Bringing rugby back to the fans: The game should be easier to access and more people-friendly

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Andrew Blades made some very good points in a recent article on this very website. If you have not read it, I would encourage you to do so. It is a positive tonic from recent traumatic times (and I know that you know what I am referring to). This article and namely the following comments […]

Green mounts Test recall bid with runs for WA, Blues blow Tassie away as 24 wickets fall in a day, Vics on top of SA

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Cameron Green has made a compelling statement in his quest for a recall to Austalia’s Test team with a scintillating Sheffield Shield innings of 96 for Western Australia. Coming in at No.4, the 24-year-old allrounder struck 15 boundaries, plus a six off Queensland spinner Mitchell Swepson, in an innings that was all class at the […]

Smith overshadowed by former champ, local LIV star burned by rules blunder as schoolgirl stuns Australian Open

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A week after being reduced to tears by missing the cut at the Australian PGA Championship, Open champion Cameron Smith has a fight on his hands to make the weekend at the Australian Open. As former champion Cam Davis (-9) and last weekend’s PGA winner Min Woo Lee (-5) lit up the opening morning at […]

Ponting anoints Warner successor, but insists Green must ‘bide his time’ to make Test squad

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Ricky Ponting insists Cameron Bancroft should be David Warner’s replacement once the veteran Australia opener bows out of Test cricket in January. WA’s Bancroft is again the Sheffield Shield’s top run-scorer after smashing 945 runs – almost 300 more than the next best – last summer. Despite the 31-year-old’s domestic success, Bancroft was still overlooked […]

Madge names star-studded support staff as new coach leans in to culture change at Blues

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Michael Maguire has been confirmed as the new NSW Blues coach, with a raft of experienced NRL coaches named to his backroom staff. Matt King, one of Trent Robinson’s right-hand men at the Roosters, and John Cartwright, himself a former NRL head coach with the Titans and currently an assistant to Kevin Walters at the […]