It is one of the sport’s greatest pleasures to sit and compare players. Whether the players play in the same league or even played during the same period is of very little importance. This is part of the entertainment that is a sport. Long after the final whistle has been blown or the game’s authorities…
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it! For years Rugby League was handcuffed by poor administration. The feeling was that the game needed to move away from an administration run by former footballers. The game needed to be turned into a business, run by business types, and when that happened Rugby…
It wasn’t too long ago that the Australian Cricket team was unbeatable. With the worlds best coaching, the best player development system and the best culture in terms of winning, it was difficult to see any reason why Australia’s dominance over the sport was ever going to be end. When Twenty 20 Cricket came along,…
Another day another sportsman being investigated for comments made on Twitter. A day after the Ben Te’o alleged assault case surfaced young cricket Chris Lynn is in hot water for tweeting about the woman at the centre of the allegations. This just a day after David Warner was fined for his comments made on twitter…
There are some really cool things about being a grown up. You get to eat what you want, you get to go to bed late, and you don’t have any homework that you need to hand in to avoid getting in trouble. That is, unless you play Cricket for Australia! Now lets look past Australia’s…
Don’t be boring You could be forgiven for thinking the current Australian cricket team are a touch on the bland side. By a touch on the bland side, I obviously mean the blandest thing since the Poms started making curries. A team consisting of a few stalwarts, a bunch of who-the-fucks, and Michael Clarke. A…
There was once a time when summer in Australia meant it was Cricket season. No other sport existed during summers. There was no thought of the football season. It was all about Cricket and that is the way it always looked like being. Then something changed… As Rugby League and AFL both grew in strength…
Going into the last Ashes Cricket series against the combined nations of the world and a couple of Poms, I wanted Shane Warne to make a comeback. I felt as though Warne could have added something to the side we desperately needed. His ability to tear through a batting lineup and put the best batsmen…
Cricket Australia has made major changes to the traditional summer format next season in a move to give the Australian test team the best chance possible to win The Ashes. With the series signally the beginning of a new broadcasting deal Cricket Australia had the ability to go into next summer with a few changes that include…
Lets face it, the off season is boring. With the sad demise of international Rugby League we are left with nothing to look forward to until March when the NRL season kicks off and once again we are all back into being Rugby League tragics. The problem is, its only November. What do we do between…
Once upon a time I could name you every single player in the Australian Cricket team. I could name everyone in the NSW Cricket team and even players on the fringes who played Sydney club Cricket. I could name most of the players in other state teams too. It was easy! Then something happened. Cricket…
My oval-shaped pigskin heart almost flat-lined on the weekend thanks to a Sabbath sans rugby league, but with the aid of an unheralded sliver of light that poked through the vile post-season darkness, I was able to survive and tell my tale today. The saviour smelt like oil and bourbon and aggressively attacked my ear…
Nathan Tinkler formed Hunter Sports Group with the long term goal, according to him, of building a sporting legacy for the Newcastle and greater Hunter region. His first move came 18 months ago when he purchased the Newcastle Jets Soccer club and saved them from folding. Last year though, he claimed his biggest prize when…
The last 10 years have been a very interesting time in Australian sport. Over the last ten years we have seen Rugby Union, Boxing and AFL all covet star power of Rugby League players. Rugby Union was the first. Flushed with funds from its new found professionalism, it was a sport that was very much…
The Rugby League Ashes series goes back 101 years and to the very heart of the establishment of Rugby League in Australia. For 90 years it was the pinacle of the game. It was THE proving ground. It was where greats become legends, where former greats realised the game had passed them by. It was…
Jamie Peacock has been watching the Cricket (You already know this is going to end badly) and he is pumped up! Like a retarded kid with ADD that just had three Red Bulls, he is bouncing off the walls. Now, society usually has a filter for people like Jamie Peacock, but unfortunately because of his…