Jones is back with a whistle, words and whole lot of energy
Listen. If you cock your head to the wind, close your eyes and strain your ears, you can just hear it.
Listen. If you cock your head to the wind, close your eyes and strain your ears, you can just hear it.
I refer of course to his starring role in the Allan Border Testimonial Match, played at the Gabba in December 1993.
It is simply the end of era – and one that lasted much longer than Fatty ever thought it would have.
Why, once again, does Australia have to rely on Tim Cahill, a bloke nudging 40 – he'll be 38 in December – to get the job done?
If all sport in 2017 was boiled down to a general political philosophy, would it, by nature, be progressive or conservative?
Anything that makes other teams turning up the World Cup genuinely competitive, has to be good for the "World Cup"!
What will we remember of 2017 when it comes to rugby league? I thought you'd never ask ...
Rugby league. It lives and breathes in country NSW!
There are many things I love about sport but the range of characters it produces, embraces, and celebrates is right up there.
If a boxer had been knocked cold like Corey Oates was, what chance he would be allowed in the ring just a week later?
We see good sportspeople go bad, and become great because of whether or not they give a f---.
Good on him for expressing his views, but I can't resist.
Coaches complaining about referees has become the most tedious aspect of sport.
Of course TFF took a bit of flak – like I care – for asking Socceroo coach Ange Postecoglou on Channel Nine last Sunday morning, if he would stand down in the event of his team not qualifying for the World Cup. Some thought it disrespectful. I thought it journalism.
These last weeks have given us some positive signs that a brighter future for our beloved code beckons. But not without changes.
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.
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