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Back in 2003, I was a butter-fingered winger for the Newcastle representative touch football team. Playing in the link position (one in from the…
This is the second article proposing how to improve the NRL fixture and scheduling. Part 1 addressed giving teams a more balanced set of…
The NRL draw is inherently unfair, with not all teams meeting one another on a home-and-away basis. The fact that those teams facing one…
Despite the rollout of vaccines, bubbles and quarantines will continue to be unavoidable in the sporting world for the foreseeable future. Cricket, with so…
In this final edition of Super League Revisited, the last 'what ifs' concern the NRL's 14-team rationalisation. What if no teams faced the chopping…
This week's edition focuses on the warring competitions' fight to recruit clubs and establish themselves. What if Super League moved to the Central Coast?…
In this final sequence of the look back on the Super League era looking at the events of the period and their consequences, I…
This edition is a re-look at the years affected by the war. Apologies if some details, like finals formats, seem like data dumps, but…
Part 5 of this Super League series is the second half of the A-Z focus on select players and other stakeholders. The previous four…
This look back on the Super League conflict, in true 2020 style, went on an unscheduled hiatus but is now going to run its…
After looking at the clubs that defected to Super League and those that remained loyal to the ARL, this time, I want to review…
Following Part 1, which focused on the clubs aligned to the Super League, I'm now going to look back on the ARL and their…
Due to COVID-19, the 25th anniversary of the last great disruption to the game - the Super League war - has passed with little…
Michael Lamonato penned a recent article about the excessive Formula One schedule. If Miami and Vietnam present viable models for 2020, that would bring…
Let's face it, sport and intelligence don't always mix. Just look at the Sunwolves playing half of their games in Singapore. Or the Australian…
On the week before the AFL finals six teams must travel interstate for their clashes. Facing a potential elimination match the following week against…
Normally the fans don’t play the underdog line this early.
Round 4 Team Lists Late Mail: Key Raiders injury leads to Origin star return, Newcastle lose Gagai to 'medical condition'
That’s like allowing offsides if the player got there with time to spare: “Well, if he’d started a few steps back, he still would have scored.”
Moses-inspired Parra prove they're finals contenders but Manly seething as Bunker lacks 'common sense' with no-try call
First sentence good. Second sentence slanderous.
'Grow up': France coach still crying salty tears over RWC exit, makes 'disgusting' claim about Kiwi ref
Perhaps Penrith put the cue in the rack once the result was beyond doubt.
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
Incidental contact doesn’t give you blurred vision.
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
I would argue with the reintroduction of the fines system, the NRL abandoned the premise of protecting players. How many acts in the last couple of years have lightened NAS’s wallet without costing him game time?
'Duty to bend' debate over Walsh hit overshadows 'absolute genius' Cleary torturing Broncos in statement Panthers win
I don’t think TPJ’s high school had a careers advisor.
'I haven't told Wayne yet': Broncos or bust - Pangai knocks back Bennett's Dolphins offer for NRL return
They’d get in each other’s way.
NRL Round 3 Team Lists: Bad news for painful Haas injury, Cook benched? O'Brien opens up on Hastings axe amid halves chaos
I, for one, welcome our fly-in fly-out overlords.
CA makes Perth call - where and when Australia's blockbuster Tests against India will be played
I trust him fielding kicks and organizing the defense. His positioning needs work, but that can be addressed. When Walker was playing fullback in Mitchell’s absence a few years back, I wondered if Walker would stay at the back and Mitchell would play in the 6 jersey. Too late to try that now, unfortunately, given Walker is slowing down.
Too much to Bear: Danger signs emerge as Rabbitohs start to unravel after years of near-misses
The only way such an event is ever going to happen is if a banned Russia wants a way to compete under their flag and stumps up the cash. It would be toxic (no pun intended) for sponsors, fans would recognize the lack of actual achievement, removing the narrative that would generate interest, and no active top-level athletes would want to associate themselves with the event. Magnussen is retired. If he gets an ‘enhanced’ world record, he’s not going to then get put on boxes of Weet-Bix.
Just imagine the interviews post-event:
“Congratulations John, a new world record!”
