sidelined

Not ever two weeks into 2011 and we already have a contender for worst sporting analysis if the year. It is Luke Slattery’s piece in the Australian from last week which contends that Aussie rules is to blame for Australia’s recent sporting woes. Australia’s international standing across a range of sports, from rugby league to [...]

Israel Folau has gone off to join the new GWS AFL club in preparation for their inaugural 2012 season. It is coup for the AFL but I do question their wisdom. Sure Folau is being paid more for his marketing (far more) than AFL talent but it is very much a short term gain for [...]

So Karmicheal Hunt is ditching league for the AFL. He has copped a serve from The King and it is obvious the challenge he is looking for is how much more money his manager can squeeze from him. The AFL can rightly crow about the coup but in a few years I predict this experiment [...]

…down south.

One positive aspect of the Sonny Bill imbroglio is that attention has been turned to what the NRL needs to do to strengthen the game. Some pundits (Andrew Johns for example) have argued that Perth and Adelaide need to included in the competition. However, this would be a huge mistake for the NRL. Now before [...]

This is the busiest time of my year – the time when all the deadlines I have ever had coalesce, whilst working three jobs, and being a single parent (my now ex-partner ALWAYS goes away at this time). And then there’s the only real reason to live, finals football. 66%/$1.57 Power Eagles $2.35/34% 30%/$2.25 Hawks [...]

Here it is … (62%) Magpies Crows (37%) (17%) Tigers Saints (83%) (93%) Eagles Bombers (7%) (23%) Lions Cats (76%) (91%) Power Dockers (9%) (57%) Swans Hawks (42%) (15%) Bulldogs Kangaroos (85%) (78%) Demons Blues (21%) I tipped all the away teams, with the solitary exception of the Power-Dockers game. Looks like I’m home with [...]

I’ve long been critical of sporting journalists reluctance to tackle the hard stories in sport, now we see why with the AFL players refusing to deal with match broadcaster Chcnnel 7 in a dispute over recreational drug use in the sport. Talks fail to heal rift with Seven. PEACE talks between the AFL, the AFL [...]

Well at least it wasn’t a rent boy in a public toilet. Johns caught with ecstasy. The former rugby league star Andrew Johns has admitted that he was arrested for possession of an ecstasy tablet in London, but has blamed an “unknown person” for pushing it in his pocket at a notorious inner-city bar. Johns [...]

On Facebook I guess!! Here are my tips (31% / $1.95) Saints Eagles ($1.78 / 69%) (13% / $5.50) Blues Kangaroos ($1.13 / 86%) (92% / $1.14) Dockers Demons ($5.25 / 8%) (40% / $2.30) Magpies Swans ($1.57 / 59%) (70% / $1.38) Crows Lions ($2.90 / 29%) (23% / $3.00) Bulldogs Hawks ($1.36 / [...]