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We had Kimmorely, they had Thurston. What more can you say? I was at the game and from bay 123, Kimmorely tried hard but he just doesn’t have that ultimate bit of class that Thurston can provide. The thing was that the NSW forwards made ground often during the match. But when the attack is [...]

It is a ridiculous concept on which to build a game of football. The use of what should be an archaic notion of parochialism to foment such passion is bizarre. It wouldn’t be so bad in Queensland would just accept their lesser status as an off cut of New South Wales but for some reason [...]

League has its fair share of idiots but let’s be thankful that Jason Akermanis bats for another code. The AFL can have the homophobic ignoramus. His column explaining why gay AFL players was just a sorry retread of the usual “some of my best friends are gay but…” arguments. My favourite is that AFL players [...]

Well, at the moment I couldn’t pick the winner in a two horse race even if one horse was missing a leg and its jockey was a sumo wrestler. But I can turn to speculation about the make up of the New South Wales Origin team. It is easy to be an armchair selector. And [...]

A training ovals around the city this week, you could hear NRL players learning the words to The Internationale as murmurs about a strike took hold. The cry was heard from the players as they demand fair pay for a fair day’s play plus agent commission. Eric Grothe Jr took to the streets to sing [...]

Sideliners, here is the disturbing image I hoped to never have to see. My nephew playing ru — God, I can’t even say it – rugby union. He went to live for a few months in the south-west USA with family. I knew my sister’s brother-in-law coached a local yawnion team but little did I [...]

I love this time of year. Winter is starting to get warmed up and you can tell that the footy season is in full swing when Matt Cooper make his now traditional announcement that he couldn’t be buggered to play in the City v Country game. He is injured but will make a miraculous recovery [...]

Well, it looks like that the salary cap scandal has hurt league so bad that the test this Friday in Melbourne is a sell out. Just imagine how many tickets they would have sold if there was no shenanigans with the cap. If there was some sort of nuclear holocaust all you would have left [...]