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Fitz Files: You beauties! Wallabies lose but win back respect
You wonderful Wallabies. You bloody beauties. No, you didn't beat the All Blacks last Saturday night in Dunedin, but your performance was a triumph regardless.
You wonderful Wallabies. You bloody beauties. No, you didn't beat the All Blacks last Saturday night in Dunedin, but your performance was a triumph regardless.
Who said rugby is dying? Actually, I think it might have been me.
But allow me to at least say this.
But enough about the Storm, the tour to Bangladesh, the Wallabies, the retirement of Usain Bolt. Can we bring it back to me, for a change, and my life?
TFF received an enormous response to my piece on Thursday about young Marc Reichler-Stillhard.
This is the story of a fine young fellow born with Down syndrome and immediately embraced by the local community.
It was one of the great moments in Australian sport. You see, when Raelene Boyle won gold in her last race, at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 – roaring home in the 400 Metres – the stadium roared even as the nation came to a standstill.
Here are the characteristics of captains that I know were instrumental in their own success.
How old am I? I am so old, soooooo old, I remember when Australian swimmers only had to dip a toe in chlorinated water and they started growing gold medals on their chest!
Could you break the news to Laurie Daley that you were giving him the bullet? I couldn't.
This is a bloke to whom leadership comes easily. Eddie Mcguire won't leave Collingwood for a long while yet.
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!
In the history of rugby league and rugby union in NSW, have things ever been as grim as right now?
Of all the cricketers, it is Smith's view that will carry most weight.
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.
Fool me both times using taxpayers' money and I reckon you have a political embarrassment in the making.
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