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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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A quick trivia question: What do Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh, Pakistan and England have in common?
Make no mistake, the Australian test XI line up this summer will be one of the worst seen at home for a generation.
On 15 August 1948 Don Bradman strolled out to the crease in his final match, and two balls later he walking back to the pavilion. He didn’t know it at the time, but that was his final innings – Australia belted England by an innings inside four days.
I posted a comment in a Roar article recently where I said that Adam Gilchrist would not make my all time XI.
Now that the international season is all but over let’s have a look at trying to grade the TV and radio networks that offered their services during the Ashes and the ODIs.
Last week, the NSW government caved in and gave the green light for a complete rebuild of the SFS, alongside the that of the Olympic Stadium, at the exorbitant price of $705 million.
Amid some great positive vibes surrounding the Rugby League World Cup, there have also been people commenting that the tournament is a bit mickey mouse, the format is a joke, the scheduling is off, that it’s essentially just musical chairs for NRL players, and that Australia is going to romp it in.
Rugby league has turned controversy into a refined art.
With Ange Postecoglou likely to have said farewell to the national coaching job this time next month, FFA need a change of strategy and philosophy. Forget hiring a replacement from overseas – forget even hiring a football coach!
We are in the middle of that one week every four years – that one week where the composition of teams for the next World Cup will be 90% locked in.
Congratulations to Cameron Smith for winning his second Dally M medal.
The current review policy of making referees guess ‘try’ or ‘no-try’ seriously limits the capacity of the bunker and is leading to some genuinely embarrassing calls, while allowing the on-field referees to pass the buck on anything difficult.
In a desperate bid to be noticed by the selectors for a potential Bangladesh series, Usman Khawaja has taken the extraordinary step of changing his surname from the invisible ‘Khawaja’ to the far more prominent and popular ‘Marsh’.
February. One of two months of the year where the winter footballs and cricket have little, if anything going on for them in Australia.
Show of hands: how many of you were actually aware that Sri Lanka and India are different countries? Be honest.
We’ve all shared our thoughts on everything the recent Test series had to offer – including the magical powers of lozenges – with the exception of how the most important team fared: the Channel Nine commentary team.
The AFL season has now drawn to a close with the most unlikely-but-not-that-unlikely premiership to the Dogs.
We are nearing the end of the games of the 31st Olympiad, and inevitably there will be the bevy of articles (such as this one) that will analyse how history will view them.
Let’s be honest, it wasn’t the finest evening for Australia in the pool on Day 3.
Andrew Johns I’m fairly sure was conceived purely on ‘the flow’ judging by how much he talks about it.
Two simple ways to solve the NRL’s creeping penalty trend
And adding into the mix the Tigers appear to be doing a lot better under Madge than Cleary too.
Is Ivan Cleary actually a good coach?
A lot of pressures on the bowlers there.
Australia would need to win the toss and bowl first. That batting line up couldn’t chase a 340+ score.
England are either gonna get 400 or 150. Australia would need to hope for 150 with that batting line up.
Not criticising your selections, David. There’s scarce sustained hitting power in the squad.
What will be Australia's first choice Cricket World Cup lineup?
I want to see the game move towards season long management of fair play, similar to what football does.
The NRL already has a demerit based system when it comes to suspensions, why not widen this to all penalties in a game. 15 points per penalty. If you are penalised twice in a game, 30 points for the second penalty. Sin-bins are 50.
And for every 100 points accrued, it’s a mandatory one week suspension (just like how 3 yellow cards in football is a one week suspension).
And these are added onto a players existing carry over for reportable offences.
It would naturally drastically reduce penalties. Particularly those players who are already sitting on 60-70 carry over points.
Spare us this 'emerging trend' rubbish, Annesley. Deliberate cheating is entrenched
Nor I to read it.
Spare us this 'emerging trend' rubbish, Annesley. Deliberate cheating is entrenched
Tim, I do believe you missed your calling as chief hydrological AND hydrodynamical engineer.
Either way – a fab article, and (as usual) right on point.
However, while refs are not given the appropriate support that they deserve by the game’s administrators (who instead allow Phil Gould and Andrew Johns to attack them at every opportunity) this isn’t going to change.
Spare us this 'emerging trend' rubbish, Annesley. Deliberate cheating is entrenched
A really, really good idea.
Spare us this 'emerging trend' rubbish, Annesley. Deliberate cheating is entrenched
But…but…what about the “flow”?
Spare us this 'emerging trend' rubbish, Annesley. Deliberate cheating is entrenched
Good work Phil Gould.
Sows the field, then puts WAY too much roundup on the crop, lights a match and walks away.
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak granted immediate release from Panthers
You know, Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for about 27-28 years, roughly from age 44 to about 72. On being released, he decided there was no point spending his life intoxicated with thoughts of revenge.
Quite right.
But it’s worth reading up on the ANC post-apartheid/post-1994 elections. Mandela may not personally have held a grudge, but he didn’t exactly go to measures to stop others from exercising revenge either.
He was always strangely quiet on it.
I digress…
A letter to Alan Jones on the matter of Israel Folau
But one thing I can add, is that speech which should be repressed, is anything from extremists, be they religious, political, or whatever. It’s the extremists, or fundamentalists, or ideologues, who are the problem of the world.
Hear hear.
The problem is, Folau has quite obviously been ‘descending’ down the path of fundamentalism, extremism and hard ideology.
The post may only be the beginning of something much worse, and it’s why it’s better to cut it off at the pass.
Fred Nile started out with this type of stuff, then he descended into absolute buffoonery by holding public “pray for rain” sessions on Mardi Gras day.
A letter to Alan Jones on the matter of Israel Folau
Qantas mourns your loss. That Jetstar flight to the gold Coast will be particularly noticing your absence
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
@tander
I’m ignoring you on account of your rank homophobic comments on other articles.
You’re about as worth while to our nation and dog poo. The latter at least fertilizes lawn
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Dude,
Inserting a philosopher into a post doesn’t make you smart.
Who Qantas aligns itself with internationally is utterly irrelevant to this issue.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Someone is a sore loser.
I don’t give a toss what religion you are. Enforce it on me, then we have a problem.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
That is true.
Way too many knocks on the head.
He’s also taking far too much advice from his father…who is suspect is pushing him down this path.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
The miracle would be him successfully overturning this.
He has no chance.
A pretty clear breach of the contract and so any court or commission will hold.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Hold up – women can vote? That means they are allowed out of the kitchen?
But those black people…they are still ‘fauna’ right? We haven’t changed that yet, right?
So true Ruckin…bigotry is as timeless as a Ming vase.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Hey….cancelling those Virgin flights then, pal?
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Anon has been absolutely silent since he learned Virgin is UAE owned.
He’s now thinking how he can live without his car.
And soon, he’ll be thinking how he can sustain his retirement without middle east investments.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
Suck it up, then.
This has nothing to do with free speech.
Will Raelene Castle survive the Folau scandal?
You can choose not to do the other things.
How can you still not get this?
Will Raelene Castle survive the Folau scandal?
“We”
Lol – now your telling us you have a companion.
Folau fired: Rugby Australia axe Israel
I still like Tim Gore’s idea of a 3 point penalty kick for any penalty conceded inside the 20.
Also – spruiking my idea, of 15 demerit points per penalty, and every 100 points accrued is an automatic week suspension. A second penalty in a match is 30, and all subsequent penalties in the match are 40.
It would have meant Sam Burgess would have been suspended a week + carry over change over his blatantly poor sportsmanship against the Raiders.
Two simple ways to solve the NRL’s creeping penalty trend