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From sneers to cheers: Swans and Giants cap AFL's Sydney invasion
Bloody hell. Aussie Rules. Who would have thunk it?
Bloody hell. Aussie Rules. Who would have thunk it?
Meanwhile, far away from match-fixing, from dodgy deals and bodgy people, well away from big-time contracts, from bitter disappointments and furious factional fighting, sport, totally removed from soul-less corporate crunching, real sport goes on . . .
You had to see it to believe it. A minute before half-time in the Roosters vs Broncos game Dale Copley goes into a tackle, gets his head in the way of an inadvertently flying knee, and falls to the ground like a sack of spuds.
There are people driving on Sydney roads as we speak, with no memory of the Wallabies ever holding the Bledisloe high in triumph! When will it ever be ours again?
This week, friends, we are talking about the Australian sports world's du moment . . . "disappointed."
Fertilise and water those grassroots. Steer by the star of what grows the game at the bottom will be ultimately good for the game at the top.
Rules in Rio were set for a reason. Don't blame the boss for enforcing them.
What on earth was going on at the boarding house of St Ignatius, on Tuesday morning last?
Vale, Midget Farrelly, one of the greatest of Australian surfers, who has passed away, aged 71.
I wish the Olympics still had their magic, and maybe they'll return. But this one has lost me.
You had to be pretty good to fight the greatest boxer Australia has ever seen, Les Darcy, and Reg Paton did that.
Who knows if this week's commitment from Jarryd Hayne will turn into genuine, not spoken, passion for the team and jersey?
Are we seeing the beginning of the end for the Olympics?
How would you handle a kick to win $100,000?
Jarryd Hayne to play for the Waratahs? Please, no.
Let's talk about Herbert "Nutsy" Bolt again.
Yes, I had seen the yellow Ferrari outside the Palazzao Versace hotel last Saturday arvo, but still, nothing twigged, and I had no clue that it was the first crack of lightning on the horizon for what looked like a mid-level storm approaching.
Roger Federer is the king, and the prince, of the court.
The family breakdown between Sydney Swans, Kieren and Brandon Jack, and their parents Gary and Donna Jack? I don't know, and to a certain extent, I don't want to know.
Tell me. In the history of the world, has any football team ever, begun the season with such high hopes only for so many things go to hell in a hand-cart that soon need a freaking convoy of hand-carts to carry them all?
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