‘Spineless, demoralised and shamed’: The Kiwis have embarrassed the Kangaroos before… As far back as 1952

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There’s an old maxim along the lines of: ‘not understanding the mistakes of history dooms one to repeat them’. There’s undoubtedly some truth to this. Not understanding the potential consequences of your actions is a sure way to fail, maybe even a sure ticket to a Darwin Award for those hardest of understanding and least […]

Australia’s best domestic 50 over players: New South Wales

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Over this next series of articles I will be selecting teams for each state comprising the best performed domestic 50 overs players in the competition’s history. There is an important distinction here. This is not a team of the best 50 over players to have come from New South Wales, it is the best performed […]

End of year assessments for the 2023 Wallabies – farewells, poorly managed potential and a bunch of players set up to fail

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It would seem appropriate a debate is had about how our elite players navigated the past season – obviously dominated by the World Cup. For many loyal servants of our game their contribution to our game at the elite level may have come to an end: Specifically, Michael Hooper, Quade Cooper, Bernard Foley, Nick White, […]

Sao Paulo Grand Prix Talking Points: Is this Formula 1’s greatest ever individual season?

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F1 leaves Sao Paulo and the final triple header of the season in the same place it has been pretty much all year: in awe of the achievements of Max Verstappen and Red Bull. And while it was hardly a race for the ages, it still brought about plenty of things to discuss as we […]

‘The body is not letting me’: One last summer for an Aussie Tennis favourite as John Millman pulls the pin

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Former grand-slam quarter-finalist, fan favourite and Roger Federer slayer John Millman has ruefully called an imminent end to his professional tennis career. The 34-year-old revealed on Thursday night he was walking away after a 10th and final Australian Open campaign in January, saying “unfortunately age has caught up to me”. “Just the three (shoulder) surgeries. […]