![One of a kind: Bernard Tomic.](/web/20161230163505im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/h/a/v/l/image.related.landscape.460x307.gtjqd9.png/1483100233345.jpg)
The year Bernard Tomic and I traded smashes
When I met Tomic the Tank Engine
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
When I met Tomic the Tank Engine
In February, TFF received a huge response to my piece, having a go at Shane Warne for his outrageous remarks about Steve Waugh being "the most selfish cricketer I've ever played with"...
The news broke Monday morning. The former Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon, who has been left in a wheelchair for life because of an illegal tackle on him in 2014 – in a match against the Storm – has reportedly launched legal proceedings against the NRL and the player, Jordan McLean, who was tackler.
Minefield, anyone?
Bring it in tight you fat bastards.
This is the last bastion of the cultural cringe.
This was the year of thunder and wonder, the year of the fairytale for all those teams more associated with chunder and blunder. Which leaves us hoping for what in 2017?
Told yers! I refer to the comments by the famous rugby league coach Chris Anderson this week: "Our biggest danger is rugby union ... It's a big world sport. It's taken over Europe. Rugby league has died in Europe. All good players now go to union; in England, in France. So it's a big game. It's growing in America. That's our danger. If we don't get our house in order, our danger is we'll be playing rugby union in 10 years."
Bring it in tight, you bastards and listen.
TFF has long maintained that in terms of wasted tennis talent, the only one who approaches Kyrgios was Mark Philippoussis who had the complete game, but, after bursting onto the tour in the mid-1990s, never quite got there, because his work ethic never matched his colossal talent.
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