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Try to picture a town of only 46,832 people. According to Wikipedia, the closest real town to this in Australia is Gladstone (45,000), although…
The Australian summer is over (not counting the Sheffield Shield, but sadly nobody seems to). So what better time to slip in another light-hearted…
Welcome to another fun, frivolous hypothetical cricketing XI. The concept this time is quite simple: come up with the best possible alphabetical XI in…
A talking point that often comes up regarding the state of cricket is the balance between bat and ball. Many people say that in…
This article is another contribution to the annual state-of-the-game hand-wringing festival, so if you’re over that already, I totally understand and you’re free to…
With all this imposed indoors time, I’ve been conjuring up any number of imaginary XIs, and here’s my latest idle idea: beautiful versus ugly.…
Despite the complete lack of cricket to watch, I’ve found this period of time to be quite conducive to random pondering and what ifs.…
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.…
Well this is, as you say, the Roar. The very point of this website is that you could write that article yourself, if you so thought it needs to be out there.
Back-up quicks strangle Black Caps in timely World Cup reminder as Aussies clinch series sweep in 10-over shootout
great read! i much prefer more in-depth stories like this, well done getting the person story
How heartbreaking junior snub turned AFL hopeful Harry Sheezel into a Rising Star
Thanks for another great article Tim, it feels like yours is the only column which actually analyses the game. Tiny nitpick: why use an americanism like “Period.”? It subtracts from an otherwise wonderful reading experience
Finals Fix: The Lions just cracked September after four years of trying - and everyone else should be terrified
Great article, thanks for the write-up! Not enough athletics coverage here. Were there any aussies in the final?
Déjà vu: Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s 1500m World Championship curse follows him to Budapest
Who’s written this article? It’s like that other one with “fearless” predictions – it’s easy to spout weird predictions like Australia being favourites if you hide behind an anonymous “The Roar”
The ultimate guide to 2022 T20 Cricket World Cup: Everything you need to know
The Westminster system is a parliamentary system, not a system of public law or of natural justice. The principles behind it and the Magna Carta are irrelevant to the issue of a private report from a private organisation asking enough/the right people.
Hawthorn’s interaction with Indigenous players is a reminder that off-field issues need to be better addressed
Yes the Crocs, that’s much better! And don’t worry there’s plenty of goannas in the local and national parks, don’t even need to go too far west. Was just trying to stick with the G thing, to at least make rebranding cheap
What's in a name? Should AFL's newest clubs make a change?
How about the Goanna Westies, or Western Goannas.
I like the Gold Coast Sharks idea.
for the new teams:
Tassie Devils, or if that’s too similar to the Demons, Tassie Lumberjacks?
NT Dingoes, Emus, Stingers, could be anything
What's in a name? Should AFL's newest clubs make a change?
Yes of course, he’d definitely be part of that. Not exclusively down to him, but crucial. I just wanted to point out that being part of a triple-premiership winning team is irrelevant to the other person’s claim that Selwood doesn’t kick well under pressure. Personally I think he’s an ok kick, better than Dangerfield but not first choice in that team for ball use. I’d also say neither his kicking nor any part of his game doesn’t seem to be too affected by pressure, but I don’t follow him closely enough to say that with too much confidence
This is Geelong’s premiership to lose and that must scare the heck out of them
Which he accomplished by being in a very good team, being very hard at the ball and regularly lifting the elbow & dropping the shoulder to get frees, among other things. More than one thing can be true at the same time
This is Geelong’s premiership to lose and that must scare the heck out of them
Scottish, but nice try 😁
‘Curse of verse’ spreading in sporting circles - English language versus vulgarians at the gate
Sigh, this idea of needing to “protect” a language as if it’s a delicate, inert object has gone back centuries, and for centuries it’s been misguided. Language is a process, and the worst thing you could do to a language is freeze it and prevent any changes happening to it. Latin says hello.
I think change should only be fought if it involves a loss of meaning, but that’s not happening with “verses/versing/verse”. At best it’s a whole new word, which is always great, and at worst it’s just reduplication of other forms we already have to describe that situation, which is not a problem as English is already stuffed with reduplication. In fact it often gives us several shades of meaning which a single expression wouldn’t give us
‘Curse of verse’ spreading in sporting circles - English language versus vulgarians at the gate
great read, especially for someone who didn’t watch either game. really felt the tension and heartbreak
AFL Saturday Study: North learned that footy is where dreams go to die. Someone just forgot to tell the Suns
I like it! That’d make them think twice (if they think at all)
Six Points: The dangerous problem the AFL must fix now, and is there a better solution than red cards?