“First of all, I’d like to thank my GP, who defied his Hippocratic Oath to turn me into the grotesque caricature I am today, along with my coach who acquired the substances that are illegal in my home country… It’s been a long journey to get here, lots of events where I was competitive but podium positions just seemed beyond me. But now I feel so proud because I bridged the gap by ingesting performance-enhancing substances. It’s a true underdog story for the kids out there… I’m so excited; my heart is pumping at an irregular rate, just as it has since I entered my training camp.”
“You won a million dollar bonus. How will you spend it?”
“Chemo.”
'Someone will die': Olympic legend sounds harsh warning if Enhanced Games go ahead
*Pending BCCI approval.
CA makes Perth call - where and when Australia's blockbuster Tests against India will be played
Wasn’t Trashbag Deluxe a Demtel product spruiked by Tim Shaw?
CA makes Perth call - where and when Australia's blockbuster Tests against India will be played
Nisbet would also be prepared to play the game for a meat pie and a can of coke.
Exclusive: Wallaby refused to play for Rebels against Reds over outstanding debt
“Davo, you announced that you’re retiring after this game, which means that any suspensions would have zero impact on you. I hope you don’t use that knowledge to settle any old scores, or indeed any new scores. After all, conceding a 50 metre penalty that MIGHT result in us conceding a goal would be too great a penalty for putting our opponent’s best player… or players… on the sideline.”
Leigh Matthews is wrong - the AFL doesn't need a send-off rule, and introducing one would just make things messier
How would you feel if someone did a Barry Hall coward punch in a grand final and went on to be best on ground?
Leigh Matthews is wrong - the AFL doesn't need a send-off rule, and introducing one would just make things messier
When you say inside centre and outside centre, do you mean in roaming roles, or have we traveled 30 years back in time?
Too much to Bear: Danger signs emerge as Rabbitohs start to unravel after years of near-misses
True, but that means Waugh has little to no say in the matter, so his platitudes have no weight.
'We need to accelerate': Waugh admits RA behind schedule on Rebels future as tickets sold to ailing club's Lions clash
It’s a blurry line where it’s in the public interest to see an ‘incident’. If a player in any sport throws a coward punch, I want the opportunity to see it. That’s not out of bloodlust; rather to understand what occurred to determine what sanctions are appropriate. But I made a conscious effort not to watch the last ever delivery that Phillip Hughes faced. Certainly, that footage is a vital tool for those filing reports, but the details should be enough for the general public.
The Wrap: Reds light up Melbourne, while it's lights out for TV over Lienert-Brown concussion
They banned the practice (on-field) after that, but the footage lives on.
The Wrap: Reds light up Melbourne, while it's lights out for TV over Lienert-Brown concussion
Regarding replays, YouTube highlights of matches tend to insult their viewers by often not showing card incidents, yet still having time to show gimme conversations, people from the crowd walking into the stadium, and the teams running off at half-time. I think that the only things that should be excluded from telecast are disturbing injuries, and even there they should look to show a single replay from the least graphic perspective that informs the viewer what has occurred. We don’t need to gawk at an unconscious player, but we deserve to know that there is an unconscious player and what resulted in them being unconscious.
The Wrap: Reds light up Melbourne, while it's lights out for TV over Lienert-Brown concussion
Let’s see… they had better uniforms. That’s a positive, surely!
Hammer deserves Dally M votes this time around as Dolphins demolish Dragons in dramatic turnaround for both teams
100%. In terms of sponsorship, Adelaide has 2 big winter sporting teams, as opposed to Melbourne and Sydney having a dozen or more each. The Crows and the Power are not going to be usurped, but there’s surely some businesses who would want to put their branding on a different team.
Exclusive: 'We want $1 billion'- V'landy's bullish vision of expansion, new Cup comp and staggering wealth
I hate that kind of talk from coaches when talking about their own players, but since Ciraldo was talking about someone from the opposition, I think that his words were appropriate.
NRL Round 2 judiciary: Hughes in strife for ref bump, Nikora faces feather touch ban over Kikau hit, Luai charged twice
Tracey will miss out, but I’d rather JAC at fullback with Taaffe squeezed out.
Round 4 Team Lists Late Mail: Key Raiders injury leads to Origin star return, Newcastle lose Gagai to 'medical condition'