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A passionate Hawthorn fan, I also love the Storm, Liverpool and the Portland Trailblazers. Love the small stories hidden within the big story that sport often throws up and am a tragic for a good sports doco. Love the Olympics, mma/boxing, tennis, netball you name it!
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I an Victorian and barrack for a big Victoian club but always thought the AFL are biased against WA/SA and this 100% confirms it. The teams and finals should be relocating to one or both of these states not QLD. Crazy
AFL announces ten-week Queensland hub
Great article, Robbie. This is a great card really worthy of some focus. The main event is a barnburner, two young lions at the top of their game, T-City’s Ju Jitsu is incredible and he may have the best submission game in the UFC but I think Max is in the P4P argument right now and is incredible striking will probably get the job done. Look forward to these guys going up to lightweight in the next couple of years, a four way tourney with Khabib and Tony Ferguson makes for some incredible match ups.
In regard to the woman’s match I think you’ve made an error with this comment “Joanna has beaten Valentina when the two met at strawweight” – The Bullet hasn’t fought at straweight in MMA, they have fought in Muay Thai many years ago (3x), and Valentina won every time. It’s like a smaller version of Cyborg v Nunes, two incredible female fighters but the bigger stronger woman has to be strongly favoured
Why you should watch UFC 231 this weekend
Isn’t a Melbourne v Richmond GF already locked in?, following the mainstream footy media, I didn’t know anyone else was still in it…. (I get it, a third fairytale in consecutive years makes for a great footy story and good for the long suffering fans and non-competing fans but sheesh)
The Roar’s AFL expert tips and predictions: Semi-finals
There is undoubtedly too much dead space over the pre-finals by week/weekend but anything involving getting players who have just finished their season to front up for a mickey mouse carnival/game is a bad idea. Similarly, even though I wish it weren’t the case, anything involving up and coming prospects won’t work either as comps will still be running nationwide this early in the piece. Moving the Brownlow to the bye weekend makes a lot of sense, understand it probably needs to be on the Friday night, but if you could do the Brownlow on the Saturday night and maybe the All Australian on the Friday night it’s pretty solid filler.
Even just having the brownlow on the Friday night and ch7/fox going all out with a ‘That was the season that was’ kinda thing for the Saturday night with ex players/analysts doing a panel previewing all of the finalists, key players, matchups, predictions etc… could be good momentum builders and doesn’t even players and partners rocking up to a glitzy event two nights in a row (a negative of my above idea)
If the AFL wants to keep the pre-finals bye, it has to make more of it
Fantastic for Australianfootball. I’d say this a a bigger result than if the socceroos win the Asian Cup in January even, as great as that will be if it happens. WSW playing out a draw to win in such a hostile environment is fantastic, for Australian sport and for the A-League
Western Sydney Wanderers claim Asian Champions League crown
Exactly! That’s the bit I didn’t get about this article. Wasn’t Eddie bascially say – in crude terms admittedly, as is sometimes/often his style – that Western Sydney is soccer heartland and The Giants are doomed to fail. Using that as the intro and the punchline to the article made no sense to me. Nevertheless WSW are a massive success, had all the right ingredients in terms of demographic and popularity of the game but then on field success and great branding has taken it to another level, good on them! Maybe the Giants should move to Canberra as suggested above (or Tassie!)
Irony not lost as AFL begs western Sydney football fans for a leg-up
As you’ve eluded to I think it has or is already happening/happened. The Boks are clear #2 and don’t look like shifting downwards for a while. In fact one could argue the Boks are as likely to move up to #1 as they are down to #3 in the next few years. In relation to Australia, you can talk about attitude to winning all games and respect all opponents equally and that is fair enough, you can also talk about discipline and that is more than fair enough but to be honest the best way for the Wallabies to have serious #2 or #1 aspirations long term is to grow the code at the grass roots. Rugby is clearly the #4 football code in Australia until that changes and it moves to #2 or #3 among the football codes then I can’t see the Wallabies consistently being #1 or #2 in the world on a regular basis. It just has to do with increasing the depth of the talent pool (when you can replace gun A with gun B pretty easily then gun A is less likely to be undisciplined as they know they are replaceable)
How to become the best in the world? Become the second best
With Beams and Christensen thrown in with Rockliff and Hanley and the emerging players like Aish and Taylor, as well as the return from injury of Leunberger and Rich I think a lot of pundits are predicting a bright future for the Lions over the next couple of years. Collingwood will be a very young side next year now that Maxwell, Ball, Lumumba and ,although he is young himself, Beams are gone. They’ll obviously need time to rebuild. Pendlebury and Cloke are only 26-27 and there are guys coming through so there window could re-open in 2-3 years. Brisbane would be a better chance for finals than Collingwood in 2015 for sure but that doesn’t mean the pies are out of it for the next 5+ years or anything particularly with their resources. The obvious other point is that of course Beams is going to say “Brisbane” to that question, any other answer would be weird.
