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Anyone who grew up in the 80s will remember this classic Tooheys ad. As a kid I dreamed of being Mike Whitney and hitting…
Olyroos coach Graham Arnold has recalled in-form Adelaide United striker Nathan Burns and rewarded Central Coast defender Nigel Boogaard for his A-League form with…
Australia have announced a full-strength line-up to play Japan in the opening Pool B match in Lyon on Saturday. Veteran full back Chris Latham…
Zac writes: The Roar is all about your sports opinion. We see it as a platform for sports lovers to read, comment and write…
Resident The Roar columnist, Garth Hamilton, talks to the new Queensland Reds coach, Phil Mooney. Mooney was previously the coach of the Australian Under…
In the second interview of the series, resident The Roar columnist, Garth Hamilton, talks rugby with Spiro Zavos on the upcoming Rugby World Cup.…
Zac Zavos writes:Â For those of you lucky enough to be going to France for the Rugby World Cup, you should check out some…
Resident The Roar columnist, Garth Hamilton, talks rugby with Spiro Zavos in the first of several discussions on the upcoming Rugby World Cup. In…
Zac Zavos writes: It's interesting to read that Rugby League great Andrew Johns has been approached to work with the Wallabies during the Rugby…
Daniel Herbert, former Wallaby and Rugby World Cup winner, is currently based in Montpellier, France. In the lead up to the World Cup, we…
Australia turned on a sparkling display late in the match to defeat Thailand 4-0 in their must win group match. They now move into…
On 20th May 2007, after weeks of negative comments about the state of Australian rugby, The Roar ran an article titled: Let The Roar…
Last week we wrote an article praising the reinstatement of John Williamson singing ‘Waltzing Matilda’ before each home test. The singing of 'Waltzing Matilda'…
There's been a lot of talk about the London 2012 logo. Some say it's a fresh, creative logo that reflects the dynamism of the…
One of the surprise packages from the 2007 Cricket World Cup was the success of the Ireland in reaching the "super eight" stage of…
The Roar regularly receives email and contributions from our readers that offer great insights into sports and current sporting events. In the past, because…
Rod Macqueen, the most successful Wallaby coach ever and the mastermind of the Wallabies 1999 Rugby World Cup triumph, spoke exclusively to The Roar…
At the beginning of the 2004 season Australian rugby was loaded with cash, the Wallabies had almost won the Rugby World Cup, playing numbers,…
Every year since 1980, the best players born in NSW clash in a three match series against those from Queensland. The media hype leading…
We received this email recently from Roger Levey who argues that the quality of world rugby would be improved with a broader representation policy.…
Big day’s traffic on The Roar today folks; we’ll serve about 100,000 pages and publish 1,000 comments today alone.
State of Origin 2011 game 3 live scores, NSW blog
Still so keen Capital given the two tries 😉
Thanks mate.
State of Origin 2011 game 3 live scores, NSW blog
anyone know the odds for NSW to win now??
State of Origin 2011 game 3 live scores, NSW blog
Jon, media (The Roar included) will publish what people want. That’s how media works – by aggregating audiences and then offering that audience to brands to speak to.
Why else do you think there’s so much trashy & fleshy content on SMH.com.au as opposed to their broadsheet? In the online space, you know exactly what people are looking for and clicking on.
Come on Australia, waltz for our Matildas!
A nice call to arms, Melanie.
A comment from a media owner’s perspective (namely, The Roar’s) is that the level of interest in most female sporting events is miniscule compared with male sports.
We want to cover netball, women’s football and the like. But the interest just simply isn’t there at the scale you need to justify the copy-space.
In the past month, we’ve received 280 people to The Roar who were searching for Matilda’s content. We’d do about 500 times that traffic for State of Origin. OK, unfair comparison given the prominence of Origin football…
But the point remains, we simply don’t see large audience interest in sports such as netball or tournaments like the women’s World Cup.
Google’s a good proxy for interest. And by this measure, I don’t think there’s great interest in the event.
Come on Australia, waltz for our Matildas!
Hi Grahame – just come to this article during from 7.30pm and we’ll have someone commenting and updating on scores. This one will be geared for Reds fans; whereas this one is for Blues fans.
See you then!
Zac
Reds vs Blues: Super semis live scores and Reds blog
Loving the team blog here guys. Keep it up.
Over 5,000 viewers of this live blog and growing.
Live scores, blog: Tomic vs Djokovic
We have this Katzilla. thanks.
Guys – just watch when leaving comments that the auto-refresh doesn’t remove your comment text. If you’re likely to leave comments (which we welcome) then perhaps turn it off before leaving your comment.
Do we have any Roarers at the game?
Live scores, blog: Blues vs Waratahs
Amazing. I can’t wait to watch Beale play for the Tahs for years to come. Oh..that’s right, we let him go to Melbourne…
Live blog and scores: Waratahs v Highlanders
Kearns saying on commentary he’s heard the Tahs will run the ball tonight. Let’s hope…early kicks from Halangahu doesn’t bode well.
Live blog and scores: Waratahs v Highlanders
Looking forward to this match, and to seeing the Reds shine again.
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Brumbies
PENALTY SLOTTED; REDS GO BACK INTO LEAD.
TIME OFF.
REDS WIN AN AMAZING MATCH RIGHT ON THE SIREN!!
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Score – Reds: 17 – Crusaders: 16
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
PENALTY TO REDS!!!
Epic counter ruck by Crusaders; ruled McCaw came in from side.
Not sure about that.
Can Cooper slot it to win??
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 16
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
Reds near the line; they look out on their feet.
3 minutes left.
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 16
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
Reds have the ball and are on attack. Crusaders not giving up lightly.
3 minutes left.
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 16
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
Carter converts. Crusaders up 16-14.
5 minutes left.
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 16
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
PENALTY RIGHT IN FRONT TO Crusaders.
This could be the match. Carter to take the points, right in front.
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 13
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
First attempt at a push-over try held-out by Reds; scrum reset. And again…
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 13
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
Crusaders attacking, Reds under enormous pressure.
Carter field goal CHARGED DOWN.
5 mtr scrum to Crusaders. 9 min left.
LArgest crowd ever to a Super rugby match.
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Score – Reds: 14 – Crusaders: 13
Live scores, blog: Reds vs Crusaders
Roarers, we’re going to need to wrap this session at 1pm as Spiro needs to hop on a plane. Can other Roarers please jump in and respond to any unanswered questions?
Please all join us for the live blog tomorrow night.
And if any Roarers are attending the match, please send us your photos from the game and we’ll run them on our live blog. Use the contact form to let us know you’re going and we’ll send you the team email address (or try thecrowd ( at ) theroar.com.au ).
cheers,
Zac
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Reds vs Crusaders Roar Q&A with Spiro Zavos