In a few hours, the Matildas will round off a successful pair of matches against Uzbekistan with a convincing win and be qualified for the summer Olympics in France come July. The long road will finally have been navigated and frankly, it has not been particularly arduous for a team that is flowing with confidence […]
Super Round is coming up, and Melbourne will be hosting all 12 teams this weekend – much to the chagrin of many supporters, who would rather the showcase round be held in a city with a better than even chance of drawing a crowd that couldn’t fit comfortably in a Volkswagen. Amid the doom and […]
Oh, how I love this time of year. The magical period right before the first round of the NRL season. There’s something truly beautiful in the air, and it brings a smile to the dial of all rugby league tragics. No, it’s not the ‘hope springs eternal’ attitude of all footy fans, who optimistically – […]
The 2024 NRL season hasn’t even started, and yet the major topic of conversation, already, is refereeing. Last weekend’s World Club Challenge was a great game, the proper hard-fought, high-stakes football that we all want to see, and yet we leave it discussing the officiating. Yes, it was poor, and there’s no doubt about it. […]
Eddie Jones made a lot of strange decisions during 2023 and one of the early ones was to dump Laurie Fisher in favour of coaches like Brett Hodgson and Jason Ryles with little to no rugby union experience. In a pivotal scene of the new Wallabies documentary chronicalling the Wallabies’ disastrous World Cup campaign, Jones […]