"We can play finals in 2015" - Beams confident of Lions' prospects
Yeah agreed. The Kangaroos were depleted and maybe made some poor selection choices with the forwards but to be honest the kiwis winning plus the closeness of the England v Samoa game (was a top game in my opinion) is great for the international game. The Kangaroos just dominating every game/tournament they play doesn’t do much for the promotion of the game as an international sport. The curtain raiser idea was great from the armchair persepective. Though we do want the international game to stand on it’s on two feet I reckon playing some other internationals as curtain raisers to the other Four Nations games would’ve been good for the game, e.g. play the Fiji v Lebanon game before NZ v Samoa or something like that. Maybe a PNG v Tonga game before one of the matches (just thinking of proximity, obviously Scotland v Wales in Melbourne is a stretch logistically for example, though it would be a good curtain raiser to England v Australia, I’m sure plenty of English fans would get there early for that one).
Kiwis upset Kangaroos in Brisbane
It’s a good point. I guess we probably shouldn’t compare NRL and AFL to the NRC but to Super Rugby which means NRC should be compared to say VFL and QLD and NSWRL respectively. I know it is a national comp but there is a higher club competition for fans to generate passion about (and then obviously international rugby to boot), there is only so much hate to go around. Union is probably my second sport behind AFL if I’m honest but I muster up the most passion in my rugby fandom for Wallabies v RSA and NZ, followed by Rebels v Tahs, Reds, Crusaders and Bulls. I don’t know I can then muster any more passion (hate) for our NRC side, though I will go watch a few games each season no doubt.
Why it's important to love to hate
Plus a knock down. So 49-45.
Mundine vs Clottey: Live round-by-round boxing updates, plus undercard
While we are killing time waiting for the entrances (I assume, I don’t have visual, working o/s so relying on your blog), can either you name any fighters in recent times that went down in weight in the latter stage of their careers with any success, none spring to mind for me.
Mundine vs Clottey: Live round-by-round boxing updates, plus undercard
Tristan/Jason Predictions for the main event? I’m thinking Mundine by close UD, height and reach advantage and Clottey’s ring rust being the difference
Mundine vs Clottey: Live round-by-round boxing updates, plus undercard
A fight and win against Andrade would be solid for Mundine but it just begs the question why he didn’t take the offer to fight Trout a couple of years back, had he won that, which I think most pundits would think he maybe wouldn’t have, big things could have happened for him, which at this late stage can’t. Never the less a win against Andrade would be admirable.
Mundine feeling the pressure ahead of Clottey bout
As a Hawks fan I actually really enjoyed seeing Buddy play well. He did all he needed to for our club – key member of two premiership sides. Sad to see him leave and understand fans frustration that it wasn’t to GWS but to a premiership rival but the schadenfreude on display after the first two weeks from our fans and many across the league did not sit well with me at all. I’d be happy if Buddy drew the Coleman with Roughy and won the Swans B&F and the Hawks won the flag.
Swans and Buddy answer their critics
Agreed. It no doubt makes all three nations better and the overall standard of competition better that they complete against each other on a regular basis. If it is financially unsustainable or the amount of travel is having a detrimental affect on the players longevity then the best option is to create the Champions league style concept among the three nations instead as has been suggested. The best clubs from the three southern hemisphere nations need to be playing each other in some format. If not Super Rugby because of $ and excessive travel then another mechanism. Mentioning Vancouver and San Diego negates all of the reasons mentioned for removing SARU from Super Rugby. Just silly stuff.
Super Rugby would be better off without South Africa
Really enjoyed the writing style, well done.
This is by far the biggest issue in terms of attracting the ‘general sporting public’/’casual fans’:
“It will be a challenge for rugby to set this game apart from any other Reds vs Waratahs encounter”
As much as, if done correctly, it will a true rep match with the passion and desire that brings on field and presumably a much higher standard than a standard SR match between the above sides, only the true believers will see it that way or see any real distinction from the above
Why rugby risks getting the State of the Union all wrong