Calculated risk is fine – but the NRL needs to do the maths
The implications for rugby league after episodes like Slater's are obvious.
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
The implications for rugby league after episodes like Slater's are obvious.
You bloody narks! You've been sniggering most unpleasantly about Greg Norman posting photos of his naked self on social media, showing off his 62 year old abs, and you've been sneering that he is a man who'd make Narcissus blush!
Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson, you say, got on the squirt? Well, knock me over with a feather!
Of all the cricketers, it is Smith's view that will carry most weight.
Mate, it's time for you to stand down. Take a year off. Get totally away from tennis. Find yourself.
You will recall, you older ones, the days when we used to smoke in the office and when planes even had the absurdity of smoking and non-smoking sections.
Yup, the very nature of Twitter is that it is short and to the point, but even by those standards, the tweet from the Maitland Mumbler last Saturday afternoon was . . . pointed.
Snide warnings aside, the narrative of this State of Origin series will likely be talked of for years.
Look, you can call me a football guru if you like, a see-er of things that completely escape others, but I reckon the inclusion of Johnathan Thurston in next Wednesday's Origin II is going to lift the Queenslanders by – I couldn't say exactly, but – around 53.24 per cent.
Fool me both times using taxpayers' money and I reckon you have a political embarrassment in the making.
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