I share your passion for athletics, but I can’t share your attitude towards its health. Without wanting to sound offensive, I’d call it defeatist – being underappreciated and poorly funded might be the current reality, but it doesn’t have to be. Would you not want the sport to be prominent, the athletes more appreciated and supported? If yes, then surely it’s worth making an effort to make that a reality, rather than passing it off as impossible.
I think I share your broad belief that a sport deserves government funding just because its participants say that they need it – ultimately gov funding is an expression of community interests, and people just aren’t interested in athletics then there’s no inherent reason it deserves more money. So I guess that means I agree with your statement that elite athletes can’t demand whatever money they want.
But I think that ignores a fundamental element of the sport – it’s more than just elites. There is so much grassroots participation in all forms of athletics, mostly running, which is in the community’s interest and which does need more funding. If we had more pathways from junior athletics to senior athletics, more stepping stones from casual running events up to organised competitions, more interaction between community athletes and elites, I think the community itself would benefit as well as our sporting performances on an elite level. Just my (more than) two cents worth
The 2022 World Athletics Championships will remind us of running's beauty despite track’s ongoing struggle
This annoyed me so much too. It’s frightening to think how many other people in the CA and media system might have this galactic sense of entitlement as well. I wonder how long it’s been since he’s gone down to a local park and seen what Australian cricket really is
'I was happy beside the bulls--- politics': Langer lashes CA over messy exit
apart from all that fuss, i reckon jayawardene would be a great choice for a white-ball coach, or even just a t20 maybe
'Desperate move from a desperate nation': England ridiculed for chasing Ricky Ponting as coach
I like your thinking, but I’d add that sometimes leaving the ball can be a tactical decision to test the bowler’s patience, to goad them into bowling it closer to the stumps where your strength may lie
2022 Sheffield Shield season review
Yep but not on that Sydney occasion. He took 6/9 in India, I think on debut?
The end of all things: Looking at Test cricket’s finishes
though i think i agree with you that in terms of cricket physiology isn’t changed much by money, in general athletic terms i don’t think you’re right. track and field is a very clear indicator, about as objective as a sport can be, that physiological performance does improve and change when money is pumped into research and facilities
'It bores me, so I don't know how anyone else can watch it': England star's staggering take on women's cricket
And there’s that story of a young kid wanting a pic of him and finding him smoking at the back of a stadium during that duplicitous smoking period. The kid didn’t care or probably know about the smoking thing, he just happily took a pic of his “hero”. The lovely Warne slapped the kid’s camera out of his hand so nobody would find out about his smoking and told him not to take anymore pics. What a guy 🤢 Not to mention the fraudulent “charity” he set up
BRETT GEEVES: Warne doco needed more Waugh, less puff piece to match MJ's Last Dance classic
Don’t think I’m outraged at your opinion – I disagree with it, but I’m fine with you having it (and expressing it) and am keen to discuss it if you are.
Why do you think sporting contests should not be vehicles for other causes/movements? I’d argue that things can be more than one thing, that being a sporting thing doesn’t mean it can’t also be another thing, simultaneously.
Why the Sydney Pink Test means so much to me
To sidestep the issue of choosing the bowlers, would be fun if, perhaps in Hobart, they just unleashed all the quicks and gave a few of the batters a rest. Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood, Neser, Richardson, Boland and I suppose Lyon if he wants to. They’d get enough runs to cover England, and that would be some insane bowling
'He's been titanic': Cummins names player of the series, targets world No.1 ranking and reflects on Ashes 'madness'
all good! i thought i’d missed someone
Stokes, Woakes and Foakes: Why England should dump Buttler
Of course I could have. As could any of us, but that’s irrelevant because it was only you who complained about the lack of such articles.
I just think it’s worth pointing out that when you passively aggressively criticise The Roar for not producing such an article (the purpose of which is to share views, not confirm one’s own as you mistakenly said), you are amusingly criticising yourself, because people such as you – for better or for worse – are The Roar.
And I do happen to agree that the March Cup final was more significant, but that wasn’t my point.
Back-up quicks strangle Black Caps in timely World Cup reminder as Aussies clinch series sweep in 10-over shootout