman pick a new panel or the coach. Even ask Steve Waugh or Shane Warne to nominate it.
Then give them 2 years to see how they go.
Isn’t this the fairest way?
Keith Hurst sports fanatic
Why Australia needs some new selectors
The board in an attempt to cover their potential liability is going to blame its employees for this act. but the President was very prominent at the time. What will happen to him? You will see someone’s head will roll but not the directors.
But it is unlikely that Alen Stajcic will get his job back.He will have to be satisfied with a hefty payout from FFA.
Keith Hurst
Why can’t the FFA come clean?